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SEAN STONE INTERVIEWS RANIA KHALEK: A CONFEDERACY OF ASSADIST DUNCES
http://www.maryscullyreports.com/sean-stone-interviews-rania-khalek-a-confederacy-of-assadist-dunces
MARCH 4, 2017
Rania Khalek is struggling to salvage her career as an “independent”
journalist after embedding herself with the Syrian army last year &
traveling to Aleppo with Bartlett & Beeley. That hasn’t hurt their
careers much but they’re professional propagandists on Assad’s payroll
while she has no idea what the hell she’s doing.
While on the road back to Damascus accompanied by Syrian soldiers,
Khalek got sick & wondered aloud on social media if she had been
poisoned by the Syrian army since they were so controlling. This
outraged Bartlett & Beeley who roasted her for impugning their beloved
Syrian army & the Assad regime. A falling out between ardent Assadist
ideologues & groveling, inept wannabes can get pretty nasty.
RT apparently has not given up on Khalek yet since they often enough
interview her as an expert on Syrian politics based on her one week
under close supervision “If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium” kind of
tour. The network seems to be testing her out for a full-time gig. Her
latest is an interview on RT by Sean Stone, the actor & son of Oliver
Stone who already has a regular gig on RT. Not unlike his father, Sean
Stone is a full-blown libertarian conspiracy thinker who navigates
complex political issues by intuition & paranoia & doesn’t appear to
have cracked a book since high school. He is just as ignorant as Khalek
on the issue of Syria & just as ardent a supporter of Assad’s
dictatorship & Russian military intervention.
Stone, who four years ago was dismissive about terrorism & called the
so-called war on terror “constant fear mongering & aggression,”
interviewed Khalek about the White Helmets & was now feeding her lines
about the Syrian army liberating Syrians from “jihadist terrorists.”
Neither has the investigative integrity considered de rigueur to an
honest 7th grader. Watching Stone interview Khalek brings to mind the
phrase “the worst are full of passionate intensity” from The Second
Coming by W.B. Yeats because what they lack in understanding, they try
to make up for with feigned ardor.
Some Assadist media (that not run by Bartlett & Beeley) like Mint Press
News publish Khalek’s endless laments about the hit her career has taken
since her ill-fated whirlwind tour of Syria intended to give her
credentials but which has brought her shame. For Khalek, revolution &
counter-revolution in Syria is all about her; it’s happening 6,000 miles
from her wounded ego that no one will publish her articles or pay her
honoraria to speak. She complains that she’s being silenced & smeared,
“marginalized & ostracized” by opponents of Assad’s dictatorship when
actually her career is tanking because no one gives a damn what she has
to say; she doesn’t know anything. Her recent writings on media coverage
of Syria & the refugee crisis are an embarrassment of groveling
apologetics, perhaps hoping Assad will take notice & put her on the
payroll too.
Alas, poor Rania! Thou hast undone thine own career by thinking you can
wing it & play lightly with the life & death questions of revolution &
counter-revolution in Syria. Thou hath wrought this upon thyself & will
have to live with oblivion which many before you have preferred to
shame.
Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtNL_nYuD3Y
NEWS
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