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NPR Gushes Over Baghdadi: “He Was a Real Leader”
Summit News ^ | Paul Joseph Watson

Posted on 10/29/2019 9:08:08 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Spearheaded a “movement we’ve never seen before.”

NPR gushed over ISIS terror leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, describing him as a “real leader” who spearheaded a “movement we’ve never seen before.”

During a roundtable discussion about Baghdadi’s death, NPR reporter Greg Myre all but praised the man responsible for beheading three Americans and enslaving and killing an American woman.

“He led a movement that we’ve never seen before,” Myre said. “ISIS had tens of thousands of members, fighters, coming in from all over the world.”

“They controlled massive amounts of territory — in Eastern Syria and Western and Northern Iraq,” Myre said, adding ISIS had “millions of people under their control.”

“They administered cities, they collected taxes,” Myre said.

“They had this incredible online recruit presence in terms of spreading propaganda; recruiting followers,” Myre said. “This is a guy that sort of emerged on the scene.”

“And led this group that had done something we’d never seen before,” Myre said.

He went on to assert that Baghdadi was a “real leader” and that ISIS would find it hard to replace him.

NPR was not the only news outlet to be strangely effusive towards Baghdadi after his death.

The Washington Post drew widespread condemnation and ridicule by referring to the terror leader as an “austere religious scholar.”

Others attempted to downplay Baghdadi’s importance, with Newsweek citing an unnamed “intelligence official” who claimed that Baghdadi “had become largely symbolic.”


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KEYWORDS: albaghdadi; liberaltalkradio; npr; trumpgwot
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Not to be outdone by WAPO, NPR says "Hold my beer, and watch this."
1 posted on 10/29/2019 9:08:08 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

I did not see the interview but saying that he was a leader that we have not seen before is accurate. Part of my understanding our enemy as a military member is being able to respect the enemy and or their capabilities. This is not admiration but acknowledgement of what they have done.

I don’t see them as praising evil here. Again, I did not see the interview.


2 posted on 10/29/2019 9:10:37 AM PDT by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

I did not see the interview but saying that he was a leader that we have not seen before is accurate. Part of my understanding our enemy as a military member is being able to respect the enemy and or their capabilities. This is not admiration but acknowledgement of what they have done.

I don’t see them as praising evil here. Again, I did not see the interview.


3 posted on 10/29/2019 9:10:44 AM PDT by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

I wish Trump had announced last week that he decided that Baghdadi must never be targeted and that he would task special troops with protecting his life.

We then would have been treated to endless pronouncements from these Mainstream Media Propaganda-Drones about how the failure to immediately kill Baghdadi was itself grounds for impeachment, that Baghdadi was the most dangerous human alive etc etc.

Remember folks - Orange Man Bad.


4 posted on 10/29/2019 9:12:12 AM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

PDJT should describe in lurid details some of the atrocities committed by ISIS, and hammer these NPR and Washington Post quotes relentlessly.


5 posted on 10/29/2019 9:12:20 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

For more commentary on the subject from our tax funded npr:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3789872/posts


6 posted on 10/29/2019 9:12:30 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
They controlled massive amounts of territory

Much the same could be said of Mao TseTung, Josef Stalin, Adolph Hitler Idi Amin Dada, Hirohito, Genghis Khan, Atilla ...

7 posted on 10/29/2019 9:12:52 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
I was listening to it last night on the way home from work. She sounded like a highschool girl talking about the star of the football team ... 'he was .... incredible.'.

And of course peppered in was all of the neo-lefty cult token signalling words 'this', 'sort of' and 'we'.

8 posted on 10/29/2019 9:14:10 AM PDT by tinyowl
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To: NorthMountain

NPR loves tyrannical control. Stop The Funding....NOW!


9 posted on 10/29/2019 9:14:12 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Welcome to North Mexico, Gringo's it...)
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To: gathersnomoss

NPR are communists, and have been since Day One.


10 posted on 10/29/2019 9:14:57 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

So was Hitler. They are probably still lamenting his death.


11 posted on 10/29/2019 9:15:33 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Bipolars have more fun. No we don't.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

These so called journalists might need a lesson in reality. A few of these morons need to fall under the rule of one of these “real leaders”. Maybe after one of their buddies has their head sawed off they will start telling the truth. I highly doubt it because the truth is too painful for them to speak. I guess we are stuck with pathetic liars who kiss terrorist smelly ass.


12 posted on 10/29/2019 9:16:54 AM PDT by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Sort of like how Louis Farrakhan describes Hitler as a “very great man”.


13 posted on 10/29/2019 9:16:57 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

US out of UN, UN out of US... and defund NPR.


14 posted on 10/29/2019 9:17:08 AM PDT by samtheman (Never underestimate The Stupid on the left... or the evil in the heart of a bureaucrat.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

“....and he built schools and Day Care centers too”


15 posted on 10/29/2019 9:18:11 AM PDT by digger48
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To: gathersnomoss

Exactly. I don’t see what’s so hard about defunding NPR.


16 posted on 10/29/2019 9:18:36 AM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

There has never been a tyrant liberals have not loved. They are one and the same.

Liberals are the littlest snowflakes and the most foul mouthed, traitorous, seditious, nature hating, aggressive, immature, insane, intolerant, bigoted, stingiest, polluting, off-key flat singing, angry, unfriendly, greedy, fascist, hate-filled, mean-spirited, envious, resentful, vicious, close-minded, violent, murdering, child-abusing, amoral, stupid, censoring, horse-punching, book-burning, ignorant, uneducated, unskilled, childish, prejudiced, racist, women-hating, man-hating, perverted, thieving, destructive, American-hating, Christian-hating, muslim-loving, Jew-hating, Israel-hating, communist, vote-rigging, vulgar, dirty, smelly, election-rejecting, regressive, restrictive, prohibitive, bed-wetting, poo-flinging, cop-killing, war-mongering, law-breaking, conservative black hating, and scared little lying thumb-sucking pussified idiots God has ever created.


17 posted on 10/29/2019 9:18:47 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Just picked this up from another FR thread.

I think it explains the NPR mindset.

https://youtu.be/bX3EZCVj2XA


18 posted on 10/29/2019 9:18:47 AM PDT by samtheman (Never underestimate The Stupid on the left... or the evil in the heart of a bureaucrat.)
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To: digger48

. . . and he made the trains run on time!


19 posted on 10/29/2019 9:21:00 AM PDT by TIElniff (Autonomy is the guise of every graceless heart.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

I’d get riled-up about that except not even Trump put up a fight to defund NPR.


20 posted on 10/29/2019 9:22:32 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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