Foreign Policy
CNN And MSNBC Absurdly Compare Israel to Russia
According to CNN, Rula Jebreal is a “journalist and foreign policy analyst,” but as a Friday appearance on CNN This Morning proved, such analysis should not be taken too seriously as she compared Israel to Russia.
Mitchell Fights With Reps Who Condemn Hamas's Media 'Baghdad Bobs'
Reps. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) and Mike Lawler (R-NY) appeared on Thursday’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC where the eponymous host did not take kindly to the suggestion that the American media repeated Hamas propaganda on the hospital in Gaza. Lawler held his ground, informing Mitchell that CNN specifically behaved in a shameful manner worthy of “Baghdad Bob.”
Reid: U.S. Untrustworthy on Hospital Because of Beheaded Babies Claim
MSNBC’s Joy Reid demonstrated on Wednesday’s edition of The ReidOut that she doesn’t know the difference between intellectual laziness and nuance. Despite all the evidence pointing to a PIJ rocket, Reid claimed not just Hamas to be untrustworthy, but also the IDF and the United States because President Biden “fanned even more flames” by repeating the claim that Hamas beheaded babies…
CNN Claims Israel Has 'A Credibility Problem' On Hospital Explosion
CNN’s Jeremy Diamond did not listen to MSNBC’s Jeremy Bash's condemnation of the media for regurgitating Hamas talking points on the destruction of the Gaza hospital as he declared Israel has “a credibility problem,” on Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, something that Palestinian legislator Mustafa Barghouti was happy to repeat later in the show.
MSNBC Analyst: Media 'Breathlessly' Repeated Hamas Propaganda
MSNBC national security analyst Jeremy Bash may be a former Democratic CIA official, but that did not stop him from ripping the media on Tuesday’s The 11th Hour for “breathlessly, word for word” repeating Hamas propaganda that the destruction of a Gaza hospital was caused by an Israeli airstrike.
Daily Show Blames Everybody But Hamas For War
The Daily Show returned to Comedy Central on Monday and proceeded to blame seemingly everybody, but Hamas for the current war going on between it and Israel. Temp host Michael Kosta and Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer would blame everybody from Britain to the Arab states seeking normalization deals with Israel to Israel itself to the United States for the carnage, but Hamas itself…
Media Ignores Tlaib's Two Contradictory Flags - Palestine and LGBTQ
You can’t make this up. Michigan’s pro-Palestine Rep. Rashida Tlaib ostentatiously displays a Palestinian flag outside the door to her office. That gets media coverage. But a couple flags away (she has a few, presumably one being the Michigan state flag) she has, yes indeed, the rainbow LGBTQ flag. And the mainstream media? Silence.
AP Slaps 'False' Label On Pro-Hamas Anti-Semitism Because It's 'Old'
AP fact-checker Philip Marcelo beclowned himself on Friday as he rated a claim that Hamas sympathizers chanted anti-Semitic remarks “false,” not because they didn’t—he admits that they did—but because the clip “is more than two years old.”
Maher Shuts Down Ex-Bernie Advisor's Attempt To Add 'Context' To Hamas
Former Bernie Sanders foreign policy advisor Matt Duss got more than he bargained for when he showed up at Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday as Maher slapped down his attempt to add “context” to Israel, Hamas, and Gaza.
LOW BAR: PBS Hails Biden's Hamas Response As One Of His 'Best Weeks'
President Joe Biden managed to clear the lowest of low bars this week by not joining in with the radical left’s attempts to defend or add “context” to Hamas’s savage attack on Israel, but still, this led New York Times columnist David Brooks to hail the idea that “this was one of Joe Biden's best weeks as president” on Friday’s PBS NewsHour.
CNN Labels Israeli Warnings To Evacuate Northern Gaza 'A War Crime'
CNN reporter Nada Bashir has put in Israel in a damned if they do, damned if they don’t situation. One hand, Israel is lectured on the need to avoid civilian casualties as if they would otherwise enjoy bombing Palestinians for sport, but on the other hand, she lectures them on Friday’s CNN Newsroom that urging Palestinians to evacuate Northern Gaza is “a war crime.”
Snopes: Talk Of Hamas Atrocities Might 'Echo Islamophobic Rhetoric'
Former Al Jazeera producer turned Snopes fact-checker Nur Ibrahim warned on Thursday that discussions of Hamas beheading Israeli babies should be taken with a grain of salt and that “people should be wary of claims that echo Islamophobic rhetoric.”
MSNBC's Talking Points Crumble as Guest Decries Israel's Existence
Professor, activist, and so-called human rights attorney Noura Erakat was welcomed to Katy Tur Reports on Thursday afternoon to accuse the Israelis of war crimes, lament the nation’s existence, “the siege of 16 years” as if just randomly happened, and anti-BDS laws because MSNBC suddenly finds the urge to go all in on both-sideism.
Fact-Checkers Throttle Posts Claiming Iran Chanted 'Death to America'
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…
