The liberal media coverage of the approaching deadline imposed by Donald Trump for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz or face destruction of their infrastructure, featured non-stop attacks on the President, with accusations of pending war crimes. When the ceasefire was announced on Tuesday night, instead of giving Trump credit, they trashed him for the agreement itself, and now they're back to repeating claims that Trump was led into the war by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
This is being dredged up again in a book, Regime Change, due out in June, which claims that is the case. And on Wednesday's edition of Fox's The Five, liberal Panelist Jessica Tarlov couldn't wait to unload on Israel, and it didn't go over well.
TARLOV: The linchpin story on this, and we have been tracing this particular plot line since the beginning, is what Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman reported yesterday in the excerpt of their book.....And it's about a meeting on February 11 in the Situation Room and Bibi Netanyahu was there. He was sitting at the table with our leadership, and he pitched them on this war. Donald Trump was interested. Pete Hegseth was interested. Everybody else -- Ratcliffe, 'farcical', Rubio, 'it's BS', General Caine, 'standard operating procedure for Israelis, they oversell', Susie Wiles, 'we can't be dragged into another Middle Eastern war.'
Israel pushed us to do this....When Rubio came out and he said the truth to the gaggle of reporters, the imminent threat was not against us, it was something that was happening for Israel, is the core piece of this.
It's no surprise that Tarlov, who recently admitted that she, relies upon reporters who have had long careers in foreign policy when she doesn't know something, would be relying on a yet unpublished book to trash Netanyahu and Israel. She also failed to mention that Rubio had corrected his first statement on the reason for the war. Fellow panelist Paul Mauro wasn't pleased with what he had been hearing.
MAURO: I find this to be a very, very dangerous meme. This idea that Israel is leading Donald Trump around by the nose. He doesn't know any better, he didn't see Bibi coming, and all of a sudden now, a guy who doesn't want to listen to anybody on anything because he's the most powerful person in the world is falling for deceptions from one of our allies.
That was nothing compared to Greg Gutfeld's reaction to Tarlov's outrageous claims.
GUTFELD: I am old enough to remember when Jews as a puppeteer was some kind of an anti-Semitic trope. But all of a sudden, that's just gone by the wayside. The Jews are controlling us. I thought I blew that out of the water last week when I said that Trump had been talking about doing the exact same stuff to Iran for decades. Including going after Kharg Island. Here we are going no, it wasn't his idea, it was the Jews, the Jews!
Later, the crew played a brief clip of far left radical streamer/influencer Hasan Piker, which included his downplaying the rape of Israeli civilians on October 7th, his disdain for America, and his message to an older woman who suffered under a Communist government.
PIKER CLIP: None of this justifies that Palestinians have a right to dignity, a right to emancipation, a right to live [bleep] free lives, free from this occupation. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if [bleep] rapes happened on October 7. I don't have any sort of patriotism in my heart, for America. America deserved 9/11. [Bleep] Up you stupid [bleep] idiotic old lady. Suck my [bleep], old lady.
Now you might think that after being taken to task by Gutfeld and Mauro, when given a chance, Tarlov would denounce Piker, and express disgust at those in her party like Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed from Michigan, who have cozied up to him, but you would be dead wrong.
TARLOV: Well, it's not, you have to watch the full tape of it. He is saying what Dana was saying, which he thinks that Israel's response is not proportionate to what was done to Israel.
GUTFELD: He has no right to say that.
TARLOV: Then you should just not like him. And a lot of people don't like him.
GUTFELD: You do?
TARLOV:: It's not really about like or don't like thing.
Was Jessica Tarlov having a particularly bad day, or did she go much further in revealing her true, vile, radical leftist views than she has in the past? She ended up laying out a gushy profile in The New York Times as an explanation for his appeal to young men.
