The week in whoppers: Brad Lander abuses Yom Kippur, Obama hypocritically slams Trumps media ban, and more

“My confession must center on my, on our complicity in what I view as genocide in Gaza.” — Ex-NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, Monday (Yom Kippur)We say: For Jews, Yom Kippur is a day of atonement, a day to “confess” personal sins and wrongdoings, not stage political theater.Yet Brad Lander, likely a congressman come January, abused Jews’ holiest day to smear Israel as genocidal, pretending he thinks he and other Jews are to blame.What a disgusting, blasphemous phony.

Lander didn’t atone for his sins; he compounded them.“The Media Begins to Turn Against Trump” — Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack, “Letters from an American,” SaturdayWe say: Begins? Please.When have most media not been against the prez? Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.

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Most outlets have bashed him incessantly, often based on outright lies, since the day he came down that escalator to announce his 2016 campaign.A real man-bites-dog news story would be when the media turn to support him.

(By the way, Heather: “Media” is a plural noun.)“I have never seen killing and destruction like Gaza in all my years as secretary general.” — UN Secretary-General António Guterres, TuesdayWe say: Yes, 70,000 people (many terrorists) were reported killed in the Gaza war that Hamas started.But Guterres’ time as sec-gen has seen 600,000 killed in Ethiopia, 377,000 in Yemen, hundreds of thousands in the Ukraine war and 150,000-plus in Sudan (with 10 million-plus displaced).Oh, and more than a million Uyghurs sent to internment camps and prisons in China.

Wonder why Guterres has only seen deaths in Gaza … “What ..

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