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APRIL 5, 2022
Meyerson on TAP
American Values vs. Big-Money Realpolitik at the
**Journal**
Rupert Murdoch's editorialists disparage Biden's stance against
Saudi murderers.
Like any self-respecting reader, I try not to let the editorials of The
****Wall Street Journal annoy me. The paper's editorialists are to
capitalism what Trotskyite sectarians are to socialism: malignant
fantasists who embrace so extreme a version of their doctrine of choice
that it's only by accident that good judgement occasionally seeps into
their pronouncements. Of course, the viewpoints they express have far
more traction than their Trotskyist counterparts', but that's
because most American capitalists are more prey to extremism than most
American socialists.
But my well-honed
**Journal**defense mechanisms notwithstanding, I find that a line from
one
**Journal**editorial last month has stuck with me. It's from an
editorial
chastising the Biden administration for its undue concern for human
rights and even the sanctity of life when it comes to its relations with
Saudi Arabia. As the paper put it (and this is
**not**the passage that stuck with me, "Mr. Biden and his advisers say
this is all about human rights. They rode into town on a high horse
concerning the Riyadh-orchestrated 2018 murder of journalist Jamal
Khashoggi." (Note the deflection of blame from Saudi de facto ruler
Mohammed bin Salman, whom the CIA identified as the person who ordered
Khashoggi's killing, in the words "Riyadh-orchestrated.")
The "Saudi bungle" of Biden's failing to curry favor with MBS, the
**Journal**continued, "highlights the failure of Mr. Biden's brand of
righteous liberal internationalism." Then came the sentence I just
can't shake:
President Trump too often gave short shrift to American values, but Mr.
Biden has swung too far in the opposite direction.
And thus, President Biden as seen by the
**Journal**: Not just way too "righteous liberal" but also way too,
well, "American." Sometimes, those
**Journal**guys are too naked for their own good.
~ HAROLD MEYERSON
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