Middle East

After some uncertainty Tuesday morning, it appears the ceasefire between Israel and Iran is holding, which means that there were plenty of previously recorded anti-Trump hot takes from the late night comedy shows on Sunday and Monday that aged rather poorly.

Monday’s CBS Mornings played the proverbial role of the skunk at the garden party by scoffing at Saturday night’s U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, cheering “several countries across the Middle East” siding with Iran and blaming the U.S. for Iranian strikes this past weekend in Israel.

On CNN's State of the Union on Sunday, commentator Scott Jennings mocked a Democrat for suggesting Iran wasn't a threat by using the phrase "fiery but mostly peaceful Iranian butchers." The Democrat was new CNN pundit Xochitl Hinojosa, who was until recently a spokesperson at Biden's Department of Justice.

Hop in the time capsule and set the calendar for the 1930’s. Specifically set the date for September 21, 1930 and then pick up the New York Times. Here’s the headline in the Times that day, replete with the Times-provided capital letters. 

President Trump recently announced that he would give Iran two weeks to agree to a diplomatic solution on its nuclear program before considering whether or not to join Israel’s campaign against it. On Friday’s edition of NBC Nightly News, Andrea Mitchell platformed Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to trash the idea.

As President Trump continues to consider his options on whether or not to join Israel’s campaign against Iran, Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast host Jon Stewart expressed confusion on Thursday on why Israel doesn’t just accept that we live in a world full of risk.

PBS’s Christiane Amanpour sat down with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi on Tuesday to get his perspective on the ongoing war between Israel and Iran, but Amanpour’s usual mantra of being “truthful, not neutral” mostly took a back seat as she never challenged him on the regime’s anti-Semitic, eliminationist rhetoric or his rewriting of Iran-Iraq War history.

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel is not a military expert, but he does try to play one on TV. Having previously shown a stunning lack of basic knowledge on how missiles work in order to try to dunk on President Trump’s Golden Dome idea, Kimmel was back at it again on Tuesday, claiming that deploying National Guard and Marine units to Los Angeles has left Trump “in a tough spot” as he weighs his options on…

Wednesday’s CBS Mornings and CBS Mornings Plus featured exclusive, heartbreaking interviews with the family of Sarah Miligrim, who was murdered by an alleged far-left anti-Semite last month outside the Capital Jewish Museum. After the segment on the latter show, co-host Adriana Diaz tried to insinuate there’s some equal risk of threats to people of all faiths, not just Jews…

On Tuesday’s CBS Evening News, they projected a desire it was time to at least temporarily move on from Sunday’s Boulder, Colorado anti-Semitic terror attack by giving it a 27-second news brief. But instead, they spent over three and a half minutes (3:34) harping on allegations Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have been indiscriminately shooting defenseless Gazans at an aid station, setup…

During Tuesday afternoon’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took the liberal media to task from start to finish on everything from the anti-Semitic terror attack in Boulder, Colorado to fighting fentanyl to Gaza to the National Weather Service. And, in between those, she faced plenty of good faith questions…and others not so much.

On Monday, the major broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC predictably used their flagship morning newscasts to lead with the anti-Semitic terror attack in Boulder, Colorado on a gathering of Jews and supporters calling on Hamas to release the remaining hostages taken on October 7, 2023. However, other than appropriately leading with the attack, the networks collectively failed to cover the…

For months much of the world, including the U.S. legacy media, demanded that Israel allow more aid into Gaza, and now that it has done so, the Tuesday edition of CBS Mornings is not satisfied. According to co-host Gayle King and correspondent Debora Patta, you simply cannot trust a new group that uses American contractors for security to deliver the aid, even as Patta admitted the…

From attacking former Biden aides for talking to CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson for their new book on Biden’s decline to gross Catholic priest jokes to mocking President Trump’s recent Middle East trip as the very definition of corruption while having the wrong props on stage, the season finale of NBC’s Saturday Night Live had it all, and not in a good way.