CNN has panic attack caused by Iranian political prisoner

Kian Tajbakhsh showed up on CNN the other night to talk about the Iranian operation. No fireworks, no shouting matches like you get from the usual suspects, Scott Jennings barking, Kevin O'Leary pontificating, Ben Ferguson thundering. Tajbakhsh just laid out the plain facts, cool as you please. And why wouldn't he? The man spent time as a political prisoner in Iran; he's seen the regime up close and personal.

We chewed over how the liberal crowd is now trying to paint Operation Epic Fury as some fresh quagmire, another endless war cooked up in Washington. Nonsense. Iran has considered itself at war with the United States since the mullahs took power in 1979. Tajbakhsh was right there when their officials said it outright, we've been in a cold (and sometimes hot) war with the Islamic Republic ever since the Revolution.

But what really sent the producers scrambling was what came next on the Obama Iran nuclear deal. That’s when Abby Phillip hit the panic button and cut to commercial. You could almost hear the tires screeching.

Here's Tajbakhsh, straight and unvarnished:

TAJBAKHSH: "What happened with President Obama, I'll just say this very quickly.'"And I was in the State Department in the 2000s when we implored the Bush administration not to restrict the engagement with Iran simply to the nuclear file."

"What happened with president Obama is that, for better or worse, and I'm not going to litigate that here, he decided that given the four big problems that have always been on American objectives with Iran, that is enrichment, ballistic missiles, proxies and democracy inside Iran, that he would put all the last three aside and focus only on the nuclear deal."

"Now, I'm not going to say that was good or bad. I don't think it was a great idea, but what we have seen and this is also maybe controversial and I think a lot of my liberal friends are going to hate me for this…"

"Is that unfortunately you can draw a straight line from the 2015 nuclear deal to October 7th.”“I think that what the Trump administration is--"

PHILLIP: "We . . . we . . . we do have to go to a break here."

TAJBAKHSH: "Okay."

And poof, gone to break, smoke screen deployed, retreat in good order. Classic CNN when the narrative takes a direct hit.

Operation Epic Fury has laid bare what a disaster the Obama nuke deal really was. Naïve doesn’t begin to cover it. Handing the world’s premier state sponsor of terrorism billions in cash and sanctions relief, while conveniently ignoring the missiles, the proxies, the whole apparatus of terror, that wasn't diplomacy; it was wishful thinking bordering on delusion. The mullahs were never going to play straight; anyone with a shred of realism could see that. You don't need a PhD from Harvard or Foggy Bottom experience to understand you can’t trust fanatics who chant "Death to America" as a national pastime.

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The Democrats, bless their virtue signaling souls, have a perfect record on foreign policy: always wrong, usually catastrophically so. They got played like a cheap fiddle here. Obama's domestic crown jewel, Obamacare, is a rolling catastrophe. Now his foreign-policy masterpiece lies in ruins—and worse, those billions may well have helped subsidize the October 7 massacre.

No wonder the network bolted for the exits. Some truths are just too inconvenient for prime time.

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After Schumer's attack on Bibi, Ted Cruz tells Dems there's "no home" in that Party

Senate Majority Leader Chuck "Nostrils" Schumer (D-NY) spoke to the Senate floor on Thursday. His goal was to appease anti-Israel voters and in order to do so, he had to relinquish every ounce of moral clarity he may have had.

Schumer called for new elections in Israel, right in the middle of a war they are fighting against Hamas. He ridiculously claimed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu had "lost his way" and was "an obstacle to peace." The truth is, whoever would be PM of Israel after Hamas attacked them on October 7, 2023, would be doing exactly what Bibi is doing in Israel's existential fight against the terrorists who call for Israel's genocide while pretending that Israel is doing that to the Gazans.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) released an official statement about Schumer's uncalled for and unprecedented remarks. He also called out Schumer in "The Verdict" on Friday--a podcast he and Ben Ferguson co-host. He pointed out how Schumer's speech, in which "he blasted the nation of Israel" was quite "historic." Cruz also wondered why Schumer failed to call out Iran for their role in global terrorism, and the country behind the Hezbollah attacks on the Jewish State.

"Mind you Schumer doesn't do this for enemies of America. He doesn't do this for Russia. He doesn't do this for Iran. He doesn't do this for Hamas. He reserves this hatred for the elected leader of Israel," Cruz said.

Cruz explained that it isn't merely Schumer who is doing this to Israel.

"And sadly, Schumer is the point of the spear. He represents also Democrats across the board who are pivoting away from Israel. This very same week, the Biden administration waived sanctions to effectively give $10 billion to Iran, to the Ayatollah, who pledges death to Israel and death to America, who is funding Hamas, who was behind the October 7 attack. And Joe Biden is prepared to fund those zealots, while Chuck Schumer has decided that the target of his ire should be the elected leader of Israel," Cruz pointed out. "It's truly stunning. And it's dangerous."

Yes, the morons in the Democrat Party are paying billions to the terrorists. What the hell are they thinking?

As anyone with a functioning cortex could predict [which eliminated The Squad and much of the Left], our so-called President Biden thought it was "a good speech." And if anyone knows how to deliver a great speech, it's "Mush-mouth Joe."

In discussing "the backdrop for what Schumer said and why this timing is so significant," Ferguson explained, "I think it has a lot to do with the State of the Union." He added, "[T]here was honestly a part of me that I'm like, I'm not even sure Chuck Schumer believes this," but offered that "maybe he really does, but it was almost like it was a decision made within the Democratic Party."

"Okay, we got to get people younger, and a lot of the radicals in the Democratic Party, the socialists and the Marxists and the communists, they hate Israel, they support Hamas and the Palestinians. They believe that Israel is evil. So let's placate to them I'll go give this speech that I would have never given before, and maybe that'll get them back in, in excitement to vote for us," Ferguson raised as a possibility for why Schumer would go after Bibi and Israel. 

But don't you recall how Schumer gave a different speech last November when he went after anti-Semites on the far-left? He's singing a different tune because politics means more to him than character.

"Is there a possibility that could have been part of what this was about? Just straight up selling out," Ferguson asked Cruz. "Our do you believe he actually believes what he's saying about getting rid of Netanyahu?"

Cruz offered that "I believe he believes what he's saying," adding "the Democrats have hated Netanyahu from the beginning, they despise him." Cruz explained, "Democrats view Netanyahu as the Israeli equivalent of Donald Trump, and they hate him with a comparable fury."

However, there is no doubt in anyone's mind who supports Israel, that no matter who is leading the country, there is nothing much different than that which Bibi has done and will continue to do. This is the one area in which all Israelis come together because it's about their survival.

Schumer has absolutely no business telling Israel what to do where their survival is concerned. Imagine the reaction if Mexico attacked the USA and Canada suggested they stop fighting, and call for a new US President because the one they have is demented. 

The Democrats would have a collective cow.

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