Posted on 12/31/2019 10:08:44 PM PST by BenLurkin
The New York Times caught flack after the publication labeled Iranian-controlled militias, which attacked the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, as "mourners."
"Hundreds of Iraqi mourners tried to storm the United States Embassy in Baghdad, shouting 'Down, down USA!,' in response to deadly American airstrikes this week that killed 25 fighters," the paper said in a Tuesday tweet.
The tweet met with swift condemnation from those saying they were parroting Iranian propaganda. Protesters shouted, "Death to America," as they broke into the embassy compound.
Your mourners must be upset about a video. But these attackers are Hezbollah supporters. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. #fixthis @nytimes https://t.co/43p72T49so Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) December 31, 2019
Mourners. Its not hard to see which side the New York Times sympathizes with here https://t.co/kjcPW9XTd7 Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) December 31, 2019
NYT using a novel definition of "mourners" here ("Iraqi militia paid and controlled by Iran") https://t.co/rOvQ2eMNwT Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) December 31, 2019
The demonstration came in response to airstrikes by the United States against Iranian-backed
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Old Grey Whore gonna Whore.
Unbelievable. Well, no...too believable.
Treasonous reporting IMHO.
Leni
Walter Duranty.
Time to land a few ospreys on the roof of the NYSlimes and commence target practice, floor by floor...
I wont mourn when the NYT folds for good.
When you side with the enemy of the American people, you get called the enemy of the American people.
Agreed.
Of course. Why expect anything less than treason?
They’re nothing but the propaganda arm of the domestic communist party. Anything to hurt America is just fine and dandy with them. They sympathize with the Iranian mullahs in this instance. That makes them traitors and traitors should be punished per the law.
Sometimes tho, when the culture you are living in has 72 sexes... and both male and female can gestate babies in the womb and deliver them....you might wonder.
Those mother ####ers.
They get hard when an American dies overseas.
Sounds like you believe the NYT.
The New York Slimes, aka ‘Zips in the wire.’
As I recall they described the b@stards that took over the embassy in 1979 as “students.”
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