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Dictators in the news

By yaman | December 31, 2006

Why is it that the media has been referring to “Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein,” but never says “Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak,” “Saudi dictator King Abdullah,” or “Jordanian dictator King Abdullah II?”

From Google News:

* Results 1 - 10 of about 1,130 for Iraqi-dictator-Saddam-Hussein. (0.35 seconds)
* Results 1 - 2 of 2 for Egyptian-dictator-Hosni-Mubarak. (0.24 seconds)
* Your search - “Saudi dictator King Abdullah” - did not match any documents.
* Your search - “Saudi dictator” - did not match any documents.
* Your search - “Jordanian dictator King Abdullah II” - did not match any documents.
* Your search - “Jordanian dictator” - did not match any documents.

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5 Responses to “Dictators in the news”

  1. lol says:
    January 1st, 2007 at 12:13 pm

    hehe, syria kicked ass in that contest

  2. Tom Scudder says:
    January 2nd, 2007 at 6:42 am

    To be fair, “king” actually does imply that one is an unelected ruler, in the way that “President” does not, so the Abdullahs might be getting some credit for being upfront about what they are.

  3. Christine says:
    January 3rd, 2007 at 3:42 am

    Those other countries aren’t dictating enough. They need it dictator it up if they wanna make the big leagues of Google News.

  4. amre El-abyad says:
    April 6th, 2007 at 7:39 am

    what about the terrible terroris t malalis of Iran like Khatemy, Khomeii and the gecco NAJAD:) are they dictators, democrats or just genetically deffiecent..

  5. yaman says:
    April 6th, 2007 at 8:06 am

    Amre there are many other examples.

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