Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC national security analyst Jeremy Bash may be a former Democratic CIA official, but that did not stop him from ripping the media on Tuesday’s The 11th Hour for “breathlessly, word for word” repeating Hamas propaganda that the destruction of a Gaza hospital was caused by an Israeli airstrike.
[See NewsBusters for more.] A COVID-ridden Stephen Colbert hosted Monday’s edition of The Late Show on CBS from home and claimed that the GOP could not vote for Jesus in the quest to find a Speaker of the House because “He was worse than a socialist, he was a Christian.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] The Daily Show returned to Comedy Central on Monday and proceeded to blame seemingly everybody, but Hamas for the current war going on between it and Israel. Temp host Michael Kosta and Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer would blame everybody from Britain to the Arab states seeking normalization deals with Israel to Israel itself to the United States for the carnage,…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Former Bernie Sanders foreign policy advisor Matt Duss got more than he bargained for when he showed up at Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday as Maher slapped down his attempt to add “context” to Israel, Hamas, and Gaza.
[See NewsBusters for more.] President Joe Biden managed to clear the lowest of low bars this week by not joining in with the radical left’s attempts to defend or add “context” to Hamas’s savage attack on Israel, but still, this led New York Times columnist David Brooks to hail the idea that “this was one of Joe Biden's best weeks as president” on Friday’s PBS NewsHour.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN reporter Nada Bashir has put in Israel in a damned if they do, damned if they don’t situation. One hand, Israel is lectured on the need to avoid civilian casualties as if they would otherwise enjoy bombing Palestinians for sport, but on the other hand, she lectures them on Friday’s CNN Newsroom that urging Palestinians to evacuate Northern Gaza is “a war crime.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] Professor, activist, and so-called human rights attorney Noura Erakat was welcomed to Katy Tur Reports on Thursday afternoon to accuse the Israelis of war crimes, lament the nation’s existence, “the siege of 16 years” as if just randomly happened, and anti-BDS laws because MSNBC suddenly finds the urge to go all in on both-sideism.
[See NewsBusters for more.] During his opening monologue on Wednesday, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel took time to recap the House GOP’s decision to nominate Rep. Steve Scalise to be Speaker of the House. As part of these developments, Kimmel profiled Scalise whom he attacked for not embracing gun control despite almost being assassinated.
[See NewsBusters for more.] For the second night in a row, Stephen Colbert welcomed a Democratic member of Congress to CBS’s The Late Show. On Wednesday, it was Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman’s turn as Colbert pretended that Fetterman is the first question to ever be questioned about his health, gifted him a tuxedo T-shirt, and fawned over this “excellent meme game.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] Florida Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost travelled to CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday where he teamed up with the eponymous host to accuse Republicans of being “okay with kids being mowed down at their schools” and instituting poll taxes.