It's hard to miss how elitist media like the Associated Press thrive on the notion that the Iran war is already a fiasco.
On Sunday, the AP author was Will Weissert (best remembered for scribbling a loving paean for Fidel Castro), but it could have been written by any of a number of flacks at the DNC gloating over what they think will help the Democrats in the midterm elections. The result was an opinion piece very poorly disguised as a legitimate story -- "Two weeks into war with Iran, Trump has been knocked back on his political heels."
It was therefore no big surprise that the very first source cited in the story was a DNC hack:
“I think Democrats are well-positioned for this November and the midterms,” said Kelly Dietrich, CEO of the National Democratic Training Committee, which trains party backers to run for office and staff campaigns.
Dietrich said the past two weeks show the Trump administration has failed at long-term planning. “They’re flying by the seat of their pants, and the rest of us are paying the price,” he said.
Weissert himself immediately proceeds right after that with smear-mongering by strongly suggesting that Trump is so callous that he prefers golfing over caring about the well-being of our troops in the Gulf region:
On Saturday, Trump spent hours at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, before attending a closed-door fundraiser for his MAGA Inc. super PAC at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Last weekend, he also golfed at another of his South Florida properties a day after witnessing the dignified transfer for six U.S. soldiers killed in the Iran war. That death toll rose this past week.
Let's guess this wasn't AP's game when Obama went golfing after journalist James Foley was executed, or how Obama flew to California for a fundraiser right after addressing four Americans killed at the Benghazi consulate in Libya.
Next came Weissert's charge that Trump's plans aren't going well in the Strait of Hormuz:
The president — who kept allies other than Israel in the dark about his war plans for Iran — this weekend began suggesting the U.S. would need to lean on the international community to help oil tankers move through the Strait of Hormuz, where transportation has been severely disrupted, throwing global energy markets into a tailspin....
Trump had pledged at the beginning of the war that U.S. naval ships would escort tankers through the waterway. But that hasn’t happened yet.
In the meantime, questions about the strait continue to undermine Trump’s recent pronouncement during a Kentucky rally that, “We’ve won.”
Weissert concludes his highly opinionated piece on a note of Democrat Hopium including a quote, appropriate to the DNC flavored hype, from a Democrat strategist gloating over what he hopes the Iran issue will mean for his party in the midterm elections:
Iran also has even divided Trump’s “Make America Great Again” base, between those who support the action and others who say that Trump expressly campaigned on ending wars.
The political turbulence has some Democrats predicting their party could see midterm gains rivaling 2018’s “blue wave” election during Trump’s first term.
“Democrats just have to keep reminding people that he made a promise to bring prices down, and they’re still going up,” Democratic strategist Brad Bannon said of Trump. “And now they’re going to go up even more because prices in gasoline can increase prices of everything else, including at the grocery store.”
Exit question: Will Will Weissert need to take trauma leave if the midterm elections do not turn out as he so obviously hopes they will?
