Posted on 10/20/2018 9:27:11 AM PDT by Starman417
Since the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi Saudi has been offering various accounts of what happened to him. Yesterday they finally admitted that Khashoggi is dead.
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi died after a fight that took place in the Saudi consulate in Turkey, Saudi state media reported on Friday afternoon.They say he was killed in a "fist fight."They announced the arrests of eighteen individuals in connection with Khashoggi’s death, many of whom were the same people caught on camera entering the consulate. Saudi officials also denied the reports that Khashoggi was dismembered, instead blaming his death on a fight that broke out in the consulate.
His murder is a terrible thing but the left wing outrage over it is very curious. Firstly, let no one doubt that Khashoggi was not a guy who loved America. He was a friend of Osama Bin Laden.
The Washington Post asserted that educating people about Khashoggi is a right wing smear
The Washington Post decries what it calls a “whispering campaign” to “smear” Jamal Khashoggi that is “designed to protect President Trump”. The “whisperers” are “hard-line Republicans and conservative commentators.” The latter are writing articles critical of Khashoggi (which means they are not whispering). The former are “privately sharing” the articles (which, I had thought, is how articles typically are shared).But as Paul Mirengoff points out, it's not just the left:
The Post also errs in claiming that resistance to the lionizing of Khashoggi comes exclusively from “the hard right.” My criticism (directed primarily at the Post for hiring Khashoggi) relied on reporting by the New York Times. Here is what that hard-line, Trump-protecting paper said about the Post’s man in an article called “For Khashoggi, a Tangled Mix of Royal Service and Islamist Sympathies”:.Khashoggi supported the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and political Islam.His attraction to political Islam helped him forge a personal bond with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. . . .
Several of his friends say that early on Mr. Khashoggi also joined the Muslim Brotherhood. Although he later stopped attending meetings of the Brotherhood, he remained conversant in its conservative, Islamist and often anti-Western rhetoric, which he could deploy or hide depending on whom he was seeking to befriend. . . .
Khashoggi probably did a decent job of hiding his anti-Western rhetoric when he sought to befriend the Washington Post. How hard he had to work at this is another question.
In no way does this minimize the crime, but it does bring into question the motivation for all the left wing outrage. Over the last 18 years 138 Mexican journalists have been killed.
One doesn't see left wing outrage over it.
James Foley was beheaded in 2014.
His death never saw this kind of outrage but then Trump wasn't President.
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Really, I’m glad he’s dead too. Thought I was alone.
“....Are any of these liberals concerned with the mass murder being perpetrated by Iran? I didn’t think so.”
Or, how about US citizens killed by the damn illegal here?
The rat party is vile.
Exactly.
I have asked the same thing. And where is the body since the fist fight?
Today BBC said he’s in the Woods ,LOL ,OK
In answer to Kurt Schlichter’s question, the obvious answer is that Khashoggi was a journalist with many friends at the Washington Post, NY Times and other MSM outlets. The knowledge of this should have been enough to deter MBS from sanctioning this hit, but it wasn’t - just that fact should be enough to ensure that he gets replaced or demoted.
A dead MB member?
Good riddance.
Snore
Boring
Moved on
A horrible murder, and we should disrupt American foreign policy because?
Are any of these liberals concerned with the mass murder being perpetrated by Iran? I didn’t think so.
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The Drive By’s are trying to create a Trump gotcha moment. But there is no gotcha there.
Have a lawyer get his docs for him. He was there on a double cross and got double crossed.
Totally agree. Why did Trump make such a big deal about this?
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