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News Outlets Are Duped by Hamas...Again

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Jun 02, 2025
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Anti-Social Media – CNN

  • Could you alert us when something really terroristic takes place then?

The news out of Colorado was deeply disturbing. An unhinged illegal immigrant and Palestinian supporter hurled Molotov cocktails at a Jewish group that gathered to commemorate the hostages still held by Hamas, injuring nearly a dozen with severe burns.

Despite the local authorities behaving like squishes and trying not to offend anyone of the Islamic faith, the FBI wasted zero time coming out to declare this an act of terrorism.

This declaration truly bothered the brain trust at CNN, as they impugned Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, saying the Bureau leadership was “juvenile” and “disorganized,” all because they were willing to look terrorism in the eye and proclaim what it was.

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Let’s recall, these are the same people in the press who can accuse words spoken in the absence of any violence as being “stochastic terrorism,” but when looking at direct evidence of direct violence executed with announced hatred, the last thing these supposed educated pundits will do is look at the situation with honesty and conviction.

Stealth Story Evolution – NBC NEWS

  • Any particular reason that printing “Jewish” was so difficult for you folks?

It seems only pro-Hamas protesters are the ones with First Amendment rights, according to the press. In the wake of the Colorado attack on a Jewish rally, there is a real hesitancy to be critical of those who attacked the Jewish citizens. Hell, as we see from NBC News, it was hesitant to even acknowledge that these were Jewish folks who were attacked.

Note the original headline used on their report, but only after a video was released of the attacker bleating about Palestinians and affirming he was attacking these people based on their support of Israel was the network willing to affirm who it was actually being targeted.

Matching Media Memorandum – VARIOUS OUTLETS

  • Did you all simply abandon the practice of getting a second source…or actual evidence?

It’s been years since the Israeli-Hamas War exploded, and in that time, there has been no shortage of false news items put out by Hamas – and no shortage of U.S. news outlets willing to repeat their fake news. This weekend showed that no one in the press has learned this lesson.

Reports spread across the news ecosystem that Israel had opened fire on Palestinians lined up to receive emergency aid supplies, with dozens of fatalities and hundreds of injuries.

As unrealistic as this sounded, there were some that went so far as to suggest Israeli tanks were used, as well as drones to attack the crowd. This should have delivered far more casualties, as well as something else to help with the reports – actual footage of the attacks.

Instead, there was video from the location at the time of the alleged attacks showing no conflict at all. Soon enough, outlets began taking down their reports.

Both Kinds of Standards – NEWSWEEK

  • Not the worst example, but possibly the most obvious.

Recall during the inauguration week when Elon Musk spoke to a crowd and then gave a heartfelt gesture that was claimed to have been a Nazi salute? The press spent days with that accusation, despite social media lighting up with past examples of Democrats giving similar salutes, absent the outrage.

This weekend, Senator Cory Booker was caught on video doing the EXACT same thing as Musk, and not only was there a lack of excited commentary, but efforts were made to explain how Booker’s gesture was completely different.

The pathetic, strained excuse-making is all that is needed to be seen that these accusations are completely vacant.

News Avoidance Syndrome – WASHINGTON POST

  • They failed to look into the matter and came up with no evidence!

In a case of sheer desperate avoidance of facts, the wizards at WaPo have discovered a severe drop in fentanyl confiscations coming into the country, but they feign ignorance about what could be the rationale behind this. Border crossings have plummeted to a trickle of what they had been just from last year, but they refuse to entertain this would also translate to a drop in drug traffic.

This article serves as a supreme exercise in willful delusion.

“Mysterious,” “reasons are complex,” “puzzling reality,” “a phenomenon,” “something of a mystery”; those explanations are all uncorked in the opening paragraphs, just begging us to stop reading any further.

Pre-Written Field Reports – PBS

  • No need to research this, a rock star stating this as accurate is more than enough!

Alleged conservative David Brooks has managed to once again expose his lack of conservative positions and show PBS as the slanted biased outlet it denies being. With Elon Musk departing at the arrival of his DOGE deadline date, the “PBS Newshour” gang discussed his efforts, and Brooks showed himself to be a mental midget.

For a few days, people were repeating the claim that Musk was responsible for 300,000 deaths, as a result of the shutdown of the slush fund operated in the USAID operations. This came about because the rock star Bono was spewing this statistic, based entirely on a Boston University professor using deeply questionable mathematical modeling projections.

In other words, there is zero evidence of any actual deaths resulting from USAID cuts, but this did not deter Brooks from rushing to include Musk on a list of infamous despots with millions of confirmed deaths on their resumes.