As the war with Iran  enters week number three, the left wing media has managed to keep up the narrative that it is a war that we can not win, a war that will have chilling effects on our homeland both economically and otherwise, and  perhaps the most hyped narrative, a war that should never have have been started by President Trump. That last point was discussed Saturday on MS NOW's Velshi. Ali Velshi played part of an interview that fellow MS NOW Host Ayman Mohyeldin conducted earlier that morning with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who represented Iran in the three way talks with the U.S. and Oman in the days leading up to the start of the war, and questioned the honesty of our men in the room.  MOHYELDIN: Do you believe Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were good faith negotiators conveying accurate information back to the White House about Iran's position during these negotiations? There's been some reports that you shouted at Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner that you threatened that you had enriched uranium to make 11 nuclear weapons. I want you to set the record straight on on those negotiations in the final days before the war. ARAGHCHI: Well, I don't know what they have conveyed to their boss. What I know is that on 26th February, when we met in Geneva, we were able to make a good progress as Omani Foreign Minister the  intermediary said it was a significant progress....They want to justify and unjustifiable act of aggression. So they are trying to make some excuses for themselves. I never said that we are going to make bombs.... We are ready to dilute them to down, blend them into lower degrees.... But how they have interpreted that, I don't know, maybe, maybe because the lack of enough knowledge, maybe because of, you know, their intentions to justify, as I said, the act of aggression which cannot be justified. So Mohyeldin trusts a spokesman for a tyrannical regime that's slaughtered thousands of protesters as the straight shooter in any negotiation, not the Trump team. That account is not how Witkoff heard it. And as he began his interview with Ben Rhodes, former Obama Deputy National Security Advisor, and MS NOW Contributor, Velshi failed to mention that Rhodes, according to a 2016 House Oversight Committee Report, "made misleading statements about the ability of inspectors to have “anytime, anywhere” access to Iranian nuclear facilities" under the JCPOA which President Trump withdrew from in 2018. Nor did he mention the $400 million given by Obama to Iran in 2016. And Rhodes didn't disappoint, eventually praising Araghchi, while trashing Witkoff and Kushner, after Velshi made a surprising remark about Araghchi. VELSHI: You know this, but the the Iranian diplomatic corps and their foreign ministers tend to be very sophisticated. And so it becomes hard to know what they're whether what they're saying is true or not, it becomes hard to parse that. From day one of this war, we've had conflicting reports about what happened in Geneva between the Americans, the Omanis and the Iranians. The Omanis seemed to back up the the Iranian, the Iranian position that there was progress being made. How do you interpret that exchange that Ayman just had with the Foreign Minister? RHODES: I mean, it's, it's pretty plausible to me, Ali, in part because it's backed up by other information. And first of all, Araghchi the Iranian Foreign Minister, he was the lead negotiator for the Iranians during the negotiations that led to the Iran nuclear deal, the JCPOA, under the Obama administration. He's been and I this is relevant because, number one, he's been in negotiations about the Iranian nuclear program for well over a decade, right. Steve Witkoff was, you know, selling real estate like a year and a half ago, right.  And Araghchi also was a part of a government that could be tough negotiators. They could have shifting positions, but they actually kept their commitments under the JCPOA. Right. It was Trump who pulled out of it. So this is a guy who knows what he's talking about. On the substance of nuclear negotiations, much more than Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, who found themselves in that room for reasons that we still don't understand. Were they just there as a smokescreen because Trump was going to bomb all along? Certainly feels that way to me, Ali, because we were moving the largest military force to the region since the Iraq war while this negotiation was going on. Right. So you don't have to like Araghchi's politics to think he's a more credible voice on these issues than Witkoff, who seemed to not know what the International Atomic Energy Agency was before he walked into this negotiation. We are at war, and treating the authoritarian enemy as the more credible source of information in all this is simply obscene. 

