Posted 9:05 AM by Gene

The Web excels at background noise. That's why it's the friend of tyrants and conspiracy theorists; there's no filtering the truth from the noise. Yahoo!!!!! or somebody was in an exceptionally happy mood today adding to the noise by running one of Its cables saying AMERICAN SHOW-BIZ MAKES SAUDIS LOVE US!!!!!!!!!! So we tried Googling the topic and found so many references to the story we couldn't find the pre-story truth. We did find this Wiki entry on MBC but it sounds as though it came from Whorvis Communications. (It also suggests the Saudi royal family owns the enterprise, which may hint at its real raison d'etre -- to pacify the locals.) We suspect because our ambassadors tend to hang out with high-end people they may not know the full truth of their local situations, however knowledgeable they are otherwise. And all our wonderful show-biz does not seem to have stopped the committed from blowing themselves up.

One other thing -- if we're to judge from the crusading truth telling Guardian's site hardly anybody seems to have noticed most of Its cables seem to come from 2008 and 2009. This is an eternity in international affairs; and this may help explain why most of these missives have come across as little more than curiosities, whatever their capacity to DESTROY OUR NATIONAL SECURITY!!!!!