Yeah... Bill Ayers and The Weather Underground are responsible for the unrest in Egypt... or something...
I'll let Adam Serwer at the American Prospect take this one:
I tend to think this would be more frightening if it were comprehensible, but it's a symptom of a basic problem which is that several basic heuristics conservatives use for slotting things into "good" and "bad" categories are clashing with each other. So democracy is supposed to be good, but Muslims are bad, liberals are bad, and if Muslims are bad and liberals are bad, then the protests must be some kind of combined Marxist-Islamist conspiracy that will lead to Islamists and Marxists splitting the globe between each other.
This all reminds me somewhat about that old joke about the German Jew reading the Nazi newspaper. His friend asks him why he's reading that anti-Semitic trash, and the guy reading the newspaper responds that he doesn't understand how he could read anything else, since it's all good news: Jews control the banks, Jews control the government...Anyway point is that no one has a higher opinion of their enemies than Beck and the conspiracy-minded conservatives he speaks for. If there are any religious extremists concerned that peaceful resolution of the protests in the Middle East might make their extremism obsolete, they should just watch Fox News, where they're actually on the verge of establishing a modern caliphate that extends from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean.
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