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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