Alex Christy
Alex Christy | July 8, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Joy Reid welcomed author and Rolling Stone contributor Jeff Goodell and climate scientist and former meteorologist Chris Gloninger onto Friday’s edition of The ReidOut to discuss global temperatures breaking all-time records. In a segment devoid of any economic ramifications, the two guests came up with the rather underwhelming plan of voting to address the…
Alex Christy | July 8, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Tonight host Abby Phillip decided to do something different for Friday’s show by doing a movie review. Specifically, Sound of Freedom starring Jim Caviezel who stars as Tim Ballard, a real-life former DHS agent who works to bust child sex trafficking rings. For Phillip and The Storm is Upon Us author Mike Rothschild, the film focuses on a real issue, but is…
Alex Christy | July 7, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Tonight host Alisyn Camerota tried and failed to fact-check an ad featuring Casey DeSantis where she touted her husband Ron’s record of banning “child mutilation.” As Camerota tells it, DeSantis’s team admits they have no proof of such events ever happening, but that is not true.
Alex Christy | July 6, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] North Dakota Gov. and GOP presidential candidate Doug Burgum took his campaign to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on Thursday were he ever so politely informed the eponymous host that he isn’t an extremist on abortion and that her framing of “LGBTQ issues” is all wrong, including how she portrayed the Supreme Court standing up for religious liberty.
Alex Christy | July 6, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC's Joy Reid kicked off Wednesday's edition of The ReidOut with a long-winded, fact-free diatribe against the Supreme Court that featured plenty of projection as she mourned that the conservative justices have lost the ability to surprise.
Alex Christy | July 1, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] Joy Reid, the eponymous host of MSNBC's The ReidOut, welcomed The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal onto her Friday show to recap the week’s Supreme Court decisions and naturally, incendiary hot takes soon followed including that Justice Clarence Thomas is a “mutilated version of a black justice” who is his wife’s puppet.
Alex Christy | July 1, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] Laws are supposed to conform to the Constitution, but the Saturday edition of ABC’s Good Morning America thought the relationship was reversed as it described the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the First Amendment, free speech, and religious liberty as a carve out of anti-discrimination law.
Alex Christy | July 1, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart agreed on Friday’s PBS NewsHour that the Supreme Court’s ruling that the First Amendment protects a Christian web designer from having to create a website for same-sex weddings is “poison” for society.
Alex Christy | June 30, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] Not long after their distributing their hot takes about how the preservation of religious liberty threatens to bring back Jim Crow, the Friday cast of CNN News Central freaked that “the wheels are coming off” for people who will now have to repay their loans after the Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s student loan cancellation scheme in Biden v. Nebraska.
Alex Christy | June 30, 2023
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN News Central reacted to the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis that upheld the First Amendment right to not be compelled to create a website for a same-sex wedding by raising hysterical hypotheticals about the return of Jim Crow. The assembled cast was also greatly confused by the difference between a gay individual and their wedding.