Middle East

The American media, as usual in the post-Vietnam era, really feels its need to be neutral when America goes to war. If the president is Republican, they sound determined to proclaim it's a failure from the first assault.

MS NOW hosts Eugene Daniels and Symone Sanders-Townsend welcomed hard-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker to their Clock It podcast on Thursday to hear what Piker actually believes about politics in his own words. While there was some pushback from the hosts when it came to Piker’s defense of Hamas, when it came to Piker’s Marxism and comments about 9/11, it was mostly the “what’s going on?” sort…

Christiane Amanpour, the eponymous host of PBS’s Amanpour and Company, reflected on the 25 years since 9/11 on Friday by claiming the attack was “the beginning of intense Islamophobia” in America, which continues to be “so visceral and last to this day.” Meanwhile, Prof. Vali Nasr would naturally agree while also claiming the Bush administration and 20 years of American foreign policy reacted…

With the mid-terms fast approaching and control of the House and Senate well within reach of Democrats, the focus of the left wing media has been to go to bat for candidates who can make that happen, and while bashing Israel is a constant theme for those candidates the media has been at it for years. Thursday on CNN's The Situation Room, a one sided report from Lebanon was a perfect example.…

Rosie O’Donnell kicked off her second night of guest hosting ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday, much like she did on Monday, with Kimmel-esque nicknames for President Trump coupled with accusations of fascism while not appreciating the irony of being able to host a show in such an allegedly fascist environment.

Anthony Anderson closed out his week of guest hosting ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday by doing his best Kimmel impersonation when talking about the situation with the Strait of Hormuz. According to Anderson, it is difficult to know who to believe, “The authoritarian psychopaths or the Iranians?”

Safe to say? President Trump is not happy with The Washington Post. Or, as he called it, “The Washington Compost”. 

Were there smiles? How long and warm were the handshakes? How was the body language? How did Trump’s voice sound? What White House door did the Israeli Prime Minister use to go in and see the President?

The New Yorker contributor Ruth Marcus joined Friday’s edition of PBS News Hour to recap the week’s news that focused heavily on the Middle East. During a discussion about a potential nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, Marcus rewound roughly 50 years to the 1970s and claimed that the reason why the U.S. finds itself in a difficult situation with Iran today is because it made a similar deal with…

As the war with Iran picks back up in its intensity, NBC’s Seth Meyers falsely declared on Wednesday’s episode of Late Night that President Trump is bragging about his war crimes in public like a game show host. At the same time, Meyers refused to call Iran’s actual war crimes what they are.

With military operations kicking back up in Iran, ABC chief international correspondent James Longman joined Friday’s World News Tonight to play up the possibility that U.S. has committed, or is about to commit, war crimes.

PBS debuted its latest Frontline documentary on Tuesday entitled The Crown Prince & The President, which sought to examine the relationship between President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Towards the end, correspondent Martin Smith observed that October 7 ended any real possibility of Trump’s big goal of Israeli-Saudi normalization and not only suggested Special Envoy…

While hosting Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast on Wednesday, Jon Stewart unleashed some foreign policy analysis so ridiculous that it makes one wonder what planet he has been living on for the past 12 years. While interviewing New York Times columnist David Wallace-Wells, Stewart wondered if America is now “aligning with the Axis” powers, while Wallace-Wells channeled Mitchell and Webb…

Over there at The New York Post, Lisa Daftari “a foreign policy analyst and media commentator based in Los Angeles”, nails a real problem with the American media exactly.