{"id":1564013,"date":"2022-07-21T07:51:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T11:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1564013"},"modified":"2022-07-21T07:52:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T11:52:28","slug":"media-predictably-cover-for-bidens-saudi-foreign-policy-fiasco-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-predictably-cover-for-bidens-saudi-foreign-policy-fiasco-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Predictably Cover For Biden\u2019s Saudi Foreign Policy Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedia-predictably-cover-for-bidens-saudi-foreign-policy-fiasco-3%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1564013&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-240-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Biden just got back from a disastrous trip to Saudi Arabia, and all we\u2019re really hearing from the media is crickets. <\/p>\n<p>With a only few highlights of Biden\u2019s flaws during his visit and a preoccupation with human rights issues instead of our hamstrung credibility, the corporate media are content with their coverage of a failed diplomacy attempt that signals only weakness from the United States. <\/p>\n<p>On July 13, Biden visited Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (often referred to by his initials MBS) ostensibly to \u201cstrengthen a strategic partnership\u201d to compete against China, increase stability in the Middle East, and fight Russian aggression, per an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/07\/09\/joe-biden-saudi-arabia-israel-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article<\/a> Biden himself published in The Washington Post. <\/p>\n<p>The real purpose of the visit was to relieve the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/14\/biden-begs-the-middle-east-nation-he-called-a-pariah-to-give-us-oil-after-he-throttled-u-s-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gas price problem<\/a>, caused in large part by Biden\u2019s green policies, soaring inflation, and sanctions on Russia, which have converged to tank his approval rating. (He all but admitted this in his article.) The only tangible thing that seems to have arisen from the U.S.-Saudi meeting, however, is a transfusion of strength between the two countries\u2019 reputations: Saudi Arabia was just recognized by the leader of the free world, and the United States just begged for oil from a state our president called a \u201cpariah\u201d on the campaign trail. <\/p>\n<p>The mild criticism the corporate media directs at Biden is not enough. From the fist bump with MBS, whom the CIA reports sanctioned the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, to the lack of specific agreements binding Saudi Arabia to sell more oil, the trip was a president-sized flop, and the media are covering for him. <\/p>\n<p>The fist bump was bad, but it remains the only aspect of the trip many outlets will cover, turning the poorly judged gesture into a red herring. They\u2019re not talking about the oil problem, the opened airspace Biden said was a victory for Israeli-Saudi relations and the Saudi government overtly contradicted, or Biden\u2019s dubious assertion that he challenged MBS on the killing of Khashoggi (testimony the Saudi minister of state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-should-have-stayed-home-crown-prince-mohammed-jeddah-oil-security-iran-nuclear-deal-pariah-ukraine-putin-opec-11658147469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">denies<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s coverage of the trip <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/15\/politics\/joe-biden-saudi-arabia-tightrope-analysis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stresses<\/a> a \u201cpolitical and diplomatic tightrope\u201d the president was forced to walk in Saudi Arabia and even gives a favorable nod to Biden\u2019s not-so-subtle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/18\/middleeast\/biden-saudi-fist-bump-mime-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jab<\/a> at U.S. gas stations for not charging prices equal to what they pay for oil. CNN also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/15\/politics\/oil-politics-joe-biden-saudi-arabia\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lauded<\/a> Biden for taking a \u201ccalibrated approach\u201d to increasing oil exportation from Saudi Arabia. <\/p>\n<p>NBC published only three articles on Biden\u2019s time in Saudi Arabia, all of which were prior to its conclusion. Two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/joe-biden-visits-saudi-arabia-bow-reality-rcna38419\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">painted<\/a> Biden\u2019s visit as part of a grand, effective plan, and one criticized Biden for fist bumping MBS. NBC did not publish one article upon Biden\u2019s return, nor did it highlight his failed attempt to secure more oil or the Saudi\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/contradicting-biden-saudis-deny-opening-of-airspace-is-step-toward-ties-with-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contradiction<\/a> of his statement that the opening of Saudi airspace to Israeli planes was a step toward ties with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/07\/18\/1112113032\/the-u-s-faces-uncertainty-over-whether-saudi-leaders-will-deliver-on-their-hopes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">covered<\/a> only the human rights issue raised by Biden\u2019s fist bump with MBS in its scant articles upon the conclusion of the Saudi trip. <\/p>\n<p>While The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/15\/world\/middleeast\/biden-mbs-saudi-visit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a> and The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/07\/18\/biden-middle-east-saudi-achieved-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington Post<\/a> have critiqued Biden\u2019s failure to achieve tangible results from his trip, the Times editorial board also said Biden was doing the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/15\/opinion\/biden-saudi-arabia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">right thing<\/a>\u201d in his visit, and both outlets made sure to couch their criticism in mild terms. It\u2019s a far cry from the rage such a disastrous visit would have raised from leftist media if former President Donald Trump had gone to the Middle East to beg for oil.  <\/p>\n<p>If Trump, who is scarcely recognized in the corporate media for his actually successful <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/12\/let-my-people-know-how-trump-paved-the-way-for-middle-east-peace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accords<\/a> in the Middle East, had achieved the same outrageous failings as Biden, Trump would have been plastered on front pages for weeks after the trip. Yet mention of the Saudi debacle is almost absent on the homepages of our major media.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Beth Whitehead is an intern at The Federalist and a journalism major at Patrick Henry College where she fondly excuses the excess amount of coffee she drinks as an occupational hazard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden just got back from a disastrous trip to Saudi Arabia, and all we\u2019re really hearing from the media is crickets. 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