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[See NewsBusters for more.] On Friday, The 11th Hour guest host Alicia Menendez and Matthew Dowd took time to talk about the real takeaways from the Afghanistan withdrawal: that Republicans don't care about the Constitution and that President Biden is doing yeoman's work.
Early on during the show Menendez with a decade-old analogy, "Coming up... the end of the mission in…
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Tuesday, the Supreme Court declined to issue a stay of a lower court ruling that the Biden administration's decision to repeal former President Trump's Remain in Mexico was "arbitrary and capricious" and thus illegal. On Wednesday, CNN Newsroom host Jim Sciutto declared this to be an outrageous act of hypocrisy.
Talking with Court analyst Joan…
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Saturday's installment of Velshi, guest host Mehdi Hasan claimed that the 9/11 terrorist attacks produced a xenophobic War on Terror that is responsible for the political raise of Donald Trump. In order to make this inflammatory point, Hasan repeated sever far-left claims that simply aren't true.
Hasan kicked off the segment claiming, "The 20th…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC military analyst, Ret. Gen. Barry McCaffrey obliterated the admittedly fine line between being realistic and being defeatist on Friday's Stephanie Ruhle Reports where he asserted there is "nothing" we can do for those who fought beside us for 20 years.
Ruhle reported that "there are reports that the Taliban is going house for house…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Plenty have people have compared the current situation in Kabul to Saigon in 1975, but on Tuesday, CNN presidential historian Douglas Brinkley became probably the first to suggest that may not be all bad. For Brinkley, the fact that people are scrambling to get onboard or hanging off the exteriors of C-17 cargo planes might, one day, lead to them being…
[See NewsBusters for more.] On his Saturday show on MSNBC, Ali Velshi welcomed Prof. Cristina Beltran and NPR's Ray Suarez to discuss the latest threat to democracy: Republican redistricting.
Discussing the census, which showed a that the country is becoming more racially diverse, Velshi led Beltran, not with a question, but a declaration, "Many people say if the census says …
[See NewsBusters for more.] As part of a segment critical of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, CNN Newsroom guest host Erica Hill and The Atlantic's Ron Brownstein included mention of Paul's one week suspension for YouTube where he questioned the effectiveness of cloth masks. Lost on the two was that former Biden advisor Dr. Michael Osterholm said the exact same thing on CNN…
[See NewsBusters for more.] John Avlon and CNN Newsroom substitute host Erica Hill began Wednesday's show by hailing and fawning over President Biden for having most transformative and impactful first year as president since Ronald Reagan.
Hill began by insisting that, "we can't ignore the historical significance here" and asking Avlon just "How big of an…
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN climate guy Bill Weir joined At This Hour guest host Boris Sanchez to discuss the latest U.N. report calling climate change "code red for humanity." Weir sounded pessimistic about governments' willingness to do anything about it, but in an attempt to find some optimism hyped lawsuits by children amidst "the social license to go drilling…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Forget New York's Andrew Cuomo with his nursing home and sexual harassment scandals, according to CNN's Don Lemon and Matthew Dowd, Texas' Greg Abbott "is in a race to be the worst possible governor" with Florida's Ron DeSantis.
The charge against Abbott in particular came on Lemon's Friday show after he called for a second special…
