Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] It was an Obama Administration reunion on Monday’s edition of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show as former Principal Associate Editor in the White House Office of Public Engagement Kal Penn kicked off his time as temp host by asking President Biden what he plans to do for “trans kids” who have deal with “regressive state laws” that Biden would describe as “close to sinful…
[See NewsBusters for more.] After months of MSNBC condemning the Supreme Court and pro-lifers for putting women’s lives at risk, The Saturday Show host Jonathan Capehart and Rethinking Sex author Christine Emba said the quiet part out loud when they lamented the downfall of Roe has hurt the cause of consequence-free sex.
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Joy Reid used the Friday edition of the The ReidOut to declare that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is “a curmudgeonly anti-black and anti-LGBTQ person” while BlackPac Executive Direction Adrianne Shropshire alleged DeSantis and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin seek to “demoralize” black people.
[See NewsBusters for more.] The Friday edition of MSNBC Reports spread some fake news and tried to portray Florida in 2023 as if it was 1947 in an attempt to get Major League Baseball to denounce Gov. Ron DeSantis.
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Thursday, CBS The Late Show host Stephen Colbert declared Republicans to be bad Christians for their hypothetical budget which was one day after he compared Justice Samuel Alito to the Taliban for his Dobbs opinion.
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gave a speech where he separated fact from fiction on his education policies and MSNBC’s Alex Wagner responded with some of the very fake news he meant to debunk. For added effect, she also labeled his policies “fascist.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS The Late Show host Stephen Colbert commemorated International Women’s Day on Wednesday by lamenting the state of women’s rights around the world including in Iran, Afghanistan, and the United States. For the Catholic Colbert, the downfall of Roe v. Wade means that Justice Samuel Alito is just as much of a “turd” as the Taliban.
[See NewsBusters for more.] For the second day in a row, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell decided that her narrative about Texas’s pro-life law is more important than what the law actually says. During a Wednesday interview with Sen. Dick Durbin, Mitchell alleged a woman was denied emergency care because the state is leading the fight against women’s health.
[See NewsBusters for more.] When reporting on a lawsuit challenging a piece of legislation, it would be common sense to report on what the legislation actually says. However MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell and legal analyst Joyce Vance declared that insisting people actually reading Texas’s abortion law is unnecessary, because the law is just “a warning to doctors” and it is “disingenuous” and “bad faith…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Over the weekend, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gave a speech decrying the “woke mind virus,” but according to NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers’s Monday “Closer Look,” it is people like DeSantis who have a mind virus, because all they care about is “a collection of petty grievances” while he wants to teach accurate history and “provide gender-affirming care to children.”