More Embarrassing NY Times Iran Coverage: U.S. an ‘Evil Doppelganger’
By Clay Waters | February 12, 2019 10:32 PM EST
Thomas Erdbrink, Tehran bureau chief for the New York Times, for some reason likened the United States to an ‘evil doppelganger’ in his coverage of the 40th anniversary of the Iranian revolution: “For Iran, a Grand Occasion To Bash ‘Cruel Enemies.’†That would be the United States.
His Monday survey, if a little rose-colored, at least included an archive photo of an American hostage taken at the American embassy in Tehran in November 1979. But on Tuesday he went full hagiography over the brutal Iranian regime, with no mention of the American hostage crisis or of the brutal crackdown of protests against Hassan Rouhani’s regime a year ago.
He made it sound like a nice day out:
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