Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] Temp host Wanda Sykes invited The Nation’s Katha Pollitt on to Comedy Central’s Tuesday edition of The Daily Show to lament the terminology of pro-lifers, declaring there to be “no such thing as an abortion doctor” and allow Pollitt to spread some debunked talking points about what pro-lifers really seek to achieve.
[See NewsBusters for more.] As House Republicans prepare to kick Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell off the Intelligence Committee, CNN Newsroom co-host Erica Hill condemned Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday for not following “tradition.” Apparently, Hill forgot that history did not begin yesterday.
[See NewsBusters for more.] The Monday edition of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show included a video package of correspondent Roy Wood Jr. in Britain asking foreigners to condemn America, trash the Second Amendment, and wonder, “How do you show people that you've got a big dick, but you don’t have a gun?”
[See NewsBusters for more.] For his Saturday show, MSNBC’s Ali Velshi began by lamenting that McCarthyism is coming back to the House of Representatives as Republicans take control and that the era of “useful committees” is over, or at least temporarily over.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN’s voice of reason Scott Jennings displayed amazing patience on Friday’s CNN Tonight as he calmly debunked self-righteous senior political correspondent John Avlon and condescending former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner on the issue of what exactly Florida requires as part of its history curriculum.
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Thursday, the FBI announced it was offering a $25,000 reward for information on violence against nine pro-life facilities and one Planned Parenthood. On her Friday MSNBC show, Andrea Mitchell took the 10 percent and made it seem like the FBI was exclusively focused on “terrorism” against pro-abortion activists.
[See NewsBusters for more.] The fake bravery of left-wing political activism was on display on Thursday’s edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC as actresses Jane Fonda and Sally Field patting themselves on their back for getting arrested a climate change protest with the former claiming they were “putting our bodies on the line.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC and CNN are not pleased with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ latest attempts to stop woke-ism in Florida with Alex Wagner sarcastically congratulating him for “keeping hockey white” on Wednesday while Wagner and Friday’s CNN This Morning both acted as if Florida will no longer be teaching history.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Day two of Leslie Jones guest hosting The Daily Show went about as well critics of Comedy Central’s list of fill ins expected. Jones teamed up with Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson to promote vasectomies as a reasonable response to Dobbs and to ask how to keep pro-lifers or “mother[bleep] out of pussy.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Tuesday, MSNBC held something they advertised as a racial healing town hall, but there wasn’t a lot of healing going on as moderators and guests attacked conservatives while pushing the bitterly divisive 1619 Project.