Big Pharoah has a “joke of the day” for all of us. Of course, it isn’t really that funny:

I have a lovely habit. Every morning I pick up my Al Ahram paper, the number one paper in Egypt, to see how they prioritize their headlines on the front page. This tends to give me an indication of what the paper wants to convey as “important” and as “not very important”.

The major headline today went to the security conference in Germany! (did anyone hear about it??). Then a headline a little bit underneath announcing the score of a major soccer game yesterday. Underneath was a headline announcing that Israel will withdraw from Jericho during this week. At the bottom of the page I read the headline about Iraq’s election results.

Ummmmm, very interesting. My dear government financed daily newspaper thinks that the security conference in Germany, the soccer game, and Israel’s decision to withdraw from ONE Palestinian town is more important than the results of the elections that rocked the world.

My mind went back to a major headline I read days before the elections. The headline that was across the front page announced that “militants threaten to fill the streets of Baghdad with the blood of voters???????.

Oh, the hilarity of state sponsored corruption and bias! Where’s my inhaler?