CBS News lets Blinken get away with murder

Blinken just lied to Congress. People are dying because of it.

Two government bodies concluded that Israel deliberately blocked humanitarian aid to Gaza. From reporting by ProPublica: “The U.S. Agency for International Development and others determined that Israel had broken the law.” But when Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified before Congress, he told an alternative truth.

“We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, he said under oath, despite endless evidence and reports to the contrary.

So when Blinken was confronted about this lie on CBS News, do you think they held him to the facts?

“The US government says,” began one of the hosts, asking the question exactly as she was instructed to, “that it has to restrict supplying weapons to a country that deliberately stops humanitarian aid from getting to civilians. Why have we not done so?”

Anything missing from that question? They include ProPublica’s report, but the question ignores the fact that Blinken is the one who lied to Congress about this. By letting him off the hook, the reporting ensures that Blinken’s lie goes unchecked, and further, ensures that Israel remains free to continue committing war crimes in the future.

It is yet another example, broadcast to the world in real time, of US corporate media facilitating the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.

And while CBS excels at covering up genocide, they’ll never match the proficiency of their rivals at CNN. On Monday Mourning this week, we showed how Jake Tapper and Dana Bash formulated a smear campaign to accuse Rep. Rashida Tlaib of antisemitism. And as the lie spread rapidly into another alternative truth, we watch today as Tapper and Bash each give their own fake corrections, which only cement the lie further.

And if it weren’t for Thursday Throwdown, all these corporate media lies would continue to go unchecked. Katie and Aaron have got you covered – stick with them, so you can laugh instead of cry at it all.

Subscribe to support independent media and watch the full episode here: