Ashley Taylor
NewsBusters Intern

Ashley is a rising senior majoring in Political Science and History at Saint Leo University, and a Texas native. When not talking politics or current events, you can find Ashley watching basketball (Go Spurs Go), playing music, or traveling. 

Ashley Taylor | August 7, 2025
If you tuned into CNN’s Inside Politics on August 7th, you might have thought you were watching a live feed from a DNC strategy session. The segment, aimed at critiquing Republican-led redistricting efforts in Texas, quickly turned into yet another case study in media hypocrisy and a stunning example of the left's performative outrage, with one commentator suggesting Republicans needed to “cheat…
Ashley Taylor | August 6, 2025
  On Tuesday’s broadcast of Cuomo, eponymous host Chris highlighted the most recent events unfolding in America's political theatrics: the redistricting game.  As Cuomo aptly noted, "Redistricting is everything," and indeed, it is. The act of gerrymandering has now become the centerpiece of a high-stakes contest between Republicans and Democrats, each vying to redraw the map in their favor…
Ashley Taylor | August 5, 2025
On Monday night’s broadcast of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow declared in a twelve-minute-long rant, “We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country,” and later warned of masked secret police “breaking people’s car windows and snatching people off the streets … taking them away with no charges, no notice, no…
Ashley Taylor | August 4, 2025
Democrats may have just realized that having “orange man bad” as their sole political message for the past 10 years was a really bad idea. In a surprisingly blunt segment on CNN News Central, the show’s hosts acknowledged what many Americans have long suspected: the Democratic Party was “a complete and utter mess” as they looked toward the 2028 presidential election. With no frontrunner, deep…
Ashley Taylor | August 1, 2025
CNN tried rebranding former Vice President Kamala Harris about as smoothly as your friend trying to set you up with a girl who’s got a “great personality.” On Friday afternoon’s broadcast of Inside Politics, the commentary bordered on full-on myth-making. Chief domestic affairs correspondent Phil Mattingly was upbeat that Harris could finally be herself, while lamenting was just under pressure,…
Ashley Taylor | August 1, 2025
On July 24, 2025, Keith Olbermann demanded on his podcast, Countdown, that Barack Obama deliver a national address. He then proceeded to read this speech which he had written as Obama, which called for a government coup and that a $500 billion lawsuit be brought against President Trump. All while literally pretending to be Obama and voicing these lines as if he were the former President. …
Ashley Taylor | July 30, 2025
On the July 26 episode of Charlie Rose’s podcast, former MSNBC host Chris Matthews seemed to think President Donald Trump was a one-man FCC, roaming the country canceling TV shows with a glare and a golf swing. Matthews floated the idea, without offering proof, that Trump had cowed television networks into submission, supposedly canceling news segments and late-night shows out of sheer…
Ashley Taylor | July 24, 2025
If you watched Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN NewsNight, Ana Navarro and Keith Boykin would have you believe Donald Trump is “extorting” Columbia University and running a “fascist” operation from the White House. But let’s get serious. What actually happened at Columbia is not a criminal shakedown, it’s accountability. When a university accepts billions in federal funding, it has a responsibility…
Ashley Taylor | July 23, 2025
On Tuesday night’s broadcast of NewsNation’s Cuomo, eponymous host Chris Cuomo lit into what he calls the “pro‑Pal left” with a rhetorical grenade: “I bet you think I’m talking about Gaza… I baited you on purpose to make a point.” Then dropped the kicker: he wasn’t talking about Gaza at all, but about the Syrian Druze, an ethnic minority being massacred by Islamist militias and Syrian forces,…
Ashley Taylor | July 22, 2025
On Tuesday afternoon’s CNN News Central, host Brianna Keilar brought on liberal comedian Pete Dominick to dissect the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Dominick confidently suggested political motives were to blame, not CBS’s claim that the decision was “purely financial.” Keilar asked Dominick what “the larger picture” might be—seemingly side‑stepping CBS’s official line.…