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.
O’Donnell Says Iran FM More Credible Than Trump, Who Now Has Dementia
On Monday night’s Lawrence O’Donnell hour-long derangement session, the host of The Last Word on MS NOW said President Trump was a sociopath and might be less trustworthy than the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi. O’Donnell also later stated Trump had dementia and the 25th amendment should be invoked on “mental health grounds.”
New York Times Launches Unfounded Hypocrisy Charge at Admiral Cooper
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.
Kimmel Tries To Make Intel Official Resigning a Big Deal
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.
Oliver And Audience Applaud Iran's AI Propaganda Video
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.
SNL's Trump Says Iran Is Meant To Distract From Epstein
NBC’s James Austin Johnson and Colin Jost reprised their President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth roles on Saturday Night Live for some Iran-related hot takes that were disguised as satire. According to Johnson, the reason why gas prices are increasing is because of a domino effect that started with the Epstein files while Jost suggested Hegseth is bombing Iranian…
Gluttons for Punishment: NYT Keeps Stepping on Rake with Oil Scareporn
Someone should do a wellness check on The New York Times. Looks like its journos read the portents wrong — AGAIN — on another one of its apocalyptic prognostications on the economic consequences of President Donald Trump taking out the Islamist regime in Iran.
Scarborough Compares Iran to Vietnam, While Not Comparing Them
At the start of Monday’s Morning Joe, co-host Joe Scarborough made comparisons of Iran to Vietnam, most particularly when it came to the press, in a conversation with David Ignatius of the Washington Post. He did his typical ‘I’m not comparing these things’ as he compared the current Pentagon spokespeople to those from General Westmoreland and others from the Vietnam War…
CNN: Hegseth Words Violate International Law, Warn of Endless Holy War
During Monday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish and a group of CNN panelists warned how the comments from Secretary Pete Hegseth of “no quarter, no mercy” violate illusory international law as they showed an odd desire for soldiers to be marshalled to an international court to face the wrath of the world against Trump administration actions.
Has the Media Been Responsible for America Losing Wars?
As the war in the Middle East rages, let’s take a pause and a walk back through some history of the media and America at war.
PBS Omits Islam From Recent Attacks, Claims WH Memes Are Un-Christian
PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, The Atlantic podcaster David Brooks, and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart assembled on Friday for their usual weekly news recap and displayed a noticeable religious double standard. On one hand, Brooks suggested that various Iran War videos put out by the White House are un-Christian because they trivialize war, which naturally involves death.…
Cornish Implies War Dept. Has No Oversight, Will Kill More Civilians
On Thursday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish battled with panel guest and CNN national security analyst Alex Plitsas about the alleged strike on an Iranian school in the opening days of the conflict. She implied Pete Hegseth’s Department of War may strike more civilians because of “red tape” cuts at the Pentagon.
Hegseth BLASTS Elite Media for Negative Press Attacking U.S. Over Iran
Along with giving the public an update on Operation Epic Fury and recognizing the lives lost Thursday night in a mid-air refueling accident over Iraq, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth demolished the liberal media Friday morning over its purposefully apocalyptic coverage of the Iran war, painting a grim picture of the Iranian regime wreaking havoc on Israel and the United States instead of framing…
