Podcast #208 - Fox News: The War is Over! The War's a Mess! This is Not 3-Dimensional Chess!

About this episode

The episode critiques Fox News' contradictory coverage of the Iran war and Trump's role in it.

Last week Fox News returned to its schizophrenic confused coverage of the war in Iran. In the mornings on Fox & Friends the conflict was depicted as a chaotic mess between a stubborn Iranian regime that refused to give an inch and Trump the misunderstood magical deal maker. The morning crew promised its viewers that although the war was a fiasco military success and lower gas prices were just round the corner. On Jesse Watters Primetime the Iranian regime was defeated and the war was already over. Trump had accomplished what no other American leader had done before - created peace in the Middle East by destroying the number one sponsor of terror. To many outside of the Fox News MAGA cult it seemed Trump brokered a brief ceasefire with Iran because he had absolutely no idea what to do next. Fox News, his personal propaganda machine, acknowledged but downplayed the fact that the two-week ceasefire included a 10-point plan that basically gave Iran everything it wanted including enriched uranium. The network also admitted openly that the Strait of Hormuz was essentially still closed, Israel continued to pummel targets in Lebanon and the Iranian people had not risen up and toppled…

Topics covered

• Iran conflict
• Fox News coverage
• Trump's foreign policy
• media analysis
• political propaganda
• Middle East peace

Keywords

• Fox News
• Iran
• Trump
• Middle East
• war coverage
• political analysis
• media criticism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fox News, PBS News Hour, Murdoch

Places: Iran, Strait of Hormuz, Lebanon

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