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.”
True. They weren’t “praising evil” but they are excusing and justifying it. So they might as well have been praising him.
[[Much the same could be said of Mao TseTung, Josef Stalin, Adolph Hitler Idi Amin Dada, Hirohito, Genghis Khan, Atilla ... ]]
At soem point they may very well have praised some of those
[[NPR loves tyrannical control.]]
But watch them squawk IF a tyrannical leader pulls their funding
He was a leader, just because he lead the other side doesn’t diminish his ability to lead... however, the biggest reason he was as successful as he was was because there was a pussy sitting at 1600 pennsylvania avenue during the time he was growing his caliphate.
NPR should be forced to start selling pillows.
Libs admire and bow to despots, killers, criminals, gangsters, thugs, and the dangerously insane.
They know in their hearts that those kinds of people will turn them into unrecognizable hamburger at the drop of a hat.
Again having not seen the interview I could not gauge their praise of the man or not. But the one liners in quotes are not out of the realm of what I would say of an enemy but to be sure it would not be in praiseworthy manner.
I know all about these types of “real leaders”. I live in Ill-Annoy....and the media reacts and fawns the same way about our “real leaders”....
>The heroes of the American left are slowly, but surely, disappearing from the world’s landscape. Erased! Gone! Kaput! Blown to smithereens! Extinguished<
When will it be Soros’ turn?
For reference;
Osama bin Laden builds day care centers, Patty Murray (D WA)
This is no unusual for leftists. Senator Patty Murray on Osama bin Laden: “He’s been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building healthcare facilities, and the people are extremely grateful.”
And every one of them should be studied in-depth and with clear-eyed appraisal of what they did that furthered their objectives.
why is the govt still funding NPR?
Yes, I would say that a positive comment like this one is total BS, but again, to say that we have not see before what this past dead as a door-nail bastard achieved is not a compliment more than it is a statement. Additionally, this acknowledgement would not have been possible if the previous president acted like an American President instead of a Islamic terrorist sympathizer.
Yeah, he led his children to their deaths. Defund NPR.
They’re going to use this for impeachment!
Trump had the ISIS leader and Democrat presidential nominee to be killed! It’s so obvious that this is election interference!
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