Israel/Palestine

On Thursday afternoon, the great Steven Nelson of the New York Post put more meat on the bone regarding reports bumbling, fumbling, stumbling White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre barred national security advisor and spokesman John Kirby from speaking to reporters about the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal because she didn’t want arguably the only adult in the Biden…

On Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire says there's skepticism the hostage deal will hold because Netanyahu -- not Hamas! -- might "submarine" it.

Wednesday afternoon brought us the final Biden White House press briefing and, by her own count, the 306th featuring the ever-inept Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. It featured Jean-Pierre emotionally patting herself on the back, plenty of unanswered questions (mostly stemming from the monumental Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal), the final Jacqui Time, and even Jean-Pierre doing her own…

In Eugene Robinson's Washington Post column defending Biden's record as president, one serious criticism he makes is Biden's inability to do more to prevent Israel's "atrocities" in Gaza.

CBS’s 60 Minutes put together a piece on Sunday about the 13 U.S. government officials who have resigned in protest over the role the country has played in helping Israel battle Hamas. Throughout the report, viewers were left to conclude that the best way to fight terrorism is to surrender to it and that terrorists should run U.S. foreign policy because our decision to help Israel…

President Joe Biden decided to use his waning days as America’s leader to flip the middle finger to citizens by honoring one of the most notorious anti-American billionaires in global politics.

The hagiography of President Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at age 100, continued Monday evening on the tax-funded PBS News Hour. The online headline summarized: “A look at Carter’s accomplishments as president and his legacy as a human rights champion.” President Ronald Reagan certainly didn’t get that treatment for ending the Cold War by pushing the Soviets into the dustbin of…

As the Trace Adkins song goes, you’re going to miss this, you’re going to want this back. Deep down, that’s surely the way at least some feel about the bizarre, entertaining, meandering, only occasionally informative, and stammering White House press briefings in 2024 under Karine Jean-Pierre. With part one having covered 10 moments from January to May, this blog contains the second 10…

It is proof of the power of our faith that the spirit of Christmas prevails over all the reasons for cynicism. I'm thinking now of Psalm 40:4 where we read: Fortunate is the man who has puts his trust in God and has not turned to the arrogant and to those who stray after falsehood. Regarding "the arrogant and those who stray after falsehood," take the case of the International Criminal Court,…

With the networks having had over a decade to prepare their graphics and obituary packages for former President Jimmy Carter, the Georgian’s death Sunday at 100 years old came as no surprise (despite having been under hospice care for years) and thus the broadcast and cable networks merely had to dust off their files and hit play. In the first 45 minutes since the Carter Center announced his…

There’s no doubt at least some of you out there will miss the antics, hardballs, stumbles, and throwdowns that came to define Karine Jean-Pierre’s 2024 at the White House Briefing Room podium. With over 70 blogs from our press briefing tag to choose from and the topics ranging from the economy to foreign policy to Biden’s mental slippage, Jean-Pierre and the press corps made it difficult for…

In this final year of the Biden presidency, the ever-inept Karine Jean-Pierre provided a litany of verbal stumbles and word salads when under tough questioning from Fox’s Peter Doocy, Jacqui Heinrich, Edward Lawrence, and even from liberal legacy outlets. Thankfully for her, there were also times when she had assists from the press corps in peddling the left’s preferred storylines (to hide…

With Bashar al-Assad ousted from Syria and the Syrian military in shambles, Israel took the opportunity to set back any possible hostile threat from any new government that could rise up to fill the void by striking air defense sites and weapon/equipment caches. But according to the tone of foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab on Monday’s CBS Mornings, Israel might as well be blowing up…

The CBS Evening News seized upon the opportunity to rekindle its passion for blatantly anti-Israel reporting by regurgitating an Amnesty International report blaming the United States and Israel for a “genocide” in Gaza. They managed to do so while blatantly omitting one word: Hamas.