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Legacy Media’s Early Reaction to U.S. Bombing Iran Nuke Sites: SHOCK AND SQUAWK #Political

June 22, 2025
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Media reaction to news of the U.S. bombing of critical Iranian nuclear sites was mixed at best, as evidenced by initial Saturday night coverage. Below is a compendium of some of those reactions, which ranged from plain goofy to outright awful. 

Over at NBC News, veteran anchor José Díaz-Balart demonstrates the perils of speculative filler while discussing the capabilities of the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator, AKA the Bunker Buster with Pentagon Correspondent Courtney Kube:

The key is the casing and that it’s two bombs in one. No drill. Similar talk of the AR-15 spawned an army of "possible attachments" memes. Time will tell whether the MOP gets similar treatment.

Over at CNN, the intial reaction left viewers wondering whether they mistakenly tuned into a state-run outfit such as PressTV instead. Inadvertently making the case against the brutality of the Khomeinist regime, correspondent Clarissa Ward argues that innocent Iranians may be punished by the regime as a result of the bombing:

Ward would also expose the purest, truest victim of the bombing of Natanz, Esfahan and Fordow: European diplomats (more of Nick's analysis here).

Over at The White House, correspondent Kristen Holmes whined about the tightness of the decision-making process:

Of course, this tightness ensured no leaks. And that's the true objection here. Adding to CNN's weirdness is Juliette Kayem, who we last saw beclowning herself in the aftermath of the Boulder firebombing of Jews calling attention to Hamas hostages held in Gaza. Kayyem went out of her way to frame the U.S. as the aggressor here:

Kayyem notwithstanding, reasonable individuals may conclude that Iran has been the aggressor for the past 46 years, and that near-nuclear breakout capability was just a bridge too far. Kayyem could, too, if she'd cast aside her Trump derangement. 

Over at Biden-sycophantic ABC, anchor David Muir and Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce soberly pooh-pooh the operation as "extremely risky", and try to frame the bombing as a broken campaign promise.

They would double down on this fake campaign promise narrative after the presidential address:

Because these roundups would be incomplete with CBS's Margaret Brennan, seen here objecting to the bombing:

Samantha Vinograd, former Obama and Biden official and now CBS commentator, was one of the brave few who came on to (predictably) criticize the bombing unabated:

Speaking of former Obama functionaries, MSNBC had Rick Stengel to deliver a uniquely MSNBC take:

You get a twofer from Stengel here: the obvious mourning for the ill-fated 2015 Iran Deal, and now the linking of the bombing to DOGE. Because getting eaten by a bear isn't bad enough.

Finally, here's Russia Hoax fabulist Rachel Maddow, deceptively conflating several narratives in order to negatively frame the bombing:

The legacy media's reaction to Operation Midnight Hammer show that they were caught flat-footed. That being the case, they had nothing to fall back on except their narratives, biases, and Trump Derangement.

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