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6:43Now PlayingIn this Majority Report clip, Tom Friedman is so bad even longtime critic Sam was surprised.
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"Faced with a tiny embarrassment, Thomas Friedman has had to take the extreme measure of quoting himself in extenso in an effort to wriggle out of his rapturous endorsement of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), now suspected of being the perpetrator behind the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a respected Saudi journalist.
If confirmed, this would make MBS the world heavyweight champion of dictators specialized in the assault on freedom of the press, surpassing both Russia and Malta. Definitive proof may still be lacking, but the conviction — entertained by at least one contributor at Fair Observer — that Khashoggi may not have been murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul has, alas, become less and less tenable."*
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