How America Can Avert WWIII
In 1990, after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, President George H.W. Bush was considering the American response. He was torn: On the one hand, he saw the necessity of pushing Saddam out of the oil-rich state, maintaining the impression of American strength in the region. On the other hand, he wanted to avoid conflict altogether. Three weeks after the invasion, Bush had still not made a decision…
The Media and The Hostages: In 1979 and Today
It was November 4, 1979. The President of the United States was Democrat Jimmy Carter. Carter was seen by many on the GOP side as a weak president, which was part of the reason Republican Ronald Reagan was making another try for the GOP nomination to face off with Carter in the soon-to-arrive 1980 presidential election.
Nets Ignore Iran Nuclear Deal Architect's Ties to Iranian Regime
Fox News Channel's Special Report on Thursday covered a shocking story that Robert Malley the architect behind the Obama administration's Iran nuclear deal was himself under investigation for alleged ties to the Iranian regime. During their Thursday evening newscasts, all three of the nightly news broadcasts avoided covering this revelation.
The Yom Kippur War – Plus 50
On Sept. 22, 2005, Israel completed its unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. It did not take someone with the power of an Old Testament prophet to predict what would come next. Hamas almost immediately filled the vacuum and began planning a series of terrorist attacks on civilian targets within Israel. The latest attack, on Oct. 6, the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1973 Yom Kippur…
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…
ABC Skips Biden's $6 Billion Iran Payment, CBS, NBC Note GOP Criticism
Monday was the first weekday since the horrific terrorist attacks against Israel by Iran-funded Hamas terrorists. Therefore this was the first opportunity for the weeknight anchors of the big three evening news broadcasts to properly cover the attacks and note that the Biden administration had given Iran $6 billion in exchange for hostages only weeks prior to the attacks.
Musk RIPS Ayatollah for Barbaric Celebration of Hamas Attack on Israel
X owner Elon Musk called out the Supreme Leader of Iran for his disgusting celebration of the terrorist group Hamas and its barbaric attack on Israel.
NY Times Won't Call Hamas 'Terrorists,' Defends Biden on $6B to Iran
The repellent coordinated terrorist attacks Saturday by Hamas on the state of Israel on Saturday, targeting both soldiers and citizens for rape and murder and kidnapping. But in its ongoing live coverage the New York Times consistently refused to call the Hamas terrorists, using the less dramatic word “militants,” which is standard practice for the paper. It’s the same word…
CNN's Bash Bows to Blinken on Biden Team's Failures on Israel and Iran
On CNN's State of the Union, host Dana Bash conducts a toadying interview of Secretary of State Tony Blinken regarding the Hamas attack on Israel. She lets NSA Jake Sullivan off the hook for recently bragging that the Middle East is quieter than it's been in decades, and that he spends less time on it than any of his predecessors in 20 years. And Bash virtually apologizes to Blinken for asking…
Haley SCHOOLS NBC's Welker on Biden's Terror Money to Iran
On Sunday, the day after the horrific and unprovoked terrorist attacks by Hamas against the state of Israel, the Biden administration's surrogates in the media have begun circling the wagons around the president and pretending that the $6 billion he provided Iran didn't embolden Hamas's reign of terror. The latest evidence of this came during NBC's Meet the Press when moderator…
NYT Fact-Checkers Defend Biden From Claims He Hides in His Basement
During Wednesday’s GOP presidential debate, the various reporters at The New York Times assembled to fact-check the various candidates and it did go well as they attacked them everything from “Joe Biden hides in his basement” to Iran to energy to transgenderism.
How Often Did Media Promote Pundits From Iran's 'Expert Initiative'?
Jay Solomon over at Semafor is out with a piece that details how the Iranian Foreign Ministry worked closely with a bunch of American and European academics to help sell the Iran nuclear deal back in 2014 by repeating Tehran’s lines. Members of the group, dubbed the Iran Experts Initiative, were frequent sources for media outlets before and after the deal was signed in 2015.
WATCH: NBC Hammers Blinken on Giving Iran Billions, Ukraine Funding
NBC’s Today co-host Savannah Guthrie has developed a surprisingly strong track for grilling Biden administration officials when they make the rounds of the broadcast network morning news shows, particularly on foreign policy. Wednesday’s show featured at least the seventh installment as she respectfully hammered Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Iran, Ukraine, and the alliance…
'This is Iranian Money,' CNN Attacks 'The Right' For Condemning Bribe
Chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour joined Tuesday’s CNN This Morning to celebrate her 40 years at the network as well as to discuss current foreign policy issues including the Biden Administration’s $6 billion hostage bribe to Iran, which for her and co-host Poppy Harlow is no big deal because it “is Iranian money” and shows conservatives are hypocrites.
