Renegade
In October, Lauren and Bezos had their first publicity scare when they spotted a paparazzo taking long-lens photos of them from the Santa Monica beach. Then, at dinner at Santa Monica restaurant Capo, Lauren noticed a reporter snapping photos of their table. Michael said they were increasingly nervous when they left the restaurant and Bezos’s car hadn’t arrived. “We were literally standing on the street with Jeff Bezos and his mistress. I got very protective of him. I said, ‘We need to get you into an Uber,’” Michael recalled.
Two months later, they were outed. On the morning of January 7, Michael was on a Caribbean cruise when he was alerted that the Enquirer had called Bezos and Lauren for comment on their affair. “Lauren and Jeff called me like 911. They were terrified,” Michael recalled. According to Michael, they discussed various options regarding how to respond to the story. One option even included Bezos buying A.M.I.—not such an outlandish consideration given the seriousness of the breach and the fact that, for Bezos, the price of the tabloid company is essentially a rounding error—to find out the source of the leak. “We discussed the possibility to buy A.M.I.—not to kill the story, but to find out the source. They said that’s not a bad idea. We discussed numbers and the name of the LLC that we’d use. It would be called BOBO LCC”—short for Lauren’s helicopter filming company, Black Ops, and Bezos’s space company, Blue Origin—“that’s the level of detail we went into.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/suspected-bezos-leaker-supplies-his-own-theory-about-the-affair
Al-Jubeir stands up to US media ‘soap opera’
Last December, when Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir was appointed to a new position as Minister of State, much of the American news media reported that he had been demoted amid the backlash over the killing of Washington Post opinion writer Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Al-Jubeir had been responsible for oversight of the Kingdom’s embassies and foreign staff.
In their determination to attack Saudi Arabia, US media organizations rushed to proclaim Al-Jubeir’s political demise. Of course, when covering the Arab world, some sections of the mainstream American news media have never let the facts get in the way of a good story, even if that “story” is fiction or based on rumors, innuendo or wild speculation.
Like most mainstream American media outlets, the Washington Post doesn’t hire Arabs who excessively criticize US foreign policy, Arabs or especially Israel. The media allows some criticism of Israel, and have hired some Arab writers, but they can only go so far in their criticism. They would never allow what has been written about Saudi Arabia to be written about Israel.
The balance is tilted at the Washington Post. There are no boundaries when it comes to criticizing and defaming Arabs, Saudi Arabia or Palestinians. Khashoggi’s criticism of the Kingdom played perfectly into the Washington Post and some of the wider media’s anti-Arab agenda.
I would love to see the Washington Post hire an Arab-American columnist who every week bashes Israel’s government. However, that would never be allowed.
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1452121
McCabe isn't following Comey's instructions