Who cares if there are fewer? The most brutal totalitarian dictators--patriarchs in the extreme--were perfectly content to kill millions of their own people as long as they were in charge and in no danger of being overthrown.

Making shakshuka doesn't overthrow anyone.

You need a more cogent argument against MediaVSReality than that.

It's hard to see how you're either not being forthright about the content, or aren't interpreting the situation in a plausible way. (That Matt Walsh would have a bonkers interpretation is not surprising.)