PolitiFact Uses Double Standard On Experts To Benefit Elizabeth Warren
When a military expert’s opinion is different than a politician’s, how are fact-checkers like PolitiFact supposed to adjudicate the politician’s claim? If a Friday article by Zoe Weyand is anything to go by, the answer is not at all, or at least if the politician is Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. However, Weyand's standard for giving Warren a “true” rating for a recent claim she made about…
Blackwell Mourns Spending Money To Protect Troops Instead Of Welfare
As the military uses up expensive weapons in the war with Iran, it naturally seeks to replenish them. However, CNN’s Saturday host of First of All, Victor Blackwell, suggested that the money being used to protect our troops means that the government isn’t concerned with “you” as he rattled off several welfare programs he claimed the money should go to instead.
Capehart Tries To Cast Doubt On Claims Of Success In Iran
PBS News Hour anchor William Brangham and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart tried on Friday to cast doubt on President Trump’s proclamations of military success. However, to do that, they had to employ a definition of success that would be impossible for any war to achieve.
PBS Teams Up With Obama SECDEF To Say U.S. Is Creating New Terrorists
The media’s love for Republicans who become Democrats is not confined to the Trump era. Before the Trump era there was former GOP senator-turned Obama Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and he joined CNN International/PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour on Thursday’s Amanpour and Company to discuss current Secretary Pete Hegseth’s record as a wartime leader. As Amanpour invented a non-existent…
O'Donnell Melts Down At Hegseth Invoking Jesus When Asking For Prayers
MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell suffered a major meltdown as he kicked off Thursday’s episode of The Last Word by condemning Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s plea to Americans that they pray “on bended knee” for the troops “in the name of Jesus Christ.” In a fit of historic illiteracy, an overly solemn O’Donnell would use Hegseth’s plea to try to divide Americans based on religious…
A Hot Take! Climate-Mad Reuters Cheers Iran War as Fossil Fuel Killer
Apparently the most important positive outcome from the war with Iran is that it has the potential to reduce the world’s reliance on fossil fuels according to Gaia’s acolytes at Reuters, not knocking out the world’s foremost state sponsor of terror. “Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence" was the headline.
Comedy Shows Mock The Idea Of The Pentagon Needing More Money Amid War
It should be obvious that the reason why the Pentagon is asking for $200 billion amid the war in Iran is to replenish its munition stockpiles after expending several air-defense interceptor missiles, standoff weapons, and other high-tech weapons and to build up the industrial base to lessen concerns about magazine depth going forward. However, late night comedy’s two Jimmies had a hard time…
Freedom Is Not Free
At the height of the energy crisis in the 1970s, when oil prices more than sextupled, The Economist magazine showed a map of the Persian Gulf on its cover with the headline, “What’s a Nice Thing Like Oil Doing in a Place Like This?” The Iranian miscreants, with whom we are now at war, understand that, although they could care less what their own citizens think, in free countries…
CNN Tries Casting Doubt On Hegseth's Claims Of Success After F-35 Hit
It took almost three weeks, but on Thursday, Iran finally managed to damage a U.S. aircraft, but the cast of CNN’s The Situation Room did not marvel that it took so long for Iran to achieve a fraction of success. Instead, they used the situation to suggest Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is not being truthful when he touts the campaign’s success.
O’Donnell Says Iran FM More Credible Than Trump, Who Now Has Dementia
On Monday night’s Lawrence O’Donnell hour-long derangement session, the host of The Last Word on MS NOW said President Trump was a sociopath and might be less trustworthy than the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi. O’Donnell also later stated Trump had dementia and the 25th amendment should be invoked on “mental health grounds.”
New York Times Launches Unfounded Hypocrisy Charge at Admiral Cooper
John Ismay calls himself a Pentagon reporter for The New York Times, but on Tuesday, Ismay launched an unfounded and ill-informed allegation of hypocrisy against CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper for comments related to an Iranian attack on Israel involving cluster munitions.
Kimmel Tries To Make Intel Official Resigning a Big Deal
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel is a man who wears accusations of having Trump Derangement Syndrome as a badge of honor, but on Tuesday, Kimmel’s TDS led him to applaud Joe Kent's resigning from the Trump administration over the Iran War. According to Kimmel, Kent is just some disillusioned MAGA follower, not a foreign policy radical who has flip-flopped on the very issue he resigned over.
Oliver And Audience Applaud Iran's AI Propaganda Video
HBO’s John Oliver and his Last Week Tonight audience found a recent AI-generated propaganda video from Iran’s Revayat-e Fath Institute alleging President Trump started the Iran War to distract from Epstein files to be quite amusing. Oliver also continued the media trend of claiming that the administration has badly misjudged the war despite its clear one-sidedness.
SNL's Trump Says Iran Is Meant To Distract From Epstein
NBC’s James Austin Johnson and Colin Jost reprised their President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth roles on Saturday Night Live for some Iran-related hot takes that were disguised as satire. According to Johnson, the reason why gas prices are increasing is because of a domino effect that started with the Epstein files while Jost suggested Hegseth is bombing Iranian…
