[N_Fiddledog]

But if you all still can't figure out why your Progressive media is having you attack using diversionary details surrounding this great victory The Federalist will spell it out for you:

The Real Reasons Why Legacy Media Are Freaking Out Over Trump’s Successful Baghdadi Mission

The successful strike against ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi complicated media and Democratic efforts to destroy Trump

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Legacy media outlets responded to President Trump’s announcement of the U.S. military’s successful mission against ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi with their trademark hostility and anger. That’s because the inarguably good news threatens corporate media goals for shaping foreign policy, impeaching the president, and defeating Trump in 2020.

“Last night was a great night for the United States and for the world. A brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship and death, has violently been eliminated — he will never again harm another innocent man, woman or child,” Trump told the nation on Sunday. “He died like a dog. He died like a coward. The world is now a much safer place.”

Yet the media reacted not with the praise and excitement that greeted President Obama’s announcement of a similar successful operation against Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, but with anger and rage. Many media outlets soiled their beds, but the Washington Post is representative of the hard work that went into spinning the killing of Baghdadi into, somehow, a negative story for Trump, beginning with a hagiographic look at Baghdadi as not a brutal rapist and murderer of his political and religious foes but as an “austere religious scholar.” Really:

Pictorial and video evidence provided here

It takes effort to try to spin the unalloyed good news of the Trump administration’s success as a net negative, but corporate media were up for the challenge. That’s because successes such as this one undercut the narratives they’re trying to force into the national conversation.

1) Positive News Coverage Hurts Media Efforts To Destroy Trump
Corporate media have moved from at least projecting concern for reporting the actual news into unembarrassed political actors. That enables them to flamboyantly spin — as opposed to their previous method of subtly spinning — even major news with indisputable facts.

The 2016 campaign was a humiliating defeat for Hillary Clinton, but also for political media. Media outlets never understood the electorate they were paid big dollars to write and broadcast news about. They confidently asserted Trump had no chance to win, and convinced themselves that casting off journalistic standards was defensible because of the certain ruin Trump would bring.

Instead, President Trump’s administration has been marked by success in the domestic and foreign spheres. The economy is humming, including job and wage growth the media had previously said was unlikely to impossible to achieve. This is due to tax cuts, tax reform, and unprecedented deregulation. No new wars have been launched, much less the apocalyptic nuclear wars the media predicted. A long overdue recalibration with China is taking place.

What is good news for the country is bad news for the media and their political allies.

One of the tools they can utilize in their war on the president is to deny him honest media coverage of his successes, making it more difficult to clip news of them discussing those successes in an honest fashion. It’s not a conspiracy so much as a shared mindset that kicked into action this weekend.

2) ISIS Founder’s Death Complicates Media’s Syria Narrative
Legacy media’s posture prior to news of the raid might be best shown by Saturday night’s opening sketch of their favorite show. Saturday Night Live’s first sketch mocked Trump supporters, portraying them as speakers at a Trump rally. One joke was to have an ISIS member who was “a prisoner in Syria until last week when you freed me … I just wanted to say, thank you for bringing jobs back to ISIS and I promise that I will make ISIS great again!”

The parody was not far off of the October 21 New York Times piece headlined “ISIS Rejoices As U.S. Withdraws From Syria.”

The story from the media is that withdrawing troops from Syria — a country we somehow found thousands of our troops in despite President Obama promising more than one dozen times that there would be no “boots on the ground there,” and despite Congress not authorizing any use of military force there — would be a disaster for everyone involved.

The death of Baghdadi, following a successful operation that required cooperation with Turkey, Syrian Kurds, Russia and others, at the very least complicates that narrative. That recent events with Turkey might have helped accomplish this goal complicates the narrative. That the Delta Force came in from troops stationed outside of Syria complicates the narrative. And the fact that all this happened at the very moment SNL was accusing the president of helping ISIS obliterates the narrative.

While the bipartisan foreign policy consensus promised ISIS’ growth and victory over the U.S., the U.S. military was actually planning Baghdadi’s capture or killing. The media are attempting to spin that this event happened “despite” Trump’s foreign policy approach, but that argument will have little persuasion outside of the Trump-deranged Resistance.

3) Trump Foreign Policy Successes Undermine Media Impeachment Drive
The biggest champions of impeachment are the media, seeking to save face after their 2016 and Russia collusion hoax failures. They have all but forced the Democrats to launch the proceedings even though their path is fraught with difficulties.

Yesterday’s Sunday Morning shows — no matter the outlet or the particular host — were all scheduled to throw more fuel on the impeachment fire. Instead, they were forced to cover a major success in the battle to defeat the Islamic State.

Impeaching the president who oversaw the operation looks even worse than just impeaching the president who has survived a non-stop, years-long campaign from the media, Democrats, and other Resistance members. For impeachment to have any chance of survival, the media need to both downplay and move quickly from the story back to their uncritical repetition of Democratic Party talking points.

That’s why the media quickly pivoted to a story of fans at the Washington Nationals’ World Series game booing the president on the day of the Baghdadi announcement. If it’s newsworthy that the town that went 96% (no exaggeration!) against Trump in 2016 before running the Resistance against the electorate is booing the president, it’s more because of what it says about them than what it says about the country or its president.

