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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Having spent years not giving a shit about democracy overseas, you have a bunch of conservatives who are astonished to learn that dozens of people protested the other day in Egypt, or that there are protests in Morocco and Bolivia. Who knew?!?! The thought that people have been protesting in other countries for a long time, without regard to who our president is, shouldn't darken these conservatives' happy thoughts for even a moment. In our solipsistic little world, there weren't people protesting yesterday, there are today -- freedom is clearly on the march, and George Bush deserves the credit. The advantage of not knowing anything about other countries and relying on FOX and CNN to tell you about them is that you can readily disregard facts and complications that don't fit into this tidy little picture.
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Well us as the conservatives are not alone. Newsweek, Time and the NYT seem to be suffering from the same lack of knowledge.
ETA: And I guess it was Tip O'neil standing up to communism in South and Central America.
