Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS’s Stephen Colbert attacked “the big dumb idiots” down in Florida for wanting to ban the Pride flag in school classrooms on the Wednesday edition of The Late Show, but while attempting to mock the state, he ended up simply confusing anyone with any ability for critical thinking.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN’s Jake Tapper traveled over to ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday to look back at his career and proclaim that “the Bill Clinton era” was “somewhat more reality-based” than the current one because if the Clinton era was known for anything, it was certainly not how truthful that president was.
In the spirit of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, CBS’s After Midnight is a reboot of Comedy Central’s quasi-game show @Midnight that the network chose to replace The Late Late Show with James Corden. The show, executive produced by Stephen Colbert, selected young Netflix fixture Taylor Tomlinson to be the host and after ten episodes it is time to see how the show’s politics match up its traditional…
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Sunday, ABC’s Martha Raddatz tried and failed to get Gen. Charles Brown to attack Donald Trump as he tries to pull a Grover Cleveland and return to the presidency. On Wednesday, it was CNN’s Poppy Harlow’s turn to try to get someone to denounce Trump. However not only did Harlow, like Raddatz, fail, but NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg actually had positive…
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS’s Stephen Colbert used the Tuesday edition of The Late Show to launch into an extended factually-challenged diatribe against Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s border policies.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS’s Stephen Colbert and the Washington Post's Michele Norris teamed up on the Monday edition of The Late Show to lament, in Colbert’s word’s, the “resistance to diversity programs” and falsely accuse that opposition of not wanting to teach history in schools.
[See NewsBusters for more.] House Republicans are moving to impeachment Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and CNN’s Laura Coates is not happy about it. On her Monday show, Coates feigned confusion as she echoed Democratic and DHS sentiments that the whole thing is a “farce” and "you won't find" any justification for it.
[See NewsBusters for more.] HBO Real Time host Bill Maher and actor and direct Seth MacFarlane had an argument on Friday over whether or not journalists can be trusted. MacFarlane accused Maher of doing “exactly what Donald Trump wants” while Maher accused MacFarlane of being a partisan who wants to “feel good.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] For her Friday show, MSNBC’s Joy Reid launched a wildly anti-American and anti-Israel segment where she could hardly contain her excitement that South Africa was “standing up” to the West at the International Court of Justice as it accuses Israel of genocide. Guest and HuffPost senior diplomatic correspondent Akbar Shahid Ahmed was even more wild as he suggested…
[See NewsBusters for more.] The fact that a union endorsed a Democrat is not exactly Earth-shattering news, but that didn’t stop Friday PBS NewsHour anchor Amna Nawaz from trying to claim that is as she hailed President Joe Biden’s allegedly “objectively good week.”