Foreign Policy

Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart welcomed former spokesman for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell, to Wednesday’s episode of The Weekly Show podcast to discuss the war in Iran. At one point, Stewart would allege that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gets a perverse sense of sexual satisfaction from the violence he is able to inflict on other people as a result of…

HBO’s John Oliver accused President Trump and the rest of the administration of “stretching the truth to breaking point” on Iran on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. However, Oliver left out some basic facts that would have made their comments seem much more reasonable.

In the first week of the Iran war, the late night comedians told 94 percent of their jokes about the American side. By the third week, that percentage jumped to 97 percent, according to a new Media Research Center study.

For the last three weeks the late night comedy shows have relentlessly attacked President Trump amid the war in Iran, but on Monday, Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart went over the other half of the American-Israeli alliance in an interview with former Biden national security advisor Jake Sullivan on The Daily Show. Both men would also use Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to…

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.

Don’t fall for the propaganda. Iran is not holding its own in this conflict. It is being systematically dismantled. One by one, the senior figures of the Islamic Republic have been eliminated: generals, security chiefs and regime power brokers. The country’s leadership has been decapitated at the highest levels, leaving behind a hollowed-out command structure struggling to function. Even the…

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…

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…

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…

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.

On Tuesday afternoon, MS NOW’s Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace opened her show by fawning over National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent’s surprise resignation letter over the Iran War, declaring it will be written about in history books. Wallace began by describing a particular sentence in Kent’s letter as a “sort of sentence, that’ll live on forever in the…

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.

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.

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.