Beatifying Benazir
The Diana-ization of Benazir Bhutto continued last night with a credulous Jon Stewart offering her U.S. spokesman free rein to rewrite her as a saint of democracy:
Mark Siegel is counting on Americans’ ignorance of Pakistan to gloss over the fact that the kleptocrat oligarch backed jihadis to the hilt when she was in power.
He’s in receptive territory. Mitt Romney told the Republican base Iraq, not Pakistan, is where the Al Qaeda leadership lives; Dubya repeated it when criticizing Barack Obama’s foreign policy. Apparently if the lie is big, the audience uninformed and the repetition relentless, you can get people to believe any damn fool thing.
P.S. I look like Hrithik Roshan. I look like Hrithik Roshan. I look like Hrithik Roshan…
on Thursday, February 14th, 2008, 10:43 am in Daily Show, Pakistan, Politics, Video clips › 
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Give it a rest, she was an uplifting figure to millions of Pakistanis and expats around the world. She was Prime Minister of Pakistan, not Swedem. Stop blaming one person for not restructuring the deep rooted corruption and militancy in just a few years time.
I certainly don’t expect Obama to fix all the shit the current president has done (including funding and building terrorist armies around the world, even if by accident) but it makes him no less incredible, wonderful, and inspiring as a leader.
She was the prime minister, not some district collector. Talibanization was begun by another prime minister. She actively backed it.
She was a politician- no more or less. Millions will both love and hate her, regardless of the facts or the posthumous spin on her career.
Americans are largely ignorant of politics other than what the media spoonfeed to us; and we were spoonfed a story of saintly, above-reproach (female) leadership most tragically terminated by evil, muslim brown men (nevermind that she was muslim). We’re led to think we lost our only ally in the region now that Musharraf is abruptly undemocratic (again, ignoring the facts and bigger picture) when, in fact, any politician with a modicum of power and desire for US$ could replace either of them.
Eeek, do you really look like Hrithik ? :(
No, but with moves like this it’s a wonder he hasn’t landed a lead role in a Bollywood filum yet. (Manish, I know you’re going to kill me for that but it was just begging to be seen.)
Only my second thumb.
DJ DP, there’s much less flattering stuff out there :) (That’s not a challenge… please.)
Oh, that was Manish dancing? I just thought it was a wig come loose or something :P
See the shadowy face floating off my right elbow? That’s the bhangra devil to whom I sold my soul.
Manish,
I am totally impressed by the jhatak move. Since you are partly from Mumbai - do you also do the “patang” - you know the one where you swivel your hips and fly an imaginary kite? :-)
Actually, I am more interested in those two eyes (?) looking over your left shoulder - now that is some scary devil !
I wouldn’t dare! Plus, I have to create my own profile to view your Shaadi.com biodata.
Oh, snap! Methinks a spontaneous but highly coordinated dance-off is afoot.
I’m 100% pure carpetbagger Mumbaikar, but so’s half of Bandra ;) What is this patang you speak of? I’m calling you out on stage. Bring tumbi.
I hear SecondShaadi.com is the new Shaadi.com.*
* not applicable to me (yet)
Totally applicable to me! I’ve been looking for a fair, tall, and family oriented peepul tree for my first Shaadi so I can commence my Second Shaadi. Caste no bar(k).
Everybody just wants a good bush to love.
I thought that was Mush’s thing? Which of course got Madame all hot and bothered what with her public pleas for him to take his uniform off for her pretty please…