To make light of the situation going on in Egypt, to trivialize it the way that they did, was tasteless and uncalled for. As of Saturday morning, the people of Egypt were without a link to the outside world. As of this morning, the world has practically no visual link to them. The army currently has "shoot to kill" orders tonight when it comes to the protesters on the streets.
There are some things you don't joke about. Some things are off limits. I don't remember Saturday Night Live doing a skit on the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in '89, or the genocide in Darfur, or the hurricane and following humanitarian crisis in Haiti. Why should this be any different?
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