Tuesday, September 03, 2013

US war lobby cites American propagandists for the House of Saud

It is quite a show: lobbyists for a US war, and advocates of a larger American military intervention in Syria cites the authority of American and Arab propagandists for the House of Saud.  The staff of the news station of King Fahd, Al-Arabiyya, are now cited as the barometer of Arab public opinion.  I lived to see this funny day.  Western journalists don't understand how House of Saud's propagandists operate: they receive orders to support Iraqi regime, and they support Iraqi regime.  They receive orders to oppose Syrian regime, so they oppose Syrian regime.  They may receive orders later to support Syrian regime, and they act accordingly.  You can actually see that in the Saudi propagandists' discourse on the Qatari regime: when the two regimes reconciled, the House of Saud's propagandists (the most prominent of whom are Lebanese because Lebanese excel--it has to be said--in the art of prostration) started praising Qatari regime, having pillared it in the past.  Welcome to oil media in the Arab world.