FCC boss Brendan Carr said CNN must face ‘accountability’ for a report he claims is inaccurate without providing evidence

Donald Trump fired off a seething threat against CNN Tuesday night in response to its reporting Iran had claimed a “great victory” over the U.S. following the president’s announcement to delay his ceasefire deadline by two weeks.

Trump had originally given Iran until 8 p.m. ET Tuesday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, warning a refusal would mean a “whole civilization will die.”

Around 90 minutes before that deadline, Trump and the White House released statements saying the U.S. and Iran had agreed to negotiate an end to hostilities that would include the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the suspension of fighting for two weeks.

Following the announcement, CNN published a post to its online live blog detailing the Iranian response.

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    Trump basically caved, and accepted a variation of Iran’s 10 point plan. The US gained basically nothing while Iran gained complete and total control over the Stait of Hormuz, which they did not have before. and now they’re going to monetize it, when it used to be free to pass through.

    Oh, and Israel gets to keep bombing Lebanon.

    So, yeah, by any measure, Iran really did get to claim victory here.

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      Oh, and Israel gets to keep bombing Lebanon.

      About that. Iran and Pakistan have said, contrarily to what Israel claims, that the ceasefire includes Lebanon and applies to the US and all US allies. Soo, I guess we’re about to see whether Trump will put the ceasefire talks in jeopardy to continue being Israels bitch or is he desperate enough to throw Israel under the bus just to get out of this massive fuckup he himself created.

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        Israel doesn’t care and has tapes of Trump, other world leaders and billionaires. Lebanon is screwed

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        I think we all know which way that’s gonna go. But, hey, maybe we could all be surprised?

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      The US gained basically nothing

      You’re forgetting, though, that Trump changed the Epstein news cycle. So since Trump doesn’t understand the difference between him and the “US,” I’m sure he’d disagree with you.

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        He may have shifted the new cycle temporarily, like with Venezuela, but people are still talking about it enough that it isn’t totally dead, and it’s about to come back and rear its ugly head once again. And thanks to Jimmy Kimmel repeating it nonstop, people are now starting to refer to it as the Trump-Epstein files, lol.

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    CNN must face ‘accountability’ for a report he claims is inaccurate without providing evidence

    oh… yes goof ball… open that box…

    I’m sure your friends at Fox would love for you to set the requirement that news agencies need to provide evidence for what they report.

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      Fox claims they arent news, but entertainment. It is how they have avoided lawsuits for decades.

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        It’s not news, it’s infotainment.

        It’s not a lottery, it’s sweepstakes.

        It’s not a media company, it’s a technology company.

        It’s fucking crazy how we write laws to govern entities, but we miraculously ignore any potential for legal criteria to define what constitutes each entity. At minimum, enough so that those entities can reclassify themselves with a wave of the hand to avoid the regulation.

        Fucking word games. That’s what our legal system has succumbed to. The same kind of shit your parents used to yell at you for.

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        As far as I know, that only applied to their talk shows, like tucker carlson’s old show before he got them sued by the dominion voting machine company.

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    They’re not wrong. The way everyone but the pedophile and his protectors see it is Iran had the upper hand and US is the struggling cry baby instigator in this war. All the pedophile has been doing is whining the entire time, as Iran holds firm… what a cry baby little bitch this giant pedophile is.

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    Brendan Carr has no jurisdiction over cable, but we all know that’s not going to stop him from trying

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      With this administration, jurisdiction is wherever they think it is, and it’s up to Congress and/or the courts to disagree with him.

      Or CNN is going to offer a tribute to Trump and this will go away.

      We are no longer a country of law. We are a country ruled by fiat.

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    Any major news outlet has a duty to report statements from sovereign nations engaged in war. Obviously.

    It’s important to keep perspective on what is right and what’s normal, tiring as it is lately. We have to challenge this moron’s tyranny at every little step, lest any of the insanity become normalized.

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    It’s okay, Larry Ellison will have Skydance take a buzzsaw to CNN after they fully acquire CNN.

    Media fascist messaging consolidation is why they wanted WB so bad