I've just been watching Ezra Klein hosting The Ed Show on MSNBC, discussing the recent Egypt/Libya crisis. The segment that just finished featured two guests, one, Lawrence Kolb, basically from the left, and the other, Michael Medved, basically from the right. One thing Medved, a talk radio host, said shocked me so much that I've felt the necessity of writing a post about it despite its being 11:49 p.m. the night before my 9 a.m. class tomorrow. Specifically, in response to having had a bevy of instances of the Bush Administration issuing straight-up apologies for various things that offended Muslims, he said, basically, that those actions hadn't made the country safer. Indeed, he said, then-Senator Barack Obama was very critical of how the Bush Administration had caused America's image in the Muslim world to deteriorate!
Seriously, that's what he said. He then proceeded to confirm, in basically no uncertain terms, that in his opinion, that "apologetic tone" was responsible for poor American standing in Muslim areas. Not the two wars we were fighting in that part of the world at the time. He seemed to be oblivious to the idea that it wasn't the Bush Administration's occasional apologies for offensive cartoons or whatever that made Muslims dislike us, it was the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Seriously. It was one of the most unbelievable demonstrations of sheer amnesia about the past decade I've ever seen. I just couldn't let it slide.
WTF, Michael Medved?
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