Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN’s new documentary series, United States of Scandal, hosted by Jake Tapper, debuted on Sunday with two episodes. One detailed the extramarital affair of former Republican South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and the other involved former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s scheme to sell the Senate seat that would be vacated by Barack Obama. However, only Sanford…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC medical contributor and former Obama White House policy director Kavita Patel joined Jose Diaz-Balart Reports guest host Yasmin Vossoughian on Tuesday to react to an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that declares frozen embryos to be people. Patel was not happy, unknowingly arguing that embryos are not people because they are embryos but also enable people to become…
[See NewsBusters for more.] The new season of HBO’s Last Week Tonight debuted on Sunday with host John Oliver bitterly attacking Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for making people’s lives “demonstrable worse for decades” and therefore offering him $1 million per year and a new luxury RV if he resigns and gets “the fuck off the Supreme Court.” A day later on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show,…
[See NewsBusters for more.] NBC correspondent Joe Fryer sat down for an interview with actor Eddie Izzard for the Saturday edition of Today to hype a solo performance of Hamlet. While that may be interesting by itself, Fryer claimed that Izzard’s transgender and “gender fluid” identities help Izzard portray the vast assortment of characters in the play.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Despite the collective media freakout over “Christian Nationalism,” the term still remains difficult for critics to define in a way that is different from traditionally understood Christian conservatism. The latest installment in this attempt at doom-mongering about the end of democracy comes from filmmaker Rob Reiner, who joined MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle on Friday's The…
[See NewsBusters for more.] After outspoken Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny was murdered on Friday, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart joined PBS NewsHour to claim that former President Donald Trump “emboldened” Putin and clearly looks forward to a Trump win in November.
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Joy Reid and Katie Phang were not happy on the Thursday edition of The ReidOut that Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis has had to defend herself against accusations that hiring Nathan Wade as a special prosecutor in the RICO-election case against Donald Trump represents a conflict of interest. The two played both the race and sexism cards against Willis’s critics,…
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS’s The Late Show host Stephen Colbert and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show temp host Jordan Klepper were the only late night hosts to discuss Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis’s testimony on their Thursday shows and they were not happy with her for endangering the case against Donald Trump.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS’s The Late Show host Stephen Colbert and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show temp host Jordan Klepper were the only late night hosts to discuss Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis’s testimony on their Thursday shows and they were not happy with her for endangering the case against Donald Trump.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Climate scientist Michael Mann recently won his $1 million defamation lawsuit against Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn where the two men fiercely criticized his work. On Wednesday, he joined PBS’s Christiane Amanpour to take a victory lap for his efforts to squash free speech.