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Talk Radio Watch Title: Glenn Beck's Hysterical Rants About Egypt Play On Fear James Rainey February 12, 2011 We saw all the character traits from one figure looming over the Egypt story: the massive shows of emotion, the sketchy command of others' views, the megalomaniacal refusal to recognize facts on the ground. And, as always, the willingness to say and do anything to command the stage for one more day. Subscribe to *Arab Revolution On Parade* Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 8.
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And the WingNuts Wail. That's the thing about a peaceful people's successful revolution. It exposes all of the ignorant hypocrisy posing as wisdom. They're all swingin free in the breeze: The workers are still on strike. The steel mills, the sugar factories, public transport... they are not going to return to work just because the army now says it's in control. In the last week, the hard cutting edge of this revolution was the working class, and those whose revolutionary agenda did not include the interests of the working class are likely to find themselves left behind by events very soon. Meanwhile, with celebrations erupting in Gaza, Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordan, all over the Middle East (and, I might add, in London), the struggle in Algeria is continuing today. In Algiers, the train services have been stopped, to prevent protesters from flooding into the capital.
That's the thing about a peaceful people's successful revolution. It exposes all of the ignorant hypocrisy posing as wisdom. Right on!
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And one more item. I'm constantly looking to cull must read sites. And Any site that I've seen today that had no mention of the Egyptian Revolution just got marked down. 8D "His audience at the time could be forgiven if they chose to ignore the dramatic, chest-puffing pauses, the Il Duce tilt of the chin and the somewhat condescending tone as he hectored his Muslim non-brethren about that silly tendency of theirs to view the US as a "self-interested Empire". His reassurances that "government of the people and by the people sets a single standard for all who hold power" struck just the right note after eight years of his predecessors gaffe-ridden and tone deaf rhetoric. In hindsight, "Democracy", like the ill-fated "Mission Accomplished", has a similar slip of the tongue quality. American politicians and pundits remain entwined in an intimate spooning position on their shared bed, perfecting the necessary linguistic contortions to condemn the violence Mubaraks paid goons are inflicting upon demonstrators and journalists, without implicating themselves for their enduring support for Egypts state-sponsored terrorism. "Democracy" was Obamas theme when Mubarak was apparently secure, cashing Americas yearly $1.3 billion hush money check with its boot heel firmly set on the neck of the Egyptian people. Now, however, when those people are in the streets demanding that political realities be reshaped according to Obamas rhetoric, the offending word has disappeared from the Presidents vocabulary. Instead we hear the familiar refrains centered around "stability," and "reform". His calls for a "peaceful transition" of power are merely a stalling tactic meant to buy time until a neoliberal carpetbagger is eventually installed to carry out the IMFs failed policies, and to pre-empt any future resistance outside Israeli-controlled territory to these externally imposed measures of poverty and oppression.
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