WaPo Obit Headline Describes al Baghdadi as “austere religious scholar”
After backlash, WaPo changed it
President Trump announced Sunday morning that the ruthless, evil ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed during an operation by U.S. Special Forces.
The Washington Post promptly posted its obituary for al-Baghdadi under an accurate headline: “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State’s ‘terrorist-in-Chief,’ dies at 48.”
Then, for some unknown reason, the obit suddenly had the following jaw-dropping headline: “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48.”
They had it right the first time.
The Washington Post changed the headline on its Al-Baghdadi obituary from “Islamic State’s terrorist-in-Chief” to “austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State.” pic.twitter.com/cs243EVz7W
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 27, 2019
This inexplicable revision elicited immediate pushback.
https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1188474056460374020
And WaPo again changed its headline. It is (currently): “”Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, extremist leader of Islamic State, dies at 48.”
The “austere religious scholar at helm” of ISIS headline still appears in Memorandum:
A Twitter hashtag game—#WaPoObits—is currently under way.
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I have no words. ????
Inadvertently they may have done a good thing by reminding his followers that allah has forsaken him.
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I don’t know if I can hold up to this kind of pressure.My best friend from college, who was the best man at my wedding, is an excellenent shot on paper targets. On game not so much.
His wife Gina used to hate hunting and hunters. Then we turned pigs into Italian sausage. Then suddenly she became a fan. So much so she wants her daughter to become a huntress.
But I am not magic. I worked on my tracking skills for reason. i am pretty sure i can let the kid in on the secret I am not immortal. I don’t take a shot unless I am convinced I can make it. I am not perfect though. Now I have a child who is convinced I don’t miss.
If it is not clear, they have never witnessed me missing a shot. They think it’s easy. Holy Mother of All we Hold Holy, it took decades until I could put a rifle to my shoulder and get shot off within a second.
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