You may inform that the particular navy operation in Iran goes higher than the Elitist Media would love as a result of they’re desperately looking for to speak about different issues. And they also have settled on artificially extending the tiff between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV. Moreover, there is a matter with Secretary of Conflict Pete Hegseth’s use of the phrase “Pharisees”” to explain the media.
Correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns was enthusiastic about having the ability to cowl the latter. She even bragged about it on X:
Reside, from Las Vegas! Placing my life lengthy Catholic training to good use tonight by identify checking the Pharisees in monitor… Our report from the highway tonight: https://t.co/TsBCK8H0JG
— Caitlin Huey-Burns (@CHueyBurns) April 16, 2026
The next report would possibly lead Huey-Burns to rethink her prior tweet. Particularly her “name-checking” of the Pharisees:
CBS continues to take advantage of the Trump-Leo row. It’s fascinating to look at Elitist Media attempt to stumble by way of conversations about issues of religion. Word Caitlin Huey-Burns’ description of the Pharisees: pic.twitter.com/ACOoUBUyQ6
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 17, 2026
CAITLIN HUEY-BURNS: It comes because the President is dealing with heightened political stress to finish the battle, together with criticisms from the Pope, who right this moment denounced what he referred to as the masters of battle.
POPE LEO XIV: The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.
HUEY-BURNS: Trump stated right this moment he has a proper to disagree with the Pope.
DONALD TRUMP: However the pope has to grasp Iran- quite simple: Iran can not have a nuclear weapon.
HUEY-BURNS: The Pope additionally referred to as out those that use faith to justify battle. Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth has cited biblical references a number of occasions in the course of the battle.
POPE LEO XIV: However woe to those that manipulate faith within the very identify of God for their very own navy, financial, or political achieve.
HUEY-BURNS: Right this moment, Hegseth invoked the Bible to match the press to Pharisees, usually portrayed as enemies of Jesus.
PETE HEGSETH: The legacy, Trump-hating press: your politically motivated animus for President Trump practically utterly blinds you from the brilliance of our American warriors. The Pharisees scrutinized each good act to be able to discover a violation.
The outline of the Pharisees as “enemies of Jesus” is a misleading oversimplification inside the context of the report, however can be an apt descriptor of the media- particularly given their protection of the Iran operation. The Pharisees have been, above all else, legalistic non secular leaders who have been hung up on course of.
Contemplate the phrases of Jesus in Matthew 23:23 and 24:
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier issues of the legislation, judgment, mercy, and religion: these ought ye to have achieved, and to not go away the opposite undone.
Ye blind guides, which pressure at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
That is what Hegseth alluded to then he referred to the media’s scrutiny of each good act. There may be all the time the grinding and the straining, which is why the media are centered on Hegseth’s recitations of Scripture.
Within the meantime, the Elitist Media discovered a means so as to add on one other day to the controversy between Trump and Pope Leo. Something to keep away from reporting on the success of the Iran operation.
Click on “broaden” to view the complete transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on the CBS Night Information on Wednesday, April sixteenth, 2026:
TONY DOKOUPIL: Good night. In a second, we’ll have some information on the potential for peace in Iran however first, for an additional day, President Trump and Pope Leo commerce feedback over the legitimacy of that battle within the first place. The Pope talking in Cameroon on his tour of Africa, stated, “the world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.” After which a couple of hours in a while the garden of the white home, the President responded, saying: “that is the actual world, and the Pope wants to grasp that.” We start our protection tonight with Caitlin Huey-Burns, who’s with the President in Las Vegas this night. Caitlin, good night.
CAITLIN HUEY-BURNS: Good night to you, Tony. Properly, the President is attempting to shift gears tonight, hitting the highway to tout his financial insurance policies forward of the midterms as voters are feeling the pinch on the pump.
As President Trump headed to Las Vegas right this moment to attempt to change the topic from battle to the economic system, he downplayed rising fuel costs.
DONALD TRUMP: They are not very excessive. In the event you take a look at what they have been purported to be to be able to do away with a nuclear weapon, with the hazard that entails.
HUEY-BURNS: Gasoline costs have risen greater than a greenback because the battle began practically seven weeks in the past, and as Individuals file their taxes this week, the President is touting the positive aspects from his tax insurance policies. However rising fuel and meals costs threaten to wipe out these financial savings.
CITIZEN: We saved a bit bit of cash on taxes, however we’re paying a lot extra for groceries and for fuel.
CITIZEN: It appears to take a very long time, like, for the costs to return again all the way down to even the place they have been at earlier than this.
HUEY-BURNS: It comes because the President is dealing with heightened political stress to finish the battle, together with criticisms from the Pope, who right this moment denounced what he referred to as the masters of battle.
POPE LEO XIV: The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants.
HUEY-BURNS: Trump stated right this moment he has a proper to disagree with the Pope.
TRUMP: However the pope has to grasp Iran- quite simple: Iran can not have a nuclear weapon.
HUEY-BURNS: The Pope additionally referred to as out those that use faith to justify battle. Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth has cited biblical references a number of occasions in the course of the battle.
POPE LEO XIV: However woe to those that manipulate faith within the very identify of God for their very own navy, financial, or political achieve.
HUEY-BURNS: Right this moment, Hegseth invoked the Bible to match the press to Pharisees, usually portrayed as enemies of Jesus.
PETE HEGSETH: The legacy, Trump-hating press: your politically motivated animus for President Trump practically utterly blinds you from the brilliance of our American warriors. The Pharisees scrutinized each good act to be able to discover a violation.
HUEY-BURNS: And we realized tonight that police have been referred to as to analyze a bomb risk on the residence of Pope Leo’s brother in suburban Chicago. The risk was decided to be unsubstantiated, however they’re persevering with to analyze. Tony.
DOKOUPIL: Caitlin Huey-Burns for us from Las Vegas tonight. Caitlin, thanks very a lot.
