Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: What's Saudi Arabia got to do with it?
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Jared Kushner’s BFF, Mr. Bone Saw, is having another bad media week. Reuters: Saudi Arabia had “absolutely nothing to do” with the National Enquirer’s reporting on an extramarital relationship involving Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff BezosAbbreviated Pundit Round-up: What's Saudi Arabia got to do with it?
Jared Kushner’s BFF, Mr. Bone Saw, is having another bad media week. Reuters: Saudi Arabia had “absolutely nothing to do” with the National Enquirer’s reporting on an extramarital relationship involving Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, the kingdom’s minister of state for foreign affairs said. Gee, who’s saying they did? x#WashingtonDC | Minister of State for Foreign Affairs @AdelAljubeir: âÂÂOur leadership is a red lineâ pic.twitter.com/74K5iCe6IQ— Foreign Ministry ð¸ð¦ (@KSAmofaEN) February 8, 2019 Jack Shafer/Politico: Bezos teases the Enquirer and its executives in the sections of the Medium post in which he discusses America Media CEO David Pecker and the company’s closeness to the Saudi government, for which it has done work. He briskly notes that Pecker and the company have been “investigated for various actions they’ve taken on behalf of the Saudi Government.” Then he quotes from a New York Times story about how President Trump rewarded Pecker’s loyalty “with a White House dinner to which the media executive brought a guest with important ties to the royals in Saudi Arabia. At the time, Mr. Pecker was pursuing business there while also hunting for financing for acquisitions …” Having stuck the Saudi scimitar in, Bezos twists it a few paragraphs later, writing, “Several days ago, an AMI leader advised us that Mr. Pecker is ‘apoplectic’ about our investigation. For reasons still to be better understood, the Saudi angle seems to hit a particularly sensitive nerve.”... The biggest mistake the Enquirer made was trying to bully somebody who, by dint of his power and pride, couldn’t be bullied. But the Enquirer’s second and more lasting mistake was telling the owner of one of the world’s most influential newspapers what not to cover. Now that Bezos has revealed that demand, the entire fourth estate is chasing that story and won’t stop until they get it. Oh. Well, then. Read more