Daily Beast Columnist Goes Full Truther, Refuses to Believe San Bernardino Shooter Supported ISIS
Daily Beast columnist and alleged comedian Dean Obeidallah is not happy that evidence has emerged showing one of the San Bernardino shooters pledged their allegiance to ISIS, going on Twitter to openly question the media’s reporting on the subject.
Okay how do u pledge to ISIS on FB? San Bernardino Gunwoman Pledged Allegiance to ISIS on Facebook, Officials Say https://t.co/TVNo1jH0jI
— Dean Obeidallah (@Deanofcomedy) December 4, 2015
Apparently the wife in #SanBernadinoShooting pledged allegiance to ISIS on FB – no one say that posting?! https://t.co/1xcIfHMvxc? — Dean Obeidallah (@Deanofcomedy) December 4, 2015
How did #SanBernadino wife really pledge allegiance to ISIS on Facebook? Is there a new relationship status you can pick for that?!
— Dean Obeidallah (@Deanofcomedy) December 4, 2015
NBC, Fox News, CNN, and The New York Times have all independently confirmed the ISIS allegiance posting (CNN’s report even cited three separate officials). To answer Obeidallah’s question, “no one [saw]” the posting because according to The Times, the couple “took steps to delete their electronic information to cover their tracks.”
(UPDATE: 2:05 PM ET): And now a Facebook executive has confirmed to Associated Press that the shooter left a message praising terrorist groups as the shooting began.
Obeidallah, who is himself Muslim and believes radical Islam is a nonexistent “made-up idea,” had spent much of the previous day downplaying any notion that the San Bernardino attacks had anything to do with Islam, hinting that a workplace argument or mental illness could be the cause.
Hey media: Maybe #SanBernadino shooter was mentally ill? Oh yeah, I forgot, Muslims are immune to that. Only white peeps can be mentally ill — Dean Obeidallah (@Deanofcomedy) December 4, 2015
Why won’t the police tell us what the fight was about before the #SanBernadinoShooting? that may help all os us understand this attack more
— Dean Obeidallah (@Deanofcomedy) December 4, 2015
Will all the media coverage of #SanBernadinoShooting why aren’t we being told what the shooter and others at holiday party fought about? — Dean Obeidallah (@Deanofcomedy) December 3, 2015
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