Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] Former First Lady Michelle Obama reignited her book tour on Wednesday as she stopped by NBC’s The Tonight Show for an interview with host Jimmy Fallon, who was espicially interested in one specific chapter.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Jordan Klepper took the Wednesday edition of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on the road to his home state of Michigan into interview Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and applaud that “my home state is definitely not Florida” because Florida is “urinating on our democracy.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy traveled over to CNN This Morning on Wednesday to discuss his campaign. During the part of the interview about his recent speech at the NRA convention, host Don Lemon told Ramaswamy that it was “insulting” he would dare to say that black Americans enjoy equal rights.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS’s The Late Show host Stephen Colbert and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show temp host Jordan Klepper condemned Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on their Tuesday shows for joking about possibly putting a new state prison next to Disney World and it was unclear if these professional joke tellers knew DeSantis was joking.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Occasionally, the cast of MSNBC will view themselves as qualified to opine on what is and is not conservative and Tuesday’s Chris Jansing Reports was one such occasion. Not only did nominal Republican Tara Setmayer declare Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s fight with Disney to be “petulant” and “not conservative,” but also “un-American.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] Jordan Klepper kicked off his time as temp host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show by interview Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday where the duo daydreamed about impeaching Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
[See NewsBusters for more.] A Saturday MSNBC panel moderated by Velshi guest host, Voto Latino president and founder, and former Planned Parenthood board member, Maria Teresa Kumar sought to explain all the reasons why Republicans are terrible. For Kumar, one reason is that they seek to “restrict” voting by returning to “the pre-1960s.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] Washington Post associate editor and MSNBC host of The Saturday Show Jonathan Capehart opened proceedings by quoting the Declaration of Independence before lamenting it “rings hollow today” as Republicans pass pro-life laws.
[See NewsBusters for more.] ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! conducted a series of man-on-the-street interviews for Thursday’s how where a reporter asked a series of men questions about women’s bodies that they naturally did not know the answers to. The point was not just to laugh at men who can’t identify cat toys or confuse the rectum for the ovaries, but to attack pro-lifers.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN This Morning co-host Poppy Harlow and political director David Chalian came running to Democrats’ defense on Friday against accusations that they are the true radicals on abortion.