Fox News and freedom in Egypt. They oppose it!

I am by no means an unequivocal fan of revolutions; I do not believe that human rights are universal and timeless, rather than the product of evolving and contingent political beliefs.  But I could better stomach the right-wing media’s effort to discredit the Egyptian revolution and to portray it as a failure of Obama’s diplomacy if they had not given such unthinking jingoistic support to Bush’s Freedom Agenda, if Sean Hannity’s theme song was not “Let Freedom Ring,” if they didn’t claim a divine mandate to lead the world towards American-style democracy.

That was the ever clear Heather Mac Donald writing about the insanity that characterizes Faux Noose, and Rush Limbaugh too.

It is one thing to doggedly fight the opposition party, but it is another to carry it to such lengths ... But, wait, it is after all Faux Noose.  What else can one expect, right?

Reminds me of politics in Tamil Nadu--the state in India where I was born and raised.  There are two principal political parties.  Well, one spun off the main one, the DMK, which itself grew out of the DK.  The only thing they seem to do is criticize whatever the other does while in power.  Even if the party in power were to draft a resolution that the earth is not flat, the opposition would oppose it for the sake of opposing anything coming from "them" ... If only we had a viable alternative to the democracy as we know it, right?  What says you, oh great one, who observed that we are stuck with this system because everything else is worse, and who once apparently said "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion." :)