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Media Play Tokyo Rose While Trump Plays 5-Dimensional Chess
By Robert Knight
Looking at the media’s coverage of the Iran war, I can’t recall when the press has been more dishonest or has more openly sided with America’s enemies.
In fact, Tokyo Rose, the World War II Japanese broadcaster whose job was to taunt and demoralize allied forces in the Pacific, would marvel at the American media’s dedication to sowing discouragement.
Over the last three weeks, U.S. and Israeli forces have decimated Iran’s leadership, destroyed most of its military forces and halted its nuclear program.
The U.S. has flown more than 8,000 combat flights and struck more than 7,800 targets in Iran. More than 120 Iranian ships have been sunk, including most of that nation’s submarines.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Adm. Brad Cooper posted a 7-minute update on X last Tuesday, summarizing the extent of the operation, including before and after photos of bombed Iranian drone and missile factories.
The Iranian regime, the world’s leading sponsor of Islamist terrorism, is reeling and may fall in a few weeks. But you’d never know it from media coverage. It’s nonstop doom and gloom.
The New York Times on March 1 declared that there was “no realistic path to success.” The Washington Post warned of another “endless war.”
Here’s a summary from Xi’s Grok: “Major outlets, particularly left-leaning and international ones, have emphasized civilian casualties, escalation risks, lack of clear objectives, constitutional concerns, and potential long-term failure — often framing the conflict as a ‘war of choice’ or ‘regime change adventure’ initiated by President Trump.”
If today’s media were around in June 1944, they would have been whining that it took more than a month for allied troops to go 20 to 30 miles inland after hitting the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in an “ill-designed, regime change adventure.”
The negative coverage has matched the rhetoric from Democrats such as House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who issued a statement on March 3, only four days after the conflict commenced.
“There certainly is no justification for a regime change war,” he declared, adding that Americans don’t want “another endless war in the Middle East that is going to end in failure.”
No, we don’t, but we don’t want a nuclear-armed Iran that coldly kills thousands of protesters, funds Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and other Islamic terrorists, and has pledged to destroy America and Israel.
Iran has been officially at war with the United States since 1979.
The regime was rushing to rebuild its nuclear weapons capacity after the U.S. and Israeli raids in late February and early March and was making thousands of ballistic missiles and drones.
The regime has also been supplying Russia, which has been inflicting horror on Ukrainian civilians with attacks on hospitals, shopping centers, and power plants.
Eighty percent of Iran’s oil was being shipped to communist China, which has been assembling its forces and threatening to invade Taiwan. There are many pieces moving on the world’s chessboard right now.
Democrats, who also condemned Mr. Trump’s taking out Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, seem thrilled that gas prices have soared since Iranian attacks closed off the Strait of Hormuz, where 20 percent of the world’s oil flows.
In California, gas is back over $5 a gallon in most places, and as high as $6 in some locations, with Democrats placing full blame on Mr. Trump.
Iran has been attacking other nations in the Gulf, trying to drive the price of oil so high that many Americans, who have a short attention span and have soured on foreign wars, will give up and pressure Mr. Trump to stop before the regime falls.
With midterm elections in November, the Dems are undoubtedly hoping the high gas prices will last until then, but they may be disappointed.
European nations and Japan just agreed this week to help the U.S. reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
When the oil starts flowing again, prices will likely return to under $3 a gallon in most places not called California.
It’s important to recognize that Iran’s belligerence toward the Western world is firmly rooted in its Shia theology. That strain of Islam believes that a “hidden Imam,” born in the 9th century, is still miraculously alive and will make his presence known as the Mahdi, bringing order and peace to the world. Before that happens, however, wars, chaos, tyranny, and upheavals must happen.
When the Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah of Iran in 1979 and militants occupied the embassy of the United States (the Great Satan) for nearly a year, it was widely believed in Iran that the new regime was paving the way for the emergence of the Mahdi.
The mullahs have been sowing chaos ever since in pursuit of that end, confident that even if they died in a conventional or nuclear war, they’d go to heaven as martyrs and get their 72 virgins.
Not the kind of outfit you want having nukes.
While Mr. Trump makes long-overdue moves to weaken our enemies and free captive peoples, America’s fifth column is painting a false picture of reality, as they do with so many things.
It comes down to this: They want Mr. Trump to lose, regardless of what it would mean for America and the free world.
Illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times.
Beware of the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
By Robert Knight
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear appears to be readying for a presidential run in 2028.
The telegenic Democrat was on a speaking tour last year in early primary state South Carolina. In September, he has a book coming out entitled, “Go and Do Likewise: How We Heal a Broken Country,” a reference to Jesus’s parable of the Good Samaritan.
His publisher summarizes it this way: “By regrounding faith in compassion and kindness, he believes we can start to heal as a country.”
Compassion and kindness are God-given, but I thought we were in the midst of healing from the nightmare of the Biden years, with its promotion of atheism, illegal immigration, sexual anarchy, and attacks on Catholics and pro-lifers.
Mr. Beshear, like Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, identifies as a Christian and a moderate and gets priceless media cover while supporting the Democratic Party’s radical social and economic agenda.
In 2023, for instance, he tried to block a state bill protecting minors from “gender affirming care.”
The law prohibits doctors from subjecting gender-confused teens to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible, disfiguring surgeries.
The law also bans males from competing on girls’ sports teams. Most people think this makes sense.
Beshear insisted that such a law “would hurt kids and their families” and violate “parental rights.”
He claimed there was no evidence of widespread harm. To which I would say one butchered child is too many and that evidence of harm is voluminous, including the growing number of suicides and trans-related violence.
On the same day of Mr. Beshear’s veto, both houses of Kentucky’s Republican-controlled legislature overrode it. Naturally, a federal judge, Rebecca Grady Jennings, issued an immediate injunction halting enforcement. The case is still in litigation.
A year earlier, Ms. Jennings, one of President Donald Trump’s few clunker appointees, struck down a Kentucky law prohibiting abortions after 15 weeks and requiring medical oversight for abortion pills.
Gov. Beshear also vetoed that bill, and the legislature overrode him.
In South Carolina, which went for Mr. Trump by 30 points, Mr. Beshear emphasized his Christian faith while boasting that he was “a proud, pro-LGBTQ+ governor.”
This is a stance that ignores Jesus Christ’s clear restating of God’s creation of male and female and God’s marriage-based sexual morality from Genesis.
According to the Washington Post, Mr. Beshear said, “My faith teaches me that all children are children of God, and I didn’t want people picking on those kids.” How about protecting them from quacks who sterilize them and turn them into lifetime medical cases?
By the way, politicians love to haul out the term “children of God” like a magic amulet. The Bible says we’re all created in the image of God, but that we’re not children of God unless we believe in Him and submit to God’s authority. Until then, we’re on the other team, and I don’t mean the New Jersey Devils.
“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name,” John 1:12 says. If we’re automatically children of God, we wouldn’t need to be, as Jesus said, born again.
Anyway, Mr. Beshear is not the only wolf in sheep’s clothing. Democrats have become quite adept at using Christianese and buzzwords to fool people. President Barack Obama often gave biblical scholars heartburn over his misappropriating Jesus’s words to justify sexual sin and confiscatory redistribution of wealth.
In Texas, state Rep. James Talarico is battling hard-left U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator. Like Mr. Beshear, Mr. Talarico touts his Christian faith while cleaving to a radical agenda.
“He delivers left-wing orthodoxy in centrist packaging and fights Christian nationalism with Scripture,” the Wall Street Journal explains.
If you’re a patriotic Christian, he’s talking about you and your family as a threat to America.
Much of his rhetoric revolves around Marxist class envy, such as, “Make billionaires pay their fair share in taxes.”
During remarks opposing a bill protecting kids from transgender treatments, he said, “Jesus never once condemned transgender people.”
Well, Jesus didn’t need to, and He welcomed all repentant sinners. The Hebrew Scriptures are crystal clear on sexual morality. Sexual confusion is the province of paganism, which historically often involved child sacrifice as well.
Any comparison to the pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ Democratic Party inferred by readers at this juncture may not be coincidental.
In a 2024 interview with MSNBC, Mr. Talarico said, “Christian nationalism is dangerous. … When politicians use the Bible to push division and hate, they’re not following Jesus; they’re using His name for their own agenda.”
This is classic projection, accusing your opponents of exactly what you’re doing.
At the University of Texas on Feb. 6, Mr. Talarico said, “I’m a Christian progressive. I believe the Gospel is inherently radical—it challenges the powerful, lifts up the poor, and calls for justice in every sphere of life.”
When progressives talk about “justice” they mean “social justice.” This is envy, disguised as compassion and politicized to enable governments to redistribute income and rewrite society’s moral code.
In the first six weeks of 2026, Mr. Talarico raised $7.5 million to Ms. Crockett’s $2 million, even though she still has a lead in polls. He has raised $20 million since September.
Will Texas, like Mr. Beshear’s Kentucky, fall for a wolf in sheep’s clothing?
Gov. Andy Beshear (D-Ky.) in Frankfort, Ky. on June 8, 2025. (AP photo in The Washington Times.