One of the links I came across and shared during the past three weeks was a post entitled “A guide: How not to say stupid stuff about Egypt.” I appreciated this post not only for its useful information, but for its refreshing efficiency. This blogger was busy and did not have time to suffer fools.
But for good or ill, fools are fond of announcing themselves. Below appears the most shallow, selfish and morally vacant comic I have seen in quite a long time.
This piece of work is sadly not "out of order" for the publication in which it appears, the Purcellville Gazette. It could, I suppose, be read as a repellent insult to Americans, but on the basis of previous work I suspect that this was not its intended purpose.
There’s more, of course. A Loudoun “tea party” blogger (not coincidentally a contributor to the same Purcellville Gazette), who is at all other times piously concerned with the transcendent value of Liberty, somehow missed the revolution. You won’t find a word of appreciation on her blog for this stunning achievement of Egyptian community - the non-violent overthrow of an entrenched dictator. Think of it; an essentially leaderless uprising involving well over 20 million people who remained united and principled in the face of murder, torture, beatings, propaganda and deceit, who could not be provoked to violence, who chanted “peaceful, peaceful” while refusing to be intimidated by tanks and thugs; an uprising in which women and men participated shoulder to shoulder, and Christians, Muslims and secularists protected each other and cared for each other within a model of the nation they intend to rebuild. Such a powerful testament to the idea of Liberty, and not even an acknowledgment by this blogger - unless one were to count her sneering dismissal of our President’s statement invoking Dr. Martin Luther King and the moral force of non-violent resistance as “silly.”
What you will find on her anti-feminist blog is a post about a psychopath who beheaded his wife. That is because this psychopath is a Muslim, and the story furthers her agenda of promoting islamophobia and opposing “multiculturalism.”
If the purpose of these two commentators was to demonstrate how morally vacuous some Americans are, they have succeeded. Well done. I believe we may have located the bottom of the barrel.
