MSNBC Helpfully Explains How To Keep Your Teenagers From Joining ISIS

With the news that three teenage girls have been detained and returned home after apparently trying to run away and join ISIS, Americans have a whole new thing to freak out about: your damn kids signing up for global jihad. Three girls from Colorado, aged 15, 16, and 17, were apprehended at Frankfurt airport in Germany yesterday, returned to the U.S. into FBI custody, and were then released after reportedly telling the FBI they had planned to join ISIS.

Luckily, cable news is responsibly and helpfully offering tips to parents who wish to avoid this pervasive problem, as NBC News Terrorism Analyst Evan Kohlmann demonstrated on last night’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell…READ MORE[su_new_centered_skyscraper_ad]

By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.