Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] Nikole Hannah-Jones joined MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on his Saturday show to discuss the criticism and banning of The 1619 Project. Naturally, Hannah-Jones simply dismissed “much of the criticism” as “not legitimate” as she continued to claim all she wants to do is teach the full story of American history.
[See NewsBusters for more.] New York Times columnist Bret Stephens reacted to a Leonard Downie Jr. op-ed in the Washington Post calling for journalism to move beyond objectivity on Firday’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO “would be the end of the United States.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s host of The 11th Hour, Stephanie Ruhle, really does not like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and for her Friday panel, she invited a series of guests to affirm these feelings. The segment reached peak absurdity when Operation Hope founder and chairman John Hope Bryant proclaimed that Russia and China love what DeSantis is doing.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Anderson Cooper 360 guest host John Berman kicked off Thursday’s show with a nearly 15-minute interview with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that mostly consisted of him opening up the floor to her to accuse Republicans of being bigots for kicking Rep. Ilhan Omar off the Foreign Affairs Committee and for engaging in “stochastic terrorism.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers proved on his Thursday show that he has no idea what cancel culture actually is as he accused Republicans of engaging in it as they pass various education laws and kick Rep. Ilhan Omar off the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
[See NewsBusters for more.] The Thursday edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC was in full spin mode as Republicans prepared to kick Rep. Ilhan Omar off the Foreign Affairs Committee for her history of anti-Semitic statements, but according to Mitchell it was simply “criticism of Israel.” Meanwhile, Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor alleged that Republican hypocrisy is the real…
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Tonight host Laura Coates had a peculiar standard for what constitutes expertise as she welcomed African-American Studies Prof. Robert Patterson to the program to allege that “we know that white supremacy is a central part of American education,” which explains Florida’s opposition to the original AP course of the same subject.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS’s Stephen Colbert and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel kicked off their respective Wednesday shows by welcoming Black History Month while condemning alleged GOP attacks on the subject of black history.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Newsroom host Bianna Golodryga invited former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on to the Thursday program to discuss the latest developments surrounding the College Board and AP African-American Studies. If the point was to educate the audience, then Duncan failed as he claimed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has “a white nationalist agenda” and that “something…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu politely, but firmly educated CNN’s Jake Tapper on Tuesday on the alleged threat to democracy his “pretty outrageous” supreme court reforms pose by pointing out that what he is proposing is not all that different from countries like Canada and the United Kingdom.