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Patrick
2017 Nov 21, 7:39pm
Patrick
2017 Nov 21, 7:39pm
This is amazing, since it is so rare to see any light shed on Saudi manipulation of US elections and the US press.
In a profile for the media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Adam Johnson detailed how “For almost 15 years, Ignatius has been breathlessly updating U.S. readers on the token, meaningless public relations gestures that the Saudi regime—and, by extension, Ignatius—refer to as ‘reforms.’”
Ignatius has published more than a dozen Washington Post columns recycling hackneyed Saudi regime talking points, echoing members of the royal family and even rationalizing the beheading of peaceful dissidents from the kingdom’s Shia minority. ...
Ignatius influencing Hillary Clinton
Ignatius’ writings have a strong influence not just on the U.S. public, but on the government itself. His columns' impact on the administration of President Barack Obama and on his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, was evident in the tranche of emails released from Clinton’s hacked private server. Ignatius was mentioned 40 times in the Clinton emails.
Soon after Clinton was appointed to the head of the State Department, she had two private meetings with Ignatius, itineraries from May 2009 emails show.
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MisdemeanorRebel
2017 Nov 22, 7:47pm
MisdemeanorRebel
2017 Nov 22, 7:47pm
Isn't it though?
Here's a guy who carried water for the Saudi Old Guard that King and Crown Prince just axed. Now all of a sudden reforms, which never happened for the decades he said it was right around the corner, are actually happening, he's against them and the Crown Prince.
Obviously a Scholar for Dollars.
Here's a guy who carried water for the Saudi Old Guard that King and Crown Prince just axed. Now all of a sudden reforms, which never happened for the decades he said it was right around the corner, are actually happening, he's against them and the Crown Prince.
Obviously a Scholar for Dollars.
https://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/leaked-emails-expose-how-uae-and-saudi-arabia-work-us-media-push-war
Ignatius was pro-Iraq War, and basically backed everything Saudi ever did, exaggerating every intervention in Yemen, every rumor of reform, etc.
Until now. Now he suddenly thinks everything the Saudis do is bad. It's been article after article for the past few weeks.
His last article says Crown Prince Muhammed about going too far in reform, after Muhammed allows women driving, calls for moderate Islam, announces plans to have religious laws set on the City level (that's huge for both moderates and Shi'a in Saudi Arabia), and of courses arrests billionaires and the Old Guard Saudi Ministers on corruption charges.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/11/21/tehran-is-winning-the-war-for-control-of-the-middle-east-saudi-arabia/
Anybody think he's carrying water for his Old Guard Saudi supporters? Ignatius can't be trusted on Saudi Arabia, it's clear he's vested in the old guard.
He also, of course, writes for both Foreign Policy and the Washington Post, where Democracy Dies In Their Deep State.
#Politics #Saudi #MSM #Neoliberals