Alex Christy
Alex Christy | November 5, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] On her Twitter bio, NBC's Jane Timm describes herself as a "Senior reporter telling stories about voting rights." With such an activist description of herself, it was fitting that she joined Hallie Jackson Reports on MSNBC on Friday to question if corporations care about "voting rights." After all they are still giving money to Republicans. After congratulating Timm…
Alex Christy | November 4, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Inside Politics host John King agreed with Democratic strategist Paul Begala on Thursday that Republican attacks against Critical Race Theory are nothing more than dog whistles for suburbanites who don't like diversity. At one point, King went so far as to echo Democratic allegations that it is a "horseshit" issue. Begala was lamenting that both the more left-wing…
Alex Christy | November 2, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] As part of MSNBC's Election Day 2021 preview on Tuesday, Andrea Mitchell labeled Glenn Youngkin a "textbook case" of a dishonest culture warrior who is pushing fake issues like opposition to Critical Race Theory. Mitchell's accusation against Youngkin sounded like something out of the Terry McAuliffe campaign, "the issue of abortion, now in the suburbs, with suburban…
Alex Christy | November 1, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] From blaming politicians for storm damage, to lamenting economic growth, to blaming democracy for the lack of solutions, it was a busy Monday morning for CNN's resident climate alarmist Bill Weir as he commented on the COP26 summit in Glasgow. Weir got going in the 10:00 Eastern hour on CNN Newsroom where he attacked President Biden's climate plan from the left, "This…
Alex Christy | October 30, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Chris Cuomo agreed with the Lincoln Project's Stuart Stevens that the group's Friday anti-Glenn Youngkin hoax raised "legitimate" questions about Youngkin's character and not that the group had to fabricate evidence in an attempt to prove that point. At first Cuomo seemed to be the reasonable one, asking Stevens, "Some people showed up at a Youngkin event posing as…
Alex Christy | October 29, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] The Friday cast CNN Newsroom could hardly contain themselves as they gushed over President Biden and "the liberal wing of the Catholic Church" and hailed them as great Christians and humanitarians. Host Jim Sciutto explained to National Catholic Reporter's Vatican correspondent, Christopher White, "Francis and Biden share, if you want to put it in political terms, a…
Alex Christy | October 28, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Newsroom host and former Obama State Department official Jim Sciutto and former Clinton Defense Secretary William Cohen came up with a new reason to support the Democrats' massive partisan spending bill on Thursday: American foreign policy depends on it. If that seems like a leap in logic, Sciutto tried to explain, "You know the importance of the president's…
Alex Christy | October 27, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle finally acknowledged on Tuesday the controversy in Loudoun County, Virginia, where the school board stands accused of covering up a bathroom rape in order to protect its transgender bathroom policy. Unfortunately, what started out as a decent enough segment with correspondent Catie Beck soon degenerated into Ruhle wondering why these "culture…
Alex Christy | October 26, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Newsroom attempted to come to the rescue of Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe on Tuesday as it was alleged that his now infamous views on education have been "spun out of control." After being asked by host Victor Blackwell how Republican Glenn Youngkin has made education a central part of his message, national politics report Eva McKend…
Alex Christy | October 25, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Monday's CNN Newsroom, host Jim Sciutto welcomed Vice Chairwoman Karen Watkins of the Gwinett County Georgia Public School Board onto insinuate that growing conservative opposition to left-wing education is based in racism and that only one side of this debate is being political. Sciutto's allegations stemmed from his misunderstanding of how campaigns work, "Let me…