Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] With Mikhail Gorbachev dying earlier in the week, Walter Isaacson wondered on Thursday’s Amanpour and Company on PBS, how the fall of the Soviet Union has impacted conservatism. To get his answer, he turned to author Nicole Hemmer to claim that conservatives are attempting “to attract voters through racism.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] Don Lemon responded to President Biden’s Thursday partisan screed by accusing GOP critics of playing word games, because in his mind there is a big difference between allegations that Biden called Republicans fascists and the fact that he called MAGA a semi-fascist ideology. Lemon further alleged that anybody who doesn’t appreciate this difference is suffering from…
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley joined Inside Politics host John King on Thursday to preview President Biden’s pretentious “Soul of the Nation” speech. Moving on from effusive praise of John Kerry to effusive praise of Joe Biden, Brinkley eagerly awaited Biden’s opportunity to “relate back to the Founders and Abraham Lincoln.”
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC’s ability to live down to expectations was on full display on Thursday’s Jose Diaz-Balart Reports as guest host Lindsey Reiser welcomed executive director of Trans Family Support Services, Kathie Moehlig onto the program to accuse red states who do not believe in providing “gender-affirming care” to minors of getting in the way of preventing youth suicides.
[See NewsBusters for more.] When The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle sat down for a taped interview with Democratic Pennsylvania Senate nominee John Fetterman it was expected to be a softball interview, but what aired on MSNBC on Wednesday night was somehow even softer than those expectations.
[See NewsBusters for more.] Democratic strategist and USA Today contributor Kurt Bardella’s formula of political analysis is to blindly point to a list of history’s bad guys and declare that is who the GOP is imitating. On Wednesday’s MSNBC Reports it was Nazis and Bolsheviks that were said to be comparable to pro-life Republicans who don’t like the media.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN’s Scott Jennings had the unenviable task of going against three of his colleagues on Wednesday’s edition of New Day on just how real President Biden and the Democratic Party’s commitment to law and order really is and which party is better on the issue. Despite the imbalance, Jennings was able to show that Democratic sentiment on the issue seems to be based on the…
[See NewsBusters for more.] A giddy Stephanie Ruhle could hardly contain her excitement on Monday’s The 11th Hour as the MSNBC host applauded Democrats for “fighting like Republicans” on alleged GOP hypocrisy on student loan forgiveness. As a result of all the pom-pom waving, facts were forced to take a back seat.
[See NewsBusters for more.] PBS may have officially jumped the shark on Monday’s Amanpour and Company as guest host Sara Sidner welcomed author James Crawford to discuss his new book The Edge of the Plain and lament borders are tools of nationalism and, when the United States seeks to combat illegal immigration, even fascism.
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Newsroom host Jim Acosta and CNN fact checker Daniel Dale asked on Saturday what might be the most important question of the 2022 midterms: does Sen. Raphael Warnock have a dog? Or, more specifically, is his Republican opponent Herschel Walker lying about him lying about having a dog?