Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] The raise of woke culture should present the late night comedians a golden mine of joke material given the absurdities it presents, but instead they chose to focus on the reaction. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel did just that on his Thursday show as he told Fox News, “you're embarrassing yourselves” by reporting on the latest progressive cause.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Coming out of one of her Wednesday commercial breaks, MSNBC’s Joy Reid managed to spread three bits of misinformation on the state of education in Florida in less than one minute.
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Friday, in a segment first flagged by NewsBusters, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell asked Vice President Harris why Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis does not want the history of slavery taught in schools. On Wednesday, she offered up a half-hearted correction, declaring her previous remarks to be “imprecise.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough and New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay claimed that technological advancements on the internet have rendered the idea of free speech “out of date” because non-journalists are using it to advance “hate speech” and “dangerous” content.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Tonight host Alisyn Camerota accused Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis of “cancel culture” on Monday thus demonstrating she has no idea what cancel culture actually is. Elsewhere on the panel, network anchor John Berman would suggest that the government telling government-run schools what to teach is an example of “big government.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS The Late Show host Stephen Colbert admitted on Monday that he doesn’t know if deregulation is to blame for the East Palestine train derailment, but that did not stop him from encouraging Sen. Bernie Sanders to use the situation to hype his book It’s OK To Be Angry About Capitalism.
[See NewsBusters for more.] The cast of CBS Saturday Morning spread some misinformation about the state of education in Florida when correspondent Cristian Benavides claimed that “classrooms and school libraries look like this” while showing a photo from a substitute teacher that was fired on Wednesday for spreading misinformation.
[See NewsBusters for more.] HBO Real Time host Bill Maher was discussing Fox News and its lawsuit with Dominion on Friday with MSNBC’s The Beat host Ari Melber when he asked if MSNBC also simply tells its viewers what it wants to hear, “Can you honestly say MSNBC doesn't do some of that?”
[See NewsBusters for more.] Friday’s edition of CNN Tonight was experiencing a rare moment of appreciation that the left’s DEI initiatives have gone too far when Los Angeles Times columnist LZ Granderson ruined it by claiming that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis does not mind using “a dog whistle.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] For the third time in less than a month, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell used her Friday show to spread wild fake news about conservatives. This latest installment of partisan falsehoods came during an interview with Vice President Harris where she asked why Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis seeks to ban the teaching of slavery.