NEW DETAILS RUIN KHASHOGGI HERO STORY:
So [Jamal] Khashoggi was railing against one set of authoritarians…with the research assistance and “drafting” and “shaping” of another set. This doesn’t make his ruthless murder any less heinous. But it ought to curtail all the “Free Thinker Just Bearing Witness” rubbish.
The Post claims they were not aware of this little non-independent arrangement. They exploited his death to underline their Democracy Dies In Darkness promotional campaigns. They ran a full-page ad in December with Khashoggi’s picture with a candle in front of it and the words “A life is gone. The principles of free expression endure. The Washington Post.” So now they’ve been made aware…and nothing changes.
There’s nothing like appropriating this victim. In reality, Khashoggi wrote 19 pieces for the Post website from September 2017 to September 2018. They published him once in the actual newspaper before he died. They weren’t that passionately impressed with his opinions before he was killed.