Posted on 01/07/2020 12:55:42 PM PST by doug from upland
The U.S. media's peculiar (albeit predictable) response to President Donald Trump's successful assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani continued on Monday during their coverage of the terrorist's funeral in Tehran.
NPR had reporters on the ground covering the "historic day" and attempting to dispel claims that the grief on display in the streets of the Iranian capital was in any way "coerced" by the authoritarian regime.
Michael Barbaro of the New York Times highlighted the "amazing images and audio" from the NPR team. Several hours earlier, Barbaro posted a bizarre podcast interview with Times reporter Helene Cooper in which Cooper lamented that the U.S. military was "tragically … very good" at killing people.
Lachlan Markay ✔ @lachlan Listening now and this line just floored me: "This is something that the American Defense Department, quite tragically almost, is very good at doing: we know how to kill people." Sorry, what? The tragedy would be if our military were very bad at killing people! https://twitter.com/mikiebarb/status/1214179613234139137 …
Michael Barbaro ✔ @mikiebarb On today's Daily, the first new episode of 2020: the assassination of Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani. I spoke with @helenecooper about why he was ever a US target in the first place and what the consequences might look like. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/podcasts/the-daily/iran-war.html?rref=vanity …
68 7:04 AM - Jan 6, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 21 people are talking about this ABC News's Martha Raddatz donned a (mandatory) headscarf and walked among the "massive and emotional" crowds of mourners. She declared that the Iranian people were "united against America."
Good Morning America ✔ @GMA "A powerful combination of grief and anger, with shouts of 'death to America' echoing through the streets around us." https://gma.abc/2tDiyOX @MarthaRaddatz reports live from Iran.
Embedded video 796 4:08 AM - Jan 6, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 3,550 people are talking about this The Associated Press published a touching piece on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's "rare display of emotion" at the funeral of the terrorist general "with whom he shared a deep bond." The AP noted that the Iranian despot's "voice cracked under the weight of the moment" as he "cried openly" while mourning the death of his friend.
Some journalists did not let the somber occasion stop them from sharing "sick burns" aimed at President Trump. Washington Post national security reporter Missy Ryan, for example, took a break from reporting to retweet a photo comparison of the crowd of mourners in Tehran and the crowd in attendance at Trump's inauguration.
Noah Rothman ✔ @NoahCRothman A wapo natsec columnist RTing this is why media employers will soon be forced to stop all of you from tweeting anything that’s not a link to your own edited and curated work.
View image on Twitter 2,682 9:24 AM - Jan 6, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 984 people are talking about this Meanwhile, one of Ryan's colleagues at the Post published a deeply reported story on the Soleimani strike that appeared to contradict initial reporting that suggested the decision to target the Iranian general—who was personally responsible for the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq—was made impulsively by a president eager to start a third world war.
Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor Story yesterday: Soleimani strike was an oddball option that DOD wasn't serious about, but crazy man Trump picked it, shocking everyone.
Story today: Soleimani strike was months in the making, all to get Trump to finally say "yes."
Pay for journalism, folks. It's important. https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1213967546761785345 …
John Hudson ✔ @John_Hudson New *deep dive* on Soleimani killing --> Pompeo spoke to Trump about hitting the top commander months ago. Getting Trump to “yes” involved key personnel changes at the Pentagon and Trump’s aversion to being viewed as weak, giving Pompeo an opening https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/killing-of-soleimani-follows-long-push-from-pompeo-for-aggressive-action-against-iran-but-airstrike-brings-serious-risks/2020/01/05/092a8e00-2f7d-11ea-be79-83e793dbcaef_story.html?arc404=true …
2,897 4:08 PM - Jan 5, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 1,022 people are talking about this Additionally, the New York Post provided some useful reporting on the Soleimani funeral by publishing photos of what was alleged to be the dead general's casket lying across a row of seats on a passenger jet.
It’s amazing that the liberal view, is that they are against taking out known terrorists now. But they were all in favor of Obama taking out Bin Laden, and Obama taking out other terrorist operatives.
Is this a situation, in which, because Trump did it, that this is why the media and liberals and Democrats are against it?
Sickening, the gal on CBS This Morning had an interview with the scum who Trump would not provide a visa. She was bragging how she was tough on him with questions. Then he said his nation was peaceful and fully lawful, so I expected her to ask where in Iranian law was it legal to kill your own people, but I guess she took a pass on that one.
I swear these people jet their journalist credentials from the back of a cracker barrel box.
It took everything she had to keep from joining the chant, “death to America “
TIME TO DISENGAGE
Sadly, nobody has informed the MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX (MI) or the NEOCON WARHAWKS in DC.
There may be a way to let them know how we feel BEFORE the next national election on 11/3/2020. It may be too late if we wait for that.
The PHONE NUMBER AT THE CAPITOL IS 202-224-3121
The White House comment page is here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
(I just copied and pasted Christopher Bedford’s brief comments to the WH. It was delivered!)
YOUR TURN...before YOUR kids (boys & now girls) wind up in another no-win exercise in madness in the blood soaked sandbox called the Middle East where warring tribes have been killing one another since forever and the only “winners” are the owners of the MI. For additional information on how THAT works, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26O-2SVcrw0
DB
Killing Soleimani Was The Right Move, And Shows Precisely Why It’s Time To Leave Iraq
Christopher Bedford, The Federalist
Rather than ask how to whip Iran, we should be wondering if our blood and treasure is better served in defending against the real threats to our homeland. Unending American war in the Middle East drains our coffers, military strength, and political will, all to the glory of Moscow and our true enemies in Beijing. Meanwhile, foreign policy hawks in Washington are terrified Russia might follow our lead, as they have in Syria. Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has killed the leader of ISIS, and now the Iranian general responsible for hundreds of American dead. He’s done a great deal to clean up the mess his predecessors left him in Iraq and Syria. Now it is time to disengage.
Clever but malignant. More fake news than one can easily keep up with.
Yep - mourning. Last week they had never heard of him.
Un-American quislings, round them up, move them out.
Too bad the media Iranian terrorist sympathizers did not attend the funeral possession to pay their respects and wind up at the bottom of that stampede pile. We can locate the New York Times to Tehran and maybe they might meet some success huckstering for the terrorists as the Tehran Times
Face it. The Communist media is united on this. They are exposed for what they are, anti-American hatred filled MORONS!
Democrat media mourning for Soleimani? What else is new.
??? Can someone remind me how many people Obama killed with drone strikes? Did they attend those funerals?
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