Eat Hearty

What does it say about the sensibilities of the YouTube audience that far more Americans probably watched this video of this Saudi man eating twenty-two scorpions than have watched any of the online news clips from Arab language channels that portray an unflattering perspective of the U.S. position in the Middle East?

Of course, this is also a recognizable YouTube genre with cross-cultural appeal, like the man who ate monkey chow for a week.