Posted on 10/22/2018 1:37:01 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie
As I read CNN trying to get Trump by playing up the apparent murder of a Saudi citizen by the Saudi government, I'm reminded that in 2003 CNN and the NY Times both admitted that they hid all sorts of atrocities being committed by Saddam Hussein in exchange for access. They admitted that Saddam and his sons told them in advance of planned assassinations that they didn't report. They admitted that they knew of instances of torture and brutality against not just Iraqi's but even against their own cameraman in one torture instance and they kept all that quiet too. They admitted that senior Iraqi officials came to them and told them that Saddam was insanely brutal and need to go. But they also admitted that they buried all of that.
Why did they do this? They say "well, if we'd have reported it those people would all still have been killed or tortured. And by keeping it quiet we were able to stay in the country so we could report ... well, not really the truth because we decided not to tell that stuff, but at least we could still be there to say bad things about Bush". So why did they admit it? Because we went to war and CNN and the NY Times knew that as the torture facilities became public knowledge, they'd have to explain how they missed all that. So they issued a per-emptive "we did it to save the children" excuse.
Ping!!
CNN sucked then...
CNN sucks now...
They are all lapdogs for tyrants and dictators. The NY Times was all in for Hitler and Mussolini before they were against them. But then again, they were just following the guidance of the DNC and FDR through the first half of the 1930s when Hitler and Mussolini were considered the great leaders of the future because of their marvelous new system of government with an super efficient all-powerful state, the magical and wonderful system they called Fascism. Oops, now they're marching into neutral countries and slaughtering innocent people by the millions. Uh, we were always against them, yeah, that's the ticket.
Didn’t France kill someone when I they blew up the Greenpeace boat down in Australia?
Who gives an expletive about slammies killin slammies? The fewer there are the safer mankind is!
You’ve got their number!
But wait, you say. CNN and the NY times are upset because Kashoggi was a journalist! CNN (or the NY times, forget which but I think CNN) had one of their cameramen be taken in and tortured by Saddam's people. A journalist and US citizen, tortured by Saddam. And they chose not to report it. No big deal, don't want to jeopardize that puff piece interview with Saddam later in the month over a small thing like one of our guys getting tortured. But Kashoggi? Battle stations everyone!
The Saudis were neck deep in 9/11 and Bush classified it to keep it hidden. It came out a couple of years ago when the classified doc was declassified and it was shocking to see how much support and funding from high level Saudis these terrorists were getting, and more shocking that Bush chose to hide it. Since reading that I think he's scum. And I certainly don't love the Saudis. But if we aren't going to level them over 9/11 I'm certainly not interested in doing it over some Saudi national.
New York Times boy - assisted with covering up the starvation of millions... and won Pulitzer for his lies.
That's why we call them all "Fake News"...
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