On Saturday’s The Weekend: Primetime on MS NOW, contributor and former George W. Bush aide Elise Jordan suggested that Trump administration officials supporting military action against Iran were motivated by psychological insecurity, accusing them of treating war like a “video game” and attempting to “exercise their repressed masculinity.” Jordan made the remark during a discussion of a dignified transfer ceremony earlier in the day at Dover Air Force Base for six fallen U.S. service members. Co-host Antonia Hylton asked Jordan whether witnessing the return of fallen troops might affect President Trump or the senior officials who accompanied him to the ceremony. WATCH: MS NOW’s Elise Jordan Says Trump Officials’ ‘Repressed Masculinity’ Makes Her ‘Puke’ pic.twitter.com/fSaiRqKnuw — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) March 8, 2026 Hylton noted that Trump was joined by the vice president, the First and Second Ladies, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, envoy Steve Witkoff, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, asking whether seeing the fallen brought home might “change the calculus” for the administration. Jordan lectured it was “good” that the officials attended because "they need to see the real cost of what going to war, and what this war is going to mean. It's going to mean a lot more men and women coming home in that way." But she quickly pivoted from discussing the realities of combat to questioning the motives of Trump officials, suggesting their support for the conflict stemmed from insecurity and what she called “faux bravado.” Jordan accused members of the administration of treating the war like a “video game” and implied they were using the conflict to compensate for personal insecurities: “And far too many members of this administration have been treating it like it's a video game and some way to, you know, exercise their repressed masculinity that they have issues with, I guess. But all of the faux bravado, it just, it really does make me want to puke in my stomach because there's a certain humility that you should have just for the lives that you're impacting on the ground and the men and women you are sending to do that and the moral injury that you are going to cause permanently to them.” Jordan wasn’t merely criticizing administration policy. She suggested Trump officials were driven by mental deficiencies, and it makes her sick.  Here's the transcript: MS NOW The Weekend: Primetime 3/7/26 6:07 pm ET ANTONIA HYLTON: Can I ask you, Elise, you know, everyone watched the dignified transfer happen only a couple hours ago, and presidents often attend them, they do not always, but this is the first time that President Trump has attended a dignified transfer for a war that he actually started.  And I wonder, because you've been around the decision makers, you know the cost of war, if you think at all seeing something like this happen so early on in the fighting, will change the calculus, even if it doesn't change it for President Trump, for anyone around him. Because he was there, the vice president was there, the First and Second Lady were there, Susie Wiles was there, Steve Witkoff, Pam Bondi was there.  I mean, the entire inner circle stood by and watched these six fallen service members go by. Does that do something to people?  ELISE JORDAN: It's good that they did, because they need to see the real cost of what going to war, and what this war is going to mean.  It's going to mean a lot more men and women coming home in that way. Despite what we do and despite our best intentions, that's the harsh reality of it.  And far too many members of this administration have been treating it like it's a video game and some way to, you know, exercise their repressed masculinity that they have issues with, I guess.  But all of the faux bravado, it just, it really does make me want to puke in my stomach because there's a certain humility that you should have just for the lives that you're impacting on the ground and the men and women you are sending to do that and the moral injury that you are going to cause permanently to them.

