The Associated Press is just like ‘Baghdad Bob’ from the Gulf War

Remember Baghdad Bob? He was Iraq’s military spokesman who, during the U.S.-led 2003 invasion asked, in effect, ” Who are you going to believe, me, or your lying eyes?”

Even as television showed the world pictures of U.S. tanks rolling into downtown Baghdad, Baghdad Bob — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf — was telling reporters that U.S. troops were nowhere in sight.

No one really knows what happened to Bob, who was

Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein’s spokesman, after Saddam was captured and executed. But there is no truth to the rumor that he now runs CNN.

Not that Baghdad Bob, the name mockingly given to him by the U.S. media, was not qualified to run the anti-Donald Trump media outlet. He was. He would have hated Trump as much as CNN does.

And he was qualified, having studied journalism at B.U. (not our B.U., but theirs — Baghdad University) where he also got a master’s degree in English literature.

He earlier rose to prominence by reading lists of Iraqi executions on television, the way U.S. television reporters list President Trump’s former chiefs of staff.

The dastardly canard that Baghdad Bob was running

CNN — which CNN called fake news — arose after the cable television network’s coverage of the riots — “or mostly peaceful protests” — in Kenosha, Wis., after the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

In one memorable news story, CNN national correspondent Omar Jimenez stood in front of a building going up in massive flames during a night of rioting and looting to report how the protests were “mostly peaceful.”

The caption beneath his live report read, “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shooting.”

One almost expected Jimenez, also a journalism major (not at either earlier mentioned B.U.s, but of Northwestern) to add, “Who are you going to believe, me, or your lying eyes.?” But he didn’t.

Another fake news story that deserves to be knocked down is the report that Sahhaf turned down the job offer at CNN to join the Associated Press, another once respected news gathering organization that has joined the hate-Trump bandwagon.

Keep in mind that it is the Associated Press, which thousands of subscribing newspapers, radio and television stations in the U.S. and around the world rely on for news, that sent four of its Washington reporters to collude with the FBI in the Paul Manafort investigation.

According to Judicial Watch, a nonprofit government watchdog organization, the reporters in 2017 met with FBI prosecutor Andrew Weisman, later the “pit bull” of the phony Mueller Russian collusion probe.

The reporters, acting like FBI agents, provided the FBI with information about Manafort, including the code of a storage locker Manafort maintained containing information about his dealings with the Ukraine. The disgraced Manafort was a Trump campaign manager in 2016.

There is no evidence that the FBI acted on the intelligence provided by the reporters, or any evidence that it did not.

But it shows the extent the liberal establishment media will go to bring down Trump, including providing it with information.

More recently, the once-respected news agency has begun to redefine words like riot. It no longer wants to report riots as riots, even though you can watch anti-police rioting whenever a police action occurs that leftists deem racist.

A riot, according to MerriamWebster is “a violent public disorder specifically: a tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by three or more persons assembled together and acting with a common intent.”

The Associated Press disagrees. In its latest usage stylebook, AP suggest that a milder word like “unrest” be used because “the term riot suggests uncontrolled chaos and pandemonium,” which is exactly what a riot is.

The AP warns that “Focusing on rioting and property destruction rather than underlying grievance has been used in the past to stigmatize broad swaths of people protesting against lynching, police brutality or for racial justice, going back to the urban uprisings of the 1960s.”

“Unrest,” it said, “is a vaguer, milder and less emotional term for a condition of angry discontent and protests verging on revolt.”

If you see rioters on television, like the thugs of Antifa and BLM hurling Molotov cocktails and rocks at cops, trashing police cruisers, burning police stations, looting liquor stores and Walgreens, do not believe what you see. It is not a riot. It is unrest.

The Associated Press is our Baghdad Bob.

So, who are you going to believe, Baghdad Bob or your lying eyes?