Sunday, October 27, 2019

The Great Revealing Continues

How far will the mainstream media go in their partisan advocacy? Astonishingly far.

A human being lost his life. Evil, but human. There is a tragedy in there. More than that, he apparently took several of his children who must be admitted as innocents. We should pray for their lost lives.

However. He was the leader who oversaw the burning alive of a Jordanian pilot, drowned his enemies, threw gays from rooftops, serially raped women captives including an American aid worker, who attempted the eradication and genocide of a whole people, the Yazidi, killing the men and enslaving the women, and ultimately led the war which has seen the death of tens if not hundreds of thousands and caused millions to flee to refugee camps.

Across the board the usual MSM suspects are trying to either downplay the evil, pretend the death was inconsequential, disavow Trump's role as the person who authorized it, claim that it is all part of a diplomatic failure, etc. All in order to fulfill their partisan role.

I think it is right to question how far we go in celebrating the loss of a human life, even an evil life. But presidents always do this. There is no real substantive difference between Trump and Obama and Clinton (making a joke of Gaddafi's death) in this regard. And there is no doubt that the death of such a capable enemy means life for American soldiers, for the people of Syria and the region, and a form of justice for his millions of victims.

But for the Washington Post to run this headline?


That was his distinguishing characteristic? That he was an austere religious scholar? That is an almost impossible-to-conceive formulation and yet that was, as a product of the reporter, layers and layers of fact-checkers, and presumably multiple editors, the angle with which they ran? The Great Revealing continues. If the MSM are not the enemy of the people as Trump alleged, they seem to be working hard to earn that distinction.

Appropriately, they now have their own hashtag, #WaPoDeathNotices mocking their decrepit "journalism". Click through for wit, more or less sharp.

A handful of others:





















This one probably takes a cake, if not the cake.



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