Alex Christy
[See NewsBusters for more.] Susan Page of USA Today joined The 11th Hour host Brian Williams Friday night to discuss the allegations of sexual harassment and assault surrounding Joe Biden and argued that it is unfair that Biden is hurt more by such allegations than President Trump because, unlike Trump, Biden is running as a nice guy who cares.
After playing a clip…
[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell is determined show to prove that at the end of the world, women are the hardest hit. Mitchell invited former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards and Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post on at the conclusion of Wednesday show for a gratuitously divisive segment that argued women have it hardest during the current…
[See NewsBusters for more.] On her Tuesday show, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell was in disbelief at the idea that the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division might sue states and localities for violating the constitution with excessive stay-at-home orders. It was not the first time Mitchell expressed confusion at the idea that the constitution still applies, even during a pandemic…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi appeared on Monday for yet another softball interview on MSNBC, this time with MSNBC Live's Stephanie Ruhle. This latest interview included interviewer and interviewee thanking each other their role in the current pandemic.
Ruhle began the interview by conveniently ignoring while Senate Republicans were ringing the…
[See NewsBusters for more.] As COVID-19 deaths continue to raise, MSNBC's Brian Williams and historian Douglas Brinkley wondered on Friday night's The 11th Hour why President Trump doesn't seem to care.
Williams began by giving a brief history lesson, "Doug Brinkley, we've elected, what, 11 generals over the years to be our president. We've had some…
[See NewsBusters for more.] Whether that came from a wet market or a lab accident is an open question, but is a widely agreed upon fact that it came from a bat, but CNN climate correspondent Bill Weir on Thursday's New Day had another hypothesis: climate denialism and industrialization.
While some on the left have touted the environmental benefits of economic shutdowns, Weir…
[See NewsBusters for more.] The recent VA study that showed that hydroxychloroquine failed to show any benefit in treating and may even harm COVID-19 patients has led many in the media to say "told you so." Some, such as CNN's Brian Stelter, have gone even further, who claimed on Wednesday's CNN Newsroom that President Trump and various Fox News personalities'…
[See NewsBusters for more.] The decision on when to re-open their states will probably be the most difficult decision each governor will make during their respective tenures, so it would be nice if the media would be willing to grant the conversation the nuance it deserves. Unfortunately, on Tuesday afternoon's CNN Newsroom, Dr. Seema Yasmin claimed that the only reason why some…
[See NewsBusters for more.] It was only a matter of time before someone in the media claimed that the coronavirus pandemic is proof that President Trump and Vladimir Putin are best friends, but it took deceptively editing some of Trump's press conferences for CNN Newsroom co-host Jim Sciutto to do just that on Monday.
Leading into a video report of himself, Sciutto declared…
[See NewsBusters for more.] It is one thing to claim that President Trump's Friday tweets calling to "liberate" various states were unwise and counterproductive, but according to Carl Bernstein, who joined CNN's Chris Cuomo that night, they were tantamount to citing insurrection.
Cuomo began by asserting that the tweets fit the legal definition of recklessness, "the legal …
