Alex Christy
Alex Christy | February 4, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Host of The Late Show on CBS Stephen Colbert and show writer John Thibodeaux must have run out of jokes, because on Wednesday's program they discussed the Biden Administration's plans to accelerate the process of replacing Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. Instead of focusing on the merits of Tubman replacing Jackson, they lamented that Tubman will…
Alex Christy | February 2, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Alleged funnyman Stephen Colbert claimed on Monday's edition of The Late Show on CBS that the ten Republican senators trying to find a compromise solution with President Biden on COVID relief are "absentminded caribou" who are proposing that instead of simply letting Americans drown, Republicans want to be able to wave to them while they drown. Nor was that the only…
Alex Christy | January 30, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Are you opposed to massive job killing climate regulations? Do you believe that the Laffer Curve has some basis in reality? If so, CNN's John Harwood said on Friday that the rise of Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her history of insane and bigoted conspiracy theory beliefs that include 9/11 trutherism, Parkland trutherism, and anti-Semitic claims that Jewish…
Alex Christy | January 28, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Newsroom host Poppy Harlow welcomed on Jared Bernstein, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, on to the Thursday program to talk about President Biden's economic agenda and to question him from the left if "fundamentally capitalism needs to change." To prove her point, Harlow cited the economic impact of the pandemic and a study from two…
Alex Christy | January 27, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.]  MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and Hallie Jackson welcomed a "new era" of American foreign policy on MSNBC Live as Anthony Blinken gave his first speech as Secretary of State to the department where he promised to be a different kind of secretary than his Trump-era predecessors. Also speaking against the backdrop of President Biden's phone call with Vladimir Putin, Jackson…
Alex Christy | January 26, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] Speaking with former Obama White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Tuesday, MSNBC Live host Stephanie Ruhle wondered why President Biden is potentially damaging his record by trying to work with Republicans. Talking specifically about Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief package, Ruhle questioned the wisdom of bipartisanship, "So why even try these bipartisan…
Alex Christy | January 25, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] After retiring from the Navy as a rear admiral in 2015, John Kirby became the spokesman for the Obama State Department, which led to him to getting a job at CNN as an analyst during the Trump presidency. Now that a Democrat is back in charge, Kirby has gone through the revolving door once more to once again become press secretary at the Pentagon, a position he held…
Alex Christy | January 22, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Friday's edition of MSNBC Live host Katy Tur took the opportunity to talk about President Biden's environmental agenda while also implying that former President Trump and Republican policies more generally are to blame for natural disasters. After her opening monologue on the subject, she welcomed Greta Thunberg to pressure Biden from the far-left. After giving a…
Alex Christy | January 21, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Newsroom host Brianna Keilar took the media's relief that there is now a president who supposedly cares about truth to a whole new level on Thursday when she argued that this can be seen in how the Biden Administration has decorated the Oval Office. During a lengthy monologue, Keilar informed viewers that how the president decorates the office can tell us much…
Alex Christy | January 20, 2021
[See NewsBusters for more.] PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor's reaction to President Biden's inaugural address on Wednesday gave insight into how the press will treat him over the next four years. Gone are the days of hostile questioning and in are the days where the White House press corps can take the president at his word, because he is not a serial spread of lies and…