Max Blumenthal
has said “enough is enough” and taken his little pen and walked
away from his staff position at Al Akhbar English over what he claims
is their editorial tolerance of “Assad apologists”. According to
Max in an article on his website explaining his decision to leave in
a huff (The
right to resist is universal: A farewell to Al Akhbar and Assad’s
apologists) “the apologia for Assad and his
crimes has reached unbearable levels.”
I once had a
great deal of respect for Max Blumenthal. His work on the Palestinian
issue has been courageous to say the least. But now I have to say
farewell to Max and remove his link from my blogroll. His
disingenuous and downright dishonest efforts to prop-up the
progressive Assad demonetization train turns my stomach and I will
never be able to post a single thing he writes without having to
question the man’s integrity.
Yeah, it’s
that bad. Max Blumenthal is an outright liar. No one, and I mean NO
ONE with his resources and experience in the Middle East could miss
the boat so badly on this topic without doing so deliberately unless
he was a total and complete idiot. And Max is not an idiot. He is
however, the son of Sidney Blumenthal who was a long term adviser to
Bill Clinton (during the destabilization of Yugoslavia as coincidence
would have it) and then a campaign adviser to Hillary Clinton who
expected to serve in her State Department before Rahm Emanuel put his
foot down for some reason. Max’s daddy is also reportedly a close
friend of Tony Blair. Just thought I would throw that in for good
measure.
Yes, Max
Blumenthal is a liar. And I will now show you how I came to that
conclusion. As to the why, well… you be the judge.