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CNN Doesn't Challenge Iranian FM On His Embassy Hypocrisy

April 19th, 2024 10:06 AM

CNN’s Erin Burnett sat down with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Thursday's OutFront show to discuss the situation in the Middle East. During their conversation, Burnett did not call out Amir-Abdollahian for bear hugging the Vienna Convention, while Iran has violated it repeatedly over the past several decades.

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Split: CBS’s Patta Frets for Gazans, Dokoupil RIPS Pro-Hamas Protests

April 16th, 2024 6:57 PM

Tuesday’s CBS Mornings presented something for everyone on Israel vs. Hamas as, along with another anti-Israel, pro-Hamas report from CBS foreign correspondent Debora Patta griping about global concern for Israel over Iran’s missile and drone attacks “distracted...from the misery of Gaza”, co-host Tony Dokoupil stated the obvious (but isn’t on the left) that pro-Hamas protesters…

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Doocy Triggers Kirby After Noting Biden’s ‘Don’t’ Plea to Iran FAILED

April 16th, 2024 12:12 PM

With President Biden on the road for the next few days, the White House press corps had to get their hardballs in while they could on Monday. Fox’s Peter Doocy, as always, had the adversarial questions the rest wouldn’t ask. This time, he went around and around with John Kirby over Iran predictably not being intimidated by President Biden’s simple demand to “don’t” fire missiles and drones at…

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Stewart Blames America, Capitalism For Foreign Policy Crises

April 16th, 2024 10:15 AM

Jon Stewart reacted to the recent developments in the Middle East on Monday’s installment of The Daily Show on Comedy Central by doing his standard bit where he, on one hand, pretended everything was too complicated for him to understand, but on the other, reduced all the world’s foreign policy crises to America’s love of capitalism.

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NBC Goes Left, ABC Soft on Kirby Over Iran While CBS Brings Heat

April 15th, 2024 5:48 PM

Following Iran’s failed attempt over the weekend to fire hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel with the goal of leaving it in ruins, the Biden White House sent John Kirby out to face the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC on their respective flagship Monday morning news shows. All three took different approaches with ABC’s Good Morning America being supportive, NBC’s

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Amanpour Compares Pro-Lifers To Iran And The Taliban

April 11th, 2024 10:02 AM

PBS/CNN’s Christiane Amanpour joined CBS’s Stephen Colbert for her second late night comedy show appearance of the week on the Wednesday installment of The Late Show. The duo freaked out over the possibility of a second Donald Trump term and that the rest of the democratic world is similarly freaked out and over the same issues, such as American pro-lifers allegedly being comparable…

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Stewart Compares Israel To Russia, Blames It For Iranian Revolution

April 9th, 2024 11:03 AM

On Monday’s edition of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, Jon Stewart declared that Israel is not that different from Russia, which would make its American defenders hypocrites. Later, Stewart welcomed CNN/PBS’s Christiane Amanpour, where he further accused Israel of being a bad history student, but it was clear that it was Stewart who needed to reread his history books.

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Reid Gets Triggered By D.C.'s Reagan And Dulles Airport Names

April 6th, 2024 10:23 AM

MSNBC’s Joy Reid and The ReidOut’s assembled panel reacted on Friday to the efforts by some Republicans to name D.C.’s Dulles International Airport after Donald Trump and Democrats’ response of trying to name a federal prison after him by getting triggered at the eponyms currently on D.C.’s two airports: John Foster Dulles and Ronald Reagan. Reid even admitted that she refuses to call…

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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…

Remembering How Freedom Is Not Free

February 6th, 2024 2:20 PM

One picture worth a thousand words is a graph on the U.S. Department of Defense website showing U.S. annual Defense spending as a percentage of GDP, going back to 1953. Two things jump out. First, the lowest over the 70-year period was in 1999, at the end of the Clinton administration, when it stood at 2.7%. This is a little more than half the previous low, which stood at 4.5% 20 years earlier…

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MSNBC Blames Trump For Current Middle East Chaos

February 3rd, 2024 10:52 AM

When it comes to the current chaos in the Middle East, MSNBC’s Ali Velshi developed a novel theory on who is to blame as he guest hosted Friday’s The Last Word. For Velshi, it is Donald Trump.

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Morning Joe: Don't Bomb Iran's Oil, Higher Gas Prices Bad For Biden

January 30th, 2024 10:08 AM

On Morning Joe, Jennifer Palmieri, a Morning Joe regular and Obama's former communications director, opposes Joe Scarborough's suggestion of bombing Iranian oil fields in retaliation for the drone attack by Iranian proxies on a US military outpost that killed three US soldiers and wounded dozens of others. She says the result of such bombing would be to raise oil prices, and that "higher gas…

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Heinrich, Wegmann Grill WH on Border Deal, Iran Killing Americans

January 29th, 2024 5:14 PM

On Monday, the border crisis and Sunday’s Iranian proxy attack that killed three American soldiers dominated the White House press briefing and, amid over a dozen liberal reporters asking process questions on Iran and open-ended questions on the Senate border deal, there were a rare few who actually pressed the administration on their weakness in the Middle East and the border deal that has…

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Joe Scarborough—Strike Iran Directly After Proxy Attack On Troops

January 29th, 2024 10:21 AM

On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough calls for the U.S. to strike Iran directly in retaliation for a drone attack by Iranian proxies that killed three U.S. soldiers and wounded 25-30 others in Jordan.