Democracy dies in darkness

That howler was adopted as a slogan by the Washington Post about a year and a half ago, just months after they released the manifestly fake ProporNot list of 200 fake news sites.

I must admit I don’t understand how any thinking person can read that slogan without arching an eyebrow or two. The Washington Post has long been regarded as the unofficial mouthpiece for the CIA, and that was long before it was purchased by the world’s richest man, whose connections to the CIA are a matter of public record, at least some of them.

Note how they’ve painted themselves as champions of press freedom since the untimely demise of their occasional contributor Jamal Kashoggi. That’s every bit as hilarious as Erdogan claiming that mantle. Kashoggi was a reliable pro-Kingdom stooge for his entire journalism career, until the palace coup that brought in MBS. Suddenly the Kashoggi clan were on the wrong side of KSA history, and Jamal decided to self-exile himself to DC, there to do whatever he could to further the cause of his side in the internecine struggle for the rulership of the Kingdom.

That’s why he’s dead now. The irony of his having become a posthumous symbol of journalistic freedom seems to be lost on the public at large. One gets the impression that the vast majority of those shocked and appalled at the Kashoggi murder are folks who can’t wait for Assange and Snowden to face “justice” in the American judicial system.

The fact that the WaPo is promoting Jamal as a martyr for “press freedom” tells you that the CIA is, at least for the moment, throwing their weight behind the old guard in the Kingdom.

Having said that, it’s good to see that at least some US media outlets get the bigger picture. Unfortunately, those outlets are hemoraging money and won’t last much longer…

Sooner or later the CIA will buy them too.