Hands down: Best reporting of killing of Al Zawahiri - 9/11 architect and so much more

[Justice]

Lots of truly horrendous reporting about killing Al Zawahiri late yesterday. CNN Erin Burnett's first questions included asking if Biden's speech "met the moment" as if the lighting was bad or his makeup was off.

Maddow presented the facts on how bad a dude Al Zawahiri was, and the deaths he is responsible for going back over 40 years - going back to early days in Egypt - US embassies in Africa - USS Cole - 9/11. Truly a horrific man. For anyone not old enough to remember - this is the guy who was partially/completely responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat, the President of Egypt in 1981.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/u-s-kills-top-al-qaeda-terrorist-leader-ayman-al-zawahiri-in-afghanistan-145286725740

Watch it, and know who this murderer is.

[ffr]

1. Stop watching both-sides-do-it CNN!

Screw them! They're part of news entertainment.

[BlueGreenLady]

2. Burnett is such a lightweight twit. n/t

[usonian]

3. Both Sides reporting.

"He loved his mother"

Take that any way your clean or dirty mind wants.

Maybe he like opened up soup kitchens, like Al Capone did.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Trump arranged to free thousands of Taliban prisoners - and the leader of Taliban.

Trump arranged to free thousands of Taliban prisoners

https://tinyurl.com/3v6n37ez

[gratuitous]

5. Any analysis on whether killing people by remote control is a good policy?

Does extrajudicial execution deter or encourage attacks on the United States, or its citizens, or its citizens abroad? Does it enhance our reputation with other countries, or does it damage our standing? When connected with other actions taken by the United States in the last 20 to 30 years (thinking of our country's use of mercenaries; indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets; the use of torture, sorry, enhanced interrogation and the destruction of evidence of same; the Guantanamo gulag; and so on) does this give hostile nations and groups an excuse to retaliate against or sanction the U.S. and its citizens and allies, or does it discourage them? Do these actions give us greater or lesser credibility when decrying terrorist actions against our country and its allies? Does it enhance or damage our claim to being a nation of laws and not of men?

Was any of that covered in the 10 minutes of this "best reporting"? I don't have time to watch now, but I'd appreciate any precis of the analysis that covered the questions above.

[Justice]

7. You had time to write this. You have time to watch the video.

[gratuitous]

8. So the answer is "no" this best reporting doesn't cover that

Thanks.

[Justice]

9. I said what I said.

[Hekate]

11. Probably you should watch the vid. Also, what do you think of the option of taking 100 soldiers in...

… to do the job, guns blazing, guaranteed civilian casualties, guaranteed American deaths — all to capture or kill the man who is responsible for:

Planning 9-11
Blowing up American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
Blowing a hole in the USS Cole
Involved in 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat

Just off the top of my head. The man’s been pretty busy since 1981.

But, your concern is duly noted.

[Deep State Witch]

6. Biden Still Has COVID

His makeup was probably off because it would have required him to be unmasked around the makeup person. JFC, people!

[Hekate]

10. Rachel Maddow deserves a Pulitzer for the depth of her journalism. We are so lucky to have her.