Race Issues

HBO’s John Oliver went on an especially nasty rant against Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight for his recent majority opinion in Louisiana v. Callais. Oliver declared that Alito’s claim that the South isn’t as racist as it was in the 60s is “obviously horseshit” and suggested Alito supports segregation multiple times.

The late night comedy shows’ desire to trash the Supreme Court for its recent ruling that paved the way for the elimination of mandated majority-minority districts continued on NBC’s Saturday Night Live when Weekend Update co-anchor Michael Che compared the decision to the days of the Civil Rights Movement when protestors were attacked with firehoses.

CNN contributor Shermichael Singleton has daily or nightly adventures sparring with liberals on CNN (including the liberal hosts at times). We awarded him our MRC Bulldog Award for Outstanding Achievement Behind Enemy Lines, and he came into our studio to discuss cable-pundit battles and the expectation that blacks must always stay "with their own kind" on the Left. 

Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, welcomed lawyer and professor Sherrilyn Ifill to the program to react to the Supreme Court’s latest ruling regarding the Voting Rights Act. However, Stewart also invited Ifill to give a larger history lesson, which led him to laugh at the Court’s 2013 ruling that got rid of the need for DOJ preclearance for southern states…

On last night’s The Weekend: Primetime on MS NOW, legal analyst and law professor Paul Butler delivered an astonishing assessment of the Supreme Court’s recent decision on the Voting Rights Act. Analogizing it to the Dred Scott decision, Butler made the absurd claim: “It’s like the Dred Scott decision, where the Court said that the black man has no rights that the…

With the help of The Washington Post, Saturday Good Morning America co-host Gio Benitez brought back ABC’s habit of hyping actions by Pope Leo if it could help them in a shot at Trump. This time, the news revolved around a new bishop in West Virginia who used to be an illegal immigrant and is naturally a Trump critic.

MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart had a rough Friday night on PBS News Hour. For one thing, he got triggered when the usually amenable The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks pointed out that progressives are more likely to support political violence than conservatives, which hurt his ability to argue the Saturday assassination attempt against President Trump was just another…

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show host-of-the-week Josh Johnson reacted on Thursday to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that paved the way for states to get rid of minority-majority districts with all of the scholarly analysis one expects from a comedy show, which is to say none at all. Instead, Johnson just called everyone a racist while also smearing Justice Clarence Thomas as an “…

The Supreme Court released a blockbuster ruling in Louisiana v. Callis that struck down one of the Bayou State’s two majority-black congressional districts, possibly paving the way for more such districts to fall across the south. Of course, the liberal, elite media were enraged by the decision that they believe was done by the six-justice majority to prevent black Americans from…

On Saturday’s The Weekend: Primetime, MS NOW hosts Antonia Hylton and Charles Coleman Jr. combined for a remarkable escalation—from stylistic nitpicking to smearing an entire group of Christians as extremists. After opening with a polished aside about Trump’s “linguistic repertoire,” Hylton quickly pivoted to a jaw-dropping—and wholly unsupported—claim: that Trump is surrounded by…

USA Today was mocked as “McPaper” when it debuted in the 1980s, that it was News Lite, an easy read for easily distracted people. Sometimes, it lives up to that, like in a gushy “you go-girl” profile of CNN host Abby Phillip. The headline was “Abby Phillip remains calm amid political chaos on CNN's NewsNight.”

On Thursday's The Last Word, MS NOW host Lawrence O'Donnell used a selectively edited clip to portray HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a "deeply perverted racist madman" who wants to remove all black children from their parents and have them "reparented" by the government. In fact, the HHS secretary said no such thing.

On Friday’s Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough and fellow MS NOW host Al Sharpton got an opportunity to engage in their favorite hobbies of using a lot of words to say little of substance and fearmongering about the Trump administration turning back the lock “to pre-1950 America.”

PBS debuted a new two-part documentary on Tuesday by Lucy Worsley that seeks to cover the American Revolution from the British perspective and how its series of missteps led to the loss of the colonies. At one point in part one, Worsley interviewed Prof. Olivette Otele in a segment that sounded like it came out of The 1619 Project, as both suggested the Dunmore Proclamation had a lot to do…