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Rita Panahi is a far-right Iranian-Australian news anchor for Sky News Australia, being one of their most popular reporters. Basically the Laura Ingraham of Australia, most of her segments focus on immigration, Islam, leftism and liberalism, and how all of these are the fault of "the regressive left".

Early life[edit]

Despite being Australian, she was born in the US state of Arkansas to Iranian immigrant parents. Her family returned to Iran in 1979, and fled the country from Tehran in the same year. They found asylum in Australia and were granted refugee status as they settled in Melbourne.

Lefties Losing It[edit]

One of the most notable things about Panahi is her insane and extreme bigotry against leftists (almost cartoonish in proportions). She has a segment called "lefties losing it", where she finds various kinds of culture wars issues of little relevance (such as a non-binary bison from a kids cartoon) or actual important issues (like the Iranian uprising) and attempts to blame everything on the left while giving credit to the right.[1] Much like other right-wing pundits, she grasps onto culture wars issues and takes minor events of stereotypical sjws and uses them to represent a false reality where leftists are demonized and otherized (as part of an agenda to appeal to low life supporters).

General stupidity[edit]

Sucking off the monarchy[edit]

Panahi is a monarchist, and supports the British monarchy. She views Australia as part of the British territory. However, she made a racist segment towards Meghan Markle (the wife of Prince Harry) and made non-arguments towards her.[2]

Anti-immigrant hypocrisy[edit]

Despite being the child of immigrants and an immigrant herself, Panahi opposes immigration, and has been noted as a phenomenon of a turn towards right-wing (even far-right) politics by immigrants.[3] She also supports immigration detention camps as an acceptable method for filtering refugees in Australia (further showcasing her hypocrisy).

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