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 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.
They say he was killed in a “fist fight.”
Saudis confirm Khashoggi's death, claim he died in 'fist fight' https://t.co/Ehtx78GyfC
— POLITICO (@politico) October 19, 2018
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.
https://twitter.com/Cocoa_Bean10/status/1053606249055612928
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”:.
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.
Khashoggi supported the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and political Islam.
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.
The left doesn't want you to know about the 138 Mexican journalists killed between 2000 and 2018.https://t.co/LKv3Pi97NM
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) October 19, 2018
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.
Independent journalist Jerry Wolkowitz died five months after a racially motivated attack. I doubt you even heard about that- certainly not from the mainstream media.
Khashoggi is today’s Christine Blasey Ford. His death is no more to the left than a bludgeon being utilized to pound Donald Trump. At the moment Trump is being pressured to act, regardless of the truth- which has still not been fully revealed. Khashoggi’s death needs to be investigated and the perpetrators punished, but that’s not Trump’s obligation.
Joaquin Castro (D-TX) went off the rails riding the Kashoggi train, accusing Jared Kushner of masterminding Khashoggi’s death.
Christine Ford was thrown under the bus as soon as Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed and Khashoggi will be yesterday’s news by next week. democrats don’t really care.
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