David Bell

He's very well regarded.

He's also someone who can periodically critique power.

decisions that are being made by the powerful in Saudi Arabia.

And he sees himself as like a mouthpiece for the poor in Saudi Arabia, for the working class as a result of that.

He can occasionally speak some truth to power, right?

Or speak truth to the rest of the world about what's going on in Saudi Arabia.

That's at least how you'll see this guy written about speaking of people who speak truth to power.

These ads will speak truth to the greatest power in the world, your wallet.

Wow.

Not my wallet.

So.

Jamal Khashoggi, after a period of time as one of the more influential journalists in Saudi Arabia, is going to do kind of the most dangerous thing you can do in the kingdom, which is express support for reforms that everyone knows are necessary but that the crown prince and king haven't embraced yet, right?

He's going to be ahead of the curve on some important things, and that's going to make him a lot of enemies.

Ben Hubbard writes, he was appointed editor of Al-Watan newspaper and used it to push for women's rights while criticizing the role of the religious establishment.

He didn't last long.

After Al-Qaeda bombings killed 25 people in Riyadh in 2003, Khashoggi penned an editorial attacking not only the terrorists but the clerics who gave them power.

Jamal wound up driven to the United States, where he would live at time through the coming years whenever things got too hot for him back in the kingdom.

He was, predictably, a big supporter of the Arab Spring, which further caused consternation among the powerful.

During the rise of ISIS, Khashoggi compared the terrorist movement's ideology to the kingdom's own Wahhabist beliefs.

He initially supported Salman as king, and was bullish on the reforms that he and MBS introduced against the religious police and endemic corruption—