‘CLASSIC UP-FROM-THE-BOOTSTRAPS STORY:’ Bloomberg Politics attempts to outdo the WaPost with a fawning al-Baghdadi headline of its own.

Pro tip to journalists who are around “27 years old, and…literally know nothing,” as budding novelist and former Obama hack Ben Rhodes would say: The New York Times’ necrophilic 1953 obit for Joseph Stalin, headlined, “Stalin Rose From Czarist Oppression to Transform Russia Into Mighty Socialist State,” is not a recommended template to follow when writing articles on terrorists and totalitarians who have recently assumed room temperature.