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Pathological Media Amnesia – MS NOW
Looks like Joe is being primed to be the new MTG.
It is remarkable how the press manages to turn from recognizing someone as the worst human on the planet to lionizing them, based solely on their turning their back on Donald Trump. Dick Cheney went from demon to deity when he began opposing the president, and Marjorie Taylor Greene is currently the darling of CNN.
Next up will be Joe Kent, who just resigned from his role in the administration's counterterrorism division over his personal stance on Iran or some such blather.
And just that quickly, at MS NOW — where last year they said Kent was a supreme threat — they are cheerleading his brave and principled views.
FLASHBACK: The artist formerly known as MSNBC had a segment back on May 22, 2025 sounding the alarm about the DANGEROUS Joe Kent being in an intelligence position within the Trump administration
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 17, 2026
Now? Kent is a principled statesman b/c he quit over the Iran War pic.twitter.com/jlWO95FhNp
Low-Octane Gaslighting (Literally) – VARIOUS OUTLETS
We should be in Jimmy Carter's fuel lines today, according to their expert.
With the media developing every nightmare scenario regarding the Strait of Hormuz, it appears that these outlets are guilty of huffing their own product. In headlines that wail off the pages, they said the world is experiencing the greatest oil shock – EVER! (The New York Times) This nightmare is also being sold at Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and many others.
Now, before you reach for the barbecue lighter fluid to properly ignite your hair over this panicked news, those in the oil speculation trade feel otherwise.
🚨 WTI crude oil has fallen to $93.95
— NoLimit (@NoLimitGains) March 16, 2026
Traders are betting this ends soon. pic.twitter.com/XtxMkCKd2q
Legalized Press-titution – SKY NEWS
Those exclusive party invites sure pay off!
Over the weekend, we covered how CNN was shown attending exclusive events at the Iranian embassy in London last month. That led to the network getting exclusive access inside Tehran and providing softball coverage of the regime.
Following that revelation, the news item from The Daily Telegraph removed the photo, for reasons we are left to speculate. It was then learned that another journalist was at the party celebrating the Islamic revolution – Dominic Waghorn of Sky News.
And would you look at that; see who is the latest journo given exclusive permission to get out the message of Iranian leaders.
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister tells Sky News US boots on the ground would be 'reckless', in exclusive interview https://t.co/28vSLBPZDQ
— Dominic Waghorn (@DominicWaghorn) March 16, 2026
Reporting on the Mirror – THE NEW YORK TIMES
And we thought his resume alone is what made this a bad decision.
It was some years ago that Noah Shachtman came to Rolling Stone intending to transform it into a serious journalism outlet. That he managed to bring it to the sophomoric partisan level of The Daily Beast was no surprise, given that was where Shachtman hailed from.
Now the news comes that he is leaving the wreckage at RS, and taking on a prominent position at The New York Times.
As he went to social media with the announcement, his post was flooded with reminders of the time that the magazine reported on the FBI raiding the home of ABC reporter James Meek over child sex endangerment charges. Except, after the reporter filed the story, Shachtman — who was a peer of the reporter — went in and sanitized the report to remove mentions of child porn, and made it sound as if Meek was investigated over his work.
The New York Times Hires Editor Who Reportedly Covered Up His Pal’s Child Porn Scandal
— Isaac Schorr (@isaac_schorr) March 17, 2026
My story @Mediaite https://t.co/0dHj7QALwm
