Wednesday, February 2, 2011

'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Egypt'

So how do American pundits who don't know or care anything about Egypt analyze events there? Through the prism of their own parochial, ideological idiotism, of course.

Enjoy all these way-out explanations and warnings of what's happening there!

Just more proof that in America, "getting informed" = getting dumber.

UPDATE (02.06.2011): A friend criticized me for caricaturing Americans as ignorant, parochial knuckle-draggers with this post. To clarify, I was criticizing the media which gives them half-assed analysis and ideological color instead of real information about world events. I'm sorry that the richest country in the world can't do a better job informing its public; in fact, it does a pretty good job of disinforming them. That was my point. We can debate another day whether and why Americans are ignorant, parochial knuckle-draggers....


The Right-Wing Nut's Guide to Egypt
By Max Read
February 2, 2011 Gawker

URL: http://gawker.com/5749601/the-right+wing-nuts-guide-to-egypt


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