The media has revealed this week just how far they will go in distrusting this administration, siding with foreign governments and terrorists over our own military. Just as ABC News’ journalists did Wednesday, CNN journalists began Thursday suggesting they trusted their own reporting more than they did U.S. military intelligence, by expressing skepticism that Iran intended to kill Americans with their missile strikes.
On the 8am EST hour of CNN’s morning program New Day, co-anchor Alisyn Camerota and correspondent Dana Bash scornfully dismissed the administration as untrustworthy, demanding Vice President Mike Pence "back up" his claim that Iran intended to kill American troops with their multiple missile strikes, Tuesday evening, even as Pentagon officials put out this assessment, Wednesday.
“How can we trust that what he is saying there, since they have presented none of the intelligence to the American public and many of the lawmakers who have seen it dismiss the intelligence as being woefully scant?” Camerota gushed to CNN's Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash.
Bash also sided with Iran’s recent statement that they intended to kill no one, and demanded Pence “back up” what he said, while touting CNN’s reporting as more reliable than the Pentagon's:
Not just that, I've seen reporting, including especially at CNN, that says the opposite, that what Iran was doing was, and you heard Clarissa [Ward] talk about it. She's there. She's on the ground. And you see how it's kind of a wasteland where they are and where the missiles hit. That they intended to send a message and not to kill anybody, to de-escalate. So if they are saying that, that will be important to back up, but it's curious that he would say that because it's the opposite of the message that the president and everybody else from the administration were trying to send yesterday, which is, reel it back, reel it back.
ABC and CNN weren’t the only networks beholden to Iran instead of our own military. MSNBC also touted Iranian propaganda on-air Tuesday that American lives had been lost, even as the Trump administration said otherwise.
