Iran

Late Monday afternoon in the Oval Office, President Trump took questions from the media regarding his announcement that another U.S. military strike on Iran would take place later that night. CNN's Kaitlin Collins managed to ask two questions from the time CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper picked up coverage, late into the first hour of his show, in time to catch Trump rip CNN as "fake…

Don’t believe your lying eyes! CNN tried every narrative trick in the book to pre-spin the blockbuster June inflation numbers before anybody even knew what the data was going to say.

Last Friday, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that he had given orders to the U.S. Military to “completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran” if he’s assassinated, which Iran has threatened to do many times. On Monday’s episode of MS NOW’s The Last Word, host Lawrence O’Donnell spun Trump’s post on a technicality, implying that, should they succeed in…

The PBS News Hour marked its 50^th anniversary last year (and the show’s first year deprived of taxpayer funding) with a clip package of its coverage of various historical events, while declaring the program had traditionally strove to be “even-handed to a fault.” If that was ever true, the current version of the show, co-anchored by Geoff Bennett and Amna Nawaz, certainly…

Tensions with Iran remain high, but on Saturday's edition of MS NOW’s The Weekend, former MSNBC analyst turned Obama State Department official turned MS NOW analyst Richard Stengel found the real villain: President Trump’s blunt deterrent threat. Stengel’s verdict? That amounts to “threatening genocide.” He called it “more than unseemly” for an American president to issue a threat “in…

The Wall Street Journal reported Israel shared intelligence with the U.S. that Iran had a new plan to assassinate President Trump, and CNN's online story heavily underlined some intelligence pros are "always skeptical are always skeptical" of Israel. CNN's Wolf Blitzer made it a major part of his coverage of the story Friday on The Situation Room.

Joe Scarborough phoned in to today's edition of The Weekend on MS NOW to share remembrances of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who passed away suddenly Saturday at age 71. But Scarborough couldn't resist the opportunity to burnish his liberal street cred while inserting a self-serving anecdote about Iran policy.

When Iran's aggression caused President Trump to respond, CNN host and former Obama aide Jim Sciutto tried to play the moral equivalence game, that there have been "repeated violations in both directions of this ceasefire." He lamented "there's more shooting than negotiating." Jake Tapper took exception to calling the Iranian regime "loco," but he calls Trump "deranged."

CNN invoking the economy as a gotcha against President Trump’s retaliation for Iran’s unprovoked strikes on cargo ships is like telling FDR not to strike Japan after Pearl Harbor.

The end is nigh! Longtime Morning Joe regular Richard Haass has traditionally been one of the show's more measured voices. But, along with others [looking at you, Willie Geist], his tone has, in recent times, become more strident. On today's show, Haass "celebrated" our country's 250th by telling people they shouldn't be hopeful, or "sanguine" as he put it, about its future. Claiming that our…

CNN is slowly realizing it stepped on a rake when it chose to cry Apocalypse! for months to spook Americans about prices going to the stratosphere because of the Strait of Hormuz chaos.

Voters who rely on left-wing cable news don’t approve of President Donald Trump’s ceasefire deal with Iran – until they’re told what’s in it – results of a new McLaughlin Poll show, highlighting the harmful influence of bias by omission.

Imagine having the chutzpah to call out your own employer on national television for doing some underhanded crapola in order to weasel its way out of utter embarrassment. That’s what Scott Jennings did to CNN for trying to dial back its months-long gas price scareporn.

File this one under Politics Make Strange Bedfellows. Saturday’s edition of The Weekend: Primetime relied on Tucker Carlson to make the case that the Iran war spells the "end" of President Trump, and that the MAGA coalition is “over.”