You might be familiar with a recent jaunt a handful of comedians took to Riyadh to perform for the House of Saud brass.
Legacy and leftist media have attempted to turn this into a pseudo-scandal.
From the melodramatically titled “Laughter can’t launder what Saudi Arabia has done,” via The Washington Post (emphasis added):
“Fifty comedians walk into a repressive Gulf kingdom. That sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. But there is little funny about some of the best-known Western comics trekking to Saudi Arabia, collecting large paychecks and agreeing to censor themselves at the Riyadh Comedy Festival, which runs through Thursday.
The event in the Saudi capital is supposed to be another example of how the kingdom has become more open and tolerant under its modernizing monarch, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS. Really, it’s just the latest in a string of attempts to divert attention from his country’s atrocious human rights record by hosting showy international events. It’s also a fresh reminder of how many people will pick a payday over principles…
While the comedians are yukking it up onstage, human rights groups report that dozens of Saudi journalists, dissidents, women’s rights activists and peaceful critics remain imprisoned on bogus charges.”
Au contraire, Washington Post; vapid virtue-signaling can’t launder what you’ve done.
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”
-Matthew 7:3
Let’s see what The Washington Post had to say about “human rights” in the summer of 2021.
Via The Washington Post, July 19, 2021:
“It’s time to get serious about coronavirus vaccinations. Stop pleading and start mandating.
For the past six months, President Biden, joined by every public health authority in the land, has been begging Americans to get vaccinated. The “pretty, please” approach isn’t working…
There is vaccine hesitancy among many different sectors of the population, including reckless youths, granola liberals who believe in alternative medicines and African Americans who distrust the health-care system. Some are still persuadable, but many are not…
This is madness. Stop making reasonable appeals to those who will not listen to reason. (According to an Economist/YouGov poll, a majority of those who refuse to get vaccinated say vaccines are being used by the government to implant microchips.) It’s a waste of time. Start mandating that anyone who wants to travel on an airplane, train or bus, attend a concert or movie, eat at a restaurant, shop at a store, work in an office or visit any other indoor space show proof of vaccination or a negative coronavirus test.”
Related: After Years of Covering For Fauci, Washington Post Acknowledges Beagle Torture
Of course, the argument that the COVID “vaccine” was in any way going to end the “pandemic” was a demonstrable lie; the capacity of the “vaccine” to prevent transmission was never even tested in the trials used to foist it on the public.
Millions of people who otherwise would not have submitted were bullied by The Washington Post and all of their legacy partners into receiving a dangerous, experimental medical product — the death toll of which we may never fully know — all based on a mountain of provable lies.
Related: Study: COVID Shots Cripple Immune System — Possibly Permanently
But comedians doing a one-night show in Saudi Arabia — those are the real villains.
Right?
Which is the greater miscarriage of justice: dozens of political prisoners or millions (in the end, perhaps billions) of dead pharma victims and not a single consequence meted out to the perpetrators?
Tomato, tomahto?
