What do you do when Joe Biden actually makes a good point about one of the worst news outlets in existence? You let them fight. 

According to a new report, Biden recently "raged" against The New York Times for its coverage of the war between Israel and Gaza. Specifically, the president was incensed by how the supposed paper of record reported the "bombing" of the Al-Ahli Hospital on October 17th. As RedState noted extensively, the actual circumstances were far different than what the initial reports claimed.

President Joe Biden raged against The New York Times in a private White House meeting early last week, after the Times amplified a Hamas claim that an Israeli airstrike was behind the Oct. 17 bombing of a Gaza hospital.

The news of the deadly explosion scuttled a planned presidential trip to Jordan, but the White House now believes a stray Palestinian rocket, not Israel, was to blame. (A more recent Times report has also called that assessment into question, and independent analysts continue to debate the evidence.)

Let me pause there for a moment. No one with a brain is still questioning whether the hospital in question was hit by an Israeli airstrike. As was noted within a day of the event, the IAF has no ordinance in its inventory that would leave the damage that was done, including the almost non-existent crater. Never mind that we have audio recordings of Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters admitting it was a rocket that fell short and numerous videos that purport to show the same thing. The fact that American news outlets continue to do the "well, we may never know" routine over this is ridiculous.

Returning to Biden, he "fumed" over the headline the Times ran with in particular, which cited Hamas sources for its claim of a death toll and responsibility. Almost a week later, the newspaper offered a tepid "editor's note" apologizing for its coverage.

The president told a small group of Wall Street executives in the White House’s Roosevelt Room early last week that he thought the headline was irresponsible and could have triggered military escalation in the Middle East, two people briefed on the conversation told Semafor. He fumed in particular that the headline had appeared “in an American newspaper.”

I don't say this often, but Biden is correct. It is shameful that American news outlets continue to play propaganda minister for a literal terrorist government. To this day, the Times, The Washington Post, MSNBC, and others are still citing the Hamas-led "Gaza Health Ministry" for casualty statistics. They are doing that despite the fact that it would be impossible for that organization, even if it weren't controlled by terrorists, to recover and accurately count bodies at the pace it puts out "death tolls." 

None of those news outlets ever ask basic questions surrounding the numbers they are given. In fact, it is seen as taboo to question them, lest you be accused of downplaying the deaths that are occurring in Gaza. That's never been the point, though. Of course, people are dying, but Hamas not only makes up numbers out of whole cloth but they specifically conflate military deaths with civilian deaths. How many Hamas fighters have died during the war? We don't know because the "Gaza Ministry of Health" counts every fighter as innocent. 

With all that said, Biden's lackluster messaging and outright confusion at times has done just as much to harm Israel's efforts as the biased American press. There are no good guys in this situation so again, let them fight.