Saturday, September 20, 2008

Egyptian Blogger Thoughts On U.S. Politics

SOMETIMES OUTSIDE FORCES MAKE YOU THINK TWICE ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW:

"Security moms, soccer moms, white moms, moms with sons at war, moms with bastard sons, moms with sons going to college, now Wal-Mart moms, moms. Just pick a mom. "I wonder if this kind of effort went into to profiling Egyptian moms what are the pseudo labels we would come up with…?" she asks.

Zeinab, another member of the Egyptian blogging team, is amazed by what she calls the "media mind-twisting" that American voters are being exposed to.

"The media are bombarding the American viewer with 'expert opinions'so fast and so hard that no one has the time or brain capacity to come up with their own.

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