Under normal circumstances it's often most difficult to watch and listen, day after day, night after night, as the liberal media spews its left-wing garbage. With the U.S. at war with Iran, with our men and women bravely serving our country, fighting, some dying, it's become almost intolerable to see that the stated circumstances haven't slowed their efforts, in many instances they have reached new lows, as was the case Monday on CNN's NewsNIght With Abby Phillip.
Phillip played a clip of Vice President JD Vance, who appeared on Fox earlier in the evening, explaining why President Trump took us to war.
VANCE CLIP: He wanted to make sure that Iran could never have a nuclear weapon, and that would require fundamentally a change in mindset from the Iranian regime. So, he saw that the Iranian regime was weakened. He knew that they were committed to getting on that brink of a nuclear weapon, and he decided to take action because he felt that was necessary in order to protect the nation's security. Whatever happens with the regime in one form or another, it's incidental to the president's primary objective here, which is to make sure the Iranian terrorist regime does not build a nuclear bomb.
Phillip immediately went on the attack, and turned to panelist Dr. Cornel West who is no stranger to trashing Trump and Israel, and he was true to form.
PHILLIP: Now, if you're listening carefully, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. He's saying on the one hand that they need the regime's, quote/unquote, mindset to change, but on the other hand, they don't care what happens to the regime. It can't be both of those things at the same time.
WEST: Not at all. And it is just so sad to see the worst of our humanity being manifest once again with all of this vicious, organized hatred, revenge, lies, crimes, cruelty, barbarity. And you get justifications from a variety of different camps, but at least we should try to aspire to some moral consistency and some ethical integrity....I just follow Martin King, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. So, I want to be in solidarity with anybody who's suffering.I come from a Christian tradition. We all made an image and likeness of a loving and living God, and therefore all have a dignity and a sanctity that the world can't take away and the world give us. That's true for Palestinians. It's true for Iranians. It's true for Ethiopians. It's true for Israelis. It's true for Nigerians across the board.
Apparently not true for all.
WEST: What I see is I see the gangsterism coming out of the White House. They lying, they rationalize, they killing American citizens here and rationalizing it and telling lies. When I look at Israel, I see a government that's lying and got to deal with genocide with the news around his neck. When I look at Iran, I see the gangsters who've been running that for 46 years, and I stand in very deep solidarity with the suffering and the heroic struggles of the Iranian people.
Later, Phillip played a montage of out-of-context clips of President Trump designed to make him look like a hypocrite on Iran, starting with an overplayed remark he made about Barack Obama back in 2011, "Our President will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate...." Then it was back to West who reached a new low.
PHILLIP: Dr. West, this is a president who has used his opposition to past wars as a political tool, but here he is.
WEST: It's just so sad because you see, Brother Trump, he is a gangster, and the gangster has a mentality that views himself as never accountable, never vincible, never answerable and therefore never responsible. So there's a sense in which we don't shouldn't focus just on him, he's got enablers, he's got supporters. And it's a sign, I'm just thinking we're going to put brother Jesse in the grave next few days -- Jesse Jackson. And you know, Martin and Jesse talked about just how spiritually sick and morally decrepit and politically corrupt the country has become.
Outrageous and sickening that Phillip would allow this vicious and unsubstantiated attack to go unchallenged, especially during a time of war.
