Fanfiction Fearmongering: Watch the Worst People We Know Sell You the War on Iran

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

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News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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"Palestine 36" screening in New York City, Tuesday March 17: Aaron will be doing a Q&A with director Annemarie Jacir. Ticket here:

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots Monday morning where we watch the Sunday morning news show so that you don't have to.
0:06.1	I'm Katie Helper. I'm Mary Matte. Good morning morning. Great to start the week with you and some of the worst people on corporate TV. Thanks so much for being here. Our website is Useful Idiots Podcast.com. Go there to support the show and get bonus content. Also support the show by giving a thumbs up, giving it a like, because that's a way to
0:22.4	beat back against the algorithmic suppression.
0:26.5	And it's a very important thing to do.
0:28.6	And also subscribe if you haven't.
0:31.0	Well, speaking of suppression, we're going to have to suppress a lot of rage today listening
0:35.6	to some of these people and the war mongering that
0:37.8	is happening as the U.S. continues to bomb Iran and Israel is continuing to bomb Iran as well,
0:46.2	but also bomb Lebanon because why not, right? When you're in a war with one country,
0:50.0	why not expand another one? And that's what Israel is around. I was doing in Lebanon and
0:53.6	they're well-rounded.
0:55.5	They're versatile.
0:56.5	We're gonna try to cover as much as we can today.
0:58.8	Let's start up with our weekly recap for Meet the Depressed.
1:05.0	Good Sunday morning.
1:06.7	With the war in Iran entering its third week,
1:09.6	President Trump told me in a phone interview Saturday that Iran has been defeated militarily.
1:16.2	He also said Tehran is ready to make a deal, but the terms aren't good enough yet, declining to say what those terms are.
1:24.3	The president added that he is hearing the new Supreme Leader is dead. Yeah, the president declined to say what those terms are. The president added that he is hearing the new supreme leader is dead. Yeah, the president
1:30.4	declined to say what those terms are because he doesn't know what he's doing. And he's also lying
1:34.5	about Iran being ready to make a deal. Iran has now been attacked by the U.S. and Israel for
1:40.0	two times in less than a year while they were negotiating.
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