Drudge: Obama named ISIS that so it would 'be confused with Darrell Issa'

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Wednesday October 07, 2015 · 6:30 PM PDT

2015/10/07 · 18:30

no image description available — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA)

A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holds an ISIL flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul, June 23, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held crisis talks with leaders of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Tuesday

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA)

Dear conservatives: Your entire movement is an exercise in self-parody.

[Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge] said that the Obama administration began referring to the Islamic State as "ISIS" so that the group would be confused with Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the former chairman of the House Oversight Committee.
"We never heard of ISIS until recently," Drudge told [prominent conspiracy peddler Alex Jones]. "Do you know it was designed to be confused with Darrell Issa?"

Yes, that must be it. What other possible explanation could there be.

Drudge: Obama named ISIS that so it would 'be confused with Darrell Issa'

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