Trump's Publisher Pal Puts Saudi Propaganda Magazine in U.S. Supermarkets

[highplainsdem]

Source: Daily Beast

A nearly 100-page magazine published by Donald Trump’s allies at American Media Inc. is providing a different kind of celebrity gossip than the American supermarket shopper is used to seeing. It’s selling America on a fellow Trump ally, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

MBS, as the millennial victor of last year’s Saudi palace power struggle is known, is currently on an overseas tour to cement his legitimacy. Its current stop is the United States, where MBS met last week with Trump ahead of checking the young-king-in-waiting PR boxes of Silicon Valley and Hollywood.

Greeting MBS on newsstands is a high-quality glossy advertisement for MBS, The New Kingdom. It retails for $13.99, has no ads and its 200,000 copies can be found in venues ranging from U.S. airports to WalMart, Safeway and Kroger’s — raising questions about the magazine’s financing and its origins. The Saudis say they don’t know how it came to be. AMI, which publishes The National Enquirer, insists it had no outside editorial or financial assistance, from the Trump administration or otherwise.

The New Kingdom doesn’t feature any salacious gossip about MBS, but its coverage is just as breathless. “Our Closest Middle East Ally Destroying Terrorism,” the cover coos, sidestepping decades of Saudi Arabian financial support for terrorist groups and ideologues. It Disneyfies Saudi Arabia as “the Magic Kingdom.” It’s easily the most uncritical encomium to MBS since Thomas Friedman.

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[SunSeeker]

1. Who would pay $13.99 for that tripe?

[hatrack]

10. $13.99 for a magazine at Wal-mart?

I think the guys who brought us 9/11 may want to, y'know, get out a bit more.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. They don't care if it sells. It's presence is to stoke anti-Muslim fears in the shoppers at checkout

It will be placed there, probably near the national Enquirer, implying that Sharia is slowly creeping into mainstream.

[magicarpet]

2. National Enquirer readers who have hit the lottery ?

[Fred Sanders]

3. So monarchal dictatorships are cool again? Suppression of woman's rights and no freedom of speech?

Quite the magical kingdom...but isn't cheap oil magical?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

6. Next up will be the Russian version.

Would not be a surprise at all.

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[C_U_L8R]

4. Because...

National Enquirer readers are so fond of Muslims???

[lapfog_1]

5. The New Kingdom

Come for the fashion



Stay for the beheadings

[jmowreader]

7. I see fingerprints of Big Mac grease in this one

How soon after this hits the newsstands do you think we'll see news that the Saudis have bought Kushner's debt?

[lunasun]

8. Will it be filled with glossies of his lavish buys and arrests of 200 rival family members?

Show how he put his own mother on house arrest ?

[LiberalLovinLug]

9. So wait...Wasn't it Obama that was supposed to bring the Muslim culture into the US?

[ancianita]

12. So producers of terrorism are protection racketeering Walmart folks on killing off terrorists. Okay.