Trump Attorney van der Veen reads the riot act to a CBS interviewer

February 15, 2021 By Andrea Widburg

One of the things that endeared Trump to his legion of supporters is the fact that he would not let leftists in the media set the narrative. He refused to accept the biased premises underlying their questions and assertions, thereby breaking with decades of conservative behavior. That same fire burned through Michael van der Veen, one of the attorneys who helped achieve Trump’s acquittal when CBS’s Lana Zak implied that it was just a little thing when House impeachment managers falsified evidence.

For decades, when the media interviewed Republicans, it posed questions that were the equivalent of the infamous “When did you stop beating your wife?” question. That question assumes that the person being interrogated did, in fact, beat his wife. And for as many decades, Republicans never forcefully pushed back against the false premise inherent in the question.

That is, Republicans never forcefully pushed back until Trump came along. In 2017, Evan Sayet summed up what Trump’s supporters loved (and still love) about him: “He fights.” .............To Read More....

 

Exposing an Appalling Media Whitewash of a Vicious, Murderous Terrorist Group

February 15, 2021 By Steve Feldman

Not everyone is a Middle East expert. In fact, few Americans are. But most if not all Americans should have some depth of knowledge about the Middle Eastern terrorist group Hezb'allah (translated as "party of god," which is often written as "Hezbollah").

We should be aware (because it should be taught and media should remind us) that on October 23, 1983, Hezb'allah murdered 241 U.S. servicemen and 64 others when it bombed the barracks housing the multinational peacekeeping force in Beirut, Lebanon. French servicemen and civilians were killed in the bombing as well. According to Marine Times: "The bombing killed 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers, and was the deadliest day the Marine Corps has seen since the fight for Iwo Jima, Japan, during World War II."

That alone should be reason enough for us — and particularly a journalist such as Virginia Heffernan who invokes the group — to know plenty about Hezb'allah. But as is often heard on commercials for new cooking gadgets: "Wait, there's more."

On April 18, 1983, a group tied to Hezb'allah bombed the U.S. embassy in Beirut. This time, 63 were murdered, including 17 Americans...........To Read More....