re: #126 researchok

How is it a straw man? Where in the piece did she even imply otherwise?

Actually, she says very clearly that politics in the Middle East are convoluted and murky. She’s bringing up one specific conspiracy theory that pretty clearly made its way directly from the Beck/Gaffney/Bachmann crowd to the Egyptian public.

Seriously, listen to it again. She’s definitely not saying, implying, or even hinting that Beck is the only cause of conspiracy theorizing in Egypt. The opposite, in fact.