As the war against Iran continues, so does the non-stop effort by the leftist media to attempt to delegitimize almost every aspect of that effort, from the initial attacks launched by the U.S and  Israel, to bemoaning the cost of the bombs we are dropping, to demanding to know an end date, even though that would be impossible to predict at this point. And as the House voted on Thursday, to allow Operation Epic Fury to continue, and 53 Democrats voted against an anti-Iran resolution, the big three network newscasts were mostly MIA. While ABC's World News Tonight, and NBC Nightly News skipped both votes, they did have time to report on the DUI arrest of Britney Spears. CBS Evening News mentioned Trump's war powers in passing, while the PBS News Hour said nothing on either vote -- despite spending more than 20 minutes on pieces of the Iran story. Only Fox News's Special Report With Bret Baier offered a full report which mostly covered the war powers vote. BAIER: Just a short while ago the House defeated a resolution to limit President Trump's war powers against Iran. This matches the Senate rejection of the similar effort yesterday. Chief Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram is on Capitol Hill with the latest tonight. Good evening, Chad. PERGRAM: Bret, good evening. The vote blocking the plan to end the conflict failed 219-212. HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN BRIAN MAST (R-FL): It was a terrible vote that Democrats brought to begin with. No Democrats were willing to even nuance that Iran was any kind of threat to America. PERGRAM: Warren Davidson and Thomas Massie were the only GOP members who voted to withdraw forces from combat. Four Democrats voted to continue to operation. That came after 53 Democrats voted against a resolution calling Iran a state sponsor of terrorism.... The report then turned to the firing of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. As mentioned CBS mentioned only the war powers vote in passing as part of this from Host Tony Dokoupil. DOKOUPIL: As we report tonight from the Middle East amid what are repeated sirens again this evening in Jordan, we have breaking news in the fighting. The U.S. Military within the past couple of hours reports dropping dozens of 2000-pound penetrator bombs targeting ballistic missile launchers hidden underground in Iran. That major new operation, as it happens, coincides with news on President Trump's ability to conduct this war without Congressional approval. The House of Representatives today rejected an effort to rein him in. ABC's David Muir had no time for the votes, but found some, first for the Spears arrest. MUIR: To "The Index" of other news, Britney Spears arrested on suspicion of DUI in Ventura, California. Sources tonight telling ABC News police received calls of at BMW swerving nearly crashing. Spears was released overnight. Tonight her reps saying Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law. Then to the story of a home named Brady. MUIR: The iconic Brady Bunch home is now a landmark tonight. Councilmembers in Los Angeles designated the home as an historic cultural monument. The exterior's of the iconic home featured in that famous sitcom of course from the 60's and 70's.  Much more important then the votes in the House. And NBC's Tom Llamas apparently felt the same way, giving Spears 19 seconds of precious airtime. The war powers vote was bi-partisan, and allows the war with Iran to continue. Those 53 Democrats voted to refuse to classify the biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, as a state sponsor of terrorism. So is it any wonder Britney Spears and the Brady Bunch were preferred as the hot news? 

New talking points ahoy! The liberal New York Times now condemns former Democratic and “progressive” President Woodrow Wilson, founding father of the modern-day liberal state, for his deep racism and segregationist policies he pushed as president of Princeton University and president of the United States from 1913-1921. But that permission applies only to woke Democrats and reporters using Wilson to smear President Trump -- no credit is given to conservatives for initially pushing the anti-Wilson argument into the mainstream. In fact, the paper mocked conservatives for speaking that truth, including in an infamous New York Times symposium reacting to Jonah Goldberg’s 2008 book Liberal Fascism and his thoroughly researched condemnation of the racist Wilson. White House correspondent Erica Green unloaded her hysterical 1,800-word hit job in Thursday’s paper under the headline “Trump Says He Is the ‘Least Racist’ President. But His Term Echoes a Grim Past.” [Wilson] packed his cabinet with white supremacists, whom he allowed to segregate the federal work force and dismiss, demote and demean Black employees. He hosted a screening of “The Birth of a Nation,” a film glorifying the Ku Klux Klan, in the East Room of the White House. And he fomented a climate for Black Americans where “every man who dreams of making the Negro race a group of menials and pariahs is alert and hopeful,” wrote W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the prominent Black leaders who had initially supported him. More than a century later, Wilson’s presidency has taken on new resonance among historians and critics of President Trump. They see distinct parallels between Wilson’s abandonment of promises to Black Americans and Mr. Trump’s policies and politics since he took office a second time last year. Mr. Trump’s gutting of the federal government, his assailing of diversity policies and his occasional use of racist imagery have made Wilson’s administration especially relevant now, they say. …. “I am, by the way, the least