Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] The media's deliberate misinterpretation of President Trump's Mount Rushmore speech as part of a pro-Confederate culture war continued on Monday's MSNBC Live as the Washington Post's Philip Rucker cited unnamed Republicans who fear that Trump is putting the party "on the wrong side of history."
Rucker told Ayman Mohyeldin that…
[See NewsBusters for more.] After years of decrying President Trump and Republicans for being too soft on Russia or worse, being a willing partner in Vladimir Putin's anti-American foreign policy, MSNBC's Keir Simmons found himself on Tuesday blaming the United States, or at the very least President Bush, for Putin's hostility towards America and the West.
Simmons joined …
[See NewsBusters for more.] Professor Melina Abdullah joined Brooke Baldwin on Wednesday's CNN Newsroom to discuss President Trump and his response to a Black Lives Matter street painting in New York City outside Trump Tower. Abdullah, who was hailed by Baldwin as one of the original members of BLM, called Trump "the embodiment of white supremacist terrorism" and the…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell had a question for Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on her Tuesday show: why are red states so bad at handling COVID-19?
Manchin was an obvious candidate for Mitchell's softball questions because the segment centered around a Planet Fitness in his home state of West Virginia that is asking 200 people to self-quarantine after possibly being…
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN legal analyst and guest host of Friday's CNN Tonight Laura Coates condemned President Trump for threatening legal action against statue vandals, arguing that instead of caring about coronavirus deaths, Trump is launching a culture war against those engaging in "symbolic speech."
Coates began her monologue by declaring, "And President Trump…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Ex-Roger Stone prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that the decision to reduce Stone's sentence was made because Stone was a friend of President Trump. For MSNBC Live's Chuck Todd and Katy Tur, this confirmed their beliefs that the DOJ under Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr is being…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Tuesday morning saw President Trump condemn those, who on Monday, tried and failed to tear down a statue of former President Andrew Jackson and threaten legal action against those who would engage in similar acts of vandalism. For CNN's John Harwood on CNN Newsroom these rather simple words were evidence that Trump was stoking a culture…
[See NewsBusters for more.] CNN Newsroom hosts Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto invited New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on their Monday show to discuss current events which naturally included the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of challenging Cuomo on the state's order that required nursing homes to take in recovering COVID patients, the hosts asked Cuomo how he could protect the…
[See NewsBusters for more.] When CNN Newsroom got the breaking news on Thursday that the Supreme Court had invalidated President Trump's efforts to undo DACA, the network's chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin was a logical choice to bring on to discuss the matter. However, instead of discussing legal matters, Toobin praised Chief Justice John Roberts as a politician who is in…
[See NewsBusters for more.] On Wednesday's CNN Newsroom, Dana Bash expanded the definition of racism to include talking about the nation's heritage, claiming that phrase to be a well-known dog whistle.
Bash's comments came in a segment where host John King was discussing the Republican press conference that occurred earlier in the day, where Republicans laid out…
