If you do a search, you’ll find that the media pretty much is in agreement that Donald Trump is a fascist:
Donald Trump is actually a fascist – The Washington Post
Yes, Donald Trump is a fascist. | New Republic
Congratulations, America — you did it! An actual fascist is now your official president- Salon
There are lots more.
You will also note, however, that these accusers are still free to make these lunatic accusations even a year after Trump being elected President. In contrast, Iran has a long history of suppressing dissent. Iran conducts public hangings, and hangs gays and stones women to death. How does it deal with the media?
Iran’s media environment remained one of the world’s most repressive in 2014. Certain topics—including criticism of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—were subject to long-standing red lines, enforced in part through harsh online and offline censorship. Several dailies and magazines were closed or suspended during the year, and a number of reporters were arrested and prosecuted. Journalists practiced self-censorship, though some said the atmosphere had improved slightly since the 2013 election of President Hassan Rouhani, who presented himself as a moderate. Among other limited improvements that carried over from 2013, reporters and editors were able to cover a marginally broader array of sensitive topics than in the recent past, and a few new publications were allowed to open.
There’s more:
Security authorities continued to clamp down on free speech and dissent, and revolutionary courts handed down harsh sentences against social media users, including death sentences in some cases. As of December, according to Reporters Without Borders, Iran held at least 50 journalists, bloggers, and social media activists in detention.
In April, an appeals court in Tehran sentenced six social media users to five to seven years in prison for their Facebook posts on charges of “assembly and collusion against the national security” and “insulting the sanctities.” On July 13, 2014, a Tehran revolutionary court had previously sentenced eight Facebook users to a total of 127 years in prison for allegedly posting messages deemed to insult government officials and “religious sanctities,” among other crimes.
On June 1, another revolutionary court sentenced Atena Farghadani to a total of 12 years and 9 months’ imprisonment in connection with a critical cartoon she drew and posted on her Facebook page in August 2014 that depicted members of Iran’s parliament as animals. The charges against Farghadani included “assembly and collusion against the state,” “propaganda against the state,” and insulting public officials. Although by law she should serve no more than seven-and-a-half years, the heaviest single sentence she received, the judiciary compounded her sentence.
On June 8, authorities announced a wave of arrests of social media users and activists who “published illegal invitations on social networks … [and] had anti-security tendencies.”
The UN called on Iran to stop intimidating its Persian staff.
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian did an interview with Anthony Bourdain for Bourdain’s show Parts Unknown, wanting to show the positive side of Iran. Six weeks later he and his wife were arrested and spent two years in prison.
The Iranian government has recently begun killing protesters.
Since Donald Trump was elected no gays have been hanged in the US for homosexuality, no women have been stoned to death by the government, no reporters have been arrested and imprisoned, no protesters have been killed by the Trump administration.
So who does the media side with? Iran.
Donald Trump signaled his support of the protesters and that sent the left wing media into a bizarro frenzy.
Major Garrett of CBS:
But that didn’t seem to sit well with Garrett who immediately questioned the wisdom of stepping out in support of the Iranian people. “And the purpose of that national address would be to take note of this moment and put the United States foursquare on behalf and behind those people protesting in the streets,” he wondered. “Some have said that would be the wrong thing to do because that would give the regime an enemy to point at, us again!”
KATE SNOW: In Iran, protesters demonstrated against the government for a fourth day today, and two people were reportedly killed at a rally in Western Iran. In a tweet today, President Trump cheered on the protesters, and he was criticized by Iran’s president. NBC’s Matt Bradley has more on this new wave of protests.
MATT BRADLEY: In Iran, the regime strikes back. After four days of anti-government protests and just as many tweets from Donald Trump supporting protesters for “finally getting wise, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani broke his silence. In a speech to his cabinet, he defended demonstrators’ right to protest, but took a swipe at President Trump.
“This man in America who’s sympathizing with us today has forgotten he called Americans ‘terrorists’ months ago,” Rouhani said, “He has no right to sympathize with Iranians.” The unrest now deadly — two protesters killed at a rally last night. Officials blaming the deaths on foreign agents.
The prize for being the biggest useful idiot goes to, naturally, CNN and Arwa Damon, who inexplicably became the spokesperson for the mullahs:
CNN correspondent Arwa Damon said, “This coming out from the [Iranian] foreign ministry, not only talking about the fact that they view the government of President Trump as the greatest bearer of ill will towards Iran but going on to say that, ‘The people of Iran give no value or credibility to such opportunistic expressions by the Government or the person, Mr. Trump. American officials, through their conduct have not earned a place from which they can express masked sentiments as sympathies, for the aware of the people of Iran.’”
Then she completely off the rails:
Damon then added her own thoughts, saying, “Now this, not just necessarily a rebuke of what the U.S. president tweeted, but also perhaps a reflection of just how frustrated, not just Iran but other countries frankly are, with the United States.”
She continued, “A lot of nations and their populations, no matter how they feel about their governments in particular, do perceive the United States as not really having a moral leg to stand on.”
“Damon then added her own thoughts”
This is the glittering perfect example of what’s wrong with the media today. Her spouting the Iranian regime line was bad enough, but injecting her own opinion exposed both her bias and lack of intelligence.
It is a sad thing to see the left wing media siding with an Islamic regime that has a horrible human rights record simply to express its disdain for Trump. We probably can also assume that this is being done to provide cover for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who offered no support for the last uprising in Iran in 2009.
Trump is the bad guy here?
The press is already widely recognized as an arm of the Democrat National Party but their evolution into becoming the mouthpieces of a truly fascist authoritarian Islamic state is both shameful and repulsive.
Bonus: Arwa Damon has quite a history:
Two employees of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad are suing CNN and one of its senior international correspondents, Arwa Damon, claiming that she was “seriously intoxicated” and “unruly and violent” on July 19 when she allegedly bit them both as they provided her medical aid.
Charles Simons and Tracy Lamar, EMTs working for a private contractor in Baghdad, claim CNN has continued to employ the Emmy-award winning journalist despite her “history of becoming intoxicated and then abusive.”
Addendum via Jim Hoft. Obama did not want the Green revolution to succeed in 2009:
But Obama wasn’t just reluctant to show solidarity in 2009, he feared the demonstrations would sabotage his secret outreach to Iran. In his new book, “The Iran Wars,” Wall Street Journal reporter Jay Solomon uncovers new details on how far Obama went to avoid helping Iran’s green movement. Behind the scenes, Obama overruled advisers who wanted to do what America had done at similar transitions from dictatorship to democracy, and signal America’s support.
Solomon reports that Obama ordered the CIA to sever contacts it had with the green movement’s supporters. “The Agency has contingency plans for supporting democratic uprisings anywhere in the world. This includes providing dissidents with communications, money, and in extreme cases even arms,” Solomon writes. “But in this case the White House ordered it to stand down.”
At the time, Solomon reports, Obama’s aides received mixed messages. Members of the Iranian diaspora wanted the president to support the uprisings. Dissident Iranians from inside the country said such support would be the kiss of death. In the end, Obama did nothing, and Iran’s supreme leader blamed him anyway for fomenting the revolt.
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