Fake News Fail: CNN Exposed for Bad Iran Strike Reporting

Ward Clark reporting for RedState 

The legacy media is still up to its old tricks, and CNN is about as legacy media as ever legacy media-ed. On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt let CNN have a darn good piece of her mind over their reporting of the American air strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities - and there's a familiar name invoked in her response to that CNN piece.

The post continues:

The leaking of this alleged assessment is a clear attempt to demean President Trump, and discredit the brave fighter pilots who conducted a perfectly executed mission to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Everyone knows what happens when you drop fourteen 30,000 pound bombs perfectly on their targets: total obliteration.

Fourteen bunker-busters, six holes visible in the satellite photos, meaning that every hole had at least two 30,000-pound crowd-pleasers inserted. Once again, the United States has proven that there is no problem that cannot be solved with the suitable application of high explosives.

There's more:

That's the same Natasha Bertrand who "exposed" the Hunter Biden laptop "Russian disinformation" story, which was, like the CNN piece here, fake news. CNN claims:

The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment that was described by four people briefed on it.

The four people are not named, of course. One wonders if they're the same leakers who broke the "Hunter's laptop is Russian disinformation" story to CNN, to this same reporter. Sometimes, coincidences are just coincidences - but here?

Bear in mind that the American strikes only took place within the last three days. That's far too early to expect any comprehensive battle-damage assessment, but initial indications are good, showing some deep craters that look a lot like what you'd expect from several 30,000-pound bunker busters landing in precisely the same spot, one after another. As of this writing, there doesn't appear to have been any radiation leaked, but that doesn't necessarily signify anything one way or the other.

CNN is, once again, a nakedly partisan network doing nakedly partisan reporting (and now I've hit my quota for the use of the word "nakedly" in one day.) Back in the '90s, they did a moderately better job; the bias was there, even in their reporting of Operation Desert Storm, but there were fewer outright fabrications. Mind you, I didn't see much of any of that coverage personally, being in a tent out in the desert or riding around the AO in an Army 5-ton truck most of that time. But now? They are purveyors of the purest horse squeeze, at least on political and military matters, and they don't seem inclined to bother to hide it.

Is it any wonder people don't trust CNN?