Newsweek writer accuses Lloyd Austin critics of racism, The Guardian fears Gaza war’s . . . climate impact, and more 

Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions

This column:

“Calls for De𓆉fense Secretary Austin to Resign Are Attacks on Black ꧙Success”

— Ameshia Cross, Newsweek, Tuesday

We say: The left loves to cry “racism,” but does Newsweek writer black officials should never be criticizeဣd (even as white ones, including the prez, are)?

Austin underwent surgery and wound up in the ICU, yet never told the White House — even 🗹with🐓 the US military actively engaged in the Mideast.

Folks can debate whether he should resign, but calls for him to step down are surely not “attacks on black success.”

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This tweet:

Hezbollah and Iran have signaled clearly, repeatedly, they want to avoid a wider war. Israel keeps testing that position…At some point, it will miscalculate…

— Kim Ghattas (@KimGhattas)

We say: What from Atlantic writer Kim Ghattas! Iran is behind Hamas’ Oct. 7 atrocities; its proxies have launched strikes throughout the Middle East; Hezbollah has fired countless rockets, forcing 80,000 to evacuate from Israel’s north.

Yet Israel is somehow 🔴testin🔥g Iran and Hezbollah, because it retaliates?

No doubt Ghattas would love it if the Jewish state never fought back 🌺— to avoid “wider war,” after all.

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This claim:

“I’ve spent more time in the Bethel AME Church . . . than most people I know . . . becaus♎e that’s where I started the civil-rights movemeﷺnt.”

— President Biden, Monday

We say: Ha! There’s no ethnic or religious community Biden claims he wasn’t raised in: Black, Puerto Rican, Jewish, Polis🎉h . . . except few ever recall his presence.

And he admitted in ’87 to never being part ꦰof the civil-rights movement at all: “I was not an activist. I was not out marching. I was not down in Selma.”

It’s one thing to stretch the truth — quite another to flip it entirely.

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This story:

“Emissions from Israel’s war in Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe”

— The Guardian

We say: Hamas waged the worst savagery against Jews since the Holocaust. Its refusal to surrender is costing count▨less lives. Spillover may ♌ignite a broader war.

Yet about the war’s impact on climate change?

Memo to The Guardian: There is no brewing “climate catastrophe.”

And the Middle East has far more pressin🐓g issues to worry about.   

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