Welcome to the party, pal!

The “Party” is journalistic corruption, the kind that sank the public’s trust in Legacy Media. The “Pal?” Jon Stewart, who was once a left-leaning comedy host, now exists on the far-Left like his peers.

Stewart is best appreciated on the Right for occasionally telling it like it is. He interrupts his DNC talking points with the truth, like when he suggested that a Chinese lab responsible for virus research might have sparked the COVID-19 pandemic.

For that simple truth, the Left skewered him relentlessly. His fans did the same when he hinted that President Joe Biden may not be as, how you say, “sharp as a tack.”

So he keeps the truth telling to a minimum now.

That didn’t stop him from connecting some obvious dots about the media on his most recent podcast episode. Stewart brought up the Russian collusion hoax, the scam that paralyzed President Donald Trump’s first term in office.

No one has been held responsible for the massive lie, nor has the press seemed interested in pursuing the truth. Heck, the journalists who won Pulitzers for covering a Fake News story won’t even give their prizes back.

Stewart brought up the subject with Ali Velshi, a host on the far-far-Left MSNOW network.

“So, for instance, we’ll go back to, like — there’s always that rush of, like, ‘Now we’ve got Trump, and the Mueller report, and it’s Mueller time,’ and all these things. And the hype machine that generates that, whether it was for action in Iraq or accountability through these special counsels — that it raises an expectation of its audience … The more you run on that hamster wheel, or gerbil wheel … I wonder if that begins to numb your audience to consequence. And is that where the trust has been lost?”

The Stewart of yore might have kept going, blasting the media for a cacaphony of lies tied to the. collusion hoax. And, by extension, Velshi and friends who pumped up those lies.

His station’s highest-paid star, Rachel Maddow, has a lot of explaining to do on the subject alone.

Instead, Stewart meekly suggested the Legacy Media may have lost trust with the public as a result.

Ya think?

John Nolte at Breitbart News has a constantly updated list of modern media scandals. Reporters got these stories wrong, again and again, and most were aimed at taking down a Republican figure.

None targeted the Left.

Here’s a very partial list – please follow the link for a fuller version.

• Elon Musk Nazi Salute Hoax
• Trump Called for Liz Cheney to Be Executed Hoax
• Kamala Was Never America’s Border Czar Hoax
• Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax
• Jussie Smollett Hoax
• Covington KKKids Hoax
• Policemen Killed at Mostly Peaceful January 6 Protest Hoax
• Rittenhouse Hoax
• Border Agents Whipping Illegals Hoax

The Russian collusion hoax remains the grandaddy of said list, but even the “Very Fine People” hoax should have been enough to tell consumers the media will lie to push its agenda.

A few people got red-pilled by that realization.

Stewart can’t tell the full story. He can only lurk around the margins for fear that he’ll lose his liberal base entirely.

The “whole” truth would force the press to turn on Stewart, too. And that’s not an option, either.

Instead, he’ll tip toe around the truth on a story that should have been told several years ago.

That’s the best this faux news man can do, given the tenor of the times.

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OURS OUR CHEAPER, TOO: U.S. Hits Iran With Iran’s Own Drone Design and I Can’t Stop Laughing. “All for the price of a nicely appointed Chevrolet Equinox.”

BUT OF COURSE: Bucknell economics course catalog features several Marxist and left-wing classes, appears to have altered some course descriptions. It’s fine to teach those things, though not to propagandize them.

Some observations and comments on Trump and Israel’s war on Iran:

1. Tehran is not looking for a ceasefire and has rejected outreach from Trump. The reason is that they believe they committed a mistake by agreeing to the ceasefire in June – it only enabled the US and Israel to restock and remobilize to launch war again. If they agree to a ceasefire now, they will only be attacked again in a few months.

2. For a ceasefire to be acceptable, it appears difficult for Tehran to agree to it until the cost to the US has become much higher than it currently is. Otherwise, the US will restart the war at a later point, the calculation reads.

3. Accordingly, Iran has shifted its strategy. It is striking Israel, but very differently from the June war. There is a constant level of attack throughout the day rather than a salvo of 50 missiles at once. Damage will be less, but that isn’t a problem because Tehran has concluded that Israel’s pain tolerance is very high – as long as the US stays in the war. So the focus shifts to the US.

4. From the outset, and perhaps surprisingly, Iran has been targeting US bases in the region, including against friendly states. Tehran calculates that the war can only end durably if the cost for the US rises dramatically, including American casualties. After the assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran says it has no red lines left and will go all out in seeking the destruction of these bases and high American casualties.

5. Iran understands that many in the American security establishment had been convinced that Iran’s past restraint reflected weakness and an inability or unwillingness to face the US in a direct war. Tehran is now doing everything it can to demonstrate the opposite – despite the massive cost it itself will pay. Ironically, the assassination of Khamenei facilitated this shift.

6. One aspect of this is that Iran has now also struck bases in Cyprus, which have been used for attacks against Iran. Iran is well aware that this is an attack on a EU state. But that seems to be the point. Tehran appears intent on not only expanding the war into Persian Gulf states but also into Europe. Note the attack on the French base in the UAE. For the war to be able to end, Europe too has to pay a cost, the reasoning appears to be.

7. There appears to be only limited concern about the internal situation. The announcement of Khamenei’s death opened a window for people to pour onto the streets and seek to overthrow the regime. Though expressions of joy were widespread, no real mobilization was seen. That window is now closing, as the theocratic system closes ranks and establishes new formal leadership.

Again: The question “How will this end?” should have been asked before this war was triggered. It wasn’t.

That is from Trita Parsi, via B.  Note that some people consider Parsi a biased source (not sufficiently anti-Iran?), in any case it is worth pondering how other parties may view the current situation.

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