Did you see the Middle East comedians on Comedy Central's Axis of Evil tour? They were quite lame and not very sharp politically. And when one of them started that dreaded cliche, "that only in America" you can criticize the president, etc, I felt rather nauseous*. You can mock the president in Lebanon as well as in Egypt, among other places. And politically, I felt that they were so afraid of offending Americans; they went out of their way to not come across as, well, angry Arabs.
*I first wrote noxious before Joseph corrected me. How dare anybody correct me?