I have to admit that I love checking out the latest output from MEMRI. Watching what they choose to translate reminds me so much of The Soup, one of my favorite guilty pleasures on TV. I keep hoping that someday MEMRI will hire a sarcastic host and produce their own low-budget clip show (I would gladly work for peanuts, so call me guys!). If you ever want to see some zany stuff, check out their collection of video clips or their youtube channel. It definitely gives Jerry Springer and Maury Povich a run for their money. Sadly, no Arab TV guest has broken Geraldo’s nose with a chair… yet.
Some of the clips, are less train wreck and more insightful. I found this interview with Dhiyaa al-Musawi to be interesting:
http://www.liveleak.com/e/41b_1227506610
I particularly like the rhetorical flourish at the beginning of the clip:
“Our problem in the Arab world is that we have many gallows of ideology… on which we try to hang an intellectual, a thinker, or a poet everyday.”
Clearly this does not describe the root of every problem faced in the Arab world today, but I do think it is an eloquent expression of the frustration that many of us feel. Furthermore, the more I think about it, the more I feel that this accurately describes some of the political/social currents here at home in the USA as well. I don’t really know anything about al-Musawi, but good times…
* For our international friends, or those in the US without cable, here is a classic example of The Soup.
Related posts:
- A clip you probably won’t see on MEMRI
- MEMRI Droppin’ Knowledge??
- Racist Soup
- Syrian Human Rights Activists are Just Like Your Girlfriend…
- Occupation 101: Colonization In Context
oh jihadfest ‘here at home in the US’….wow you are spewing your hatred and garbage HERE IN MY COUNTRY!!!!!
wow and i thought you were a thobe wearing sexually repressed gay gulfie…this blog does not show a point of view, but it is a sanctuary to foment hatred and misinformation…
shame on you walking our streets, eating our food….then posting smoke screens of venomous, hate promoting disinformation!
Posted by Anonymous | January 2, 2009, 5:15 am“Venomous, hate promoting disinformation” – interesting. That’s just what your comment seems to be.
And as for the “smoke screens”, well, maybe you should come out from behind yours, ‘Anonymous’.
Sasa, Syria News Wire.
Posted by sasa | January 2, 2009, 4:49 pm