Racism
Racist Joy: We Only Care About Ukraine Because They're White
On Monday night's The ReidOut on MSNBC, host Joy Reid used the last segment of her prime-time show to exploit the war in Ukraine in order to play racial politics. Reid claimed that the reason the United States and the rest of the world care so much about Russia's invasion of Ukraine is because their population is "white and largely Christian"
Holt Badgers Barr on 'Systemic Racism' After Former AG Rejects BLM
As part of his book tour, former Attorney General Bill Barr joined NBC’s Lester Holt for an exclusive sit-down interview that was aired on Friday’s NBC Nightly News and the Saturday edition of Today. During the interview, Holt unsuccessfully attempted to get Barr to agree with him that systemic bias and racism exist in American policing.
ABC's 'The Wonder Years' Paints 'Concerned White Parents' as Racists
ABC’s The Wonder Years reboot has been surprisingly fair for a Hollywood show, and thus enjoyable to watch. Until it wasn’t. Wednesday’s episode, “Black Teacher,” took on the sensitive topic of race and racism and did a good job of it until the very end when they took a dig at “concerned white parents” who fight to make sure what their children are learning is “fair and balanced.” And…
Race-Baiting NYTimes LIES About Zimmerman's 911 Call: ‘He Looks Black'
The shooting death of black teen Trayvon Martin during a sidewalk confrontation with George Zimmerman in Orlando 10 years ago stoked the new civil rights movement – or so claims a column and video for the opinion section of the Times marking the anniversary: “Trayvon Martin Is Still Making America Confront Its Original Sin.” The presence of Al Sharpton is not the most offensive part…
Alcindor Laments Biden Didn't Tie Ukraine to 'Voting Rights' in SOTU
On Wednesday morning’s MSNBC Reports, Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor pushed the view of leftist Democrats who were unhappy that President Biden did not use his State of the Union address to tie Ukraine’s fight for national survival to the fight for democracy here at home.
ABC, CBS Distort History to Mark Trayvon Martin's Death in 2012
As ABC and CBS ran reports commemorating the 10th anniversary of black Florida teen Trayvon Martin being shot to death by George Zimmerman, both networks misinformed their viewers, and ABC even imitated the same smear that NBC News was forced to apologize for 10 years ago.
FLASHBACK: Joy Reid Fawns Over ‘Wonderful’ College Pal Ketanji Jackson
On Friday morning, media reports said President Biden would nominate D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court. Brown — who previously defended a Guantanamo Bay detainee — has received plenty of support from the left in the past year. Most notably, endorsement came from MSNBC’s The ReidOut host Joy Reid, who’s called…
Unhinged MSNBC Regular: America 'Hates Black People'
In the aftermath of former police officer Kim Potter being sentenced to just two years for accidentally shooting black motorist Daunte Potter during a traffic stop, two MSNBC shows have stretched to claim a racial double standard while one frequent guest also provocatively claimed that America "hates black people."
Velshi Attacks 'Ultra-Conservative' Court For Gutting 'Voting Rights'
During his Saturday show on MSNBC, Ali Velshi attacked members of the "ultra-conservative" Supreme Court for allegedly gutting voting rights and longed for the days when voting rights were respected.
Vile Colbert Sketch Hypes Race: 'Taboo: White Fragility Edition'
On his Wednesday installment of The Late Show on CBS, host Stephen Colbert demonstrated that he does not understand various GOP-passed laws banning Critical Race Theory in schools. After a long-winded diatribe that portrayed these laws as banning any mention of racism, Colbert played a vile and unfunny sketch that was a satirical ad for the fictional game Taboo: White Fragility…
CNN: South Votes Republican Because of Opposition to Civil Rights
During Friday’s CNN Newsroom host Victor Blackwell welcomed political analyst and historian Julian Zelizer on to hype CNN’s upcoming four-part documentary on President Lyndon Johnson. As part of the preview, both Blackwell and Zelizer postulated that LBJ was correct is asserting that passing the civil rights legislation in the ‘60s paved the way for Republican dominance in the South…
NYT Journo's Book: Conservative Media Hurl ‘Racially Charged Attacks'
Insurgency, the latest in the endless line of anti-Trump tomes, is by New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters, a conservative-beat reporter who regularly wages war on conservative media “propaganda.” The book’s full title, Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party And Got Everything They Ever Wanted, makes Peters’ message clear: The GOP gained Donald Trump and lost…
NBC Cries Racism in San Fran School Board Recall, ABC Flips for Dems
As NewsBusters documented last fall, both ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News attacked the politically engaged and angry parents in Virginia by claiming they were motivated by Republican Glenn Youngkin’s racist siren song. But in the wake of parents recalling the school board (by a landslide) in extremely liberal San Francisco on Wednesday, NBC kept to the false…