{"id":18872,"date":"2025-08-02T17:39:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T17:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18872"},"modified":"2025-08-02T17:39:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T17:39:49","slug":"mehdi-hasan-on-the-media-democrats-the-crisis-in-gaza-the-weekly-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18872","title":{"rendered":"Mehdi Hasan on the Media, Democrats &amp; The Crisis In Gaza | The Weekly Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When people say MSNBC is on the left and Fox News is on the right, they are misunderstanding what&nbsp;Fox News is. Fox News isn&#8217;t an honest conservative&nbsp;news network, it acts as the propaganda arm of the Republican Party. Its creator cynically created Fox News to spread bullshit in favor of his ideology.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MSNBC had a liberal bent, but its hosts don&#8217;t go help a current or running president campaign. Each host has his own thing, but there isn&#8217;t an overarching propaganda goal to the organization.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fox News may be unique in the Western World when it comes to a supposed news network designed as a partisan and ideological propaganda arm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mehdi Hasan on the Media, Democrats &amp; The Crisis In Gaza | The Weekly Show\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8IXXOZhkaPE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people say MSNBC is on the left and Fox News is on the right, they are misunderstanding what Fox News is. Fox News isn&#8217;t an honest conservative news network, it acts as the propaganda arm of the Republican Party. Its creator cynically created Fox News to spread bullshit in favor of his ideology. <\/p>\n<p>MSNBC had a liberal bent, but its hosts don&#8217;t go help a current or running president campaign. Each host has his own thing, but there isn&#8217;t an overarching propaganda goal to the organization. <\/p>\n<p>Fox News may be unique in the Western World when it comes to a supposed news network designed as a partisan and ideological propaganda arm. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8IXXOZhkaPE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1416,322,1302,1305,1301,194,136,389,610,108,115],"class_list":["post-18872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-atrocity","tag-fox-news","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-media","tag-palestine","tag-right-wing-media","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18873,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18872\/revisions\/18873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}