War propaganda is something that I have extensively covered in my career as a journalist, and I know in the abstract that it is filled with the seat, that there's really no limits on what will be said or the

tactics that will be used, that their shamelessness that drives war propaganda is almost

impossible to fathom. And even though I've worked on it for a long time and I've talked about

war propaganda for a long time, I have to say, I'm not just disgusted, but a little bit

surprised at just how crude and degraded. I'm not just disgusted, but a little bit surprised at just how crude and degraded American

war propaganda is when it comes to this new war in Iran.

And I was thinking that maybe the reason for it is that although we've had war propaganda

recently including the drive to have the United States finance and arm the Ukrainians and their war with Russia,

and even to some minor extent bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela and then invading Venezuela

to abduct its leader, Nicholas Maduro, bombing Yemen, things like that, covert operations.

We haven't had a full on major new war

that the United States started in this case with Israel in quite a while where the president

just ordered a new war. Obama did with Libya and Syria. George W. Bush did it with Iraq and

Afghanistan. But this is really a major new war.

And so it's possible that because it's been a while since I've actually lived through

the kind of tsunami of insultingly deceitful propaganda that washes over the American

population, whatever that happens, that I just don't, maybe I just have become a little

bit inured to it or, or, or just had forgotten just how extreme it is.

But I want to show you a incident that really illustrates just how shameless it all is.

Yesterday, Jake Tapper, who is the host a cnn program and has been for quite a while

and he's also a long time hardcore lifelong fanatical defender of israel he's jewish he

grew up in a jewish community that taught him to love and revere israel and he is fairly open about the fact, as is Dana Bash,

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