"As his popular television show returned to Egypt’s airwaves on Friday after a long hiatus, Bassem Youssef, an Egyptian satirist, took a swipe at the country’s new military leadership in perhaps the only manner such criticism remains possible: with great care.*"
"After playing a recently leaked video clip of Egypt’s defense minister, Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, talking to colleagues about influencing the news media, Mr. Youssef responded with mock indignation. “Nobody can tell us what to say or not to say,” he said, as a disembodied arm appeared from beneath his desk, stole his script and replaced it with a new text."
“We want freedom,” Mr. Youssef added, as the arm, a stand-in for Egypt’s powerful security agencies, slapped him in the face."
NY Times , *Althouse link
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Sounds like good stuff but I'd have tried to work in a Señor Wences angle.
I was told there would be no Althouse.
Leno hasn't gotten the memo yet.
I'm still waiting for Lem to post a photo he took looking down at his shoes.
Some vanity photos from his childhood would be nice but that's too much to hope for.
Fortunately, I'm 100% convinced that Lem will never try to gin up any excitment in his eating a fucking sandwich.
Among his other admirable qualities, Lem is not a preening, self-important clown.
Hey Eric, no brownnosing Lem. Do bats brownnose?
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