The Media Research Center kept up its anger that non-right-wing media outlets still haven’t turned into its preferred Trump Regime Media over his war in Iran:
- CNN’s Bolduan Lets Dem Rep Claim Iran War Is ‘Quagmire’, Hegseth Fires Back At Hearing
- CNN Gives Iran State Media Report Breaking Coverage, MS NOW Urges Caution
- REGIME MEDIA: ABC Seems to Relish Parroting Iranian War Propaganda
- Netanyahu Denies NY Times ‘Hard Sell’ Story, Rips Social Media Attacks on Israel
Nicholas Fondacaro huffed in his April 22 hate-watch of “The View”:
The math wasn’t mathing on Wednesday’s The View. During their usual hate session against President Trump, ABC News co-host Sunny Hostin suggested that the war in Iran cost American $50 billion, without citing her source. She then proceeded to claim that amount was more than the U.S. had spent since WWII. The U.S. would be so lucky if that was all we spent. Perhaps that’s the “girl math” that’s all rage on social media.
Amid talking about how the fighting over the Strait of Hormuz was causing prices to go up and affect the stock market, Hostin made her wild claims about the cost of the war and defense spending:
Fondacaro didn’t dispute that number, however — perhaps because he knows it’s pretty much true.
Clay Waters whined that a right-winger who turned against Trump’s war got attention from the New York Times in a May 4 post:
In 2022 the New York Times ran an enormous three-part series eviscerating conservative host Tucker Carlson for nationalism and racism and being “Trump’s heir.” But now that he’s rejected his Trump birthright over the Iran War, Carlson can be rehabilitated by the paper as an anti-war, anti-Trump voice, with Times interviewer Lulu Garcia-Navarro recognizing Carlson as “an object of a lot of fascination, continuing interest….the center of a lot of our cultural conversations.” And a convenient way for the Times to facilitate and widen the current conservative crackup over Iran and Israel.
The transcript of the two-part, nearly two-hour interview by Garcia-Navarro appeared under the surprisingly friendly headline “What Does Tucker Carlson Really Believe? I Went to Maine to Find Out.
[…]Her next sentence betrays the reason for this interview:
Hanging over our whole two-part discussion was one central question: Will Carlson’s anti-Trump conversion last — and portend a wider cracking of the MAGA movement?
Even though Carlson had been accused by some of a right-wing form of anti-semitism (the only kind the media finds relevant) Garcia-Navarro nonetheless greeted him respectfully and eagerly sought out details about the private talks between Trump and Carlson on Iran.
Why doesn’t Waters consider right-wing anti-Semitism to be relevant? He doesn’t explain. Insatead, he continued to complain:
Asked if Trump may have “underestimated the Iranians and what they might do in response to an attack, Carlson gave the provocative response the paper was likely looking for: “….this was not a normal decision-making process. And my strong impression was that Trump was more a hostage than a sovereign decision-maker in this.”
[…]Carlson engaged in more colorful commentary, insisting he finds Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) more “morally repulsive” than Nick Fuentes. It took a while for the interviewer to turn the conversation to race, the centerpiece of the paper’s hit pieces four short years ago.
Waters offered no facts to dispute anything Carlson said; rather, he whined that the Times once called Carlson an “American Nationalist.”
Waters’ post is another in a series of the MRC turning against fellow right-wingers who have rejected Trump’s war.