So little of this comment makes any sense at all. > The fact that MBS had managed to bamboozle the western media into fawning over his token "reforms" prior to

So little of this comment makes any sense at all. > The fact that MBS had managed to bamboozle the western media into fawning over his token "reforms" prior to the Saudis brazenly murdering Kashoggi was a disgrace. If Khashoggi and the Washington Post had stuck to fawning rather than sharp criticism of the Saudi government, he'd be alive. > It's telling that the media only really started caring about Saudi governmental corruption and criminality after one of their own - a fellow pundit who traveled in elite western circles - was grotesquely killed. The media "caring" about Saudi governmental corruption is why Khashoggi was assassinated.