"This raises many question marks"

The Big Ragu · May 7, 2014

This aired Sunday on Egyptian TV. The news anchor proves beyond a doubt -- using footage from The Simpsons -- that the U.S. is behind Syria's civil war and the Arab Spring revolutions.

Its awesomeness can't be overstated.

Songbird · May 7, 2014

Ralph may have failed English but he's a helluva paratrooper.

LongTimeListener · May 7, 2014

Those of us in the know have suspected it all along, ever since we heard the revolutionaries chanting the battle cry "Cowabunga!"

YankeeFan · May 7, 2014

Thankfully the Times has debunked this theory:

The first flaw in the theory is the fact that the Syrian opposition did not invent a new flag out of whole cloth in 2011, but simply adopted the old green, white and black tricolor used by Syria for most of three decades beginning in 1932. That flag was replaced by a red, white and black tricolor following a military coup in 1963 that eventually brought Mr. Assad’s father to power.

As an Egyptian, Ms. Badawy could perhaps have been confused by the fact that the Syrian government currently uses a flag identical to the one flown from 1958 to 1961, when the nation shared a flag with Egypt as part of the United Arab Republic.

Still, her apparent belief that the flag pictured in the “Simpsons” episode did not exist until 2011 is simply false. (That said, the Arab people of the Middle East have some reason to suspect that there might be “foreign fingers” behind their flags, given that both Syria and Egypt use designs and colors derived from the Flag of the Arab Revolt, which was created by the British diplomat Mark Sykes during World War I.)

Had she paid closer attention to the cartoon, the anchor might also have found evidence that the “Simpsons” animators were more likely to have been thinking of Iraq than Syria when they pictured a United States attack in 2001.

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MisterCreosote · May 7, 2014

But people are angrily talking about it on social media!

Baron Scicluna · May 7, 2014

Songbird said:

Ralph may have failed English but he's a helluva paratrooper.
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"I'm Egypt!"

bumpy mcgee · May 7, 2014

Yvan Eht Nioj!

Steak Snabler · Dec 15, 2014

"Won't someone please think of the children Palestinians!"

Inky_Wretch · Dec 15, 2014

The real group behind EVERYTHING that happens.

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