Liberal outlet MS NOW — formerly MSNBC — ran a segment on Saturday during which one of the cohosts complained about the way that President Donald Trump’s administration have described the “opponent” in recent American military action against the Iranian regime.
Antonia Hylton, during Saturday’s broadcast of “The Weekend: Primetime,” complained that “racism” was fueling the way President Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth talked about Iran and the regime’s terrorist proxies.
“The other piece of this that I found really disturbing in the messaging around the war recently — and Ayman, I really want your thoughts on this in particular — is some of the language in the description of their opponent,” Hylton said, describing the regime that has murdered more than 1000 Americans, both military and civilian.
“Sort of the way they seem to create this image of the Iranians and all of their sort of proxies or allies, the sort of imagery that they conjure up,” she continued. “And I think that it takes a certain amount of arrogance and I’m also going to say it, a bit of racism, to constantly talk about people like they are savages. That is a word that we have heard Hegseth use. [They] talk about people as though they are subhuman, too stupid to engage in a war with the United States, incapable of possibly out-maneuvering us, and then find ourselves in the exact position in which it appears they are consistently out-maneuvering us.”
The Iranian regime’s efforts to kill Americans have stretched across the decades since the Islamic takeover in 1979. In 1983, 258 Americans were killed between a suicide bombing at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, and a truck bombing in the same city. Iran-backed Hezbollah killed 19 U.S. Airmen in Saudi Arabia at the Khobar Towers in 1996. Iranian proxies are estimated to have killed nearly 700 between the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and nearly 50 Americans were killed by Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists during the attack on Israel that took place October 7, 2023.
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