Posted on 01/07/2020 4:48:20 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Fox News is reporting that Iran’s government has designated the U.S. Army as a “terrorist organization.” – That’s like having the Veggie Whopper designate you as a bad hamburger. Silliness.
Yeah, that narrative isn’t going to work, either, CNN. – We talk a lot about how the Democrats and their toadies in the corrupt news media coordinate daily on the narratives they plan to push. This is because that’s exactly what they do on a daily basis in their tireless efforts to destroy the foundations of the American Republic and hamper the Trump Administration’s policy efforts.
In Sunday morning’s Update, we laid out the Democrat/Media’s overarching narrative in response to the glorious killing of Iranian terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani, and why it will fail with the American public. 24 hours later, the despicable toadies at CNN tried to run with another element of their narrative, as they and the their Democrat benefactors go through basically the same playbook they deploy in response to any military strike or campaign ordered by any Republican president.
This element is called the “nobody else agrees with the U.S. position on this” canard. Its premise is that the action taken or planned for the future by the U.S. president is inherently invalid because no other country – especially the nations of Europe – are on board with it. We have seen this posture assumed by the Democrats and their corrupt media toadies in response to every military venture authorized by a Republican president since Grenada.
On Monday evening, CNN International’s Becky Anderson, who is a British reporter based in Dubai, attempted to roll this narrative element out to her channel’s paltry audience during an interview with stellar State Department Spokesman Morgan Ortagus. The results were spectacular.
Here is a clip of the interview followed by a transcript:
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Anderson: The United States does, ummm, seem to be almost completely isolated when it comes to its position on Iran at present. U.S. allies in Europe, in the Middle East where I am, and in Asia are either calling for de-escalation or are virtually silent. There is almost no support for U.S. actions. Morgan, where are America’s allies at this point?
Ortagus: With all due respect, that’s just another completely inaccurate observation. You could look at the E3 Statement that was put out this morning by the Germans, the British and the French. The British, the Italians, you could go through the list of the people who have said that [Anderson attempts to shut her down here] the world is a better place now that Soleimani’s dead.
Anderson: You talked about the need for de-escalation, with respect.
Ortagus: We have talked about the need for de-escalation. We have called for a peaceful resolution – the President has consistently said that he does not want a war, that we believe we can solve our differences bilaterally. There’s two things that this President has consistently said since the beginning of this Administration, and that is that he wants peace, that he doesn’t want war and that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. And those two things are not mutually inconsistent.
And, may I add, Brian Hook, our Special Envoy for Iran was just with NATO this morning, briefing them. We are incredibly confident in this public statement. Your audience should know, and should go and read the E3 statement put out by the Germans, the French and the British [Anderson interrupting again here] that contradict what you just said to me. It completely contradicts you.
Anderson: [Now visibly angry] Wha..hang on a minute…hang on a minute. Mike Pompeo said he was disappointed with the Europeans’ reaction. What did he mean by that?
Ortagus: He said that on Friday night, and there’s a brand-spanking new statement this morning from the E3 that we are quite pleased with, that you can go Google right now.
Anderson: [Several seconds of dead air as Anderson attempts to compose herself. Listen to how high-pitched her voice gets here as she tries to control her anger.] Now that Iran has said it is no longer going to abide by the nuclear deal…
Ortagus: …They’ve been saying that for a long time now…
Anderson: …how lo..how lo…I haven’t fi…with respect, I haven’t finished. There will be those watching the show, uh, tonight who say that the United States has actually brought the world closer to a nuclear Iran. To which you say what?
Ortagus: Iran has been saying for a long time that they wouldn’t abide by the JCPOA. The fact has been that the E3, our European partners, if you go back to September, to the UN General Assembly in New York, and look at that statement, in the beginning of the week that the E3 put out. Again, the E3 called for Iran to come back to the negotiating table for a new and better deal. The Europeans have also said very publicly that they were, they have expressed their displeasure at the Iranian regime, consistently saying over the past, I think it’s been at least six months, that they’re going to defy the JCPOA.
So you don’t to take America’s word for it. Take the Europeans’ word for it.
Anderson: That… we will leave it there.
[End]
It’s important to note that CNN wasn’t the only corrupt media outlet attempting to roll out this element of the Democrat/media playbook on Monday. Ortagus was also interviewed on the same subject by SkyNews, and by the detestable Leland Vittert on Fox News. The results of both interviews were basically the same, with Ortagus scorching the earth with the leftist hacks.
Again as we have pointed out in the past, none of this media hostility towards Republican presidents originated with Donald Trump. This dynamic of rank liberal bias in the media goes back to the dawn of television as a medium, and really to the 1920s, as communists began to infiltrate journalism schools and newspapers in the United States.
The difference in this administration is the volume and pervasiveness of it all, along with the fact that the corrupt journalists and editors no longer even make a token effort to attempt to hide their bias. At least Walter Cronkite and Tom Brokaw tried to pretend to be even-handed.
All of which makes getting good people into the spokesperson jobs more important than ever. Morgan Ortagus deserves a raise.
That is all.
“Narrative Engineer.” I like it, and I think I’ll use it from now on.
On Monday evening, CNN International’s Becky Anderson,
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That’s a man, baby!
“Fox News is reporting that Iran’s government has designated the U.S. Army as a “terrorist organization.””
Does that now require CNN to say that Trump is paying respect to terrorists, when he visits Arlington on Memorial Day?
Seems like it will.
Wow!! Ortagus certainly handed Anderson’s head to her. Nice!
Moonman62 was talking about CNN talking head Becky Anderson. A “woman” in the mold of Rachel Maddow.
Yeah Becky Anderson is a man baby!
Morgan Ortagus is a babe with laser intelligence and backbone.
Nice...um...brain. Yes!
I don’t understand what is so hard to grasp about the fact that the wire services are virtual meetings of all major journalists in America.The rule that “If it bleeds, it leads” is a good rule for commercial success. But it sets up journalism to conflate
“the public interest”with“interesting to the public”- and those are two entirely different things, more nearly opposites than synonyms.The rule that “journalists are objective” is laudable as an aspiration - but as a statement of fact it is nonsense, and worse.
Objectivity as an aspiration is exemplified by the Scalia statement that whenever he found himself liking the result of an opinion he was righting too much, he redoubled his efforts to assure that where he sat was not determining where he stood. But that could not guarantee that Scalia was always objective, and he knew that.The Barbie doll statement that “Math is tough” goes double for being objective. In reality it can be so hard as to be impossible, and the fact that you belong to a mutual admiration society assuring the public that you are objective doesn’t change that. Consequently the claim that “journalists are objective” is necessarily nonsense. In fact it is worse than nonsense because it functions as a mandate to go along and get along with all other journalists within the cartel which is wire service journalism. That does not change the difficulty of actual objectivity, but rather makes it impossible - it changes the meaning of “objectivity” to “within the consensus of 'people of the same trade’ of journalism.”
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)It is a mechanism for enforcing conformity within journalism.
Uhm...OK, I agree.
Nice...ummm...
“”Narrative Engineer.” I like it, and I think I’ll use it from now on.”
Another one at CNN is correspondent Laura Jarrett (ValJar’s daughter).
“Nice...um...brain. Yes!”
Brains
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