Middle East

Amanpour Claims Genocide Case Against Israel Is 'Pretty Conclusive'
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour tried to pressure Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Saturday into agreeing that South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice is “pretty conclusive” and wondered if the U.S. could stop the “mass killings” conducted, not by Hamas, but allegedly by Israel.

Morning Joe Despairs on 'AWOL' Lloyd Austin: Ignatius Sighs Say It All
On Morning Joe, David Ignatius, the Washington Post columnist and Morning Joe regular, repeatedly sighs while trying to defend Biden Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin for his failure for several days to inform the White House of his ICU hospitalization for complications from cancer surgery.

Reid Spews Fake News To Justify Absurd Genocide Charge Against Israel
On Monday, Brian Stelter traveled to The ReidOut on MSNBC to declare “it is not biased or partisan to tug on the side of truth,” as he argued the media needs to be willing to be more active in its denunciations of Donald Trump, but what about host Joy Reid? Because on Friday, Reid spread fake news in order to fawn over South Africa’s preposterous claim at the International Court of…

Mitchell Repeatedly Pesters Blinken From The Left On Israel
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell sat down for an interview with Secretary of State Antony Blinken that aired on her Wednesday show and featured nothing but questions and statements from Blinken’s left on everything from imploring him to end the war before Hamas’s defeat to accusing Israel of targeting journalists’ families.

Yet Again, BBC Is Forced To Apologize For Anti-Israel Smear
The BBC has a long and inglorious history of having to apologize for anti-Israel reporting and Tuesday was just the latest installment.

Here’s What You Missed (or Not) from 2024’s First WH Press Briefings
Last week featured only two White House press briefings (Wednesday and Thursday), but it brought about more of the same as the National Security Council’s John Kirby helmed much of both installments when taking questions about foreign policy and the ever-inept Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre began 2024 with nothing but venom for Biden’s opponents on domestic issues.

Securing Our Border at Home, Defending Our Values Globally
With migrants now flooding our Southwestern border at a reported 10,000 seeking entry daily, it is essential that we take steps to crystalize a national immigration policy. Republicans insist that the $74 billion in funds that the Biden administration is asking in aid for Ukraine and Israel be part of a larger package that deals with border security and comprehensive immigration policy.…

The Worst Questions From The CNN DeSantis And Haley Town Halls
CNN held two presidential town halls on Thursday in Iowa, one with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and another with former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and while most of the questions were good or unobjectionable as they came from actual Republican voters. However, when CNN deviated from that formula things went sideways as DeSantis was asked how many people he was willing to kill to…

Amanpour Lamely Responds To Lebanon FM Blaming ISIS Bombings On Israel
CNN/PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour may claim to be truthful and not neutral, but when Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib joined her on her Wednesday show to blame Israel for the twin bombings in Iran that killed 84 people at the tomb of Qasem Soleimani, Amanpour simply noted that was “your opinion,” but since the program aired, ISIS has taken credit for the attacks, which was always…

CNN Pesters Guests To Cut Israel Aid, Agree Gay Is a Victim of Racism
CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip tried without success on Tuesday to get Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz to agree with Sen. Bernie Sanders that the time has come to cut aid to Israel. Later in the show she also failed to get Manhattan Institute podcaster Coleman Hughes to agree that now former Harvard President Claudine Gay is a victim of racism or, at the very least, partisan politics…

Not-So-Dirty Dozen: 12 Best Hardballs and Throwdowns From WH Briefings
After taking trips down memory lane on Tuesday and Thursday with the six most pro-Hamas moments and grillings from the left, respectively, we’re going to open 2024 with the 12 best moments – battles, beatdowns, and hardballs – from 2023, the first full year of the ever-inept Karine Jean-Pierre’s term at the podium.

NBC Asks If IDF Tunnel Display Justifies ‘Massive Palestinian Deaths'
As the ground war in Gaza rages on, so, too, does the propaganda war. And at the heart of the propaganda war are Western media who insist on toeing the Hamas line.

Gaga for Gaza: Six WH Briefings Where Lefty Journos Shilled for Hamas
For decades, the liberal media have always had a soft spot for Hamas. Heck, even the Associated Press’s Gaza bureau shared a Gaza City high-rise with the barbaric Islamists. In the days following Hamas’s animalistic reign of terror on October 7, some in the White House press corps pestered National Security Council’s John Kirby during briefings with Hamas talking points. Check out the full…

Real Time Pans Media's Anti-Red State, Pro-Palestinian Bubbles
Friday’s season finale of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher condemned two media bubbles. First, the New York Times’s progressive bubble after former editor James Bennet penned a lengthy essay in The Economist recounting the 2020 Tom Cotton op-ed and second, the media’s bubble that seeks to blame Israel for the lack of Israeli-Palestinian peace.