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[See NewsBusters for more.] When he's not guest hosting MSNBC's The Cross Connection, Jason Johnson is a politics and journalism professor at Morgan State University, which does not inspire confidence in the next generation of journalists as he warned on Saturday of "catastrophic implications" of the Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative balance and condemned Sen. Mitch…
[See NewsBusters for more.] The Inside Politics panel discussion led by host John King on Thursday about Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar comparing the U.S. and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban was less interested in Omar's actual comments, than how the "Democratic family" will learn how to live with its differing opinions.
Addressing the Wall Street Journal's …
[See NewsBusters for more.] Yahoo News national correspondent Brittany Shepherd joined Tuesday's CNN Newsroom to discuss what Democrats plan to do to save democracy. She noted that Republicans are too scared to do anything on the matter, "so now it is squarely on Democrats."
Host Jim Sciutto, citing the portion of former President Obama's…
[See NewsBusters for more.] With Donald Trump out of office, Chris Cuomo needs a new villain to blame everything on. On Friday's Cuomo Prime Time, he settled on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, blaming him for a series of recent cyberattacks. He would later add that viewers should be grateful for our news media.
For Cuomo, Congress is to blame for the recent attacks, "…
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Newsroom's Victor Blackwell welcomed Paxton Smith, the Texas high schooler who, according to CNN's chyron, went "off script, on a mission" during her valedictorian address to blast Texas' heartbeat bill. Blackwell had nothing but praise for the allegedly non-political Smith and tried to turn her into the latest high school political celebrity.…
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN's John Harwood joined At This Hour host Kate Bolduan to allege that Republicans are suppressing the vote because that is the only way they believe they can win elections. Not only did he not provide evidence for his claim, he also admitted that allegations of voter suppression are really just GOTV measures.
Bolduan wasted no time in…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Self-proclaimed reality checker John Avlon joined CNN Newsroom hosts Jim Sciutto and Poppy Harlow on Monday to allege that democracy is in great peril because Republicans are terrible and the election laws they are trying to pass in places like Texas are similar to literal race massacres.
Speaking of H.R. 1 and the filibuster, Sciutto, who…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Don Lemon Tonight guest host Laura Coates welcomed CNN's resident historian Douglas Brinkley onto the Friday show to discuss the latest way Republicans are threatening democracy. This time, it was a killing a bill that would've created a commission to investigate the January 6 riots. The decision to kill the bill led Brinkley to insist a…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Andrea Mitchell Reports guest host Peter Alexander was forced to acknowledge on Friday that maybe Trump Administration officials were correct, or at the very least, not conspiracy theorists, in declaring COVID-19 to be the result of a lab leak. Still, Alexander wondered if the former administration was looking for a scapegoat, a…
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN's Jake Tapper joined Inside Politics host John King on Thursday to promote his new novel The Devil May Dance with both men observing that the current situation with Republicans being opposed to a January 6 Commission bill is an apt analogy for the book.
King described the book as being "about dysfunctional relationships, it’…
