PolitiFact Uses Double Standard On Experts To Benefit Elizabeth Warren
When a military expert’s opinion is different than a politician’s, how are fact-checkers like PolitiFact supposed to adjudicate the politician’s claim? If a Friday article by Zoe Weyand is anything to go by, the answer is not at all, or at least if the politician is Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. However, Weyand's standard for giving Warren a “true” rating for a recent claim she made about…
On CNN, Democrat Finds $200 Billion Is Too Much—When Trump Spends It
On Friday’s CNN This Morning, a Democratic panelist treated $200 billion in Iran war spending as excessive—echoing the party’s familiar line about struggling American families—despite years of Democrats pushing far larger spending on their own priorities.
Capehart Tries To Cast Doubt On Claims Of Success In Iran
PBS News Hour anchor William Brangham and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart tried on Friday to cast doubt on President Trump’s proclamations of military success. However, to do that, they had to employ a definition of success that would be impossible for any war to achieve.
NYT's War Hypocrisy: Iran Pacifist Kristof Turned Warmonger in Libya
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is a case study in liberal media hypocrisy on intervention in the Middle East. His opinions on the Iraq War (led by Republican president George. W Bush) were hateful, but when Democratic president Barack Obama invaded Libya (also without congressional approval), a newly war-mongering Kristof beamed that we were (yes) greeted as liberators. Now with…
CBS’s Brennan Teams With UN Inspector to Argue Trump Will Fail in Iran
Thursday’s CBS Evening News featured a preview of an upcoming interview on Sunday’s Face the Nation in which host Margaret Brennan — whom one could consider the network’s Karen and most meme-able personality — partnered with the head of the United Nation’s nuclear watchdog to paint a doom-and-gloom picture that, no matter what President Trump does with Iran, America will fail and lose due to…
PBS Teams Up With Obama SECDEF To Say U.S. Is Creating New Terrorists
The media’s love for Republicans who become Democrats is not confined to the Trump era. Before the Trump era there was former GOP senator-turned Obama Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, and he joined CNN International/PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour on Thursday’s Amanpour and Company to discuss current Secretary Pete Hegseth’s record as a wartime leader. As Amanpour invented a non-existent scandal…
MS NOW's Rampell Admits 90% of Her Anti-Semitic Mail Comes from Left
On Saturday's The Weekend: Primetime, MS NOW co-host Catherine Rampell made a stunning admission, recalling that 90 percent of the anti-Semitic hate mail she receives comes from the left. This revelation came as she made an unusual effort to provide balance during a segment focused on anti-Semitism within the Republican party.
A Hot Take! Climate-Mad Reuters Cheers Iran War as Fossil Fuel Killer
Apparently the most important positive outcome from the war with Iran is that it has the potential to reduce the world’s reliance on fossil fuels according to Gaia’s acolytes at Reuters, not knocking out the world’s foremost state sponsor of terror. “Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence" was the headline.
Comedy Shows Mock The Idea Of The Pentagon Needing More Money Amid War
It should be obvious that the reason why the Pentagon is asking for $200 billion amid the war in Iran is to replenish its munition stockpiles after expending several air-defense interceptor missiles, standoff weapons, and other high-tech weapons and to build up the industrial base to lessen concerns about magazine depth going forward. However, late night comedy’s two Jimmies had a hard time…
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 public opinion…
MS NOW’s Wallace Gushes Over Joe Kent’s ‘History’-Making Letter
On Tuesday afternoon, MS NOW’s Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace opened her show by fawning over National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent’s surprise resignation letter over the Iran War, declaring it will be written about in history books. Wallace began by describing a particular sentence in Kent’s letter as a “sort of sentence, that’ll live on forever in the history of this…
Some Networks Go Soft on Antisemitism in the Joe Kent Quits Coverage
On Tuesday morning President Trump's Director of The National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent posted that he had resigned his post, and was doing so because he is opposed to the war with Iran, claiming that Iran posed no imminent threat to the U.S., and that we started the war due to, "pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby". Kent, who has been accused of having ties to…
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.
CNN's MTG Says Iran War Is For Israel, Rips Fox News 'Talking Points'
Once upon a time, there was no bigger supporter of MAGA and Donald Trump than Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, until she and Trump turned on each other over his America First agenda, resulting in her resignation from Congress, and suddenly, the woman who the liberal media would regularly mock, became a sought after voice, who now fit their anti-Trump narrative. Monday on CNN's The…
