How The Iran War Exposed Media Bias And Political Games

When will politicians, the media, entertainers and influencers stop playing games with our safety? The hypocrisy at the heart of global politics has never been more blatant—when Iran threatens nuclear devastation, so many want to turn a blind eye, but one move from Trump and suddenly, outrage erupts. Blame Israel and the Jews for everything going wrong is fashionable and acceptable, but no one is willing to call out the hypocrisy. From years of empty words to the explosive revelations of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, we’re witnessing politicians, media figures and social media warriers desperately maneuvering to protect their own agendas, all while ordinary people are left questioning who’s really looking out for us. 

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Hey, there's that music again about that epic music that we love to play here. Stuart's out, so I have to come up with something different. But welcome back to the Rant Network, you know, the podcast where we've just continued to pound the crap out of the stupidity that is the world and the ethics and the politics. And what's incredible is that, you know, if you just look at what's been going on, the hypocrisy since the start of this war with Iran, the United States going in, Israel going in, Iran retaliating against its neighbors. It's fascinating what has emerged from the hypocrisy and what has also emerged from agendas and intent by people that we've been who've been pretty much preaching to us for the last number of years. You know, from media to podcasters to politicians to entertainers, they've all been telling us how we should be living our lives. And listen, you can tell us we're no different here at the Rant Network. And yeah, we could be guilty of saying, oh, you should listen to us and nobody else. But here's where we play. When Stuart and I started this podcast approximately six years ago, it was about a frustration. It was an opportunity for us to vent, where people were talking to with us and we said, hey, let's vent together. And that's what we were doing, venting our frustration about what's going on in the world. We started off in COVID and then we merged into uh into the Ukraine war. And then we went into, you know, the questioning about why the world doesn't come down harder on Russia. And then October 7, 2023 started, and it was pivoting from the Ukraine attack by Iran by Russia to Israel. And suddenly it went from the you know, from the poor country to the pariah of the world, anti-Semitism exploding on the scene. And now the situation in Iran. And what's emerged over the last number of years is the intent, the attitudes, the policies, the statements that you hear, and why. And let's begin once again with you know, how can anything Trump do be right? The left, Democrats, media take great pains, great pains to try to derail Donald Trump. Great pains. And this war is no different. President after president, from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan, to George Bush Sr. To Bill Clinton, to George Bush Jr. To Barack Obama, to Trump, to Biden, have all said the same thing. For 47 years, the Iranian regime is bad, corrupt, a promoter of terrorism. We need to take them out. And time and time again, words, words, words, including Donald Trump in his first some, you know, his first term. And now, suddenly, in 2025-26, a discovery emerges that Iran is close to creating 11 nuclear bombs. They even boasted about it. They told the negotiators, look what we got. Steve Widok, Jared Kushner. Guess what, guys? We have access to the bomb. We're gonna make it happen and we're gonna deliver it to Tel Aviv, New York, Washington, and God knows where else. If that wasn't the red alert, if that wasn't the siren, if that wasn't an opportunity where the United States was in real threat, I don't know what is. But you see, the folks in Congress on the left, the Democrats, they can't handle that. They needed to be informed. You have no right to go to war, Mr. Trump, even though we let Obama do it and Clinton do it and all these other things, and they can attack and they can do whatever they want. And has been proven time and time again: no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The only intention by these politicians is to derail Donald Trump. And from statements like he has no idea what he's doing, to there's no strategy, to the one thing you would come to discover about Donald Trump is he's gonna make you look left because he's aiming right. And that's the whole thing. And while we wake up today and we know that, you know, Donald Trump is saying, hey, listen, the Iran military is not as decimated as he would like to say, and it's not over. These are the statements. This is how he plays the game. And he's playing a very smart game against an Iranian regime that has used propaganda against the United States. He's using propaganda against Iran. And yet, the Democrats don't want to bite. The Democrats don't want to play ball. They see the 2026 November election creeping up, you know, we're only eight months away, as an opportunity to take back the House andor the Senate, and to then plan 2028 as the opportunity to take back the presidency. That's all they have their sights on. That's all they care about. Filibusters for the DHS, which they said, oh, it's illegal. We shouldn't do this. But then when they are in power, we should