Oh, Michele, you've done it again

[thewayne]

"We have seen the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood has posed here for the people in Egypt. We have seen the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood has posed around the world. We stand against this great evil. We are not for them. We remember who caused 9/11 in America. We remember who it was that killed 3,000 brave Americans."
—Rep. Michele Bachmann, in Egypt

I saw the clip for this. Bachmann and two other Congresscritters flew to Egypt and insulted the world. I especially liked her saying 9/11, because what she actually said was "nine one one", assuming everyone could insert the proper punctuation, and here I thought the people who caused 911 were the phone company. I've always wondered if Bin Laden et al chose that day for the attacks for that relationship to Americans. I was personally unaware that The Muslim Brotherhood = Al Quaeda, especially since, what was it, 11/12ths of the hijackers were Saudi Arabian nationals. Amazing the things that you can learn from elected gov't officials!

(tip o'the hat to Mr. Magoo)

Comments

[silveradept]

Not to mention the part where the Muslim Brotherhood was elected to power in a democratic election.

It's still bad form to insult a people and stereotype them. Even worse when you travel there to do it.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I loved the opening of the video: "My name is Michele Bachman, and I'm a member of the United States Congress from the United States of America." Nice command of the English language there. There was also a rather amusing touch when they asked for questions and started rattling off responses far too quickly for an actual question to be heard and parsed.

Egypt is a tough place. I've been wondering what would happen if a country held open elections and someone whom the US doesn't like came to power, and now we have a glimpse of it. By no means am I saying the Muslim Brotherhood are all white linen and roses and I'm not sorry to see them gone, but it was pretty amazing to see the contortions that our government went through to avoid calling the military overthrow a coup.