Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] After President Trump announced a historic diplomatic deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, CNN Newsroom host Kate Bolduan and White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins spent more time wondering how Trump will use the deal to boost his re-election chances with Collins going so far as to insinuate the timing of the…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Joe Biden has not announced his running mate yet, but already liberal activist groups, Democratic politicians, and their media allies are laying the groundwork to label criticism of the vice presidential nominee as racist and sexist. In interviews with Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and California Rep. Barbara Lee on Monday, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell wondered…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Former Obama era CIA and Pentagon chief of staff and current MSNBC national security analyst Jeremy Bash joined The 11th Hour host Brian Williams on Friday night to discuss the intelligence community's assessment of foreign interference in the upcoming election. Naturally, Bash and Williams chose to ignore the parts of the report about China…
[See NewsBusters for more.] The July numbers report came out on Friday and was better than expected, but MSNBC Live wanted viewers to know that is not good news and they should not let President Trump claim them as a success. According to host Stephanie Ruhle, the unexpected numbers were expected, while White House correspondent Peter Alexander dubbed the numbers "not…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC Live host Brian Williams could hardly contain his enthusiasm on Wednesday as former Deputy Attorney General testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee about the FBI's investigation into retired general and former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. Throughout the show Williams showed that he was willing to burn strawmen…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Whether it's the response to COVID-19 or the consulate in Houston being ordered closed, whenever a China-related controversy is the news, MSNBC wonders if President Trump is just looking for a distraction. Such was the case on Tuesday's MSNBC Live where host Katy Tur wondered if Trump's announcement that the U.S. would banning TikTok and…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC's Brian Williams was joined by author and professor Timothy Snyder on Friday night where Williams used his guest's 2017 book On Tyranny to argue that the United States under President Trump is slipping into authoritarianism. Williams' proof? Military parades and federal law enforcement in Portland.
Williams praised Snyder's allegedly…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Media praise of former President Obama's eulogy at John Lewis' funeral continued on Friday's CNN Newsroom as senior political analyst David Gergen contrasted the upcoming election as between Obama's purported pro-American elegance with Trump's alleged "dystopian" view of the world.
Host John King set Gergen up by praising the three…
[See NewsBusters for more.] After former President Obama gave a partisan eulogy at John Lewis' funeral on Thursday where he compared President Trump and federal law enforcement to George Wallace and called for the end of the filibuster, among other things, the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart praised him for telling Americans what they can do to honor Lewis and the country…
[See NewsBusters for more.] For the past several years, MSNBC has hailed any anti-Trump Republican as the voice of reason and as a champion of decency. However, fireworks ensued on MSNBC Live on Wednesday when host Craig Melvin interviewed pro-Trump Democrat State Rep. from Georgia Vernon Jones with Melvin wondering if Jones was being paid for his efforts.
The interview got…
