Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] California Rep. Katie Porter continued her CBS book tour and Senate campaign by making her way over to The Late Show on Tuesday where host Stephen Colbert helped her out by asking “Do you ever feel insulted that no one is trying to bribe you?” While Porter and Colbert tried to portray her as incorruptible public servant, the facts are more complicated.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Inside Politics host John King spent Tuesday parroting Democratic Rep. Morgan McGarvey’s assertion at the law enforcement press conference on the Louisville bank shooting that by focusing on things such as education instead of gun control, Republicans aren’t being adults and have their priorities backwards.
[See NewsBusters for more.] For CBS host of the The Late Show Stephen Colbert, Monday’s opening monologue was a good opportunity to play the race card on everything from Clarence Thomas and his friendship with Harlan Crow to Tennessee Republicans for expelling two lawmakers for their role in shutting down legislative proceedings.
[See NewsBusters for more.] NBC Today hosts Peter Alexander and Kristen Welker welcomed recently expelled Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones on to the Saturday show by putting the ball on the tee for him to routinely denounce Republicans as racist for his role in shutting down legislative proceedings with a bullhorn.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Friday’s edition of CNN Tonight reacted to the news that a federal judge suspended the FDA’s approval of the abortion drug mifepristone with horror, claiming the judge was inserting his “theological opinion” and seriously wondering why pro-lifers don’t target drugs like Viagra or Tylenol.
[See NewsBusters for more.] The Thursday edition of The 11th Hour came unhinged as Tennessee Lookout editor-in-chief Holly McCall responded to the expulsion of two Tennessee Democrats from the state House by asking if the state ever left it’s KKK past, declared the state to lead the way in “backwards and discriminatory legislation” and wondered if Gov. Bill Lee even cares about his own daughter…
[See NewsBusters for more.] As the Tennessee House of Representatives prepared to vote on Thursday to expel three Democratic lawmakers for disrupting proceedings by leading demonstrators with megaphones inside the House chamber, CNN Inside Politics host John King came running to their defense, claiming that “They were trying to get a discussion.” At the same time, chief national affairs…
[See NewsBusters for more.] NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers teamed up with show writer Jeff Wright on Wednesday for a painfully unfunny bit where they declared that GOP criticism of George Soros and his funding of progressive causes is “racist” and “anti-Semitic.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell took a brief break from all the Trump indictment news on her Wednesday show to discuss the current state of affairs in Israel. Teaming up with President of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haas, Mitchell said it was “unbelievable” that Israel would raid the Al Aqsa mosque to prevent would-be rioters from gathering stones and fireworks…
[See NewsBusters for more.] NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers welcomed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to his Tuesday show where they teamed up to lament the GOP’s stance on everything from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to guns to wokeness to Hunter Biden to Tucker Carlson, and even the Forest Service.