{"id":70367,"date":"2026-07-19T15:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70367"},"modified":"2026-07-19T15:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:07:07","slug":"really-fox-news-is-dumbfounded-that-iran-is-able-to-fight-back-after-trump-obliterated-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70367","title":{"rendered":"REALLY? Fox News is DUMBFOUNDED that Iran is Able to Fight Back After Trump &#8216;Obliterated&#8217; Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The degree of cognitive dysfunction in victims of brainwashing is measurable by how steadfastly they adhere to ideas that are demonstrably untrue and remain committed to obvious falsehoods no matter how much evidence of the truth they are exposed to. It&#8217;s a deplorable state of mental impairment that produces near zombie-like wretches desperately searching for brains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=REALLY? Fox News is DUMBFOUNDED that Iran is Able to Fight Back After Trump 'Obliterated' Them%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70367\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=REALLY? Fox News is DUMBFOUNDED that Iran is Able to Fight Back After Trump 'Obliterated' Them%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70367\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-bartiromo-shill.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Maria Bartiromo, Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47755\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is no better example of this than the pathetic disciples of Donald Trump&#8217;s MAGA movement who have willingly abandoned all reliance on reality. These MAGApathic sufferers have instead adopted a blind faith in their Dear Leader to the exclusion of all reason. And this isn&#8217;t just about weak-minded citizens. Some members of the media are just as susceptible. And those who don&#8217;t comply are targeted for punishment<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70349\" target=\"_blank\">Herr Trump Threatens to Muzzle the Free Press in His Unhinged Infomercial for Voter Suppression<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Atop the list of MAGA media compliers is Trump&#8217;s own Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News. And the Senior Trump-fluffer on Fox is Maria Bartiromo. On Sunday morning Bartiromo provided an outstanding example of cult devotion in a segment wherein she interviewed former Trump staffer Victoria Coates, who is currently with the ultra right-wing Heritage Foundation. The subject was Trump&#8217;s reckless and illegal war against Iran where two more American soldiers were just reported killed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bartiromo:<\/strong> CENTCOM says that there will be outsized reaction in retaliation. But I don&#8217;t understand how it&#8217;s possible that Iran has the capabilities to fight this way and continue to try to lash out at Gulf countries and military bases. Because the U.S. has obliterated Iran&#8217;s military and the president continues to reiterate that.<br \/>\n<strong>Coates:<\/strong> Yes. And it you look at the numbers of missiles that they have been able to fire off from the beginning of this, late February early March, and what they are able to do now, it is very seriously degraded&#8230;I think their capabilities are lessened, but they&#8217;re not zero.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"embed-x\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Poor Maria Bartiromo of Fox News can&#39;t understand how Iran can continue to fight since Dear Leader Trump has &quot;obliterated&quot; Iran&#39;s military.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe, Maria, because Trump LIES and you&#39;re too much of a glassy-eyed, propaganda spewing, cult disciple to discern reality from bullshit! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uOMA8bhafg\">https:\/\/t.co\/uOMA8bhafg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/2078871457619485181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Consistent with cult programming, Bartiromo&#8217;s commentary displays her inability to process reality. The poor thing can&#8217;t understand how Iran can continue to fight since Dear Leader Trump has assured her that he has <em>&#8220;obliterated&#8221;<\/em> Iran&#8217;s military. What never crosses her mind is that the reason that Iran is able to continue fighting is because Trump is lying.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that Iran persists in the battles, controls, in part, the Strait of Hormuz, and stubbornly refuses to accept Trump&#8217;s <em>&#8220;peace&#8221;<\/em> proposals, should convince a rational person that Trump&#8217;s assessments of the situation are &#8211; in technical terms &#8211; bullshit!<\/p>\n<p>Bartiromo just mindlessly accepts whatever Trump tells her. And without even a hint of doubt she states, not as a Trump assertion, but as a fact, that <em>&#8220;the U.S. has obliterated Iran&#8217;s military.&#8221;<\/em> And her guest agrees. Although she seems to recognize that Iran&#8217;s defensive capabilities still exist to some degree, she doesn&#8217;t put up much of a counter argument to Bartiromo&#8217;s misperceptions.<\/p>\n<p>So of course Bartiromo can&#8217;t understand. She is dumbfounded (with a B). Because anything that challengers her perception of Trump as infallible is inconceivable. The prime directive of a cult is that the Leader is never wrong, and everyone else is lying to you. And Bartiromo, along with her confederates at Fox News, are not going to divert from that path.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70246\" target=\"_blank\">Fox and Friends Trump-Fluffers are Dumbstruck When Told the Truth About Trump Losing in Iran<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70210\" target=\"_blank\">Lying Fox News Gets Schooled on X After Quoting Trump Lying About Oil Flowing Out of Hormuz<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70130\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Posts an Absolutely BONKERS Comment on His Fake \u2018Peace\u2019 Deal with Iran<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The degree of cognitive dysfunction in victims of brainwashing is measurable by how steadfastly they adhere to ideas that are demonstrably untrue and remain committed to obvious falsehoods no matter how much evidence of the truth they are exposed to. It&#8217;s a deplorable state of mental impairment that produces near zombie-like wretches desperately searching for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1573,684,8],"tags":[554,33,716,1112,1509,1133],"class_list":["post-70367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-iran","category-media-bias","category-propaganda","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-iran","tag-maria-bartiromo","tag-media-bias","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-bartiromo-shill.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-iiX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":70246,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70246","url_meta":{"origin":70367,"position":0},"title":"Fox and Friends Trump-Fluffers are Dumbstruck When Told the Truth About Trump Losing in Iran","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/28\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The propaganda machine of Donald Trump and his Gaslighting Gang is spinning furiously to deceive the American people about what is happening in Iran. 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