ABC News fired correspondent Terry Moran last year, calling his social media post describing President Trump as a “world-class hater” a “clear violation of ABC News policies.” One year later, looks like Moran's still rooting against Trump—and America. Appearing on The Weekend on MS NOW, Moran did his best Lord Haw-Haw impression, painting the bleakest possible picture of the war with Iran. Moran warned that the war “isn’t anywhere near over,” because Iran still retains the ability to strike back. “They can still pop off drones and missiles,” Moran said ominously. “They’ve got speedboats.” Speedboats: scaree! All the U.S. has are two aircraft carriers in the region, a third reportedly poised to enter, along with multiple other warships. Moran concluded by claiming Trump is in dire straits. “Trump is in a terrible spot and he's trying to talk his way out of it,” Moran said. “He's like a man feeling an earthquake underneath him and yelling at it to stop.” Ex-ABC’s Terry Moran: Trump in ‘Terrible Spot’ vs. Iran — They’ve Got…Speedboats! pic.twitter.com/vVHnrXT8k5 — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) March 14, 2026 What kind of spot is Iran in, Terry? Its nuclear facilities, military installations, air defenses, and navy have largely been destroyed. And its new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, can’t even show his reportedly “wounded and likely disfigured” face, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said. Note: Co-host Jonathan Capehart, keeping it classy, introduced Moran by dismissing Trump’s recent comments as “a garbage pail’s worth of rhetoric.” How very MS NOW. Moran shot back: "Trump's magic power in domestic politics is to say something and force tens of millions of people to believe it, right?" Moran’s doom-and-gloom patter reflects a broader pattern in liberal media coverage of the war—an eagerness to portray the conflict as a looming disaster for America—rather than a devastating setback for Iran. Here's the transcript. MS NOW The Weekend 3/14/26 7:04 am EDT JONATHAN CAPEHART: Joining us now, Terry Moran, former senior national correspondent for ABC News, and Toluse Olorunnipa, staff writer at The Atlantic. Terry, Toluse, thank you both very much for being here. So Terry, let me start with you and just that montage of sound from the president this giving basically, I don't know, a garbage pail's worth of rhetoric, about what's happening with this war that he started three weeks ago this morning. TERRY MORAN: Well, Trump's magic power in domestic politics is to say something and force tens of millions of people to believe it, right? The 2021 election was stolen, he's the greatest everything in the history of this universe and every other possible universe. And a lot of people buy it. It's made him president twice. He can't do that in war because the enemy gets a say and what is being what is [audio drops] We're sending Marines from Japan. We're sending terminal high altitude defense systems from Korea. We're stripping assets, military assets from other parts of the world to get into this fight. This isn't anywhere near over, because Iran isn't defeated. They can still pop off drones and missiles. They've got speedboats. The question is, this attack on Kharg Island, which is an existential threat to the economy of Iran for a generation, take forever to rebuild it, is an invitation to Iran to answer with an existential threat to all the Gulf states. Their desalination plants are undefended. Their oil facilities are undefended. Iran can still fire drones and missiles. Trump is in a terrible spot and he's trying to talk his way out of it. He's like a man feeling an earthquake underneath him and yelling at it to stop.

The New York Times has caught a lot of justified flak the last few days for how softly it has framed its profiles of the Islamic perpetrator of an anti-Jewish attack on a Michigan synagogue. “The Michigan Synagogue Attacker Was a Quiet Restaurant Worker.” At least Sunday’s print headline was better: “Recalling Attacker’s Last Days Before Driving Into Synagogue.” Critics faulted the terrorist-sympathetic framing of the story, like another headline: “Family Members of Michigan Synagogue Attacker Died in Airstrike in Lebanon.” The story initially included insistence from sources that members of the man’s family killed in an Israeli air strike there were not members of Hezbollah. As confirmation of the man’s Hezbollah links emerged, that denial was quietly excised. The Times framing seemed to suggest that having family members killed in Lebanon would make a synagogue full of children outside Detroit an understandable target. Many online commentators noted the (welcome) lack of similar attacks on mosques after the World Trade Center attacks on 9-11 or after Hamas’s massacre of Israelis on October 7, 2023, and wondered if the paper would have considered any such attacks justified in the name of blowback. The story itself tried to “both sides” the issue of terrorism, as if the actual danger to Jews and the hypothetical danger to Muslims were remotely compatible: The episode heightened fears among Jews in Michigan and across the United States. A wave