Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] Joe Scarborough got into a bit of a faux argument with CBS' Stephen Colbert and wife and fellow MSNBC Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski on The Late Show early Friday morning over whether the GOP is a fascist party or simply following a fascist leader. Beyond these artificial differences, all could at least agree that the GOP is…
[See NewsBusters for more.] USA Today Washington Bureau chief Susan Page has recently released a biography of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her book tour took her to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert early Thursday morning where she fawned over Pelosi's alleged political skills.
The idea of Pelosi's political skills came up when Colbert asked about Pelosi's latest…
[See NewsBusters for more.] A confused Jim Sciutto asked former GOP Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake on Tuesday's CNN Newsroom why his fellow Republicans refuse to embrace gun control even after the 2017 Alexandria shooting where they were the ones being shot at. For Sciutto and Flake the only reasonable explanation was fear of getting primaried.
Sciutto led off by asking, "…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Matthew Dowd, formerly of ABC News, joined CNN Tonight host Don Lemon on Friday evening to declare that the GOP's unwillingness to pass gun control, makes them the analog to the segregationists who threw Martin Luther King in jail.
Dowd began his diatribe by nothing that "today is the 58th anniversary of Martin Luther King'…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Princeton Professor and MSNBC contributor Eddie Glaude Jr. told Andrea Mitchell Reports guest host Kasie Hunt on Friday that the context that makes police shootings possible is the fault of former President Ronald Reagan.
Glaude's comments came after Hunt asked him "how do we figure out how to move forward and have the next iteration of…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Dana Bash joined CNN Newsroom host Ana Cabrera on Thursday to discuss a new biography of Nancy Pelosi that contains a dispute Pelosi had with Mitch McConnell after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg about whether she should lie in state at the Capitol. Both portrayed Ginsburg as "iconic" and tried to portray Ginsburg as someone who wasn't an activist…
[See NewsBusters for more.] On MSNBC's Tuesday edition of Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace welcomed journalism professor Jason Johnson on to the program to call for the abolishment of policing as currently understood and to accuse anyone who might question this approach of gaslighting.
Wallace led Johnson by reading a joint statement from the Obamas that said…
[See NewsBusters for more.] One of the reasons why President Biden's infrastructure proposal checks in at $2.25 trillion is because Democrats have expanded the definition of infrastructure to include their favorite pet projects. According to MSNBC's Ali Velshi and The New Yorker's Sheelah Kolhatkar, this is a good thing and Biden deserves credit for rewriting the dictionary.…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Host of The Late Show on CBS Stephen Colbert came up with an original take on Georgia's election bill late Thursday night: not only are Republicans racist vote suppressors, but they might as well be throwing Jesus in jail too.
For Colbert, it is obvious that the law is about voter suppression because "In the latest poll, the GOP trails Democrats in…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Do you believe in free speech, but also believe it is not a wise strategy for businesses to stray out of their lane and identify with left-wing causes? If so, CBS's The Late Show host Stephen Colbert thinks you're a hypocrite.
Colbert used this argument, such as it was, on his Tuesday show where he helped spread some fake news about…
