December 31, 2006
Posted by yaman
Dictators in the news
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.
5 Comments
January 1, 2007
hehe, syria kicked ass in that contest
January 2, 2007
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.
January 3, 2007
Those other countries aren’t dictating enough. They need it dictator it up if they wanna make the big leagues of Google News.
April 6, 2007
what about the terrible terroris t malalis of Iran like Khatemy, Khomeii and the gecco NAJAD:) are they dictators, democrats or just genetically deffiecent..
April 6, 2007
Amre there are many other examples.
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