racist president you’ve had in a long time,” Mr. Trump said last month, as he faced rare backlash from his party for posting a racist video clip on his social media feed that portrayed the Obamas as apes.... That brought out some truly wild accusations. Ms. Rooks compared Mr. Trump’s posting of the clip to Wilson’s decision to show “The Birth of a Nation” at the White House 111 years ago. Ending bureaucracy and D.E.I. is racist too. By the end of his first year, Mr. Trump had slashed the federal work force by nearly 300,000 people. His biggest cuts targeted agencies that had employed a disproportionate number of Black employees, a measure economists and experts say poses the biggest threat to the Black middle class in modern history. Historians who have documented Wilson’s presidency say it is Mr. Trump’s crusade against D.E.I. and the federal work force that is the most poignant parallel. Green included some disgusting details about Wilson: ….A Black worker in the Postal Service was surrounded by screens so white workers would not have to look at him, according to a report by a Labor Department historian and a letter from the N.A.A.C.P.; another employee had a cage built around him to separate him from his white counterparts, Mr. Dubois wrote; a clerk in the Treasury secretary’s office was assigned to rewrite all correspondence to address Black employees by their first names. This is the man the Times defended from scholarly conservative criticism. That 2010 symposium, featuring six scholars including historian Jill Lepore, appeared under the slanted rubric “Hating Woodrow Wilson.” As if “hating Wilson” was unreasonable and not common sense, given what Green now has permission to tell her readers regarding Wilson’s beliefs and policies toward black Americans. Check the cynical tone: Why is Woodrow Wilson singled out and not, say, Theodore Roosevelt, who in popular history is far more associated with the Progressive cause? What in the current political climate is continuing to fuel the criticism of Wilson? It was a strange “symposium,” with Lepore the only participant to even mention Wilson’s racism, in a terse, three-sentence, modified limited hangout: “ He was opposed to female suffrage. He supported Jim Crow. He wrote about Anglo-Saxon racial supremacy.” Yet amazingly, that damning record failed to convince liberal Lepore to condemn Wilson. The Times also reviewed Liberal Fascism unfavorably, under a sarcastic headline mocking Goldberg’s condemnation of Wilson: (“Heil Woodrow!”). Ironically, that headline could serve as a summary of Green’s attitude toward former president Wilson, now that his reputation can be used to smear the current one.

A little over a day since Iran gave CNN “permission” to operate inside the country and it was already paying off for the murderous Islamic regime. In a pearl clutching segment on Erin Burnett OutFront Friday night, “investigative reporter” Katie Polglase tried to paint America and Israel as the bad guys in the conflict because sensitive civilian locations close by regime targets felt the blast waves of the bombs. All by citing their sources within the regime, with one reporter uncritically reposting their narratives on X. When leading into the segment, host Erin Burnett accidentally shows just how ridiculous their griping was: “This, as a new CNN investigation uncovers just how close U.S.-Israeli air strikes have come to hitting civilian sites like schools and hospitals inside Iran.” That’s right. The crux of the report wasn’t a rash of civilian locations being blown to smithereens by allied strikes, it was to complain that legitimate targets nearby were being hit with precision. Polglase started by noting that “U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign of Tehran has been targeting intelligence complexes, police stations and state broadcasters.” But she soon took issue with how “the impact is going beyond that due to the densely packed nature of the city and the large-scale weapons involved.” In something reminiscent of the liberal media’s coverage of the recent Israel-Hamas War in Gaza, Polglase was aghast that a strike fell on a state-media outlet complex because the windows of a hospital across the street were blown out by the shockwave: Take a look at this satellite image. This crater is at least 40-foot wide. That means it was likely caused by a 2,000-pound bomb. The target, Iran's state broadcaster, the IRIB. The strike wiped out its communications mast. These bombs, used by both the U.S. and Israel, are capable of killing or wounding people more than 1,000 feet away, and just 100 feet away is the Gandhi Hospital, one of the biggest in Tehran. “Like here, you can see the blown out windows of the Gandhi hospital from space,” she added, speaking about the damage. So far, it appears that Iran’s plan to launder their propaganda through CNN was paying off and CNN was more than happy to be a tool. CNN is upset that sensitive civilian locations close by regime targets felt the blast waves of the bombs and had windows blown out. CNN treats it… pic.twitter.com/Hj6lytSycV — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 7, 2026 Of course, there was mention that the point of the strikes were to help pave the way for the Iranian people to rise up and take control of their government; a regime that killed 30,000 protesters just a few weeks ago. Since they were a part of putting down those protests, Iran’s national police force were also targets of the strikes. CNN was upset that their national headquarters were leveled because there was a hospital a few blocks away (Click “expand”): Over in another central part of Tehran is the Motahari Hospital, and just behind it is the Iranian police