Middle East

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough, speaking of Jared Kushner's performance as head of a White House task force on PPE procurement, says that Kushner is "of course, ill-equipped to handle this or any other task he's been given at the White House." Scarborough thus ignores Kushner's groundbreaking success in engineering the most important Middle East peace progress in more than 40 years, with…

For MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and Jeremy Bash everything is about Russian election interference, even Iranian election interference.  During her Thursday show, Mitchell wasn't buying DNI John Ratcliffe's explanation that Iran was trying to hurt President Trump and cited Senator Chuck Schumer as proof, "Senator Schumer, Jeremy, went on with Rachel Maddow and said he was taking this seriously,…

In a late press conference Wednesday night, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and other members of the intelligence community revealed that Iran and Russia had obtained voter information; with the former using the information to send out malicious and threatening emails to “damage President Trump.” But MSNBC talking head Rachel Maddow took umbrage with the DNI’s assessment,…

In a likely unexpected and unwanted revelation (from the network’s perspective) Wednesday, U.S. National Counterintelligence & Security Center director William Evanina warned NBC Nightly News that foreign adversaries such as “Iran, China, and Russia” were some of the forces “enhancing and exacerbating protests on the West Coast” in recent months. But that information went…

For years the media has been full of predictions that whatever that day's controversy is will be the one that dooms President Trump. For CNN's Carl Bernstein and CNN Newsroom host Brianna Keilar, the New York Times opposition-research report on Trump's taxes is the latest example with Bernstein using the report to further his conspiracy theory that Vladimir Putin and Tayyip…

MRC analysts looked at 33 days of ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News programs from August 13 (when Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced they were establishing full diplomatic relations) to September 15 (the joint signing ceremony of the Abraham Accords between Israel-UAE-Bahrain at the White House) and found just brief hiccups of…

Reuters is pushing an insane idea that eco-extremist activist Greta Thunberg could get the Nobel Peace Prize. In a story headlined, “A Nobel for Thunberg? In the age of climate change and virus, it is possible,” Reuters’ Gwladys Fouche spouted off that “[t]his year’s Nobel Peace Prize could go to green campaigner Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement to highlight the link between…

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany closed out Wednesday’s briefing with a short yet stinging rebuke of the press corps for having failed to ask a single question about Tuesday’s Abraham Accords, which wouldn’t have been the case if it were brokered and signed during the Obama administration. During the 20 minutes that made up the Q&A portion, there were at least 41 questions from…

On MSNBC’s MTP Daily Tuesday afternoon, host Chuck Todd revealed that he is so deep in the tank for the Democratic Party that he can’t even credit President Trump for the historic Middle East peace deal achieved by his administration. Just moments after a White House signing ceremony finalizing the agreement had concluded, Todd whined about feeling “uncomfortable” about Trump’s…

It was quite the sad sight to behold during the Tuesday evening newscasts. The liberal broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were so overcome with their visceral hatred for President Trump that they went out their way to decry the Trump administration-brokered Abraham Accords, the Middle East peace deal between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain.

Appearing behind enemy lines on CNN early Tuesday night to discuss the Abraham Accords, White House senior adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner found himself sparing with Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer as the CNN partisan griped about the signing ceremony taking place “with very few masks, very little social distancing” that made for yet another example of the administration…

In a stunning example of journalistic malpractice Thursday, CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell and chief Homeland Security correspondent Jeff Pegues shared a “new” warning from Microsoft about counties such as Russia, China, and Iran launching cyber-attacks on both presidential campaigns. The problem? These same two spent part of their Wednesday evening newscast being appalled by…

This week, while all eyes have been on the Democratic National Convention taking place via Zoom, truly historic events have occurred in the Middle East: a long-awaited peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, including full normalization of relations; presumed peace deals to follow between Israel and Sudan, Oman and Bahrain; the possibility on the horizon of a similar deal with…

It was an out of left field and out of character development for 2020: The Trump administration helped to broker a Middle East peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates Thursday. The UAE recognized Israel’s right to exist as they planned to establish embassies and an economic relationship, and work on a COVID-19 vaccine. But the raging liberals of NBC Nightly News refused…