The Media Research Center continued to push the Trump Regime Media narrative on the Iran war:
- MS NOW’s Mohyeldin Lets Iranian Stooge Evade on New Leader Despite Prior False Claim
- Trump Back On His Heels! AP Goes Full DNC with Badly Disguised Iran War Editorial
- O’Donnell Says Iran FM More Credible Than Trump, Who Now Has Dementia
- Nets Selectively OMIT DNI Gabbard’s Statement on Iran Threat
- New Yorker Irked by Democrat Lawyer David Boies for Supporting Trump on Iran
- Talk About a ‘Hot’ Take! Climate-Mad Reuters Cheers Iran War as Fossil Fuel Killer
- CBS’s Brennan Teams With UN Inspector to Argue Anything Trump Does in Iran Will FAIL
Alex Christy played comedy cop in a March 17 post:
HBO’s John Oliver and his Last Week Tonight audience found a recent AI-generated propaganda video from Iran’s Revayat-e Fath Institute alleging President Trump started the Iran War to distract from Epstein files to be quite amusing. Oliver also continued the media trend of claiming that the administration has badly misjudged the war despite its clear one-sidedness.
After lamenting the White House’s various meme videos, Oliver introduced the Iranian clip by declaring, “What’s surprising is Iran’s been trolling in return. State-aligned media there even shared an AI Lego video that opened with a scene making it clear they think Trump started this war as a distraction.”
In the video, Lego Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Satan are looking at the Epstein files when an upset Trump mashes a big red button to Netanyahu’s delight. The fact that Netanyahu has made political hay out of his political opposition’s ties to Epstein is something neither Iran nor Oliver cared to spend any time on.
As it was, Oliver and the audience approved, although Oliver did point out one of the AI’s spelling errors, “Look, I think I get Iran’s point there. This war is just a smoke screen to distract from Trump’s friendship with notorious sex criminal Llrey Epstein.”
We don’t recall Christy ever criticizing any AI video released by Trump. Instead, he got mad that Oliver called war secretary Pete Hegseth for bashing non-right-wing media’s war coverage:
Hegseth is right. This war is being dominated by the U.S. and Israel, and the fact that Iran’s missile and drone launches haven’t been reduced to zero or that it hasn’t gone 100 percent perfectly does not debunk that claim because no war ever has gone 100 percent perfectly and none ever will. At the beginning, Trump said this could take 4-5 weeks, and we are in week three. For all of the media’s condemnations of the White House’s video game memes, they seem to think war is like a video game in the sense you can accomplish the mission in mere hours.
Funny how right-wingers like Christy suddenly have a different standard for war when a Republican is president.
Nicholas Fondacaro weigned in through his daily hate-watch of “The View”:
The current conflict between the U.S. and Iran had provided ABC co-host Sunny Hostin ample opportunity to be able express her deep-seat anti-Americansim. During Friday’s episode of The View, Hostin suggested that America, not Iran was the worst nuclear threat to the world because we had used them in WWII. Additionally, on Thursday’s episode, she demonstrated her willful ignorance of how the cost of the conflict was tabulated as she whined that the money could be better spent on the usual litany of liberal pet projects.
Fondacaro didn’t explain how pointing out that the money Trump spent on the Iran war could have been better makes Hostin “anti-American.” Still, Fondacaro huffed further: “Hostin’s whining was all performative and how she was describing the spending was a lie. That $12.9 billion cost was largely the cost of expendable equipment that was already purchased and sitting in the U.S. military’s inventory, i.e. missiles, rockets, torpedoes, fuel. est. [sic]”