Gutfeld! Monologues - Iran Strike Skepticism

Episode Date: June 27, 2025

As seen on Gutfeld!, Kat addresses the dispute between the media and the Pentagon about the success of the Iran strikes. Kat says that we should be skeptical of what the government and media are telling us given their putrid track records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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their phones having any idea that that even happened. Depriving us of Ace Green's opinions about enriched uranium. So sad. The strikes happened on a Saturday, which, by the way, meant that we here on Gutfeld didn't get any days off of work over it, which Joe Mackie complained about a lot. he said he's having trouble finding time for all the hot babes who want to date him anyway

things have calmed down for now as the ceasefire between Israel and Iran seems to be holding up which is great although I did cancel my booze crews from Tel Aviv to Tehran just in case but in the heat of it all people argued about what President Trump should or shouldn't do

it's like when Greg and I argue about making Bethany Franco a permanent guest. I'm pro. We saw differing reports about the impact of the strikes themselves also. CNN ran with a leaked DIA low confidence report

which said the strikes only set Iran's new program back months. The Pentagon has since refuted that, calling it a historically successful attack and release file footage of how the 30,000 pound bunker buster bombs actually work. And sure

enough, CNN rolled out the hamburger to do damage control. There's so much more reporting to do on this topic. This is a very complex matter, even though Trump tried to make it sound simple on Saturday night. It's really important to note what CNN did not report. CNN did not report that this mission was a failure. Far from it.

It may have turned out to be a tremendous success. We just don't know all the facts yet, and neither does the U.S. government. And then there's good old, reliable morning Joe, warning his media cronies to be careful about being played. We also need to take a deep breath here ourselves. We also have to be cautious about being played by people inside the Intel community who want to get their message out. That's why waiting to see what happens actually and not drawing too many conclusions

make sense. And that, of course, not only is the best practice for the White House and for the president, that's the best practice for the media as well. You think? I mean, remember, this is the guy who ridiculed people who suggested that Joe Biden might not be doing okay. Calling him the best Biden ever

three months before he dropped out of the race. Sure, there's such a thing called fog of war, but the media will turn the fog of war into a cluster fog. Think about everything they got wrong or lied about. COVID, Russiagate, the Covington kid, Hunter's laptop, and of course, maybe the biggest scandal of all, ignoring Biden's decline. So, we should look at the current situation through the lens of all of that stuff.

In other words, it's okay to be skeptical. You can admit if you have doubts about how this is going to shake out. You can believe that Iran was close to having nukes and we destroyed all of it. You can believe that they were close and we maybe didn't get everything. But most importantly, you don't have to blindly trust anyone. Basically, if the government and the legacy media were your spouse, it would be okay to be tempted to use their face to unlock their phone while they slept and go through it every night. Not that I condone that or cheating, but if you are cheating, you might want to turn off your face ID. So yeah, we've been burned too many times to not have questions or to not be suspicious that we've seen the end of the conflict.

The reason, Trump summed it up perfectly. You know what? We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the fuck they're doing. Yeah, can we agree that was awesome? Right? He is right. Okay? And if this has been going on forever and they don't know what the F they're doing, we should be skeptical of anyone who says they have it all figured out. It's like playing twister naked. The old rules don't apply. Look, in this case, you have to be able to tolerate different opinions because the stakes are so high. The ultimate goal is the same, a safer America. That's by far the most critical piece in all of this, no matter whether you think the strikes were a good move or not. And most people who oppose intervention don't oppose it because they want Iran to get a nuke and then use it on us. Even the kinkiest of people don't want to be punished that bad.

So, if someone has a different opinion than you, that doesn't mean that they don't want the same thing that you want. Most people want peace and freedom and safety and stability. And unpopular opinions can play a role in getting us there. Without them, all that's left is groupthink. Without challenging groupthink, we never would have even been a country. We wouldn't have next Friday off, and most of us would have British accents. We'd also have no reason to get drunk and blow our fingers off. Shout out to Stumpy Carl.

I'll never forget you, brother. Think about it. It was probably pretty hard to be the first dude to be like, hey, you know what? These taxes are insane. I want to be free from the British. Let's dump all their tea into the harbor, which, by the way, was like such a Boston thing to do.

Dump the tea now so generations later can drink Duncan. But if social media had been around in 1773, the dude who had that idea might have been too afraid. of being recorded, posted, and canceled to have ever expressed it. The freedom to express on popular opinions is also how we got anti-war voices on the right in the first place, which is something we probably thought we'd never see, just a few decades ago, especially. So, if someone says they don't agree with you, embrace it and invite them to spill some

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