Alex Christy
On Saturday’s Good Morning America, ABC senior White House correspondent Selina Wang made the wild claim that President Trump is “blaming the left” for Charlie Kirk’s murder even though the motive is currently unknown. The previous evening, on World News Tonight, chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl tried to drive a wedge between Trump and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox over their…
On Saturday’s Good Morning America, ABC senior White House correspondent Selina Wang made the wild claim that President Trump is “blaming the left” for Charlie Kirk’s murder even though the motive is currently unknown. The previous evening, on World News Tonight, chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl tried to drive a wedge between Trump and Utah Gov. Spencer Cox over their responses to the…
The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour expressed serious doubts that President Trump can be the leader the nation needs after the murder of Charlie Kirk. Through a combination of misrepresentations, hypocrisy, and omissions, the assembled trio of anchor Amna Nawaz, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart condemned Trump’s response to the crime.
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Capehart was…
The cast of Friday’s PBS News Hour expressed serious doubts that President Trump can be the leader the nation needs after the murder of Charlie Kirk. Through a combination of misrepresentations, hypocrisy, and omissions, the assembled trio of anchor Amna Nawaz, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart condemned Trump’s response to the crime.
Nawaz thought she…
Former NFL wide receiver and current co-host of CBS Mornings Nate Burleson fumbled the ball on Thursday as he and his colleagues welcomed former GOP Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy to the set to react to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. After the murder of a conservative activist, Burleson first got in a dig at Kirk’s politics while insisting that he wasn’t interested in doing that before…
With the exception of NBC’s The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon, all of the late night comedy reacted to the assassination of Charlie Kirk on their Thursday program by hitting on all the proper points about political violence being unacceptable and un-American. Some even criticized some on the left for their reaction to it, but while some may sincerely believe that gun control is part of the…
Even by the standards of flippant Nazi analogies, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart had an especially ill-timed Nazi comparison on Wednesday as he taped The Weekly Show podcast before Charlie Kirk’s assassination and ahead of its Thursday release. According to Stewart, President Trump sending ICE to Chicago can be roughly analogized with Nazi invasions in World War II.
Stewart began, “It is, we're…
After conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot but before he was pronounced dead on Wednesday, former NBC and MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner declared on The Jim Acosta Show that we all have to tone down the “insane rhetoric,” but claimed that is hard to do because of President Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington, D.C.
Kirschner’s initial thought was decent enough, “I fear that where we…
Politico contributor and climate journalist Michael Grunwald traveled to Comedy Central and The Daily Show on Wednesday to promote his new book, where he attacked eating meat as bad for the environment.
Host-of-the-week Michael Kosta began, “This book, a five-year project, and you discuss in the introduction, it started when you had a simple question and you called someone for help.…
NBC’s Seth Meyers’s Tuesday interview with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear could have been a case study in how the late night comedians conduct interviews with Democratic politicians. First, the Late Night host asked some softball questions about podcasting and Gen Z slang and then followed up with a strategy planning session to help Democrats win again.
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After Beshear affirmed he has,…
