Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] As fallout from Bob Woodward's book Rage continued on, the cast of Thursday's Andrea Mitchell Reports came together for some Monday morning quarterbacking on President Trump's handling of the pandemic, with Woodward's Washington Post colleague Philip Rucker using the book to blame Trump for 190,000 COVID deaths.
Host Andrea…
[See NewsBusters for more.] NBC investigative tech reporter Brandy Zadrozny joined Ali Velshi on his Saturday MSNBC show to lament that Facebook isn't doing enough to combat misinformation and by misinformation they, of course, mean misinformation spread by President Trump.
Velshi introduced Zadrozny by reading some of her tweets on Facebook's new policy that says…
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Thursday, The Atlantic ran a truly damning piece accusing President Trump of saying that a cemetery of marines who died at the Battle of Belleau Wood, one of the most important battles of World War I and in the history of the Marine Corps, is "filled with losers" and that they were "suckers" for getting killed. However, there was a problem. …
[See NewsBusters for more.] Princeton Prof. Eddie Glaude Jr. joined MSNBC Live's Chris Jansing on Thursday to discuss the case of Daniel Prude, policing, and public violence in which he appeared to be excuse the violence and tried to compare anyone who is concerned about public lawlessness to those who opposed Martin Luther King Jr.
Jansing began by asking, "Eddie, I know you…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC White House correspondent Peter Alexander joined Andrea Mitchell on her Wednesday show to discuss the latest election polling. While the two were forced to acknowledge that the race is tightening, especially in the battleground states, they also focused on whether voters will accept the results if their preferred candidate loses and despite…
[See NewsBusters for more.] After President Trump spoke with reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Tuesday, CNN Newsroom host John King condemned him for exclusively focusing on matters of law and order to the exclusion of race-based police shootings and that efforts to portray a diverse party at the RNC were 'a mirage.'
Conducting the segment with GOP strategist Alice Stewart…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC White House correspondent Geoff Bennett guest hosted MSNBC Live on Monday where he editorialized with Philip Rucker of the Washington Post about President Trump's campaign strategy that allegedly involves instilling fear and division in the hopes igniting conflict through out the country.
After playing a clip of Kellyanne Conway on…
[See NewsBusters for more.] The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson likes to portray himself as a conservative defending conservatism and the republic from President Trump, but on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher, Wilson's assessment of the recently concluded RNC and Trump voters was so deranged that even the liberal Maher was forced to disagree.
Wilson's commentary was the…
[See NewsBusters for more.] For the past several weeks, the media has condemned President Trump for not showing enough empathy given the state of the country. After the conclusion of the RNC, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and the Washington Post's Philip Rucker declared on Friday that such attempts to show empathy don't matter anymore because they're not real anyway, with Rucker going so…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh went on CNN Newsroom on Thursday for a lengthy interview with host Jim Sciutto, during which Sciutto constantly interrupted and talked over Murtaugh, and tried to get him to accept blame for COVID deaths and related job losses.
After talking about Kenosha and Murtaugh touted pre-pandemic…
