Capehart Calls For 25th Amendment Talk After Trump's Pearl Harbor JOKE
On MSNBC’s The Weekend, co-host Jonathan Capehart reacted to President Trump’s Pearl Harbor joke in front of the Japanese prime minister by demanding discussion of invoking the 25th Amendment. Capehart didn't want any dump-Biden talk when that started up.
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.
On CNN, Democrat Finds $200 Billion Is Too Much—When Trump Spends It
On Friday’s CNN This Morning, a Democratic panelist treated $200 billion in Iran war spending as excessive—echoing the party’s familiar line about struggling American families—despite years of Democrats pushing far larger spending on their own priorities.
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.
NYT's War Hypocrisy: Iran Pacifist Kristof Turned Warmonger in Libya
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is a case study in liberal media hypocrisy on intervention in the Middle East. His opinions on the Iraq War (led by Republican president George. W Bush) were hateful, but when Democratic president Barack Obama invaded Libya (also without congressional approval), a newly war-mongering Kristof beamed that we were (yes) greeted as liberators. Now…
Iran Is Losing. Why Pretend Otherwise?
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…
CBS’s Brennan Teams With UN Inspector to Argue Trump Will Fail in Iran
Thursday’s CBS Evening News featured a preview of an upcoming interview on Sunday’s Face the Nation in which host Margaret Brennan — whom one could consider the network’s Karen and most meme-able personality — partnered with the head of the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog to paint a doom-and-gloom picture that, no matter what President Trump does with Iran, America will fail…
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…
ABC Co-Host Suggests U.S. Worse Nuclear Threat than Iran, Because WWII
The current conflict between the U.S. and Iran had provided ABC co-host Sunny Hostin ample opportunity to be able express her deep-seat anti-Americansim. During Friday’s episode of The View, Hostin suggested that America, not Iran was the worst nuclear threat to the world because we had used them in WWII. Additionally, on Thursday’s episode, she demonstrated her willful ignorance of…
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.
