Posted on 01/03/2020 5:37:22 AM PST by Kaslin
The Washington Post had eyes rolling on Twitter Thursday over a headline about the death of Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani in a U.S. airstrike.
“Breaking news: Airstrike at Baghdad airport kills Iran’s most revered military leader, Qasem Soleimani, Iraqi state television reports,” the WaPo headline read.
While some brushed off the headline, believing it was in reference to how Iraqi state television reported the situation, just two paragraphs into the story the same language is used by the story’s writers.
"Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said the Pentagon had taken 'decisive defensive action' against Soleimani, the revered military figure who had close links to a network of armed groups backed by Iran across the Middle East and, according to the United States, bore responsibility for hundreds of American deaths," WaPo said.
WTF WaPo...do you have any idea how much American blood is on his hands? https://t.co/ONMeOGEYnc— Amber Smith (@AmberSmithUSA) January 3, 2020
Really Washington Post?
"Most revered"
WaPo headline: "Airstrike at Baghdad airport kills Iran’s most revered military leader, Qassem Soleimani, Iraqi state television reports"
Soleimani was responsible for many of the bombs that killed US soldiers. pic.twitter.com/i5sbkdbtge— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) January 3, 2020
“Most revered” ?????
Soleimani is responsible for shedding blood of US soldiers and terrorizing the globe. @washingtonpost headline is an absolute embarrassment and needs to be immediately retracted. https://t.co/eBQf70uKIE— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) January 3, 2020
“Most revered military leader” now joins “austere religious scholar” and “mourners” trying to storm our embassy as word choices that make normal people wonder whose side the American mainstream media is on pic.twitter.com/JR83xMYCtO— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) January 3, 2020
Please accept my condolences.
Your "most revered military leader" was a murderer with a track record of crimes against humanity and genocide. He was responsible for murder and torture of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Tens of millions are joyful that he is dead. https://t.co/htHmo1NWZE— Saeed Ghasseminejad (@SGhasseminejad) January 3, 2020
The language isn't surprising, as this is the same paper that described Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the former leader of ISIS taken out by the U.S., as an "austere religious scholar."
“General Soleimani and his Quds Force were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members and the wounding of thousands more,” according to the Pentagon. “He had orchestrated attacks on coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months – including the attack on December 27th – culminating in the death and wounding of additional American and Iraqi personnel. General Soleimani also approved the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad that took place this week.”
Wow. pic.twitter.com/NY98eYM7lE— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) January 3, 2020
Esper said the strike was meant as a deterrent because Soleimani was "actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region."
“Brave Japanese pilots attack Pearl Harbor in heroic effort to control the Pacific”
President Trump has his own TDS or terrorist Derangement Syndrome I wonder who is on his list. The fun has just begun.
Send a drone strike after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and really shake up things. Hell, the Iranians might just oust their government and become civilized once again.
You know how close AWS got to winning that DOD cloud computing contract?
Hillary wins, and every single secret we had would have been on servers owned by the guy who owns the Washington Post.
If that doesn’t make you want to have a nervous shot of whiskey and pray for DJT I don’t know what would.
There are a lot of stories of wild eyed leftist Obama sycophants distressed that one of their Terrorist buddies got killed.
I read that one reason Microsoft got the contract was that it was ahead of Amazon in what are called “hybrid cloud systems,” where there’s a mix of what is in the cloud, and what stays on client computers—the juiciest, most sensitive information. That was, according to an article I read, a deciding factor, even though AWS overall cloud structure was more developed than MS’s Azure.
But, hey, I stayed at a Holiday Inn recently. Maybe someone else can chime in with more info.
And Bezos has been a jerk to Trump through the WaPo, for reasons that I just can’t fathom.
Silly me, hoping to see the smoking aftermath.
Another reason why I don’t order anything from Amazon. I hate Jeff Bozo. I’m not going to candy coat it.
The left appears to be siding with Iran against the United States... once again.
Charismatic and efficient party leader Adolf Hitler successfully regains ancestral homelands in Poland.
Maybe the Washington Post..?? :)
Soleimani is “revered” the way WaPo is a “news” organization.
Has anybody in the media asked why this Iranian General was in Iraq?
This is the same crap the media was doing during Operation Desert Storm 1990-91. The press conferences were laughable. The media had their arms wrapped around Hussein and his “Republican Guard.” Even Saturday Night Live was doing skits on how absurd the press was and the questions they asked. I remember General Kelly and his great answers for the treasonous press.
They go all out in finding ways to favorably describe our enemies and downplay anything negative. They might as well describe Hitler as “a revered leader, military strategist, artist, author, political theorist and genetics expert.” Barf.
remember CNN had a deal with Saddam to not make him look evil and they had access to everything in Iraq. Peter Arnett was practically Saddam’s wing man on his dial reports from Baghdad
revered military leader to the press = terrorist.
Why is there consternation when we see the media take the sides or play up our enemies? Haven’t we learned by now they hate America and are not our friends or allies?
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