Still, it was a means to get back to their preferable push of impeachment and away from stories that make them appear foolish.

It’s understandable some in the media want to destroy their political opponent, but they could do a better job of hiding their anger at achievements that are undoubtedly good for America and make the country safer.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/28/th ... i-mission/

[N_Fiddledog]

You'll recall this didn't happen when the Seals took out Bin Laden. It was more 'All Hail Obama's Great Victory.' He led the charge and the media of the Progressive Cabal here at CKA was right with him:

FLASHBACK: Barack Obama Made The Death of bin Laden All About Himself

[Thanos]

The secret is to stay logged in. That way you don't have to see the nauseating posts from the rotten dimwits on your enemies list.

[DrCaleb]

Thanos Thanos:

The secret is to stay logged in. That way you don't have to see the nauseating posts from the rotten dimwits on your enemies list.

I'm actually surprised you would remove one once you put it there. People don't change, especially not on the Internet.

[N_Fiddledog]

Especially not name-callers pretending they have the high ground.

But back to things that matter...

Damn...no more graphics room for new AVs. (If you want to talk about things a moderator might actually be concerned about, I mean, Doc)

It's too bad, because I've got a good one.

[Thanos]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Thanos Thanos:

The secret is to stay logged in. That way you don't have to see the nauseating posts from the rotten dimwits on your enemies list.

I'm actually surprised you would remove one once you put it there. People don't change, especially not on the Internet.

Correct. Party operatives who care only for the political "win" they've concocted in their dizzy heads never change. Call me crazy for giving some of them a second chance. My fault. Won't happen again.

[N_Fiddledog]

Thanos Thanos:

Correct. Party operatives who care only for the political "win"|

Yes, and as the Federalist lays out in inconvenient (for you) detail at the top of the page that's exactly what you and yours were trying so desperately and unsuccessfully to accomplish.

[DrCaleb]

Thanos Thanos:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Thanos Thanos:

The secret is to stay logged in. That way you don't have to see the nauseating posts from the rotten dimwits on your enemies list.

I'm actually surprised you would remove one once you put it there. People don't change, especially not on the Internet.

Correct. Party operatives who care only for the political "win" they've concocted in their dizzy heads never change. Call me crazy for giving some of them a second chance. My fault. Won't happen again.

It's not that, it's because as social animals we crave verification that the flaws we see around us; that other people also see these flaws. This confirms our beliefs and observations. That's why Twitter is such a clusterfuck, because everyone looking to confirm their own views finds a vast crowd, and are enamored by the self fulfillment it brings to be part of a crowd. No different here. Like agrees with like, because it makes them comfortable to know they are among equals.

And that also doesn't challenge them into considering all angles of an argument. They don't grow or change. Fiddly will never change. That's why he's never coming off my ignore list.

[N_Fiddledog]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

And that also doesn't challenge them into considering all angles of an argument. They don't grow or change. Fiddly will never change. That's why he's never coming off my ignore list.

You hypocrite. You diss me for not considering both sides of the argument. I at least defeat the other side in open argument. You pretend the other side isn't there and pretend you do that for some reason other than my side is the superior argument.

Speaking of pretending, let's stop pretending that you can't and don't read my posts by simply clicking on the option to do it. I know you do. I see your name turn up at the bottom of the page after I post.

[N_Fiddledog]

BTW has anybody else noticed that this thread has stopped being about the great victory of disappearing the head of ISIS from the battlefield and turned into something with the priority of attacking somebody who wants to celebrate it.

[raydan]

Cut ISIS's head and another will grow... the only way to get rid of ISIS is to block the money trail.

[N_Fiddledog]

raydan raydan:

Cut ISIS's head and another will grow... the only way to get rid of ISIS is to block the money trail.

Not sure how credible this one below is but even as a rumor it's interesting.

ISIS’ Hidden Treasure: Al-Baghdadi’s Adviser Reveals That The Terrorists Buried $25 Million In The Iraqi Desert And Most Of It Was Found By Shepherds

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One of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s closest confidants revealed that ISIS terrorists buried $25million in the Iraqi desert – and it was later discovered by shepherds.

Mohammed Ali Sajet, who is related to Baghdadi via marriage and has been an ISIS member since 2015, was arrested by Iraqi officials two months ago near Baghdad.

He is said to have told Iraqi authorities about Baghdadi’s possible location in Syriaand also gave up details about a courier that was working for the ISIS leader.

https://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2019/10/29 ... shepherds/

[N_Fiddledog]

Here's another one. Again, it's just a rumor. Remember when the new Prince took over in Saudi Arabia? Remember there was a purge? Rumor has it a lot of that had to do with pressure on the Prince to take out the terror financing arm within the Kingdom.

I don't know how much of that I believe but it wouldn't surprise me.

[llama66]

Until the House of Al Saud abandons Wahhabism there will always be a terror arm of in the Saudi Government.

[Tricks]

llama66 llama66:

Until the House of Al Saud abandons Wahhabism there will always be a terror arm of in the Saudi Government.

Definitely going to happen with Trump gargling the Princes nuts.