Posted on 12/30/2017 4:04:27 PM PST by Kaslin
Fox News contributor and writer Stephen Miller has harangued CNN’s coverage, or lack thereof, regarding Iran's anti-government protests throughout the weekend. One tweet caught the attention of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), leading the staunch conservative statesman to compare CNN to the parody site The Onion as well as calling their stories “Iranian Pravda.”
Just incredible.. pic.twitter.com/jtlbqA0UYr— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) December 30, 2017
Miller’s tweet highlights the fact that CNN’s lead story earlier this morning, after little to no coverage at all, focused on Iranian protests…but not the anti-government demonstrations. CNN’s lead story reported on the relatively minor gatherings on Saturday supporting the theocratic state and commemorating the anniversary of the end of prior anti-government protests in 2009.
This led Sen. Cruz to give some pointed advice for the alleged "fake-news propaganda” outlet.
Guys, when you're being accused of being fake-news propaganda, maybe try not to write stories that read like Iranian Pravda.... (or the Onion!) https://t.co/va8hLctCMN— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 30, 2017
"Iranian Pravada" is in reference to the “newspaper” of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, titled “Pravda.” In reality it was not a newspaper at all, but a propaganda machine used to bolster the USSR’s communist leaders and shield its people from the truth. Cruz’s jab at CNN was preceded by a retweet of Mark Levin lambasting western media for not covering these protests.
As I write this, pathetic media letting down freedom fighters again. Social media filling the void as protests in Iran spread.
https://t.co/hzUJSm21S5— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) December 29, 2017
For what it is worth, CNN's star anchor Jake Tapper has given ample coverage and support via his Twitter feed to the anti-government protestors.
Empirically it is astounding and appalling that any country in the 21st century has such a dress code for women. https://t.co/CQAEB6aYfq— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 30, 2017
Earlier today via Facebook, Sen. Cruz called upon all “freedom loving nations” to rally support behind the Iranian people.
I strongly support and stand in solidarity with the Iranian people who are bravely taking to the streets to speak out against their repressive, brutal government in Tehran. These protests reveal to the world that the Iranian regime would rather export and finance terror beyond its borders--especially to its terrorist proxies in Syria, Gaza, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen--than work to meet the basic needs of its own citizens.
The Iranian people want freedom and an end to the ayatollahs' reign of terror. The sanctions relief provided under the disastrous Obama nuclear deal has done nothing but line the pockets of Iran's mullahs whose sole desire is to spread their hateful ideology and do everything they can to murder Americans, Israelis, and our allies across Europe and the Middle East.
I urge the Trump Administration to do everything possible to support these courageous protestors, and I call upon freedom-loving nations everywhere to rally behind and publicly express their support for the Iranian people.
These are the largest public demonstrations against the theocratic government since 2009 and have occurred in more than 20 cities nationwide.
That's a real difficult one. Oh, wait, they happen to be standing up NOW against their tyrants.
First you pull a straw man out of your arse about "these people/these NeoCons, look what they did in Syria" and now you use a deflection to four other dissimilar situations of tyranny where the people are doing nothing to stand up to it.
All that deception generated to mock the Tweets of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. Gotta crush those simple sentiments of sympathy for people who want to throw off the yoke of tyranny before they turn into a full blown policy of support for the wretches.
After all we have had no other problems with the Iranian regime.
President Trump is OK with me, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham and the rest are not.
He has been working to get along with the Neocon crowd but their track record is dismal in Syria and Libya.
And while you’re all fired up about Iran, would you take time out to consider what’s going on here in the USA.
http://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2017/12/bunkerville-standoff-oregon-sheriff.html
I am not fired up about Iran and the Bunkerville Standoff suggestion is just doubling down on the deflection deception. Projecting a disinterest on my part on domestic issues (totally lacking any substantiation) is a Red Herring argument.
Khamenei can die on his own soon. He is old and very sick last time I heard. As for Kim, there is less chance of that. His obesity can kill him but it does not seem to be an imminent prospect. In his case, he needs to be 'made to die.'
In the my dentist’s office, a decision was made to air CNN. It was not 1 hour until a patient complained to the receptionist.
Well, you have that backwards. The people most in opposition to the war in Iraq and who insisted on premature withdrawal were the ones gung ho to attack Libya. They attacked Libya even though it had already submitted to an inspections regime that was imposed by the guy who took us to war against Iraq and was no longer a threat.
And the reason the Libyan leader gave for submitting was his fear he would end up like the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if he didn’t give up his WMD programs- including his nuclear program, which was overseen by the very same Iraqi nuclear scientist Obeidi in whose Iraqi rose garden coalition forces found buried the prototype for an enrichment centrifuge and stacks of blueprints and documents that Iraq had falsely claimed it had destroyed.
After the anti-Iraq war people destroyed the already neutered Libya, they then proceeded to mess with Syria and Turkey.
They also set up the perfect conditions for ISIS, the Zarqawi-led direct descendent of the Zarqawi terrorist cell that was firmly established in Baghdad by 2002 under the watchful eye of Baathist Iraqi general al Dhouri, himself a future cofounder of ISIS before even al Baghdaddi appeared.
The MO of street protests runs through so many nations in the last decade and Libya was one of them.
Find out who was behind Iran demos in 2009 and today, find out who was behind demos in Libya that led to civil war, jiahdists, Benghazi, find out who was behind demos in Egypt that led to Muslim Brotherhood rule, find out who was behind demos in Syria that led to Syrian Civil War, ISIS etc., find out who was behind demos in Ukraine that led to conflict there.
The same MO from the same perps IMHO.
Maybe FNCNN made a deal with the Iranian Mullahs not to report the truth like they did with Saddam Hussein.
CNN is Pravda.
They export terror and work with the North Koreans on nuclear technology.
“Guys, when you’re being accused of being fake-news propaganda, maybe try not to write stories that read like Iranian Pravda.... (or the Onion!) https://t.co/va8hLctCMN—; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 30, 2017”
I love it!
“As I write this, pathetic media letting down freedom fighters again. Social media filling the void as protests in Iran spread.
https://t.co/hzUJSm21S5—; Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) December 29, 2017”
Right on, Mark!
Or pull the batteries, and drop them in the trash can. Usually I just announce to the room I requires the remote, turn it to something else, usually Fox and then retain the remote. In several years of doing this, I’ve only had one person, a liberal in California challenge my actions. When I told them it wasn’t up for discussion while I was eating, as anything else on the TV would make me violently sick they left. Being assertive even brash seems to work. The staff has never gotten involved even when they have been present.
I've always thought that if Wolf Blitzer misplaced his CNN script he would be speechless? And that would certainly be a good thing for the American public. David Brinkley on a bad day had more emotion in his voice than the puppy dog Wolf.
It is no accident that CNN is called the “Communist News Network”.
More than Pravda, working on being TASS and Izvestia, and succeeding, comradeskis.
I’m proud to say that I only know who one of those people, and it’s Stephie. No clue on who the others are...
Iran was once very westernized. Women there were once treated better than dogs and not bound up in garbage bags. The fall of the Shah ended all of their freedom. Oddly, women in the US mostly supported another Muslim tyrant in back to back elections. Thank our old media enemies for this.
Is CNN still in the airports.
Yes, blaring their lies nonstop in most airports nationwide. They still have a near monopoly. Every time I fly through I am reminded of the classic movie 1984. People are often spellbound by the talking head liars. Those airports, unless I am famished, I buy nothing.
Keep up the good fight Ted.
Ted is not the enemy.
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