get rid of the filibuster. And we should, and it's all these games. And John Fetterman admitted it. That the Democrats are only concerned about one thing: political power. Take it over. Derail Trump at any cost, including American lives. Huh. Agenda number one. Check. And the media, by the way, is siding with the Democrats. The media has done a remarkable job of trying to say, wow, if we can only get rid of Trump and we can have a Democrat in power, look how great the United States will be. Why do they get to decide that? Why don't you, the voter, get to decide that? Why do they get to play God? This is what is amazing. They've always thought that they hold the higher ground. They always think that their attitude is we are the media. We know better. We're gonna we went to university to get a journalism education so we know better than you, the American population. Like hell you do. What's going on in the universities, as we've seen, is just a cesspool of hard-left ideology, wokeism, socialism, anti-capitalism, anti-West sentiment that has crept so badly into the media. And so when it comes time to showing really what goes on in the world, there's no doubt that the media has their own agenda. And here's the hypocrisy CNN. What do they talk about? Well, let's let's let's be honest with one another, right? CNN has you know has accused Fox of being that lover of, you know, you guys love Donald Trump, and you'll do nothing else but you know, to promote Donald Trump. But CNN doesn't see it in themselves, how much they pumped up the Biden administration, despite the fact that Joe Biden was was was like mentally incapable of running the the White House and they hit it and they and they lied to the population. So why would it be any surprise now that they would continue to lie and mislead? Abby Phillip. When it came up to you know Son Mam Dani, and he was out there, and these terrorists threw a bomb and and tried, what was it? It was an attack on Mam Dani. That's what she said. She said it on TV, and everybody came down on her, going, that wasn't what happened. They didn't go after Mamdani, they were going after the anti-Muslims, they were going after the people who want to stop them. So what does she do? She puts out a tweet saying, Oops, I made a mistake. The famous media, oops, I made a mistake. You ever watch those law shows where you, you know, the lawyer says something and then goes withdrawn? Well, that's exactly what just happened here. Damage has been done. The clip is out on the web, and it you can't take it down. Abby Phillip said that they were going after Zoran Mamdani. That's what you're gonna remember. Not some tweet, not some ex post, the clip. And that's what the media's done. Israel has been attacked day in and day out by Iran, Lebanon, by the Hezbollah in Lebanon. And what do they say? Israel attacks Beirut. Plain and simple, end of conversation. We saw that. We know this is what they do. This is the gaps. Israel's committing genocide, Israel's an apartheid state, Israel's causing a hunger, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then later on, whether you're the BBC or or anybody else, oops, we kind of didn't report it right. Remember that school that they claimed, that that hospital, sorry, that they claimed Israel bombed at the beginning of the war, that everybody jumped on that 500 dead. I mean, I never didn't realize you can count 500 dead bodies in 10 minutes, but apparently you can when it comes up to you know Al Jazeera and Fah and CNN and all these other guys. But when it came time to admit that they were wrong, oops, sorry. What's the agenda here? It's again pushing that ideology that they have embraced, that they want to decimate the West, that they want to make Israel the pariah, that they want to promote anti-Semitism. And what happened last week at that Michigan synagogue is another example of what I mean. This Lebanese guy, naturalized citizen, did what he did to come to the United States, fine, rams his car into a temple and decides he's gonna blow it up. He's gonna go after people, children, adults in the middle of a week. And what's amazing is that the media has said, well, you gotta understand where he's coming from. His family was his family was killed by an Israeli attack. What they didn't tell you is that the guy's brother was a Hezbollah leader, right? They left out that important part so that you could look at Israel again as that pariah state. That again, you bring sympathy to this Muslim who decided that all of a sudden the retaliation is justified. Did you ever hear of a Ukrainian going after a Russian Orthodox Church? You never heard that. Did you hear of a Jew attacking a mosque after October the 7th? You didn't hear that. But this is okay, it's justified. And then this is my favorite. This is my absolute favorite. When this, you know, when you think of the media, when you think of the media, is you know, when they when they can't report things right, the reporter who who went out and you know, who who just the this lady was brought on to a TV station and says, Hey, you know, you gotta understand that the temple Israel, that's an Israeli temple. And you know, what's interesting is that the reporter at that on the T on the desk, well, forgive me, I forget his name, looked at her and said, No, no, no, no, it's not an Israeli temple, it's a Jewish temple. And she goes, No, no, no, it's his temple Israel, therefore it's an Israeli temple. And he's