Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS’s Stephen Colbert and NBC’s Seth Meyers did not take the news that the Supreme Court will not allow Colorado to kick Donald Trump off its primary ballot well on the respective Monday editions of The Late Show and Late Night. The duo portrayed the ruling as everything from hypocritical to "dangerous and extreme" to illogical, but that couldn’t cover up the fact they…
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS’s Stephen Colbert and NBC’s Seth Meyers did not take the news that the Supreme Court will not allow Colorado to kick Donald Trump off its primary ballot well on the respective Monday editions of The Late Show and Late Night. The duo portrayed the ruling as everything from hypocritical to "dangerous and extreme" to illogical, but that couldn’t cover up the fact they…
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN’s Christiane Amanpour welcomed the Columbia Journalism School’s Margaret Sullivan to the Saturday edition of The Amanpour Hour where the two condemned their media colleagues for allegedly focusing on President Joe Biden’s age to the exclusion of everything else. They also claimed it should be their “public service role” to not let Biden’s age turn into Hillary…
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS Saturday Morning and foreign correspondent Chris Livesay sought to explain what drove Hamas to commit its October 7 attack on Israel and settled on “Jewish activists kicking a hornets' nest,” despite admitting these activists have no real power or significant influence within the Israeli government or Judaism. Livesay would also throw certain Christians into the…
[See NewsBusters for more.] There is something about the border crisis that has caused New York Times columnist David Brooks to remember that he is supposed to be the conservative half of PBS NewsHour’s Friday Brooks and Capehart weekly recap segment. After previously batting down the idea that President Biden needs to move left on the issue, he rebutted the idea that Biden is doing his best to…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan, who is launching his own media company, traveled to CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip on Thursday to discuss the conflicting narratives behind the deaths of several Gazans who were gathered around an aid truck. While Hasan had no problems relying on Hamas-supplied statistics, he condemned the media for trusting the Israeli military while…
[See NewsBusters for more.] For the men of Thursday’s late night comedy shows, if the “MAGA justices” on the Supreme Court hand Donald Trump a victory by announcing they will hear arguments on his claim to have presidential immunity, it is “terrible news for democracy” because, for them, only when a court rules against Trump is it legitimate. They simply “cannot [bleep] believe” any other version…
[See NewsBusters for more.] For the men of Thursday’s late night comedy shows, if the “MAGA justices” on the Supreme Court hand Donald Trump a victory by announcing they will hear arguments on his claim to have presidential immunity, it is “terrible news for democracy” because, for them, only when a court rules against Trump is it legitimate. They simply “cannot [bleep] believe” any other version…
[See NewsBusters for more.] For the men of Thursday’s late night comedy shows, if the “MAGA justices” on the Supreme Court hand Donald Trump a victory by announcing they will hear arguments on his claim to have presidential immunity, it is “terrible news for democracy” because, for them, only when a court rules against Trump is it legitimate. They simply “cannot [bleep] believe” any other version…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Chris Hayes journeyed over to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday to react to the news that the Supreme Court has decided to hear Donald Trump’s argument that he has presidential immunity and therefore cannot be tried in the classified documents and January 6-related cases on an expedited schedule. However, that was not good enough for Hayes…