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Russian Collusion?
So … “journalist” Jamal Khashoggi, who got whacked by the Saudis, is revealed to have had a relationship with the Qatari government than seems to have gone beyond showing up at the Embassy’s lamb-kabob blowouts. From the Washington Post:
Text messages between Khashoggi and an executive at Qatar Foundation International show that the executive, Maggie Mitchell Salem, at times shaped the columns he submitted to the Washington Post, proposing topics, drafting material and prodding him to take a harder line against the Saudi government. Khashoggi also appears to have relied on a researcher and translator affiliated with the organization, which promotes Arabic-language education in the United States.
Qatar is allied with Iran and Syria. Iran and Syria are allied with the Russians. Does this mean that the Washington Post (publisher of Khashoggi’s columns) is colluding with the Russians?
Has E. J. Dionne ever been to Prague?
Do we need a special prosecutor? Can we get one anyway, seeing as how they are so much fun?
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Well I for one think it stinks to high heaven, and I know someone who knows a person who works in the lunch room at the Washington Post, and she said for a fact that they serve Russian Dressing in there!!! AND in addition to THAT, I also know someone who knows a person who saw a Washington Post employee in a bar drinking Stolichnaya Vodka!!!! Which comes from RUSSIA!!!
Khashoggi was accidentally killed, when he tried to fight back against aggressive interrogation. He was not “murdered” or “whacked”. It was an accident. You can be sure it is true, because the Leftist media keeps saying “murder” and “journalist”.
It would actually make more sense. What kind of Mickey Mouse intelligence agency would whack a guy in their own consulate? How many cameras were pointed at the entrance? Why not wait for the guy at his place, let him have it, take his wallet and his watch, and at least make the effort to make it look like someone else did it?
Because it sends a message, like the Mueller “investigation”–it can happen to you. Put a severed head on a pike, hang a body on the overpass of a highway.
It would still be suspicious. They would still be suspected of doing it. I think that that would send enough of a message.
Hiding body parts must be opposite of sending a message and implies that someone was hiding a mistake. Khashoggi was an anti-reform agitator and had intelligence value to the Saudi’s.
Put a horse’s head in someone’s bed.
I originally viewed this as a non US issue. A Saudi citizen gets themselves killed on Saudi soil by the Saudi government, via a Saudi consulate hosted in Turkey. The only possible connection is he resided in the US a bit an wrote a few anti Saudi, Iranian friendly, op eds for American newspapers Democrat public relations machine.
It was not until later that I realized this was the point. In the Democrats perspective of everybody is a world citizen and there are no “legal” borders then the only thing that makes you valuable is if are you a good Democrat soldier. Thus Khashoggi is an American because he is a Democrat operative promoting the Democrat point of view for a Democrat newspaper. Any other facts can be ignored as unimportant.
What? A journalist accepting content and talking points from a biased quasi-governmental source? Why, that’s unheard of!
Oh, wait . . .
Leave a gun oil-stained tee shirt that reads “Property of Langley Athletic Club” in the hit team’s hotel room. You know, like the Mossad would do.
Actually that is the definition of journalism anymore. They only do lip service to fair or balanced coverage. They know they are lying when they say it and think they are smart and cute because they can repeatedly tell the lie to rubes. The rubes know the journalist are constantly lying to them and hate them for it. The journalist do not understand this hatred since they know how brilliant they are and how dumb the rubes are so the lies must be believed. So the Orange One shows up and points out what all the rubes always knew but were not allowed to say. So now the Orange One is hated for his truth of letting all the little self appointed emperors know they are wearing no clothes. Of course the error is the truth of the Orange One and not the reality of the journalist and their lies.
It seems everyone except Trump is colluding with the Russians!
Set that is the proof that he is doing it. If everybody was doing it then obviously he was as well.
Seeing as how Putin does the same thing from time to time, in Britain, I’m thinking what gets tolerated gets repeated.
Responses to that are limited, unfortunately. Toss a few dips, entrance restrictions on nationals … that’s about it.
That looks like a guy from Minnesota named “Two Put Tommy”. I hate his guts because he’s one of the most disingenuous liars on the planet. It looks like it could be Eric Wimple from the Washington Post, too.
That’s gotta be fake.
Journ-o-list was a true scandal.
That got swept under the rug.
The GOP national convention was in Minnesota at that time, so it could be a gag gift. That is definitely the guy I was referencing. What a jerk.
Looks like the they misspelled “Losers for Obama”.
He’s awful. He spread a bunch of lies about a guy that has a radio show and a prominent blog here. And then when you talk to him about policy on Twitter all he does is gaslight. We punished him so hard on his stupidity he gave up being political in a public way. He used to be a big deal appearing on the local radio shows and so forth. No more. Stupid and bad.