During his second term, President Donald Trump has been more aggressive in attacking America’s enemies than during his first term. But every time this commander-in-chief authorizes military action, the broadcast networks reflexively attack him and try to undermine the effort. This certainly happened when America and Israel took military action against Iran on February 28.
A sickening impulse is the networks that provide the enemy with a propaganda platform, as they repeatedly did with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi. On ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., called out host George Stephanopoulos when the host repeated the Iranian line that the U.S. attack was “unprovoked.” Lankford began by joking: “I hope Iranian TV airs Marco Rubio today, just like you all aired the Iranian foreign minister today.”
Clearly, within these liberal networks, it is more controversial to give Trump a platform than to interview a Baghdad Bob-like figure from the decapitated theocracy in Iran.
On Monday morning, an ABC White House correspondent broke the “without evidence” line against the president. Trump “has yet to make a strong case for war to explain why Iran posed an imminent threat to the US” and has “insisted without evidence that the rebuilding of their nuclear program was happening quickly.”
NBC chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel claimed that Trump justified the military actions based on “a theoretical threat … that Iran, if it were to expand its ballistic missile program in the future, could threaten the United States.” … He was talking about a theoretical future threat, and the rest was past complaints from the Iraq war.”
The Trump administration has argued that Iran’s theocracy has been at war with the United States since it took American hostages in 1979. That argument is dismissed as ‘grievances from the past’. Iran’s campaign to kill American soldiers in Iraq with roadside bombs, which was downplayed in real time, is now merely “beyond grievances.”
Clearly, within these liberal broadcast networks, it is more controversial to provide a platform for Trump than to interview a Baghdad Bob-like figure from the decapitated theocracy in Iran.
Then there is the theme of the economic downturn. On Tuesday night, David Muir, host of ABC’s “World News Tonight,” warned in his typically clipped verbiage: “During this war with Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s oil flows, has effectively been closed off.” Tonight the stock market is plummeting, oil and gas prices have already risen. The Dow Jones fell more than 1,200 points today before recovering some of its losses.”
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ABC News reporter Elizabeth Schultze echoed the gloom: “Tonight, growing fears of a protracted war will cause the stock market to collapse and oil prices to rise.” Then in the same broadcast came the selected ‘analysts’, who warned that ‘higher energy prices will trickle through the economy’. Economist Ryan Sweet argued, “Consumers can’t catch a break. So you’re going to see it in food prices, you’re going to see it in airfares. Overall, inflation is going to rise a little bit over the next few months.”
Notice how nicely this fits with the Democratic argument about affordability in a midterm election year. The dark clouds will forever hang over everything Trump does. The ‘news’ is made to keep the bad weather going indefinitely.
The networks also reported election results to insist the president was launching an “unpopular war.” On Thursday’s Today show, guest host Hoda Kotb touted, “A new poll from NBC News shows most voters, 52 percent, say the U.S. should not have taken military action against Iran.” The numbers – 41% support the war, 52% oppose – are pretty much in line with current polls on President Trump’s approval rating. The broadcast networks are pushing the idea that this could hurt Republicans in the midterm elections.
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This week, the “PBS News Hour” turned to a contributor in Iran, Reza Sayah, who has highlighted the Iranian regime’s perspective.
On Monday he announced: “Please note that, from Tehran’s perspective, there is no trust. This is the second time they are in the middle of negotiations. Without warning they have been attacked. … So they exude resilience and toughness.”
On Tuesday, PBS host Amna Nawaz asked if an uprising was underway. Sayah wasn’t having it: ‘When the death of the Supreme Leader was announced, there were of course celebrations all over the country. But millions of others came out to mourn his death.”
Without discussing the recent killings of thousands of Iranian protesters, Sayah added that there was “no sign of any mass protests, mass uprising and no indication of an organized opposition with a clear leader. If people come out in the coming days, it is very likely that armed security forces will be waiting for them.”
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These networks like to pose as the saviors of democracy in America, but they do not come across as advocates of democracy in Islamic countries. They warn about the rise of ‘Christian nationalism’ in America, but have no problem with Islamic nationalism in Iran. They have compared Trump to Hitler, while ignoring the Iranian regime’s Holocaust deniers who want to end the nation of Israel.
There’s a reason why so many Americans have turned off these networks.
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