Weird how the RW talk show crowd is trying to spin what's happening in Egypt

[oberliner]

You'd think with W's whole "freedom is on the march" shtick that the gang would be rallying behind the Egyptian people.

Yet, for some reason, they are taking the anti-freedom/pro-friendly-dictatorship approach, with a sprinkling of "everything is Obama's fault" thrown in for good measure.

How can they defend the Iraq war as being one of liberating the people of Iraq from a tyrant and bringing democracy to the region while at the same time suggesting that democracy in Egypt is altogether a bad thing?

[cleanhippie]

1. Hypocrisy is a word they do not know.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Obama's lost Egypt!!!!!

:sarcasm: :eyes:


C'mon, you just know that some RW nut is going to say it sooner or later. *ugh*

[Skip_In_Boulder]

8. Oh, it is already being said all over FR

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2672155/posts?q=1&;page=51

[leftynyc]

18. G-d - that place is a sewer

I guess anyone with a triple digit IQ has been long banned. These losers actually think saint sarah is the answer to their prayers.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. I think they already have said that. Fortunately,

the Egyptians have just FOUND Egypt.

[AC_Mem]

3. I don't know how they do it

Surely knowing the truth and speaking an alternate reality has got to cross the wires in the brain!

I think they can't stand the fact that a DEMOCRACY won PEACEFULLY through Hope and Change. How in the world do they spin such a happy occasion?

It boggles the mind.

[RainDog]

4. because they don't really care about democracy or people in general

they support raw power wielded with brutality.

their supporters who are not part of the power elite are idiots who support their own and others' repression.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. The answer is simple: The RW doesn't like what happened in Egypt because

we (The US) didn't control it. The democracy that appears to be happening there was entirely the creation of the people. They unseated their dictator. Iraq was different: The US invaded, deposed the dictator, and took over. The plan (which ultimately didn't pan out quite the way the neocons wanted) was to install a US-friendly government that would allow US corporations, especially oil companies, to come in and "manage" the assets of Iraq. But the Egyptians are doing their own thing, and while it's possible the new government will be a "friendly" one, the US is not in control and nobody is going to make any money.

[supernova]

13. +1,000,000,000

[wolfgirl]

15. BINGO!

Absolutely correct!

[lady lib]

16. Wow, excellent explanation.

Thanks!

[JoePhilly]

17. They hate that we didn't spend a trillion dollars failing to do it, like in Iraq.

[Angry Dragon]

6. They are just talking head whores

They have sold their souls
They are nothing more than puppets

[Enrique]

7. they are actually confused about which way to spin it

I hear the same guy criticize Obama for doing too much and then a second later criticize him for doing too little.

[gratuitous]

10. Boss Limbaugh hasn't told them how to think yet

The poor dears are simply confused. Having to observe, interpret and opine just isn't something they do. These rugged individualists and independent thinkers much prefer to be told what to say, and then say it. Over and over.

[Bandit]

11. Republicans have spent a lifetime defending the indefensible

They are just morally fucked up people..

[progressoid]

12. They would support it if there had been a lot of bombing and killing

preferably using American made weapons and CIA trained "rebels".

[toddwv]

14. Egypt is a neocon/chickenhawk nightmare.

Democracy in the Middle East? If that happens successfully there plans of a constant source of strife and ever-growing military budgets comes crashing down.

Don't forget that the US had a hand in propping up Mubarek. Don't forget that the US helped Britain topple Iran's burgeoning democracy and installed the Shah of Iran whose repressive regime was directly responsible for the rise of the Islamic Revolution and its subsequent theocracy.

[librechik]

19. The perceive Obama as being on the side of the protestors, Therefore, they have to take the opposite

It's wired in like Right handedness, apparently

[RagAss]

20. Doesn't mean a shit what they have to say. Egypt is free of a tyrant.

[Emit]

21. Also thrown in for good measure is the constant Obama is a Muslim meme

and how he's in cahoots with the Muslim Brotherhood.

[oberliner]

22. Check out this thread

An article I posted along those lines:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x609364