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I'm Adam Johnson.

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And Adam, today we are continuing to cover what we are seeing in the media and political discourse

around ongoing Israeli war crimes in Iran, the bombing and attacking of Iran,

of civilian centers, of its infrastructure, and the attendant and all too unsurprising,

sadly, way that the media is framing these Israeli attacks and Iranian response

and retaliation and self-defense. And we are seeing all of the tropes. We are seeing all of the

talking points that we have not only discussed on citations

needed now for eight years, but what people who have covered Iran, people who have covered

media coverage of quote unquote foreign policy, certainly media coverage of anything that Israel

does. We are seeing this play out.

I have been covering this now for nearly 20 years myself.

We are literally seeing the checklist of common stereotypes and tropes and narratives play out daily in our media.

Yeah.

So we are speed running every argument for the Warren Iraq, which took about 15 months

in about five days with respect to Iran.

It's not universal.

There's been some pushback in the CIA sort of world vis-à-vis David Ignatius of the Washington Post,

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