Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] New York Times columnist David Brooks is supposed to be the conservative half of PBS NewsHour’s Brooks and Capehart weekly roundup, but often fails to deliver. Such was the case on Friday as Brooks dismissed the DOJ’s decision to indict Hunter Biden on gun charges as an “ancillary issue” and claim Republicans “don't really have anything” on Joe Biden.
[See NewsBusters for more.] After spending much of 2022 hysterically warning that the midterms might be the last free and fair election, MSNBC’s The 11th Hour spent Thursday that the 2024 elections will be “the last election that we can recognize” if either Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis is wins.
[See NewsBusters for more.] The late night comedy shows may be on strike which means they’ve had to go four months without offering up their hot takes on the news which they sought the remedy on the Thursday’s edition of their Strike Force Five podcast. When asked which news story he regrets not being able to cover, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel naturally chose Donald Trump.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Inside Politics host Dana Bash mournfully responded to a CNN poll on Thursday that showed 55 percent of Americans, including 52 percent of independents, believe President Joe Biden has acted inappropriately during the Hunter Biden probe by lamenting that his plan “to separate himself” from the probe has allowed Republicans to set the narrative.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN’s week of abortion promotion continued on Thursday’s CNN This Morning as correspondent Rosa Flores joined the show to suggest that Wednesday’s ruling by the Mexican Supreme Court decriminalizing abortion now means that country is more of a “beacon of human rights and women’s rights” than the United States.
[See NewsBusters for more.] If the Southern Poverty Law Center says so, it must be true or at least that’s what MSNBC’s Alex Wagner tried to argue on her Wednesday show as she attacked the group Moms for Liberty and various Republican presidential candidates for seeking to win their support.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Whether she’s on The View or CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Alyssa Farah Griffin is theoretically supposed to be the conservative perspective, but on the Tuesday edition of the former, she tried to claim there is a big difference between the Pentagon funding abortions and funding travel to obtain abortions.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN News Central host Kate Bolduan has a low standard of what constitutes “remarkable” because on Tuesday’s show, she was astonished that President Biden’s secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force wrote a Washington Post op-ed criticizing Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s blanket hold on military promotions over the Pentagon’s abortion travel policy.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Friday afternoon’s edition of CNN News Central took the left-wing culture warring to Louisiana where they profile pediatric cardiologist Jake Kleinmahon who is leaving the state “after a set of bills” were passed regarding child pronouns, “gender-affirming medical care,” and Louisiana’s version of “the Don’t Say Gay bill.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] Not only did Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart tell the Friday edition of PBS NewsHour that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has nobody to blame, but himself for being booed in the aftermath of the Jacksonville shooting, but that DeSantis’s policies sent a signal to those who believe “Black people are inferior and therefore are worthy of extermination.”