Jon Lovett
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I think he's also learned from Soleimani.
He learned from the previous Iran strikes.
I think he learned from Venezuela that he can give the hawks.
what they want without pissing off the base too much as long as the conflicts end quickly and there aren't troops on the ground and there's not too much economic consequences why i think to tommy's point why he's out there today saying it's an excursion which by the way again is a despicable word to use to describe something which you know you know 175 kids were killed among many others among seven americans to describe it as an excursion like we're just sort of the the the the amount
of glib and un-American language coming from him as he describes this aside.
He wants to get out of this because he thinks he can give the Graham people what they want without losing the people that he needs who don't want American misadventures around the world.
Yeah, and excursions when you go on a zip line at Club Med, it's not like multi-week bombing camping.
Yeah, it's when you get on the tender to go to St.
Croix from the cruise ship.
That's called an excursion.
That's right.
The White House propaganda machine has kicked into high gear over the last week.
They've been pumping out war porn videos that cut together airstrike footage with clips from popular movies and violent video games.
They're also getting help from the OG war propagandists at Fox.
who dealt with the criticism Trump got over the weekend for wearing a baseball hat during the dignified transfer of fallen American soldiers by simply showing old footage of Trump saluting different coffins with no hat on.
The move was so obvious that it led to this rare apology from Fox.
During our coverage of yesterday's dignified transfer, we inadvertently aired video from an older dignified transfer instead of the ceremony that took place yesterday.
We deeply regret the error and extend our respect and condolences to the service members families.
I don't believe him.