Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] In the aftermath of the assault on Paul Pelosi and against all evidence, the Monday edition of CNN Tonight confidently proclaimed that political violence is a “uniquely right-wing problem right now.” Steve Scalise, Lee Zeldin, and Brett Kavanaugh, and the victims of the riots of 2020 were all unavailable for comment.
[See NewsBusters for more.] The last time Stacey Abrams was on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, she compared herself Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainians fighting for their freedom. Now with only eight days until Election Day, she returned to join the show’s namesake host in Atlanta on Monday to decry the “vile” attacks against her while spreading election conspiracy theories and…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s Ali Velshi took his trademark cowboy hat and Saturday show to Phoenix from where he interviewed PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel about a Los Angeles Times op-ed she wrote entitled, How Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter could threaten free speech. Nossel warned that if Musk’s vision is ultimately realized, Twitter risks becoming the Tower of Babel.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Author and MSNBC political analyst Anand Giridharadas joined The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle on Friday to declare that the upcoming midterm election is one between those who believe in liberal democracy and those who believe in fascism. In Giridharadas’s world, the latter group is normalizing the assault on Paul Pelosi. He provided no evidence for either claim.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Fresh off his CNN appearance, presidential historian Jon Meacham took his shoehorned Abraham Lincoln analogies to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on Friday to warn “this is the gravest test of citizenship since the Civil War.” Therefore, just like Lincoln fought slavery, voters must vote Democrat to save democracy.
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC host of The 11th Hour Stephanie Ruhle shamed voters on Thursday for thinking that voting for Republicans will improve the economy, while The Circus producer Mark McKinnon insisted that the economy’s doing just fine so Democrats still have a chance.
[See NewsBusters for more.] The midterm elections are still over a week away and MSNBC has already shifted to warning Republicans not to “overreach” should they win because “the public would turn against them.” Those comments were made by Politico White House bureau chief Jonathan Lemire to Andrea Mitchell Reports guest host Lindsey Reiser on Thursday as she tried to suggest that Republicans risk…
[See NewsBusters for more.] CBS The Late Show host Stephen Colbert was in full activist mode for his Wednesday show as he attacked Mehmet Oz on abortion and Tudor Dixon on sexually explicit material in school libraries. For good measure, he also opened the floor to The 1619 Project’s Nikole Hannah-Jones to attack conservatives generally.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN senior political analyst joined CNN Newsroom host Erica Hill on Wednesday to recap John Fetterman’s Tuesday debate performance. Avlon tried to reassure viewers that Fetterman’s poor performance was just “a snapshot in time,” that he will recover from his stroke, and that he was “gutsy” to even show up, but also that party label matters. The last point being a…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Presidential historian Jon Meacham swung by Tuesday’s CNN Tonight for a segment that included several loony analogies, including that voting Republican is akin to voting for the Confederacy or the Knights of the Golden Circle, which naturally means that voting Democrat is like Abraham Lincoln saving the Union and Winston Churchill not surrendering to the Nazis.