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Media reaction to news of the U.S. bombing of critical Iranian nuclear sites was mixed at best, as evidenced by initial Saturday night coverage. Below is a compendium of some of those reactions, which ranged from plain goofy to outright awful.  Over at NBC News, veteran anchor José Díaz-Balart demonstrates the perils of speculative filler while discussing the capabilities of the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, AKA the Bunker Buster with Pentagon Correspondent Courtney Kube: NBC anchor Jose Diaz-Balart suggests America's bunker buster bombs have "drill tips" on their noses. pic.twitter.com/349Eppbln7 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 22, 2025 The key is the casing and that it’s two bombs in one. No drill. Similar talk of the AR-15 spawned an army of "possible attachments" memes. Time will tell whether the MOP gets similar treatment. Over at CNN, the intial reaction left viewers wondering whether they mistakenly tuned into a state-run outfit such as PressTV instead. Inadvertently making the case against the brutality of the Khomeinist regime, correspondent Clarissa Ward argues that innocent Iranians may be punished by the regime as a result of the bombing: Ward suggests that Trump's decision to take out Iran's nuclear weapon enrichment facilities will lead to innocent Iranian people being punished for it. "Now, the fear is they could face the [regime's] retaliation of this." pic.twitter.com/SRdXjPNI0d — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 22, 2025 Ward would also expose the purest, truest victim of the bombing of Natanz, Esfahan and Fordow: European diplomats (more of Nick's analysis here). CNN's Clarissa Ward huffs that Trump bombing Iran's nuclear weapon enrichment facilities "throws a real curveball to anybody who is involved in trying to work on the diplomatic component" in Europe. pic.twitter.com/HbM6Soe7fa — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 22, 2025 Over at The White House, correspondent Kristen Holmes whined about the tightness of the decision-making process: CNN's Kristen Holmes warns that Trump made the decision to bomb Iran "among a very small group of people who are Trump loyalists, Trump elitists," such as "his secretary of defense [Pete Hegseth]...Marco Rubio, his secretary of state...JD Vance, the vice president" and "his join… pic.twitter.com/58gpstvIfx — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 22, 2025 Of course, this tightness ensured no leaks. And that's the true objection here. Adding to CNN's weirdness is Juliette Kayem, who we last saw beclowning herself in the aftermath of the Boulder firebombing of Jews calling attention to Hamas hostages held in Gaza. Kayyem went out of her way to frame the U.S. as the aggressor here: Last night, CNN's Juliette Kayyem (who has a history of extremism) suggested the U.S. strike on Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities may not be "historic." She also suggests America is the bad guy against Iran: "We've taken a step tonight in terms of becoming the aggressor, so to… pic.twitter.com/xWhDOyXTxA — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 22, 2025 Kayyem notwithstanding, reasonable individuals may conclude that Iran has been the aggressor for the past 46 years, and that near-nuclear breakout capability was just a bridge too far. Kayyem could, too, if she'd cast aside her Trump derangement.  Over at Biden-sycophantic ABC, anchor David Muir and Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce soberly pooh-pooh the operation as "extremely risky", and try to frame the bombing as a broken campaign promise. ABC's David Muir and Biden regime apple polisher Mary Bruce are not at all enthused with President Trump bombing Iran, repeatedly insisting this is an "extremely risky move" and almost wishcasting a wider conflict pic.twitter.com/pCYXjx8s3h — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 22, 2025 They would double down on this fake campaign promise narrative after the presidential address: ABC's David Muir and Mary Bruce double down on an argument from earlier in their Special Report emphasizing President Trump has broken a major campaign promise to supporters he wouldn't start a new war pic.twitter.com/jJ94rarula — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 22, 2025 Because these roundups would be incomplete with CBS's Margaret Brennan, seen here objecting to the bombing: CBS's Margaret Brennan is not a fan of President Trump bombing Iran, expressing serious fear about Iranian strikes and terror attacks in the near future on American soldiers in the Middle East and their families. Leave it to Margaret to object.... pic.twitter.com/gmE2jQS3Kl — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 22, 2025 Samantha Vinograd, former Obama and Biden official and now CBS commentator, was one of the brave few who came on to (predictably) criticize the bombing unabated: Former Biden and Obama official Samantha Vinograd kicks dirt on President Trump bombing Iran because she believes it'll spark terror attacks: "I am deeply concerned about the potential for retaliatory attacks here in the homeland by Iran. Iran's nuclear program has certainly… pic.twitter.com/hLqp2woOtl — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 22, 2025 Speaking of former Obama functionaries, MSNBC had Rick Stengel to deliver a uniquely MSNBC take: I regret to inform you that MSNBC is MSNBCing: former Obama diplomat comes on and ties the nuke site bombing to...DOGE pic.twitter.com/Wy3bV7y6KD — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) June 22, 2025 You get a twofer from Stengel here: the obvious mourning for the ill-fated 2015 Iran Deal, and now the linking of the bombing to DOGE. Because getting eaten by a bear isn't bad enough. Finally, here's Russia Hoax fabulist Rachel Maddow, deceptively conflating several narratives in order to negatively frame the bombing: Classic Maddow open: Willfully misrepresents Trump's positions in order to frame him as a "neoconservative", bolstered by the deceptive conflation of Canada and Greenland overtures with bombing of Fordow, Esfahan, and Natanz. pic.twitter.com/fcbxzVFCpz — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) June 22, 2025 The legacy media's reaction to Operation Midnight Hammer show that they were caught flat-footed. That being the case, they had nothing to fall back on except their narratives, biases, and Trump Derangement.      

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