Monday afternoon President Trump tweeted out a picture of the hero dog who chased ISIS founder and all-around garbage human being Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi into a tunnel during a US special forces raid.
We have declassified a picture of the wonderful dog (name not declassified) that did such a GREAT JOB in capturing and killing the Leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi! pic.twitter.com/PDMx9nZWvw
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 28, 2019
Al-Baghdadi, of course, took the coward’s way out and blew himself up before he could be captured, killing three of his children in the process. This Very Good Doggo was also injured in the blast, but has since returned to active duty.
President Trump mentioned in his tweet that while the dog’s picture had been declassified his (her?) name was not. That was enough for one “intrepid” (garbage) journalist from Newsweek to go digging for the hottest scoop of the week.
Multiple Defense Department sources have told me the dog’s name is Conan. https://t.co/efDmAsCbXb
— James LaPorta (@JimLaPorta) October 28, 2019
Hearing from Defense Department sources that Conan, the dog wounded from the special operations #Syria raid which resulted in the death of #Baghdadi is named after @ConanOBrien the comedian versus the barbarian. https://t.co/0t8GymvCYB
— James LaPorta (@JimLaPorta) October 28, 2019
That’s right, folks. James LaPorta, reporter for Newsweek covering the Department of Defense and a military adviser for the hit show “This Is Us” dug deep, pulled out all the stops…and provided us with the possible name of a dog for reasons that I’m sure would make sense if we spent day after day marinating in the fake news culture of a magazine that was sold for just $1.00 US.
Oh, it gets better.
A few Twits felt that James may not have shown the best judgement in doxing Conan.
Trying to get the dog killed?
— Jesus died for you too (@amafera) October 28, 2019
I doubt they gave a female dog such a masculine name, but we all agree that doxing military dogs is important.
— Chihoowa’ oshi’ (@DroppinTheMitts) October 29, 2019
DON’T DOX THE DOG!
— Jules of Denial (@Coolish_Breeze) October 28, 2019
James, is that a prudent thing you just did? Just asking. I just hope the handler and Conan aren’t compromised.
— J (@Counter_Narc) October 28, 2019
That’s some Pulitzer-Prize winning doxing there Lou.
— Abe Froman™ (@WerIstDeinPa) October 28, 2019
Did James relent and admit that doxing the military dog that had literally had a paw in killing the most notorious terrorist in the world and who is, ostensibly, still in a war zone may not have been prudent?
No.
Did James throw up his hands and admit that his Pulitzer-prize winning scoop wasn’t really news and was instead a rather bitchy way of attempting to hit Orange Man Bad because racism?
No.
What James did was retweet two other Twits in a passive aggressive, Mean Girls attempt to justify taking up bandwidth with his banality.
— James LaPorta (@JimLaPorta) October 28, 2019
Same. https://t.co/9tFeEkbuVx
— James LaPorta (@JimLaPorta) October 28, 2019
Such hard-hitting journalism. Truly, James LaPorta is the Edward R. Murrow of our modern age.
Personally, I think Sidney Harman paid way too much.
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