Bari Weiss Is Going Full ‘Propaganda-Palooza’ With the Iran War
Good evening, and welcome to this week’s **‘Ragebait.’**
**Justin Baragona** here, bringing you the latest dispatches from Bari World and the right-wing industrial outrage complex. In tonight’s edition, we take a look at how CBS News is covering the Iran war under the direction of **Bari Weiss**. Plus, CNN’s resident MAGA defender **Scott Jennings** is driving his colleagues nuts while kissing up to his future boss; Fox is manufacturing consent for another Middle East war; and **Gayle King** is going “all in” on Bari.
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# ‘**Bari’s Hardline Zionist Wet Dream’**
*Screenshot via [CBS New/YouTube][3]*
“Buckle up. Propaganda-palooza,” one CBS News staffer told me after the network announced that it had deployed **Tony Dokoupil** to the Middle East this week to anchor ‘CBS Evening News’ as **Donald Trump’s** [aggressive war of choice][4] with Iran escalated.
The fact of the matter, though, is that editor-in-chief **Bari Weiss** had made sure that would be the case well before Dokoupil – the pro-Israeli talking head she installed to lead the network’s flagship nightly news broadcast – made his way to Tel Aviv.
“This is Bari’s hardline Zionist wet dream come true,” a CBS News insider snarked to **Zeteo**.
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