As we all know, Chuck Todd hosted his first Meet the Press gig the other day.
One, of the more ignorant comments Chuck Todd made was when he false accused President Obama of using the term ISIL because President Obama does not want to mention the word Syria.
CHUCK TODD:
Obviously we refer to it at NBC News as ISIS. The Obama administration, President says the word ISIL. The last 'S' stands for Syria, the last L they don’t want to have stand for Syria.
~Chuck Todd on Meet the Press 9/8/2014
WTF?!?!? "
the last L they don't want to have it stand for Syria?"
That mind numbingly stupid comment is further proof that Chuck Todd is paid to be a propaganda spewing rightwinged hack.
In factual-world, President Obama uses the term ISIL is because President Obama is using the most accurate translation of the title that this group, ISIL, gave itself when it was founded in 2004 as a result of the Iraq invasion.
... but that's just fact-world, not rightwinged hackery world.
So what slim infested part of rightwinged-hackery world did stupid Chuck Todd pick up the rightwinged nutcase idea that President Obama has a nefarious reason for using the term ISIL?
Answer: Chuck Todd got that rightwinged talking point from Fox.
August 24, 2014 Fox Nation posted this BS
Why would Obama prefer ISIL? An “army” of that territorial magnitude takes the focus off the two countries that many believe define Obama’s continued failure in the Middle East. Most likely, he would rather eliminate the connection between the chaos in Iraq with his inaction in Syria.
There ya have it, Chuck Todd surely must have picked up on that BS "
he would rather eliminate the connection between the chaos in Iraq with his inaction in Syria."
Fox Nation was so pissed that President Obama actually had the nerve to use factual terms while giving two speeches.
With the exception of Reuters and now the Associated Press, most news organizations have not referred to ISIL until President Obama began using the term, which stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. But when Obama used the term 5 times on June13, and 16 times in his commencement speech at West Point on June 19th, he was using his bully pulpit to make a point.
Yes, with the exception of two news outlets, Reuters & the AP, who decided to use factual terms instead of media made-up term, ISIS, the rest of the media are still too stupid to use the correct term, ISIL.
And now we know one place that stupid Chuck Todd goes to get his world-view is Fox.
In June, 2014, the AP explained why they, the AP, will use the term "ISIL" and not "ISIS"
In Arabic, the group is known as Al-Dawla Al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham, or the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham. The term “al-Sham” refers to a region stretching from southern Turkey through Syria to Egypt (also including Lebanon, Israel, the Palestinian territories and Jordan). The group’s stated goal is to restore an Islamic state, or caliphate, in this entire area.
~Associatedweb postune 2014 web post
The AP is correct.
In Arabic the phrase is "al-Dawlet al-Islamiyyeh fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham" literally translates to the Islamic State of (in) Iraq and the Levant. The final "S" in ISIS does not translate to Syria because the word Syria is not in the original Arabic language.
They, ISIL, use the term "al-Sham" which refers to an old swatch of territory that is known in English as "the Levant." It is not just Syria because ISIL also thinks they will control Lebanon and Palestine which are included in the ancient "al-Sham" or "the Levant."
But, to underscore the gravity of Chuck Todd's ignorance, he was talking to Andrea Mitchel and he was too stupid to hear her use the term "ISIL."
ANDREA MITCHELL:
... And he [Obama] is basically saying he outlining a war against ISIL in Iraq, based on an Iraqi army that has yet to be proved effective at all.
So if you're only going to fight them in Iraq, degrade them in Iraq, and then worry about Syria with the Syrian state army that we let down for three years, we have not armed them to their needs, how does that work? So it's a strategy, it's the clearest strategy. This is an incredible interview, in that he's laying it out point by point.
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CHUCK TODD
Obviously we refer to it at NBC News as ISIS. The Obama administration, president says the word ISIL. The last 'S' stands for Syria, the last L they don’t want to have stand for Syria.
Ok, so Andrea Mitchell didn't get Chuck Todd's memo that "
Obviously we refer to it at NBC News as 'ISIS'"
No kidding here, it's bad enough that Chuck Todd blatantly lied when he falsely accused President Obama of: "You've not said the word, "Syria," so far in our conversation..."
But, Chuck Todd underscores and highlights that his goal as host of the failed Meet the Press show is to simply spew false, gas-baggish, rightwinged talking points as is evidenced by Chuck Todd falsely accusing President Obama of using the term ISIL because he does not want to use the word "Syria."
What a bunch of crap!