Jeremy Scahill: We watch young people in Egypt protest to bring down dictator. Now, world sees young

[highplainsdem]

@jeremyscahill jeremy scahill
We watch young people in Egypt protest to bring down dictator. Now, world sees young Americans protest to reinstate a pedophile protector
16 minutes ago via Echofon

http://twitter.com/#!/jeremyscahill/status/134482127734579200

[Bill McBlueState]

1. at any rate, it's a sad end to a long career

Never thought the old guy would go out this way. I'm pretty sure the students are rallying around the Joe they knew last Friday.

[roguevalley]

7. they know what he did. They don't care

[Posteritatis]

11. Yep. (nt)

[Kaleko]

2. Yes, what's up with that?

People outside the US are shaking their heads with renewed disgust.

[antigone382]

3. Yes, because that's all young people in America are doing.

Hey, it's what me and all my college friends are doing TONIGHT!!!

[fishwax]

6. +1

[Firebrand Gary]

4. Jeremy is smack on. This is disgusting to watch.

[Poll_Blind]

5. It's like something out of a grim and humorless John Waters movie.

Which, given the extremes he takes his caricatures, reality should never ever be.

I don't know what to say beyond that. It's unreal. Or maybe all too real.

PB

[Zoeisright]

8. That's the way this country has always been. Sports trumps

everything. Especially violated women and children.

[AntiFascist]

9. Truly disgusting, is that what our country has come to stand for? n/t

[RainDog]

10. k&r n/t