If you were under any doubts as to the degradation, uselessness and sheer assholery of the US MSM then today’s Washington Post effort to write an obituary for the terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the latest example.

Yes! Really

The thing is that they had actually produced an accurate headline the first time up, where he was described factually as the “terrorist in chief” of ISIS.

And then they changed it to the above. Incredible. I would love to know what the discussions were behind the scenes on this change. Was the first too judgmental? Too “othering”? Too colonialist? Too redolent of White Privilege and Western European superiority? Too much of a deviation from “One Man’s Terrorist is Another Man’s Freedom Fighter“? Too positive for Trump?

FFS – this piece of human garbage was the religious, philosophical and political inspiration and leader of ISIS, a group of Islamic Jihadists that gleefully terrorised a good chunk of the Middle East for several years by killing men, woman and children in the most brutal ways they could find. Who can forget the shit they “advertised” across the Internet, with men in Orange jumpsuits paraded before the cameras before a mass head slicing routine. Or the Jordanian fighter pilot they captured who was put in a cage and burned alive. Not to mention the untold thousands of Christians, Yazidis and Muslims they slaughtered to build their “Caliphate”.

And yet the hatred for Trump, the President of the US who demanded that Baghdadi be found and who ordered the raid on him, is so great, so visceral, so unhinged, that even a supposed sober and mainstream media publication like the WaPo could not help trying to cleanse Baghdadi in order to prevent Trump getting the same win treatment that Obama did with Osama Bin Laden’s killing.

About the only good thing to come out the WaPo’s fantastically stupid coverage is the stream of Twitter responses they got. Here’s my favourites:

And my absolute fave….

Apparently the WaPo is still shameable – slightly – because after getting humiliated on Twitter they changed the title for a third time.

Too late fucktards. Hours too late. We know how you think because you showed us.