PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, The Atlantic podcaster David Brooks, and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart assembled on Friday for their usual weekly news recap and displayed a noticeable religious double standard. On one hand, Brooks suggested that various Iran War videos put out by the White House are un-Christian because they trivialize war, which naturally involves death. On the other hand, Bennett and Capehart omitted any meaningful reference to Islam, ISIS, or Hezbollah when discussing the recent attacks on the Temple Israel synagogue in Michigan and Old Dominion University because, to them, the real story was President Trump’s reaction.
Talking over some videos that included airstrikes coupled with video game footage from Wii Sports and Call of Duty, Bennett asked Brooks, “What’s your assessment of this? I mean, does this reflect modern political communication or is something here more troubling about how this war is being framed to the public by the White House?”
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