Alex Christy
Alex Christy | October 28, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] Washington Post associate editor and New York Times columnist freaked out on Friday’s PBS NewsHour at the news that Republicans selected Mike Johnson to be the new Speaker of the House by portraying him as a “far-right” religious extremist out to impose “Christian nationalism” on the country.
Alex Christy | October 27, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] The Late Show host Stephen Colbert will frequently tout how Catholicism has impacted his life and can be very knowledgeable of its teachings. However, getting Colbert to defend all of those teachings on his CBS platform is a different story as evidence by Thursday’s show where he attacked new Speaker Mike Johnson as “extremely anti-LGBTQ” and a “dick.”
Alex Christy | October 26, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] NPR’s Michel Martin guest hosted PBS’s Amanpour and Company on Wednesday and described her guest, Tareq Baconi, as a Hamas historian which she was careful to distinguish from a “Hamas apologist.” However, Baconi is a Hamas apologist, as he absurdly described Israel as “fascist” while, even more absurdly, saying Hamas is no longer anti-Semitic.
Alex Christy | October 26, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] The late night comedians welcomed Mike Johnson to the Speakership on their Wednesday shows by not just by noting his generic name, but also labeling him “anti-gay, anti-choice, pro-conspiracy” “dick” who Republicans selected to “bore everyone into forgetting how extreme he is.”
Alex Christy | October 26, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] The late night comedians welcomed Mike Johnson to the Speakership on their Wednesday shows by not just by noting his generic name, but also labeling him “anti-gay, anti-choice, pro-conspiracy” “dick” who Republicans selected to “bore everyone into forgetting how extreme he is.”
Alex Christy | October 26, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] In the first three weeks after the writers’ strike, the late night joke tellers picked right back up where they left off: telling Trump jokes at the expense of almost everything else, including comedy gold mines in Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption scandal and Rep. Jamaal Bowman pulling a Congressional fire alarm, a NewsBusters study has found. At the same time…
Alex Christy | October 25, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] Before Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson officially became Speaker of the House on Wednesday, there was the seven-person pre-game panel on CNN’s Inside Politics. One of those panelists, senior political analyst Gloria Borger, was forced to concede that despite being “hugely conservative,” Johnson is “not the devil incarnate.”
Alex Christy | October 25, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell sat down with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi on her Wednesday show where she engaged in both side-ism, suggesting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is just as much an obstacle to peace as Hamas.
Alex Christy | October 25, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] The point of having a guest on your show is to make the audience smarter, but Comedy Central The Daily Show temp host Desus Nice accomplished the opposite on Tuesday as he welcomed author Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyan to discuss his new book and label the National Football League, “big juggernaut of evil white men telling black bodies to go hurt yourself.”
Alex Christy | October 24, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] Last week, when Michael Kosta guest hosted Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, the program blamed everybody except Hamas for the outbreak of war. On Monday, new temp host Desus Nice welcomed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the program and asked her about seemingly everything going on in politics at the moment except for her incendiary accusations at Israel is committing…