Racism

Over there on this very site, NewsBusters’ own Alex Christy had a sharp-eyed focus on a curious moment on a recent episode of Stephen Colbert’s late night CBS show. 

As the Trump Administration seeks to dismantle DEI initiatives, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart welcomed New York Times best-selling author and former president of the progressive think tank Demos, Heather McGhee, to The Weekly Show podcast on Thursday to help him make sense of it. During a discussion on Trump’s “shakedown” of elite law firms, McGhee would argue that it is easy…

Comedian Nimesh Patel swung by Comedy Central and The Daily Show on Tuesday to muse about Indian-Americans who support President Trump. Patel would ridicule former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and unrelated FBI Director Kash Patel, but he would direct his most venomous rhetoric towards the Vance family as he claimed to hope that Second Lady Usha Vance has Stockholm Syndrome…

CNN’s Anderson Cooper hosted a town hall with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday, and, even by CNN’s standards, it was quite the softball session. Not only did both men take advantage of fact-checker Daniel Dale apparently having better things to do with his time by accusing President Trump of “whitewashing American history,” but Cooper even invited the president of American University’s…

In the past few days, two MSNBC regulars have aimed the kind of race-obsessed vitriol at Republican voters that the liberal news network has long been known for, claiming that the 77 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump are racists.

Netflix’s Love is Blind has been a hit for eight seasons, but Season 8 took a sharp turn into politics, a stark contrast to its past. Couples debated George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, abortion, gay marriage, and Christianity’s stance on LGBTQ issues. It’s hard not to wonder if producers pushed these talks, especially since conservatives consistently ended up as the villains.

Sunday’s New York Times was loaded with hostile anti-administration stories, including “As El Paso Gunman Faces Sentencing, the Hate That Inspired Him Rises Again." Reporters Edgar Sandoval and Reyes Mata III, tried to hang the 2019 massacre at a Walmart in El Paso on President Trump right from the online subhead: “The lawyer of the white supremacist who slaughtered 23 people in 2019…

National Public Radio took a second bite out of a rancid liberal apple of a story from June 2022, part of its homegrown series “Life Kit -- Tools To Help You Get It Together," with an update spurred by a new TV series: “'Adolescence' is a parental nightmare. Here's what to tell kids about online extremism.” What did NPR tell the kids? Don’t make jokes, and heed the advice of discredited race-…

Not content with five days of The View, ABC now puts up a shorter episode every Saturday on its online streaming service, ABC News Live. It is common for this Saturday content to be less political than the weekday shows, but this Saturday saw the assembled cast smear the country as both racist and sexist.

When CBS unveiled plans to reboot the iconic detective drama Matlock with Oscar-winner Kathy Bates stepping into the titular role, many worried it would be another woke hatchet job, gender-swapping Andy Griffith’s beloved character with a woman. Thankfully, however, the show actually pays homage to Griffith with a clever twist: Bates’ character, Madeline Kingston, adopts the alias…

CNN’s Dana Bash spread some fake news on Tuesday’s edition of Inside Politics and not of the fun April Fool’s variety. Bash, together with Africana Studies Prof. Clarissa Myric-Harris White, burned multiple straw men on President Donald Trump’s executive order on the Smithsonian.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper welcomed Professor and former NAACP President Cornell William Brooks to his Friday show to help him set some straw men ablaze on President Donald Trump’s order for the Smithsonian to remove all “improper ideology” at its museums. The published order gave a clear definition of “improper ideology,” but the duo insisted on talking about something else so it could accuse him…

Hard-left hysteric and Yale professor Jason Stanley is fleeing to Canada and tax-funded television is on it. Amanpour & Co. trumpeted that night’s guest, Yale professor Jason Stanley, absconding the US in the subject line of the show’s promotional email: "EXCLUSIVE: 'How Fascism Works' Author Jason Stanley Plans to Leave the U.S.” 

Elie Mystal, the man dubbed Mad Scientist Fat Albert in 2019 by the great Varad Mehta, joined MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday by plug his new book Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America with one of them a comically predictable antidote to fixing our republic: axing all voter registration laws.