60 Minutes last night was a bit of a treat, with its "We Are Not Exploiting September 11th" coverage. I gave up, nauseated, after the second segment, when Leslie Stahl expressed her outrage that Saudi citizens were allowed to express anti-American sentiments1 Even when govenment officals are listening! How dare they! If Saudi Arabia is going to be such a repressive shit hole, the least they can do is squash people for criticizing the USA! Boy, what a repellent abuse of the little freedom the Saud's have, huh? I guess everyone misses the old days, when fascists regimes would obediaently whack anyone who spouted off in the wrong direction.

She's a great reporter, ain't she? I loved how she argued with a Saud-on-the-street over his attitude towards America. What happened to objective reporting? I realize this is the new American state, and I'm no fan of so-called impartial reporting, but would it have killed Stahl to simply have recorded the man's sentiments, rather than trying to convert the half dozen or so Saudi's she encountered outside her hotel room? Oh, right, if she had, she's be a traitor.

Another funny moment: Prince Al-Faisel's reassurance that education is Saudia Arabia is 85% hate-free. Awsome.