The Media Research Center continued to attack any non-right-wing news about President Trump’s war in iran that was even slightly less than fawning:
- Brit Hume: NYT Columnist’s Iran-Over-Trump Comment Is a ‘Perfect’ Example of TDS
- Whose Side Is MS NOW On? Iran War’s ‘Illegal,’ Iran’s ‘Very Deep Bench,’ Trump Must Go
- Katy Tur Pushes Hard on J.D. Vance Being Badly Damaged in 2028 by Trump’s Wars
- O’Donnell: Trump’s Childlike Iran View and Blockade Prove Insanity
- ABC News Reluctantly Reports the Iran Blockade Is Holding
Curtis Houck spent an April 14 post whining that it was pointed hjow the Iran war overshadowed the Artemis space mission:
For decades, Washington Post art critic Philip Kennicott has served up cartoonish anti-American hot takes, so it wasn’t a surprise when he admitted in Friday’s print edition he and others supposedly weren’t able to enjoy the Artemis II mission because of Donald Trump being in office and his “language of genocide and apocalypse” towards Iran.
This, Kennicott argued, has “eclipsed” any “allure” of space, “the striking images” sent back, and the “bravery and telegenic decency of the astronauts.”
[…]But fast-forwarding to 2026, Kennicott fretted that while some on Earth “may delight in the lunar imagery, the clarity of the craters, the detail of its blasted surface, the pits and wounds of some 4.5 billion years of exposure to the vicissitudes of space,” others are consumed with crippling fear over Trump “using the language of genocide and apocalypse to threaten a country that posed no imminent danger to the United States.”
He continued to stray off-course from discussing Artemis II by blaming Trump’s saber-rattling on whatever the Iranian regime would do to its own citizens because they “are in survival mode, armed with ideological certainty, terrible powers of coercion over their own people and an unknown number of missiles”: “[W]e can be certain that the ordinary people of Iran will suffer terribly from their use, not just the country’s elite or its brutal rulers.”
Never mind that the regime has already killed tens of thousands of its own citizens this year, of course.
But other countries — i.e., Russia — have done similar things, but we don’t recall Houck demanding that the U.S. invade them.
Joseph Vazquez used an April 15 post to crow over economic news not being terrible:
It’s a game to watch Watching the media scurry all over cyberspace to explain away why their TDS-afflicted economic catastrophe forecasts aren’t panning out. Take the surprisingly tame inflation on the month, despite the ongoing Iran War.
Despite a 4 percent increase on the year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reportedApril 14 that the Producer Price Index of wholesale prices increased 0.5 percent month-over-month for March, which was much less than the 1.1 percentage increase forecasted by economists as conflict over the energy-critical Strait of Hormuz ensued. Core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy indicators, also came in sizably less-than-expected at 0.1 percent, beneath the projected 0.5 percent increase.
Both the global (Brent) and U.S. benchmarks for oil prices (West Texas Intermediate) dove below $100 a barrel yesterday, with U.S. prices in particular falling a whopping 11 percent since the U.S. military blockade of the strait. Anti-Trump propaganda-mills like Politico were adamant that the reverse would happen as a result of President Donald Trump’s campaign to completely decapitate the Islamist regime in Tehran, “It’s not just oil. Here comes Hormuz inflation.”
Vazquez has spent the entirety of the Iran war spinning economic news Trump’s way, even as oil prices continue their rise, and he hid the fact that gas prices are still well above what they were before the start of Trump’s war