Former aide’s ‘anti-war’ Obama fantasy, Nina Turner’s ignorance on Iran’s abuse of women and more

Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions

This claim:

“I worked for an anti-war president.” — Former Obama aide Johanna Maska, Monday

We say: Talk about revisionist history: Angry about President Trump’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites, Maska wants Americans to believe that President Obama was a dove.

Huh? He may have talked like an anti-war leader, but he didn’t act like one.

Is Maska forgetting that her boss was responsible for the overthrow of Moam­mar Khadafy in Libya and the chaos that followed?

Or that after calling ISIS “the JV team,” Obama declared all-out war on the terrorist group, authorizing airstrikes on the jihadists in Iraq and Syria?

Speaking of strikes, in 2016, the final year of drone-happy Obama’s second term, the US dropped an estimated 72 bombs per day — or an average of three per hour.

Sorry, Maska: “Anti-war” your president was not. 

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This statement:

“We don’t have moral high ground [on Iran’s treatment of women].” — Former Ohio Democratic state Sen. Nina Turner, Sunday

We say: Turner’s ignorance is beyond foul: Iranian women live under a regime where marital rape is legal, security forces beat women and girls who fail to comply with mandatory hijab laws, authorities turn a blind eye to “honor” killings and female activists are often sentenced to death.

Turner should ask real Iranian women, like brave dissident Masih Alinejad, who is still being targeted by the mullahs for fighting for women’s rights, where they’d prefer to live.

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This column:

“Killings in Arizona and Minnesota shine light on the crisis of Christian extremist violence.” — MSNBC’s Ja’han Jones, Wednesday

We say: Jones has cherry-picked two ghastly incidents — the shootings of two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota by an anti-abortion wacko and the grisly April murder of a pastor in Arizona by a (certainly not Christian) lunatic who says that Jesus is the “son of Satan” — to paint right–adjacent extremism as a major threat.

He charges that “these killings have occurred in an environment that is awfully permissive of Christian nationalist violence.”

Nonsense: The real “crisis” is mental illness — and irresponsible rhetoric that encourages deadly violence.

And the bulk of that comes from the left: Just look at the assassination of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson, the killing of two Israeli Embassy workers in DC, the attack on an event for Israel hostages in Colorado and the firebombing of Gov. Josh Shapiro’s home in Pennsylvania — all carried out by left-wing nutjobs in the last year.

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This assertion:

“Democrats are very orderly. They’re almost too orderly for fascism.” — Joy Reid, Tuesday

We say: Orderly? This claim by Reid, on Charlamagne tha God’s podcast “The Breakfast Club,” proves she hasn’t gotten any saner since leaving MSNBC.

Just since the November election, anti-Trump protesters have sparked riots in Los Angeles, lefties have firebombed Tesla dealerships and vandalized Cybertrucks and multiple Democratic politicians have been arrested at ICE facilities.

If this is “orderly,” we’d hate to see Reid’s idea of chaos. 

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board