Media punts seem to be discovering the hidden charms of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Ever since President Donald Trump arranged for the erasure of the ISIS leader, anti-Trumpers

seem to have been asking themselves if Trump ordered him killed.

Can he really have been so bad?

The Washington Post, where democracy dies, strangling on hatred after taking a heavy dose of

mindless venom, called the terrorist leader an austere religious scholar and bl-

The United States invasion of Iraq for distracting this quote academic from his intention to

live a quote, quiet life as a professor of Islamic law, unquote.

Never Trump or Max Boot, also in the Washington Post, objected the president and Trump calling

the austere scholar a coward, saying after all, the terrorist had been so very brave that

he blew himself in three children to smithereens.

I've prayed God would allow me to wake up in a world where I'm making all that up, but

so far no dice.

I haven't even gotten to the satire part yet, but we can now look forward to articles from

say The New York Times, a former newspaper, praising al-Baghdadi for his wistful appreciation

of female beauty that caused him to hold a female hostage as a sex slave before murdering

her.

And maybe Chuck Todd will chime in on al-Baghdadi's limpid, soulful gaze as he watched the

videos of innocent people being beheaded, which he made in order to recruit more austere

scholars to his cause of slaughtering everybody in sight.

There was, of course, also al-Baghdadi's fabulous fashion sense, which led MSNBC to offer

a hosting spot on their new show, Muslim Eye for the Christian Guy, which has now unfortunately

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