Alex Christy
Alex Christy | February 8, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] Colorado had such a bad day before the Supreme Court as it tried to defend its decision to kick Donald Trump off its primary ballot that not even MSNBC and CNN could pretend otherwise. However, for MSNBC legal analyst, former Obama Solicitor General, and self-described “extremist centrist” on Twitter, Neal Katyal, it wasn’t because their arguments were so bad even the…
Alex Christy | February 8, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] For Thursday’s installment of CBS Mornings, foreign correspondent Debora Patta mourned that Israel has rejected a Hamas proposal for a ceasefire and hostage release, but never explained why which is important because such a proposal would lead to Israel having to accept defeat.
Alex Christy | February 8, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] After the vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas failed, host of CBS’s The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, and NBC’s Late Night host, Seth Meyers, took the time on Wednesday to celebrate and hail the “heroic return” and “dramatic” return of Democratic Rep. Al Green from the hospital that doomed the vote.
Alex Christy | February 7, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] When liberals cite racism in their effort to cancel certain Dr. Seuss books, former Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton voices his approval. When conservatives try to regulate which books appear in school libraries, he appears on Tuesday’s edition of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! to do a skit about how logic would dictate conservatives ban C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of…
Alex Christy | February 7, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Joy Reid is out with a new book on Medgar Evers, a civil rights activist who was assassinated in 1963, and his wife, Myrlie. Her book tour took her to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, where she would compare her favorite politicians, such as Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, and the Tennessee Three, to Evers by noting their “courage.”
Alex Christy | February 6, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] As House Republicans prepared to hold a vote on impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday, CNN This Morning anchor Phil Mattingly implied to Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries that the move would be racist or anti-immigrant simply because of Mayorkas’s biography.
Alex Christy | February 6, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS’s Stephen Colbert and NBC’s Seth Meyers used the respective Monday editions of The Late Show and Late Night to roll out the red carpet for two of the most left-wing members of the Senate in Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. The two hosts lobbed mostly softballs and let their guests go on unchallenged monologues as they discussed their favorite pet issues.
Alex Christy | February 6, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS’s Stephen Colbert and NBC’s Seth Meyers used the respective Monday editions of The Late Show and Late Night to roll out the red carpet for two of the most left-wing members of the Senate in Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. The two hosts lobbed mostly softballs and let their guests go on unchallenged monologues as they discussed their favorite pet issues.
Alex Christy | February 3, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] Al Gore is not just a former vice president, according to a Saturday CNN chyron, he is also an “eco-warrior.” Such was the context for Gore’s appearance with Christiane Amanpour as the two demanded “some massively radical thing” to be done about the supposed horror of fossil fuel usage.
Alex Christy | February 3, 2024
[See NewsBusters for more.] When it comes to the current chaos in the Middle East, MSNBC’s Ali Velshi developed a novel theory on who is to blame as he guest hosted Friday’s The Last Word. For Velshi, it is Donald Trump.