Matthew Seck
NewsBusters Intern
My name is Matthew Seck, I am a Junior at the University of Arkansas, studying political science on a pre-law track. I'm from Leesburg, Virginia.
On Monday's CNN NewsNight, host Abby Phillip asked panelists about recent comments from former President Obama, where he called on Democrats to stop "whining" when it comes to winning back the presidency. Substack writer Brad Palumbo called out political commentators Ana Navarro and Maria Cardona for fearmongering, playing the race card, and lying when they responded to Phillip’s questions.…
On Friday night, NewsNation's On Balance host Leland Vittert gave Ohio Rep. Greg Landsman (D) an ultimatum on immigration and customs enforcement: would he get rid of sanctuary cities if it meant stopping ICE raids on places like Home Depot? Unsurprisingly, Landsman couldn’t accurately depict what a sanctuary city was, incredibly he couldn't even say they exist.
Vittert started by asking about…
On Thursday morning, CNN’s The Situation Room walked back the network’s original narrative that the Trump administration was at fault in the preparation and response to the deadly Texas floods. CNN senior crime and justice correspondent Shimon Prokupecz pointed out that the burden fell on local government response and not on the federal government’s spending cuts as CNN originally reported.
CNN…
On Tuesday night, MSNBC’s The Briefing With Jen Psaki cited FEMA cuts as a main factor for the response to the Texas floods. Psaki still used this narrative despite multiple reports coming out that emergency management and response have been on par with or exceeded expectations.
Psaki let the irony flow with this statement:
Unlike California, Texas is of course a red state with a…
On Sunday night, MSNBC’s The Weekend Primetime ran a segment comparing President Trump and his administration to the Corleone family from The Godfather, a movie about an Italian mob boss. This group struggle session had panelists drooling over themselves to spew out any anti-Trump rhetoric they could think of while relating him to a fictional character.
While mispronouncing Corleone as…
On Tuesday night, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki had Rep. Maxwell Frost (D) of Florida’s 10th district on The Briefing to denounce the Big Beautiful Bill. Psaki praised Frost as “passionate” and “important” for his ability to delay the bills passing immediately following his five-minute-long, fact oblivious, fear mongering segment.
Psaki set Frost up to be the good guy by asking him about supposed Medicaid…
On Friday, ABC’s Good Morning America ran a segment decrying the decrease in funding and support for Pride Month by corporations that once used to offer suffering levels of support. GMA used a series of syrupy clips which created a narrative of pressure by the LGBTQ community on corporations to back them financially and publicly or else they hate the gay and transgender community.
ABC’s…
On Friday, ABC’s Good Morning America ran a segment decrying the decrease in funding and support for Pride Month by corporations that once used to offer suffering levels of support. GMA used a series of syrupy clips which created a narrative of pressure by the LGBTQ community on corporations to back them financially and publicly or else they hate the gay and transgender community.
ABC’s…
This morning on The Situation Room, CNN broke news on the 6-3 Supreme Court ruling limiting the ability of lower courts to generate nation-wide injunctions. CNN chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid spent her whole segment on how monumental the ruling was, drawing to the conclusion that Republicans and the “conservative super majority” were to be feared.
Reid tried her best to hide…
On Wednesday night’s The Briefing, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki had on self-proclaimed democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, following his win in New York City’s Democratic Party mayoral primary race. Psaki used words like “joyful,” “inviting,” and “authentic” all words that downplayed Mamdani’s harmful policies and hateful rhetoric towards Jewish people.
Psaki tried to prep the interview by using selective…
