Rob Finnerty ripped into the career media on his show Tuesday, arguing that the way Israel has been portrayed in much of the press left the Jewish state fighting with one hand tied behind its back. Conservatives watching have long suspected the mainstream’s narrative would hamstring any country trying to defend itself against barbaric terrorists, and Finnerty made that plain in blunt terms.
The real scandal here is the double standard — why Americans were united after 9/11 but suddenly spoon-fed sympathy for Hamas’s narrative instead of outrage at their massacre of innocents. World leaders and even Prime Minister Netanyahu have called out that hypocrisy, and ordinary patriots see it for what it is: a press corps that reflexively sympathizes with America’s enemies while excusing violence against our friends.
Mainstream outlets have circulated images and headlines that tug at hearts while often ignoring context or inconvenient facts, and when those errors are corrected the retractions barely make a ripple. Newsmax guests on Finnerty pointed to concrete examples — like a sensational photo later corrected — to show how cumulative slanted reporting shifts public opinion against Israel. That pattern isn’t an accident; it’s a campaign of perception management.
That’s why voices like Finnerty’s matter. He’s not a hack for the left; he’s a primetime conservative who insists America and its allies should be defended in the narrative war as well as on the battlefield. Newsmax built a primetime platform for straight talk and patriots who won’t let the mainstream set the terms unchallenged.
Every American who values truth should be alarmed that polls show sympathy and policy support can erode when the press feeds a false story unchallenged. If patriots don’t push back — demanding honest reporting, defending Israel’s right to self-defense, and exposing media bias — we’ll wake up to a world where terror gets the moral cover it craves. It’s time to stand up, speak loudly, and stop letting the narrative be stolen from us.
