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Honestly I’m surprised he didn’t start quoting Monty Python.

At any rate, this article (yes, it did take this long to reach the foreign press):

Times Online – Andrew Meyer, the student who begged: ‘Don’t Tase me bro!’, becomes internet star

(sounds rather positive, no? “Internet star!”) is linked to on the main Times page with:

‘Don’t Tase me bro’: student coins a new catchphrase for YouTube generation

Interesting angle, no? Asks a politician a question and is frogmarched out of the room, hand-cuffed and (goose, meet gander) tortured.

Not everyone has sided with Mr Meyer. Critics have suggested that the entire incident was a planned attempt to win attention for a student who has already posted dozens of videos of himself on his website www.andrewmeyer.com.

Indeed the video of the arrest was taken on his own camera, which he had brought to the John Kerry Q&A session.

So? For being a punk college brat he’s taken out by armed agents of the state? Can you imagine the fury and outrage still flinging itself around the globe like the shock waves from the Tsar Bomba if this happened to a sweet, innocent, perhaps just a little rambunctious still (but he’s still young!), bright-eyed college student, if it was Bush or (lord) Cheney giving that talk? Not only would the foreign press have cottened on to it a damned sight earlier than they did, but, rather than the “new catchphrase for the YouTube generation!” we’d be on the third sobbing interview with the church-going mother, the personal references from upstanding members of his community, a pretty blond classmate of his crying prettily, and probably a UN Condemnation of Israel by now.

Update:

Whoops. Just turned Rush on and he’s playing audio of Chris Matthews’ guest last night blaming this event (a liberal kid asking a liberal politician a liberal question at a liberal event in a liberal university) on Bush. Theeere we go. Now the rest of the world can catch up.