Posted on 10/21/2018 2:58:20 PM PDT by MtnClimber
People die. Every day. It’s our lot. Some deaths attract more attention than others. Sometimes for good reasons. Sometimes for nefarious and dishonest ones. The largest metropolitan U.S. cities see deadly violence every weekend. And those run by the Democratic Party for the last several decades are especially prone to it. Recently, Baltimore witnessed seven murders in less than 24 hours. How much coverage does the Washington Post or CNN give those murders? In fact, New York City made headlines this week for having had the first homicide-free weekend in 25 years. This was news because it is so anomalous. How perverse.
So what about Jamal Khashoggi? Yes, it is now clear that Saudi Arabian man was murdered. But what are the facts of his death and do they matter to you? Or to America? First things first. It is important to understand that Khashoggi—whose name the mainstream media seems to be having such difficulty pronouncing, even though no one had any difficulty for decades with his uncle Adnan Khashoggi, the late billionaire arms dealer—was neither an American nor was he strictly speaking a journalist. Khashoggi was a Saudi national who recently moved to the United States. How a man with his past obtained a green card from the State Department is another interesting question, and more on that momentarily.
Secondly, he was not a journalist. At least not in any conventional sense of the word.
Journalists have a beat. Journalists are accredited and cover news stories, from the local police blotter to the White House. Khashoggi was a newly minted U.S.-based commentator, an opinion piece writer, after having spent much of his life as a subject about which journalists write (he was a friend of the Osama bin Laden family and an activist for a decidedly dark cause).
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He was a Muslim Brotherhood follower who wanted to eliminate any western influence from islamist countries and hated the ideas of Saudi Arabia to modernize.
I couldn’t care less about him either.
Khashoggi was no journalist and the media crowd fully understand this. He hated American which made him a friend and colleague of the media. With his connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, he was going to have problem with MBS and the Saudi royal family. More likely, they had caught him double crossing them. He became like Thomas a Becket, a turbulent priest who needed to be rid of. Like Henry II’s loyal knight’s, the Saudi gang that took out Khashoggi were ham fisted doing the King’s work. It would have been much better for him to commit suicide by jumping out of an airplane at 31,000 feet.
The media does indeed care. This whole episode is just a clumsy vehicle to attack Trump. Fake news that always ends with “Trump denies Saudi influence, kickbacks, love child, whatever”.
When reading the MSM always consider first how they are trying to hurt Trump.
I am highly suspicious of the orchestrated effort by congress to get rid of MBS. Why? They talk about Yemen, but what would they want done? Let Iran get a foothold on the peninsula?
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