headquarters. In fact, you can see a police helicopter pad down here. This image is from just before it was struck. And this is after entire buildings flattened. The Motahari Hospital is still standing but we verified this video showing substantial damage inside. It's not the only hospital in the area affected. Over here is the Khatam Hospital. Glass windows shattered and medical staff are seen running out. Further down the same street is the Iranian Red Crescent Society smoke billowing from behind the building. Again, people are fleeing. It’s ironic that CNN whined about the Red Cresent Society being close to one of the bombed police stations because recent video evidence appears to show a Red Cresent Society official lying to state media reporters and falsely labeling a different police station in Tehran as “civilian.” ضبط اتفاقی مکالمه مقامات سازمان هلال احمر جمهوری اسلامی در جریان نمایش ویرانه‌های کلانتری ۱۳۸ جنت آباد تهران به مدیر دفتر کمیته صلیب سرخ (۱۴ اسفند ۱۴۰۴): - من گفتم مسکونی بوده همه‌شون - خوبه، خوبه pic.twitter.com/3MsNHi6LHy — حافظه تاریخی (@hafezeh_tarikhi) March 6, 2026 The hyperbole was also out of control. Despite the video showing a hospital intact with some debris on the ground and never claiming it was hit by a bomb, Polglase falsely claimed that babies were being pulled from the “rubble” and played dumb about what was actually struck: Across Iran as a whole, more incidents like these are emerging. We geolocated this video to the Persian Gulf Hospital in the city of Bushehr. You can see newborn babies being carried out amid the rubble. It's unclear what the target was, but it's close to an airport, a military airbase. Polglase bragged about how they “cross-referenced with satellite imagery to see the damage caused by U.S. and Israeli strikes” and the imagery was featured throughout. But when it came to reporting on how a “gym” in the Fars region of Iran (not a specific city), she didn’t care to show any satellite images when noting “Iranian media said it was also right next to a police station.” It would be helpful to know if the gym was actually part of the station complex. Deep inside Iran, senior international correspondent Fred Pleitgen was actually on X reporting propaganda from the Iranian regime. Pleitgen reposted a comment from Ali Vaez, who has worked closely with Iran’s Foreign Ministry to push their narratives in western countries, sharing a post from Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Aragghchi. “The U.S. committed a blatant and desperate crime by attacking a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island. Water supply in 30 villages has been impacted,” the foreign minister claimed, and was shared by Pleitgen without evidence. To further prove how untrustworthy the people Pleitgen found believable were, check this out: Iran had put out a statement apologizing to their regional neighbors for attacking then for no reason and promised not to do it again. A short time later, they struct their neighbors and Araghchi blamed President Trump for making them do it. Unlike Iran, which was deliberately targeting resorts, airport concourses, civilian ships, and residential apartment buildings, the U.S. was trying to be as precise as possible and limit the destruction. We’re no longer in the era of the carpet-bombing campaigns of WWII, where massive bomber formations were needed to try to hit a single factory in the in center of a city. No country has put more toward developing such precise weapons than the U.S. In fact, the U.S. was so concerned about it that we developed the AGM-114R9X (aka the “Flying Ginsu”); a Hellfire missile with swords inside for when Uncle Sam wants to kill one person in particular. So far, it appeared Iran’s plan to launder their propaganda through CNN was paying off and CNN was more than happy to be a tool. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront March 6, 2026 7:26:12 p.m. Eastern (…) ERIN BURNETT: We just spoke to Fred Pleitgen. That was his first live report that you have seen from Tehran and he said that right now, as he's there, there's a massive ongoing wave of airstrikes hitting Tehran with sustained bombing lasting more than an hour, and that the bombing has been going on there for much of the day, according to Fred. This, as a new CNN investigation uncovers just how close U.S.-Israeli air strikes have come to hitting civilian sites like schools and hospitals inside Iran. Katie Polglase is out front. [Cuts to video] KATIE POLGLASE (voice-over): A city under attack. It's also home to millions of people. The U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign of Tehran has been targeting intelligence complexes, police stations and state broadcasters. But we verified videos and analyzed satellite imagery and found the impact is going beyond that due to the densely packed nature of the city and the large-scale weapons involved. Take a look at this satellite image. This crater is at least 40-foot wide. That means it was likely caused by a 2,000-pound bomb. The target, Iran's state broadcaster, the IRIB. The strike wiped out its communications mast. These bombs, used by both the U.S. and Israel, are capable of killing or wounding people more than 1,000 feet away, and just 100 feet away is the Gandhi Hospital, one of the biggest in Tehran. Glass shattered, walls collapsed, and patients including babies being rushed out. POLGLASE: As more videos like this one began to emerge, we started verifying them, pinpointing the hospital where each one was filmed. Then we cross-referenced with satellite imagery to see the damage caused by U.S. and Israeli strikes. POLGLASE (voice-over): Like here, you can see the blown out windows of the Gandhi hospital from