There are legitimate concerns three weeks into Epic Fury, such as the surging price of gasoline and the likelihood of U.S. troops on Iranian soil, but Tim Graham of media watchdog Media Research Center says the liberal media seems fixated on hating Trump.
“They're coming at this war in Iran like anything else that's a Trump policy: It's horrible, it's terrible, it's going to fail,” Graham told AFN.
In related comments Thursday, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said he was talking past the "dishonest and anti-Trump press," and he wanted the American public to hear his message. He stated:
The media here, not all of it, but much of it wants you to think just 19 days into this conflict that we’re somehow spinning toward an endless abyss, or a forever war, or a quagmire. Nothing could be further from the truth. Hear it from me, one of hundreds of thousands who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, who watched previous foolish politicians like Bush, Obama and Biden squander American credibility. This is not those wars.
Graham and others at MRC are busily documenting examples of those doom-and-gloom predictions, such as liberal cable news outlets, CNN and MS Now, and the Trump-hating women on “The View.”
“'It's becoming clear, all the time frankly, the administration was not prepared for that war to last,” Symone Sanders-Townsend told the MS Now audience.
The liberal Democrat, a former press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders, also suggested there is racism involved in attacking Iran, since there are “certain regions, certain religions, and certain skin tones" being attacked by the United States.
MRC has also documented a much more unhinged example from MS Now. On his March 16 show, Lawrence O’Donnell ranted that President Trump, the “most mentally vacant president in history” due to dementia, can’t be trusted to oversee a war.
O’Donnell then suggested Iran’s foreign minister “might” have more credibility than Trump.
Over on Fox News, veteran broadcaster Brit Hume flipped the script to point out the hysteria from the Left. To make his point, Hume posed the scenario of the United States being attacked and crushed by an enemy with a much more superior military.
“And that enemy is ranging freely over our skies with no resistance, bombing at will, sending missiles at will, attacking our vessels, attacking our ballistic missile systems, attacking our aircraft at will,” Hume said. “That they have wiped out, they’ve killed the president and wiped out his Cabinet, and countless officials in the echelons below.”
In that scenario, Hume reasoned, even if the U.S. shut off a key waterway like the Strait of Hormuz, would “stalemate” really be an accurate and fair description?
