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Network Newscasts Largely Skip Iran House Votes; Two Cover Britney Spears DUI
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?