WATCH: Sen. John Fetterman Blasts Left-Wing Media for Iran War Spin — Calls Out CNN’s Kaitlan Collins to Her Face: ‘You Don’t Have to Cut Me Off Here’
Even the Democrats’ most unlikely hero is fed up with the fake news media’s blatant propaganda machine.
For three straight minutes, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) abandoned the scripted talking points of the radical left to deliver a brutal reality check regarding the conflict in Iran and the blatant double standards of the corporate press.
When Collins tried to employ the typical “Fake News” tactic of interrupting a guest to protect the narrative, Fetterman wasn’t having it.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Sen. John Fetterman has been one of the few Democrats with the guts to back President Trump’s bold strike on the Islamist Iranian regime, posting his full-throated support for “Operation Epic Fury” and declaring himself a “hard no” on any War Powers Resolution that would tie the president’s hands.
He’s also slammed his own party for refusing to label Iran a state sponsor of terror, the same radicals who wouldn’t even condemn Hamas after October 7.
Now Fetterman is taking that same no-BS energy straight to the fake news media.
Below is the explosive exchange:
FETTERMAN: “And I would remind everybody listening right now, the United States never, EVER targets civilians. Iran does, you know, and including their own citizens. And they massacred that 35,000 of them just a couple of weeks ago.”
[Collins tried to interrupt]
FETTERMAN: “And the left…please! Please! The left media is much more angry, you know, about or talking about this hospital. And it is a tragedy. But they didn’t seem to be as concerned about the Iranians massacring tens of thousands of their young people just a couple of weeks ago, too.”
“So we agree on many parts of it, but we both disagree…I mean, we all disagree that it’s I think it’s a good thing. And every single other Democrat in the caucus caused it all kinds of in negative terms.”
For context, Iran International said the government used chemical weapons on protesters that caused breathing difficulties.
Iranian officials have unofficially said up to 30,000 people may have been killed in the crackdown, according to Time.
The government has officially admitted to killing 3,117 people, while a human rights group put the death toll at 5,459 deaths, with 17,031 deaths under investigation.
Before the crackdown, President Donald Trump had warned Iran not to commit a mass slaughter of protesters.
Collins stammered out a weak defense:
COLLINS: “Uh…we did cover the protests in Iran extensively here at CNN. Obviously they said a lot about how internally people felt about the regime. But just to—”
FETTERMAN: “Well, I don’t watch so I don’t know, but I’m talking about other left media.”
Collins then tried to pivot to the accidental strike on the girls’ school/hospital:
COLLINS: “But just to be clear, you do believe if the United States was responsible, that the Pentagon should acknowledge that they accidentally hit a girl’s school?”
FETTERMAN: “Yeah, I’ve said that. I said it seems that they’ve already acknowledging all those things. I think largely that letter, it was rendered moot at this point after what’s already come out. And I don’t know what your network talked about. But what I’m saying is that, you know, whether like it’s the New York Times, they’re making it more and more trying to convince America that this, this has been a disaster or things are out of control. And that’s just categorically not true on that.”
Collins immediately tried to wrap the segment and cut Fetterman off:
COLLINS: “I just think it deserves coverage, obviously given the number of children who were killed as a result of it, it obviously matters what happened there. We’ll see what the Pentagon investigation says. Senator John Fetterman, I appreciate your time tonight. Thank you for joining us. As always here.”
FETTERMAN: “Oh, now, you don’t have to cut me off here.”
Collins was then forced to let him keep going.
COLLINS: “Go ahead Senator, we’re not cutting you off.”
Fetterman didn’t miss a beat, schooling her on the spot.
FETTERMAN: “Well, you you said something that it’s like it’s appropriate to to cover it. It is appropriate to cover it. You know, it’s a tragedy. Absolutely. You know and now if we’re on that, it’s entirely appropriate for you to apologize. If you’re implying that I don’t think it’s wrong to cover it, that’s just not true. Yes it’s being covered. I just want to clarify that it just seemed like a, like a short shut off there to imply that I didn’t want to carry that or I think it’s entirely appropriate to talk about it.”
COLLINS: “Yeah. I’m not implying that. I just wanted to clarify why we’re covering it. For everyone who’s watching. Senator, thank you, I do always appreciate hearing your thoughts.”
FETTERMAN: “Yeah…thank you…”
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