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CNN Blames Reagan, Bush, And Trump For 'Why Iran Hates America'
February 27th, 2024 1:24 PM
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria hosted a Sunday special documentary entitled Why Iran Hates America where he ultimately homed in on three Republican presidents: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. There is a fine line between explaining Iran’s position and uncritically regurgitating it and Zakaria failed to appreciate the difference as he omitted key information and contradicted…
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Amanpour Lamely Responds To Lebanon FM Blaming ISIS Bombings On Israel
January 4th, 2024 12:36 PM
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…
Fact-Checkers Throttle Posts Claiming Iran Chanted 'Death to America'
October 11th, 2023 11:30 AM
If the fact-checking industry is going to insist that it should be able to throttle social media posts, at the very least, it should fact-check the claims the post is actually making and not straw men because Instagram posts have been deemed misinformation after PolitiFact and the USA Today accused the posters of attributing a 2020 “Death to America” chant in the Iranian parliament to…
How Often Did Media Promote Pundits From Iran's 'Expert Initiative'?
September 26th, 2023 2:09 PM
Jay Solomon over at Semafor is out with a piece that details how the Iranian Foreign Ministry worked closely with a bunch of American and European academics to help sell the Iran nuclear deal back in 2014 by repeating Tehran’s lines. Members of the group, dubbed the Iran Experts Initiative, were frequent sources for media outlets before and after the deal was signed in 2015.
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Nets Cheer Biden for Strike, Griped About Trump’s ‘Dangerous’ Droning
August 8th, 2022 9:35 AM
Last week, journalists and media personalities rightfully cheered the news that brutal terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri had been killed in a CIA drone strike. The networks used patriotic language and praised the efficiently executed attack. View co-host Joy Behar even compared Joe Biden to action hero Liam Neeson in Taken.
Iranian Powerlifter Seeking Asylum in Norway Over Message on T-Shirt
January 4th, 2022 10:24 AM
An Iranian powerlifter is fleeing for his life because he wore a t-shirt his government did not like.
NYTimes Page 1: ‘Trump’s Iran Strategy May Cost Him in 2020 Election'
January 16th, 2020 11:00 AM
On the front page of Tuesday’s New York Times, political reporter Jeremy Peters cynically spun President Trump’s so-far successful showdown with the terror-supporting regime in Iran in “Trump 2020? Move on Iran Gives Pause – Questioning 2016 Vow to End Wars.” Peters wrote from Dubuque, Iowa, where all the campaign reporters are hanging out in anticipation of the caucuses. The online headline: “…
MSNBC Spins for Obama on Iran: Droning Now Different Than Droning Then
January 15th, 2020 3:14 PM
One thing historians will say about President Obama was that he had an affinity for drone warfare for the purposes of taking out terrorists. In that respect President Trump was doing the same thing when he ordered that Qasem Soleimani be taken out, but that's not how MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell saw things on her Tuesday show.
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'View' Urges Schumer to Say Trump 'Lied' About Soleimani Threat
January 14th, 2020 3:24 PM
For two days in a row, The View has given Democrats in Congress a platform to bash President Trump over Iran and impeachment. Monday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff was the satellite guest and today it was Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s turn to take softball questions from the liberal hosts.
CNN Lines Up Insults for Trump Tweeting Iran's Dissenters in Farsi
January 14th, 2020 1:51 PM
CNN Right Now host Brianna Keilar was supposed to be interview Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly on Monday about the situation in Iran, but at times the viewer would be forgiven if they forgot just who the journalist was and who the politician was. Keilar called Trump's Farsi tweets expressing support for the protestors in Iran hypocritical due to his relationship with the press at home and urged…
Networks Have Terrible Habit of Covering for the Murderous Iran Regime
January 13th, 2020 11:56 PM
With the murderous Iranian regime back in the headlines and the liberal media doing everything they could to make them look like victims of the United States (even after they shot down a passenger plane carrying 176 souls onboard), it’s worth taking a look at recent history and how the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have set up a smokescreen to hide Iran’s diabolical behavior. Here is a…
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ABC Refuses to Show the Troop Barracks Iran Blew Up in Attack
January 13th, 2020 8:59 PM
Just last week, ABC’s World News Tonight ran a report telling viewers all about how the United States military was wrong to the say Iran wanted to kill U.S. troops when it fired missiles that hit two bases in Iraq, and pushed the unfounded conspiracy theory that Iran had intentionally missed. Then, on Monday, the military gave the press access to areas of Al Asad Air Base destroyed by the…
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NYT Reporter Applauds Iran For Showing ‘More Restraint’ Than U.S.
January 13th, 2020 5:47 PM
Appearing on MSNBC Live With Ali Velshi Monday afternoon, New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi slammed the United States as a country that takes action “outside the law,” while praising Iran for supposedly showing “more restraint” amid tensions in the Middle East.
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ABC’s Raddatz Laments ‘Iran’s Unity Shattered’ By Anti-Regime Protests
January 13th, 2020 12:23 PM
As the Iranian people rose up to protest the brutal totalitarian regime ruling their country, on Monday, ABC’s chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz appeared on Good Morning America and lamented that the demonstrations were evidence of “Iran’s unity shattered,” only a week after she hailed the “massive and emotional” crowds that turned out to mourn terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani.