like, What are you talking about? It's Jewish, not Israeli. The woman was trying to justify that this was an Israel thing, therefore the attack was justified. Thankfully, there are a handful, a handful of media people who will push back and say, absolutely not, thou shalt not go there. We are not treading into that water. That is not what we're going to do here. We're actually going to do real journalism. Kudos to you, man. Thank you for doing that. We needed to stop this. Because time and time again, time and time again, these reporters, these media are trying to twist and turn all of these stories so that you can buy into a narrative. That's all they want. So many of them in the media have lost the cause, the cause of not pursuing the truth, but pursuing an agenda. And the agenda is to decimate and destroy Israel and target Jews. I've said this in my previous rants that I would love to see nothing more than the media be brought to their knees and to be brought down and you know, and really guilty of all of these things. I'm it's my pipe dream. It ain't happening. But then there's the last one, and this is the one that bothers me the most. It's the group that's chasing the cliques. That's right. The cliques. Yes, you've got your Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, who truly believe or are paid by Qataro, can't figure this one out, that they believe that they're what they're saying is true, that they're spreading absolute hate both on the hard left, both on the hard right, this visceral hate towards Jews. And it's all about trying again passing that agenda. But I don't get people like a Pierce Morgan, who will bring in, as someone put it greatly, a Jerry Springer-like five, six people on his show virtually, and they will attack and yell at each other, like in the Jerry Springer show. And what does he get? More clicks. What do these entertainers do when they yell free Palestine on the stages over the last couple of years? Again, clicks. But where are you now when it comes up to Iran? Where are you now to stand with the Iranian and the Persian people who are been murdered by their own regime? No, no, no. You would rather be still screaming with you know, with the blue, with the red hands, and and oh, let's free Palestine and those poor Palestinians, and because that's gonna get you more clicks than if you support the people of Iran. You're hypocrites, you're full of shit. And these are the most dangerous people out there because they're putting out on social media all kinds of nonsense so that they can get more clicks. Many in the media are doing this, many podcasters are doing this. Many are do entertainers are doing this to get more clicks. You ever been to a concert and they go, Hey, so good to be in, fill in your city, and everybody's cheering and it's great and gets everybody going. That's what they're doing on social media. They're creating that buzz, that noise, that viral ish situation so that they can get more popular, they can look good, get more clicks. That's their agenda. And think about what they're doing. They're hurting people in the process, they've put lives in danger. From the Mark Ruffalo's to, you know, uh to the to the Pink Floyd haters, to the Annie Lennoxes, to you name it, to Susan Sarandon and all that, they're doing it because they hate Jews, they hate Israel. They're not looking at the clicks, but all those other people who stood on a stage, whether it's at the Grammys or in other shows, and decided that they're gonna pontificate and tell you, the moronic population, how to act. Because we as entertainers, we live a different life and therefore we know better. Really? You're doing nothing but being that keyboard warrior. You want to be there so you can get more clicks. You're not doing this to c effect change, you're not doing that. Greta Thunberg, where are you, the hypocrite? She was doing it because she's a hater. You, the entertainer, are doing because you want more clicks. That's the difference. And look at these three buckets, ladies and gentlemen. Right? If the people I've laid out for you today, from the people who are of an agenda, people who are racist, and people who are chasing clicks. If the hypocrisy isn't evident in what has gone on since the war started with Iran, and how all of these people really aren't there for you and aren't there for what's better for you, but for better for them, and that they have their own personal causes, wow, get wakey wakey because that's what they're doing. They're trying to sway you your way. An agenda, be a racist, get more clicks. Which is it? Follow them today, watch what they say, pay attention. If I'm wrong, put them in the comments. I challenge you because right now the what we've seen in our commentary has been phenomenal. People are commenting and the hate and the spew, and you could tell where they're coming from. It's one of those three. I hate Trump, I have an agenda to get rid of him. I hate Jews in Israel, I want to get rid of them. That's in that there. And I need more clicks, and therefore I'm just gonna put whatever I can so I can get more clicks. What bucket did they fall in? You could find out on your own. That's not hard. But it's time to push back. And that's my only message today. That's it for today, ladies and gentlemen. Have yourself a wonderful week. I wish you the best. Peace in the Middle East, ladies and gentlemen, is what we're all striving for. We'll catch you on Wednesday.