The current dominant spin about President Trump's bunker-busting bombs on Iran's nuclear facilities comes from anonymous intelligence sources. They are guessing that the Iranian nuclear program has only been set back about three months. Once again, reporters like CNN's Natasha Bertrand exploit shadowy sources for an anti-Trump spin, pretending all the way that there's no politics being played.

All the "mainstream" media outlets that channeled Bertrand's version of events weren't going to mention that five years ago, Bertrand also marshaled high-profile intelligence professionals to claim that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. That turned out to be the American disinformation.

The intelligence leaker here for Bertrand and for others could have been a major pusher of Trump-colludes-with-Putin leaks, but they get portrayed as authoritative and objective by their anonymity. No one can evaluate their political activity or contributions or partisan associations. We're all kept in the dark. 

MRC Business associate editor Joseph Vazquez joins the show to discuss this and his articles on how The New York Times and CNN made a lot of noise that oil prices might soar after Trump's attack on Iran...when instead, gas prices went down to where they were before Israel and Iran went to war. You could guess that oil prices spike, but it's embarrassing to hype that like it's inevitable, and then it doesn't happen. Just as with tariff effects, the anti-Trump media eagerly looks forward to whatever economic pain they can highlight.

We also discuss how Wikipedia how lists NewsBusters and the Media Research Center on a page about sources of disinformation. That's based on a "Toxic Ten" report from a far-left British group called the Center for Countering Digital Hate that attacked us based on our "climate denial." So can we say it was climate "disinformation" when media outlets warned of dangerous "global cooling" in the 1970s? We published a report on that called Fire And Ice. 

Joseph is a preeminent research of the Soros family and their leftist philanthropy, so let's remind you of his report with Matt Palumbo on all the groups Alex Soros is funding now to suppress any dissent on the climate.

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