Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Friday, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks joined PBS NewsHour host Judy Woodruff for their standard discussion of the week’s events which this week included dire warnings that more Hurricane Ian-like storms will occur if Republicans do not fall in line and vote for their preferred policies.
[See NewsBusters for more.] As Hurricane Ian devastates Florida, PBS’s Christiane Amanpour used Thursday’s Amanpour and Company to welcome environmental politics professor Leah Stokes to suggest that Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republicans are responsible for the storm.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Of the six regular late night comedians, only Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host Trevor Noah used his Wednesday show to highlight President Biden’s latest gaffe where he sought out Rep. Jackie Walorski, who died in a car crash in August.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Raffaele Trombetta will soon be leaving his job as Italian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, but before he does he had to travel over to Tuesday’s Amanpour and Company on PBS to debunk the media’s idea that his country’s new conservative prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, is a fascist.
[See NewsBusters for more.] On his Tuesday CNN show, Don Lemon, who is from Florida, tried to argue with Jamie Rohme, who is the acting director at the NOAA National Hurricane Center, about whether climate change is to blame for the intensity of Hurricane Ian. It did not go well for Lemon.
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Katy Tur welcomed CBS chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett and the executive director and founder of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, David Becker on to her Tuesday program to discuss their new book, The Big Truth, which contains a bit of civil war fan fiction.
[See NewsBusters for more.] NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers welcomed Sen. Bernie Sanders on to his Monday-taped show to discuss the midterms, how his socialist policies make him an economic genius, and how much Meyers appreciates him. Naturally, there was also plenty of trashing of Republicans and warnings of aspiring authoritarians.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Political humorist and satirist Andy Borowitz joined Walter Isaacson on Friday’s Amanpour and Company on PBS to discuss his new book Profiles in Ignorance which purports to report on the country’s growing anti-intellectualism. However, Borowitz’s segment prove the book is actually just an anti-Republican screed as he blames the problem on Ronald Reagan and defends…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle lost all control of Friday’s edition of The 11th Hour during an undignified segment on Sen. Lindsey Graham’s 15 week abortion bill. Panelist and comedian Judy Gold accused Graham of supporting the bill because “he’s never seen a vagina” or “seen a naked woman.” Instead of returning dignity to the conversation, all the other panelists erupted in…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell welcomed Slate senior legal correspondent Dahlia Lithwick onto her Friday show to promote her new book is Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America and to declare that “many women” have questions about the legitimacy of the Supreme Court and mourn “the last truly great day in the Supreme Court.”