of rising antisemitism in America has been exacerbated by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, which has extended into attacks by Israel on Lebanon in an attempt to root out the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. It also prompted anxiety for members of the area’s large Arab community, who braced for extra scrutiny after they learned that the attacker was from Lebanon. “This tragedy comes at a time when communities everywhere are confronting rising hate and senseless violence,” said Mayor Mo Baydoun of Dearborn Heights, where the attacker worked at a popular Mediterranean restaurant. Abe Greenwald of Commentary, in “Turning Terror Into Context,” turned two of the badly focused Times headlines around. The headlines in question: “Temple Israel was founded in 1941, dedicated to the formation of a Jewish state” and “Lebanese Family Members of Synagogue Attacker Died in Airstrike.” Greenwald wrote: One could say that both headlines, and their accompanying stories, count as valid news. This is true, but it’s entirely beside the point. These stories are written and framed to blame Zionism and Israeli military action for an attempted mass-slaughter of American Jews.  If you check social media, you’ll find that’s precisely how they’re being used by Israel-haters and anti-Semites…. ….Where’s the headline reading “More Than 100 Children in Temple Israel Pre-K at Time of Attack”? Or how about this for a story on the terrorist’s family back in Lebanon? “Synagogue Attacker’s Brothers Suspected of Being in Hezbollah”?  News outlet JNS faulted a March 12 headline from live coverage about the Michigan synagogue that came under attack: “Temple Israel was founded in 1941, dedicated to the formation of a Jewish state.” “Seriously, you don’t hate the New York Times enough. A synagogue with a preschool is targeted. The NYT reminds readers it was ‘dedicated to the formation of a Jewish state,'” Honest Reporting, a media watchdog, stated. “The journalistic equivalent of: ‘well … what was she wearing?'” Jack Simony, director general of the nonprofit Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation and a grandson of Holocaust survivors, told JNS that the Times should have focused more on the context of the Holocaust in the synagogue’s founding. And there was yet another puzzlingly soft Times headline that made news for the wrong reasons, concerning yet another anti-Semitic terrorist attack by radicalized Islamists, this time an IED thrown into an anti-Zohran Mamdani protest, being held outside the residence of New York City's Israel-loathing mayor and his pro-Hamas wife: “At 13, He Was Selling Sneakers. At 18, He’s Facing Terror Charges.”

National "Public" Radio can NOT find the story of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's wife Rama Duwaji putting "Likes" on pages celebrating the October 7 massacre in Israel. But it CAN find stories where Mamdani is the victim of cruel Republican social media posts. GOP 'Islamophobia' is hot news, and Muslim Democrat antisemitism is not. Reporter Brian Mann's online article was splashed on NPR's home page with this headline:  NYC's Mamdani condemns Sen. Tuberville's anti-Muslim posts as 'bigotry' It began: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is condemning a series of anti-Muslim social media posts by Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama as "bigotry." On X, Tuberville reposted an image of Mamdani next to a photo of the deadly 9/11 terror attacks in New York City, along with the words "the enemy is inside the gates." Mamdani, the city's first Muslim mayor, has been the subject of repeated verbal attacks during the Ramadan season now underway. Tuberville's second image was Mamdani hosting the first official Ramadan iftar at City Hall. NPR, normally so hostile to the mingling of church and state, makes an exception for socialist Muslims. On Wednesday, the NPR talk show 1A devoted a whole hour to "Christian nationalism" and how "concerns grow over the crumbling of the separation between church and state in the Trump administration’s military."  Mamdani also hosted an iftar dinner on March 8 for Hamas-backing Mahmoud Khalil, who drew a laudatory victim profile on NPR this week. Khalil's protest group at Columbia University not only backed the October 7 slaughter like Mrs. Mamdani, they boasted online that "We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization." They suggest oppressed territories of the world include Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Most Americans would consider that an "enemy" statement. On March 12, a Washington Free Beacon article by Jon Levine had a new scandal, that Mamdani's wife "provided a featured illustration for an essay by an author who called Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attack 'spectacular,' has frequently decried what she describes as 'Jewish supremacist vampires, and said Jewish Israelis are 'rootless soulless ghouls.'" NPR couldn't find that, but Mann platformed Mamdani's lecture on tolerance: "When I hear such hatred and disdain unchecked in its rancor, I feel a loneliness and isolation that I know many of you have felt as well," Mamdani said. "Who here has been told, you do not belong in New York City? Who here has been told, go back where you came from?" On Thursday, Tuberville also claimed falsely that "Americans are being gunned down in the streets almost daily by Radical Islamists." Experts say attacks in the U.S. by Muslim extremists are rare and are "not resurgent," according to a 2025 study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Republican leaders have been largely silent about Tuberville's anti-Muslim posts. A growing number of Democrats, meanwhile, have condemned his statements. