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Posted on 05/03/2026 6:21:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It is shocking how many people with major media platforms would rather see Iran win its battle to preserve its nuclear program than have President Trump achieve some kind of success.
Thomas Friedman essentially conceded in a recent New York Times column that he is torn, because he doesn’t want to see Trump or Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “strengthened” by success against Iran.
This is disgusting.
Imagine how an American soldier on the front line feels when he hears or reads about this moral betrayal from mainstream liberal figures in the American media.
Both the U.S. and Israel are taking proper military action against a tyrannical and unlawful regime that might well use a nuclear arsenal against its enemies, were it be allowed to develop one. Neither country needs to take that risk if they have the military ability to prevent it.
Preventive wars against threatened nuclear attacks are justified both morally, legally and under any theory of just war. Yet one doesn’t have to agree with this entirely reasonable statement in order to disagree with those who are cheering for the most evil and dangerous regime since Nazi Germany.
Recall that hundreds of thousands of Americans and millions of Europeans were rooting for Germany in the run-up to World War II. So it should not be surprising that some perverse America- and Israel-haters are rooting for Iran today.
No decent person should be on Iran’s side or remain ambivalent about the need to defeat Iran’s genocidal ambitions. No decent person should support Iran’s repression and murder of tens of thousands of its own citizens just this calendar year.
But some indecent Americans and Europeans are siding with evil because they disapprove so strongly of the current leaders of the nations fighting it.
These are not close questions. Perhaps it is arguable that some of the means chosen by the U.S. and Israel are poorly designed to achieve their laudable ends. But there can be little dispute about these ends being laudable, or about these democracies being on the right side in their conflict with a tyrannical regime sworn to the destruction of democratic nations it characterizes as “the big Satan” and “the little Satan.”
The First Amendment gives Americans the right to cheer for Iran if they want, just as it gave them the right to cheer for Nazi Germany. But their exercise of a constitutional right doesn’t mean that others don’t also have the right to point out that they are wrong on the merits.
The First Amendment bars the government from censoring Jimmy Kimmel’s unfunny description of First Lady Melania Trump as having “a glow like an expectant widow,” but it doesn’t require ABC to promote such a revolting image.
Nor does it mean that The New York Times acts wisely in platforming anti-American and antisemitic bigots like Hasan Piker, even if it is free to do so. Piker praises major terrorist groups, including the proxy militias that Iran uses to destabilize its region. He trivializes the Holocaust and the rapes and murders that Hamas committed in its Oct. 7, 2023 massacre in southern Israel. He has also coyly encouraged the assassination of Trump — unmistakably but without directly saying so — as well as other U.S. politicians.
The First Amendment is very limited in its exceptions. It empowers the government to censor only speech that creates a high risk of imminent harm. But some constitutionally protected speech can and does encourage non-imminent violence, including assassinations.
And private organizations are not bound by the First Amendment. They are not required to platform, promote or even tolerate speech that they reasonably believe may lead to violence. They all have standards that they apply to decide what to allow to appear under their imprimatur.
The spirit of the First Amendment should incline even private institutions to err on the side of permitting and not censoring controversial speech. But that presumption in favor of free expression should not be used as an excuse not to exercise good judgment in deciding which speech to promote.
Consumers of the media should be asking whether the media they read, watch or listen to are striking that balance appropriately today.
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The left hates the United States. That is why they want to flood the country with criminal illegal immigrants.
Because they hate America. Next question.
If WWII happened today our media would be cheering for Germany and Japan.
Because they are filthy communists who want America to collapse and they want all Americans dead. They want the former America to become inhabited by foreign subhuman knuckledraggers.
Israel can whack Iran’s oil industry and revenue by means proven by Ukraine to work well for which the leading nations of the West and their leftist leaders didn’t yell “war crime” or “genocide”.
If they had cheered for Germany or Japan back then they would have found themselves on the wrong side of a firing squad. Ahhh,the good old days....😏
I'm not expert so I can't be sure that it's true but if it is that would present a catastrophic problem for Iran.
> If they had cheered for Germany or Japan back then they would have found themselves on the wrong side of a firing squad. <
FDR was a pretty darn good wartime president. He rallied the country, which was easy to do because of Pearl Harbor. Then he asked Congress for a Declaration of War. Everybody was on the same page.
None of this is happening today with respect to Iran. I’m not saying Trump is therefore in the wrong. I am saying he’s not holding the same cards FDR did.
Once upon a time they would have been called “Traitors”, and hanged.
So are the democrats in congress. The patient is in the terminal phase of sickness.
Because, along with the Demonicrats, the Enemedia are lying, perverted, murdering traitors to the United States of America.
Because the hate America.
They don’t want America to win because that would mean Trump won.
Iran launders money for the democrats.
I’ve heard it said that Iran will soon run out of space to store the oil that they’re unable to ship. And I’ve heard that when that happens they’ll have to shut down the wells and that when that happens the well is pretty much destroyed.
It is a mixture of extreme TDS, anti military, and anti US sentiments. Most lefties have such an irrational hate of Trump they would rather see the US fail than Trump get credit for a success. Many lefties have a low view of the US Military and also think everything in Europe is better than America.
Oddly, "decent" has nothing to do about it. The Leftists are died-in-the-wool Revolutionaries that believe their values are morally just.
The fervent Democrat/Communists are religious in their hatred for Republican/Constitutionalists.
Either these ideologies separate into two, new countries or there will be a bloody, retracted warfare with no country surviving.
The Democrat/Communists have undergone the Muslim framework that they are willing to die for their beliefs, while we are soporific in unwilling to kill for ours.
All the little low I.Q. princesses who weaseled their way through journalism school can’t wait to turn in the Handmaiden tail Elizabethan Dog collars and Little Red Riding Hood Capes for Burkas and other crappy foreign fashion.
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