space. Over in another central part of Tehran is the Motahari Hospital, and just behind it is the Iranian police headquarters. In fact, you can see a police helicopter pad down here. This image is from just before it was struck. And this is after entire buildings flattened. The Motahari Hospital is still standing but we verified this video showing substantial damage inside. It's not the only hospital in the area affected. Over here is the Khatam Hospital. Glass windows shattered and medical staff are seen running out. Further down the same street is the Iranian Red Crescent Society smoke billowing from behind the building. Again, people are fleeing. Across Iran as a whole, more incidents like these are emerging. We geolocated this video to the Persian Gulf Hospital in the city of Bushehr. You can see newborn babies being carried out amid the rubble. It's unclear what the target was, but it's close to an airport, a military airbase. But it's not just hospitals. Other civilian sites are also bearing the brunt of these strikes this school in southern Iran was directly hit, resulting in the deaths of over 160 students and staff, according to Iranian state media. Neither the U.S. nor Israel have acknowledged they caused the strike. It was just 200 feet from an Iranian military base. You can see multiple of their buildings hit as well as damage to the school. Another strike hit this gym in Fars, southern Iran. There were reportedly 20 volleyball players inside at the time. Iranian media said it was also right next to a police station. As strikes continue, access to safe medical facilities will be crucial, but the civilian toll is mounting. The Human Rights Activist News Agency now reporting over 1,000 dead. Katie Polglase, CNN, London. [Cuts back to live] BURNETT: Incredibly important work, as hard as it may be to see that. CNN has reached out to U.S. Central Command and the Israeli military for comment on these strikes and any steps they're taking to prevent civilian harm.

By now the world has been taking notice. Taking notice, of all things, of a particular Washington Post obituary.  The obit, infamously, is of the late Iranian dictator the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Khameni was taken out by an American and Israeli bombing attack a few days back. And a decided tyrant he was. Yet that didn’t keep the Post from writing this in the Iranian dictator’s obituary: With his bushy white beard and easy smile, Ayatollah Khamenei cut a more avuncular figure in public than his perpetually scowling but much more revered mentor, and he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic Western novels, especially Victor Hugo’s ‘Les Misérables.’” Over at TIME magazine, however, was a much more accurate obit, saying this of Khamenei:   “With hard-currency reserves depleted and inflation soaring, Iranians took to the streets en-masse, chanting for the regime’s downfall. On Khamenei’s orders, security forces killed an estimated 30,000 people, according to senior health officials." One can only wonder if this current crop of Washington Post obit writers had been around in April of 1945 when they learned that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, knowing that allied troops were closing in on his Berlin headquarters, had locked himself in his “bunker” with his mistress, pulled out his pistol, put it to his head and pulled the trigger. Can you imagine that obit in the hands of a today-oriented Post obit writer? Possibly writing something along the lines like this? With his short, carefully clipped mustache, always in a fastidiously pressed uniform with accompanying arm ban bearing his party’s insignia, along with his easily outstretched right arm for perpetual salutes of others, Chancellor Hitler cut a striking figure in front of the cameras. And he was known to be fond of watching American westerns, especially actor John Wayne’s Stagecoach. No. That would be almost impossible to imagine.  In fact, over at The Conversation, is this decidedly different description of Khamenei:  In more than three decades as supreme leader, Khamenei amassed unprecedented power over domestic politics and cracked down ever more harshly on internal dissent. In recent years, he prioritised his survival – and that of his regime – above all else. His government brutally put down a popular uprising in December 2025–January 2026 that killed thousands. The real question here is…why? Why in the world would the leading newspaper in America’s capital make a point of softening the decidedly very real sharp edge reality of this Iranian dictator’s life? The uncomfortable answer is that many in today’s American media have convinced themselves real journalism must be presenting a supposed “both sides” reporting, at least when it comes to America's enemies. In fact, “bothsideism” is in fact the name applied to this type of journalism over at the Pew Research Center.  In the case of the Khamenei obituary the apparent idea was to present a considerably evil and murderous dictator as a guy whose down time was spent cozily reading poetry and Les Miz. In fact, this business of modern media propaganda in film did in fact start back there in the 1930’s. Infamously, the German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl made a point of making 1935’s Triumph of the Will, a decidedly pro-German Nazi film Wikipedia describes as “a major example of film used as propaganda.”  Let’s be clear. The Washington Post obit on Khamenei is not a Leni Riefenstahl-style obit. But it is a brief snapshot of what it looks like when a modern American journalistic media outfit feels the need to somehow present “the other side” of a guy who was in fact a relentlessly murderous tyrant.