Time for your daily AP article on the Dubai hit: You’d think that the assassination victim was some kind of worldwide hero or something, for this much media attention, but you would be wrong. Israel supposedly did it, so the “Jews is news” rule is in effect. Yesterday’s article? All about the bank that supplied the prepaid credit cards for the assassination team. Ooh, fascinating stuff. Maybe tomorrow they can tell us the kind of ink that was used to forge the passports! Today’s article: The Dubai hit will never be repeated. Wanna bet?
A Dubai hit the world is mostly ignoring: So this rich Egyptian hired a hit man to slit the throat of his ex-lover in Dubai. They caught the killer on security camera, then allowed the man who paid him to leave Dubai and be tried in Egypt. Egypt has just ordered a retrial (surprise, surprise, since the guy is tied to the dictator’s son). I’m wondering why the Dubai police chief isn’t sending out daily press releases about this murder, or talking about how Dubai will not allow Egyptian assassins to run free. (No, not really, because Israeli Double Standard Time is always in play.)
Everybody comes to Rick’s Dubai: Your daily Reuters Dubai hit piece, which glorifies Dubai as a nation that asks few questions and attracts real lowlives as a matter of course. It’s a “tradition of openness,” you see—allowing mass murderers to hide out safely in its borders. Ah, double standards. They’re simply everywhere.
Australian police hit and run: An apt metaphor. The Australian officers in Israel to interrogate the dual nationals whose IDs were used in the Dubai assassination hit a cyclist in Israel and didn’t stop to see if she was all right. The thing speaks for itself.
THAT’S HOW WE ROLL!!
Re – Australian police hit and run:
Look, I’m sorry, but that’s just how we drive down here – especially the cops.
Plus we all hate cyclists (come on, seriously – who doesn’t?? Self-righteous, spandex sporting, skinny-cino sipping smartarses…)
That said, when on earth are you going to get your snarky backside back into gear re- SNN Podcasts? By my reckoning, we’re approaching a quarter of the year gone with not a peep (Jan, Feb, March…what
the hell?) And while I’m here, can I make a request for 2010 interview subjects/guest hosts? Richard ‘The Kinkster’ Friedman and fellow true life myth Steve Rambam. Think about it – that’s an episode
that’d be hard to beat.
Best wishes,
Richard
I’m taking a break from SNN. I don’t know when I’ll be rejoining it. It needs to start being fun again instead of feeling like an obligation.