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader, described Tuberville's posts as "mindless hate." Can you believe that? We don't have daily shootings by radical Islamists. But in a week filled with violent attacks by radical Muslims -- in Virginia, Michigan, and outside Mamdani's mansion in New York -- NPR is going to say attacks are RARE?  Even then, NPR "domestic extremism correspondent" Odette Yousef and host Scott Detrow never breathed the word "Muslim" in a March 13 evening roundup of the Muslim violence. The next morning, Yousef did it again -- the assailant in Michigan was a "naturalized Lebanese American citizen," and host Scott Simon only used the M-word to refer to "an attempted attack on anti-Muslim protesters in New York." In addition to Mann's article on Sen. Tuberville, NPR has been on a streak of GOP "Islamophobia" stories, leaping off Rep. Andy Ogles tweeting about Muslims being incompatible with America. March 9: Tennessee GOP Rep says Muslims 'don't belong in American society'  March 11: What role do politics play in increased anti-Muslim rhetoric? March 13: Muslim voters react to Rep. Andy Ogles' comments that they 'don't belong' March 13: Unlike past eras, anti-Muslim GOP rhetoric draws little pushback from party leaders March 14: House GOP leadership silent as more members post anti-Muslim statements This whole trend is revealing, since vicious antisemitism among Muslim politicians, from Mamdani to Omar to Tlaib, "draws little pushback" from so-called "public radio" journalists. 

Thursday was a day of terror at a Synagogue in Michigan and at Old Dominion University in Virginia, and it was the latter incident that provided what must have been an uncomfortable situation for those in charge of making editorial decisions in the liberal media. No one was killed at the Synagogue, except the person who drove his bomb filled car into the building in an obvious terror attack, but one person was killed and two wounded in the other, obvious terror attack at an ROTC classroom at Old Dominion, but would the media tell all about that attacker? The answer for the big three network nightly newscasts is mostly yes. Mohammed Jalloh, the shooter who was killed in the attack, served in the National Guard, and in 2016 pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to ISIS, and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. That's the easy part. But would the media specifically raise the issue of his early release, and would they play the clip of the FBI Agent in charge who said that Jalloh shouted  "Allahu Akbar" during Thursday's attack. ABC's Pierre Thomas did both on ABC's World News Tonight THOMAS: Tonight terror on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, with members of the school's ROTC program targeted by a suspect with ties to ISIS. The suspect has been identified by the FBI as 36-year-old Mohamed Jalloh, a former member of the Virginia National Guard. Sources tell ABC News he calmly walked into the classroom, asked if it was an ROTC class, and then shot the instructor several times, and two students who were wounded. The instructor later died. And then came the key statement from FBI Special Agent Dominique Evans, "We have confirmed reports that prior to him conducting this act of terrorism, he shouted, or stated Allahu Akbar." And Thomas concluded his report by providing specific information, and raising some good questions. THOMAS: Jalloh was convicted in 2016 of attempting to provide material support to ISIS and trying to acquire weapons for an attack on U.S. Soil. He served eight years of an 11-year prison sentence and was released in 2024. Jalloh was under five-year supervised release in which he was to check in with his probation officer regularly. He was also subject having his internet activity reviewed. But Tonight so many questions, including how a convicted felon got a gun and whether he's recently been under surveillance. MUIR: Yeah, major questions moving forward. Both CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News also presented Agent Evans saying that Jalloh had stated Allahu Akbar during the attack, but left the viewer to do the math on his sentence, without spelling it out the way ABC's Thomas did, that he served only 8 years of an 11 year sentence.  Based on past performance it can certainly be considered surprising that the big 3 networks all edited in the Allahu Akbar remark. Meanwhile, both The PBS News Hour and FNC's Special Report With Bret Baier skipped the statement while each one did say that the attack is being investigated as an act of terrorism.