Mainstream news outlets are probably going to stop asking former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to appear on their airwaves, because he has a knack for making reporters look like the idiots they so often are and because he has the bad habit of telling hard truths.
RedState's Bonchie brought you the story on October 13 about how Bennett unloaded on a Sky News reporter who asked about Israel cutting off electricity to Gaza in the aftermath of the Hamas terror attacks. "Are you seriously asking me about Palestinian civilians? What's wrong with you?" he shot back.
Well, he's been at it again, this time eviscerating CNN's Anderson Cooper live on air. He blasted CNN Wednesday for framing the story of a deadly blast near a hospital in Gaza as an Israeli bombing, which Hamas claimed but turned out not to be true.
"There are no two sides to this hospital [attack]. Either it was bombed by Israel, or it was targeted by someone else on the Palestinian side," Bennett said to host Anderson Cooper.
"If two people come and say — one says it’s raining outside and the other says it’s dry, you don’t bring the quotes of both sides. You just G--d---n open the window and look whether it’s raining or not. That’s what we did and this hospital, in fact, it’s a parking lot, was hit definitely, 100% by Islamic Jihad barrage," he bluntly remarked.
He later tweeted, "No, CNN, there aren’t “two sides” to the Gaza hospital story. Go do your goddamn job."
He bolstered his claim by noting that three videos, ballistics reports, and intercepted Hamas communications proved that the Israelis weren't behind the tragedy. But he wasn't finished with Cooper just yet:
"So, Anderson, with all due respect there aren’t two sides to this. Not everything is two sides, and I have a feeling that if it wasn’t the state of Israel then I think the global media would have behaved very differently," he stated.
Cooper lamely said his network hadn't been able to yet confirm what caused the explosion. Bennett wasn't having it:
"Anderson, I — I have to barge in here. I have to say something. You know, I was in 9/11. I was in Manhattan when it happened and if a day later, if Al-Qaeda would have said that it’s America who perpetrated it, no one would have quoted Al-Qaeda. And you didn’t have validation back then that it was Al-Qaeda, but you knew it’s not America. Somehow there’s a double standard here," he scolded.
"You had 30 hours to validate. We have all the information. Everything is transparent. For Heaven’s sakes, to see the headline of 'The New York Times' saying the Palestinians' claim that Israel bombarded a hospital," Bennett ranted. "We don’t do that. It’s the Palestinian who rape young girls. It’s the Palestinians who tear apart limbs. It’s the Palestinians who burn whole families and shoot 5-month-old babies. It’s the Palestinians, for Heaven’s sake, who kidnapped 84-year-old Holocaust survivors. It’s not the Israelis. This is not what Israel does, and you’ve had ample time. Do your job and show the truth. There is moral clarity in the world. Not everything has two sides to it," he said.
CNN couldn't take the heat and abruptly ended the conversation:
But it wasn't only Anderson Cooper who got schooled by Bennett; he also had a few choice words for the New York Times, which in recent years seems to get things wrong more than it gets them right.
"Hamas immediately understood that this was the Islamic Jihad’s rocket, and launched a massive lie campaign, blaming Israel. The New York Times immediately adopted Hamas’ version, peddling this lie for hours."
"New York Times: Shame on you. Apologize now for this slander," Bennettt added. "Aren’t you supposed to check facts? Isn’t that your claim to fame? Is there a special exemption from fact-checking when it’s the Jewish State involved?"
It's a beautiful thing to watch the dishonesty of our media get exposed in real-time. However, until people stop buying what they're selling, they're just going to continue peddling their nonsense and spreading misinformation. Shame on them.