Wednesday, February 05, 2014

King Fahd's news station

From Ahmet in Tunisia:  "Asad, this is the standards of Al-Arabiya, the sleazy network files a 450 word dispatch from its Tunis' correspondent with the headline/theme "Tunisia's Tourism Minister's Smile Fires up Social Media"...

And of course, this is  not true as almost every discussion surrounding her has hardly been centered around her sartorial choices/lip movement like this pathetic, Daily Mail-like report puts it,  but around the baggage of her 2006 visit to Israel and her much ballyhooed competence for someone who has so far attained the ultimate educational  and professional heights of Coaching/Mentoring...But we already knew about the priorities of Saudi media and their patrons: anybody who has a whiff of Normalization with Israel is cuteness-embodied....As of now, The new Prime Minister refused her resignation; and the Islamists have mostly kept mum.."