Wolf Blitzer is sitting in for that English guy tonight. He's got some princeling from the Libyan royal family on to explain what's going on there post-Gadaffi.
The Libyan royal family hasn't been relevant to anything that happens in Libya since the 1960's. True enough, the princeling seems to think that his turn on CNN affords the monarchy a bit of legitimacy, but that's not a sentiment easily transferred to the real world.
In the real world the Libyan royal family is beyond irrelevant, and the events sweeping through the Middle East underscore the irrelevance of CNN's reporting on these matters.
The fact that CNN finds it appropriate to bring such non-entities in front of the camera to declare Libya's affection for America and blame the murder of the US ambassador on Gaddafi loyalists demonstrates how dramatically out of touch CNN really are.
We, the Nations of Virtue, are hated not for our vaunted freedoms, but for our incessant meddling in affairs that are none of our concern. We have been imposing our will on these peoples for well over a hundred years in one way or another.
They are trying to tell us that they're good and tired of it.
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