Within minutes of American bombs dropping in Iran on Saturday night, the network “experts” were second-guessing everything, calling the moves “extremely risky.” President Trump was responsible for endangering both American troops and innocent Iranian civilians. Journalists always want to line up for diplomatic “solutions,” even if nothing gets solved.

CNN’s Clarissa Ward took to CNN Newsroom to gripe about how Trump threw a “curveball” into the plans of European leaders who wanted to negotiate with the regime. She went further and suggested that innocent Iranian people were going to “to pay the consequences” for Trump’s decision.

Speaking with Rachel Maddow on Saturday night, MSNBC weekend host Ayman Mohyeldin repeatedly suggested that Benjamin Netanyahu "dog-walked" President Trump into attacking Iran.

Then the Sunday shows followed, and predictably, CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan invited Secretary of State Marco Rubio for a battle of wits, which she routinely fails. On CNN, commentator Scott Jennings praised the president for this action, calling it a “righteous strike” for Western civilization, and mocking a Democrat who suggested it wasn’t proven that Iran is a threat to America. Jennings couldn’t believe it, asking “They're fiery but mostly peaceful Iranian butchers?

On Monday morning, CBS reporter Debora Patta was channeling supposedly representative Iranian protesters. "Israel has also not let up its bombing campaign on Iran and thousands of Iranians rallied in Tehran to protest Israeli and U.S. strikes. 'The U.S. has no right to tell us what to do,' said Ali. 'We must slap America hard.'”

David Frum of The Atlantic embarrassed himself with an article on Saturday morning titled "The mullahs of Iran join the bet that Trump always chickens out.” Frummy was guessing that Trump could be talked out of war by Putin: "Trump is vulnerable to the negotiate-to-delay strategy because he has not taken any of the necessary steps to lead the nation into the war he once seemed ready to join."

The Economist magazine also published a silly article, a puff piece with the headling “Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Great Survivor,” the article describes him as “an underdog from the start,” one of eight children born to a “poor religious scholar from the north-east of Iran.” We’re told he studied the Koran, “listened to music, recited poetry and read novels such as Les Misérables and The Grapes of Wrath." It was gross. It's reminiscent of the puff pieces Soviet dictators used to get during the Cold War from the Western press. "Yuri Andropov loves jazz," and so on.

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