Alex Christy
[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.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] A heavily imbalanced CNN Tonight panel declared on Friday that Republicans and specifically Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee is a hypocrite for banning gender transitions for minors and to overly-sexualized drag shows for children are hypocrites, first for claiming to believe in limited government and second because he has been photographed in drag. Neither criticism holds up…
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS Saturday Morning issued a correction to their February 25 report that Florida may ban the children’s book Sulwe under the Stop Woke Act for simply having a black character after a NewsBusters report. However, the correction omitted some key information and left uncorrected similar CBS reports.
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle’s weekly panel discussions on The 11th Hour always produce some absurd content, but Friday’s panel took the absurdity to a whole new level as it was alleged that Republicans seeking to ban gender transitions for minors are taking the country back to 1954 while making it more likely young people will commit suicide.
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC has officially run out of original thoughts. On Thursday’s Alex Wagner Tonight, the eponymous host and Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb came together to agree with Critical Race Theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a fascist.
[See NewsBusters for more.] ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel reacted the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference with his usual hurling of insults as he labeled attendees as both “fascist” and “racist.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] As Republican state legislatures across the country move to ban sex changes or “gender-affirming care” for minors, MSNBC All In host Chris Hayes decried the efforts by playing a clip from his podcast where Dr. Izzy Lowell claimed that children as young as four can choose their gender.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Stephen Colbert voiced his displeasure at Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s announcement that he plans to sign bills that will prohibit “gender-affirming care” for minors and drag shows for children on Wednesday’s edition of The Late Show on CBS. Colbert was so disgusted by the moves that he addressed Lee as “you dick.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS’s Stephen Colbert and NBC’s Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers all spent part of their Tuesday shows falsely claiming Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis seeks to ban the teaching of history in the state as they reacted to different parts of the DeSantis-driven news cycle.
[See NewsBusters for more.] For his job as CNN chief climate correspondent Bill Weir gets to travel to some of the most beautiful parts of the world. He also gets to lecture people on the need to decarbonize the economy, as he did on Wednesday’s CNN This Morning from Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world that is roughly 6,600 miles from CNN’s New York headquarters.