jennifer steinhauer

🍅TOMATOES UP 15.3%

My personal belief is that the President, his team, and the Israelis know far better than the press what is going on, and the press is so relentlessly, ruthlessly hostile to the Trump Administration that they're more likely to believe Iranian propaganda than that this is actually going well. As I noted yesterday, the ordinance dropped is on pace to mirror Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom with a combined strike of about 1000 targets a day from the Israelis and Americans. That's pretty consistent. The fact that the national press is barely even covering Homeland Security being shut down by Democrats in a time of war is just another data point. If Obama were bombing Syria while the GOP had Homeland Security shut down, the GOP obstruction would be the primary story every day in the press. But because it is Trump, the press is elevating the doubters, the haters, and the propagandists. The press has a real bias in this.

How is it, in a world of cell phones and cameras everywhere, that we are seeing less of what’s happening in Iran than we did during Desert Storm in 1991?

People I know at the Washington Post in Kyiv have been left stranded here and unable to literally pay for their travel home. They were fired by Bezos in an email - after years of high risk important work. It’s absolutely disgraceful

Gen X was in college from 1982-1997, I don’t remember a single major campus protest, we found our boomer parents’ tales of resistance absurd, especially because they abandoned it all so easily for a Ford Taurus. Protest is not our jam.