Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Newsroom host Jim Acosta and CNN fact checker Daniel Dale asked on Saturday what might be the most important question of the 2022 midterms: does Sen. Raphael Warnock have a dog? Or, more specifically, is his Republican opponent Herschel Walker lying about him lying about having a dog?
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Katie Phang was one of several blue checks who fell for a hoax about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Sunday but, instead of apologizing for that on her Saturday show, she blamed DeSantis’s “dangerous statements” for creating a dangerous environment. Together with Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, the duo would also condemn Democratic gubernatorial nominee…
[See NewsBusters for more.] HBO Real Time host Bill Maher condemned the media for suppressing the story about Hunter Biden’s laptop in the runup to the 2020 presidential election and grew frustrated with actor, filmmaker, and left-wing activist Rob Reiner tried to deflect the conversation to January 6 and defend the media.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Katy Tur tried her best to assist Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly’s re-election campaign when she accused his Republican opponent, Blake Masters, of hiding his views on abortion after winning the primary on Friday’s MSNBC Reports by scrubbing his website while ignoring Kelly doing the exact same thing on his website.
[See NewsBusters for more.] The cast of characters that made up Thursday night’s The 11th Hour on MSNBC could barely contain their excitement at Democrats running on abortion “as an issue of freedom” and that such tactics appear to be working.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN climate correspondent Bill Weir joined Thursday afternoon’s CNN Newsroom to applaud California’s new edict that will ban new gas-powered cars by 2035. Weir didn’t see what the big deal is considering horses used to be a primary mode of transportation.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN’s Tom Foreman is an award winning fact checker, but on Thursday’s CNN Newsroom he spread some fake news about Texas’s new pro-life law, declaring that it is now a felony to provide an abortion in order save the life of the mother. In the next hour, host Poppy Harlow would contradict him while teeing up another pro-abortion segment.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN senior political analyst John Avlon joined Thursday’s edition of New Day to declare that GOP opposition to President Biden’s student loan forgiveness order is unwarranted because it is “good economic policy” and the White House is correct to say that Republicans aren't in a position to complain because of their history of cutting taxes.
[See NewsBusters for more.] NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali has new book entitled Electable: Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House… Yet and to promote it she traveled over to Wednesday’s Jose Diaz-Balart Reports on MSNBC. The answer Vitali settled on was that voters are biased against them.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Katy Tur turned the Tuesday edition of MSNBC Reports into a giant advertisement for Planned Parenthood and abortion while declaring a woman might seek an abortion for many reasons, including “you don't want the child.”