NY Post Writer John Podhoretz Melts Down After Fox News’ Trey Yingst Says ‘Hospitals Should Be Protected’
Writer John Podhoretz’s latest broadside over potential United States military intervention in Iran included taking aim at Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst, suggesting the reporter should be a “barista” because he dared to say hospitals should be protected amid the escalating fighting between Iran and Israel.
“Trey Yingst should be fired. Trey Yingst should be working as a barista. Trey Yingst should go back to elementary school,” Podhoretz wrote on X in response to Yingst. “This isn’t hard.”
Yingst said hospitals in both Iran and Israel, as well as those in the Palestinian territories, should be protected as the countries continue targeting one another with strikes.
“Israeli hospitals should be protected. Palestinian hospitals should be protected. Iranian hospitals should be protected,” he wrote. “This isn’t hard.”
Yingst has been on the ground reporting in Israel. In a report last week, Yingst and his crew could be seen running for cover as missiles dropped on Tel Aviv. The reporter called the current fighting between Iran and Israel “uncharted territory” and “something that I’ve never seen before.”
Yingst has earned bipartisan praise for his first-hand, on-the-ground reporting over the years. He won the First Amendment Award from the RTDNA (Radio Television Digital News Association) Foundation earlier this year. The group honored Yingst for his “remarkable ability to humanize the horror, making it all the more real for an audience an ocean away” and called him a “leader in the industry.”
A number of conservative and MAGA-friendly pundits have found themselves at odds over the looming question about the United States’ potential involvement in Israel and Iran’s war. President Donald Trump has hinted the US could become more involved, leading to some once-loyal voices like Tucker Carlson — a former colleague of Podhoretz who is not a fan — to break from the ranks and argue for diplomacy over another war.
Podhoretz has been consistently launching personal attacks on critics of a new potential war. In one recent X post, he called former Fox News host Jedediah Bila a “piece of shit” for tweeting that she doesn’t want to send her kid to fight a war with Iran.
Yingst’s call for hospitals to be protected came after an early morning missile strike from Iran this week hit the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, leaving some wounded and parts of the building consumed in smoke. Israeli officials accused Iran of “war crimes” for the act and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed retaliation against the “tyrants in Tehran.”
