Yes, but the article isn't about The Bob, it appears to be talking about the Western and other revolutionary influences trickling in and getting by their despotic leaders and the despotic US military censors.

Which is the true challenge to democracy in the Middle East right now. Telling the difference between the Middle Eastern despots, the Israeli despots, and the Western despots as represented by the British and US military, now cultivating the next generation of Middle East despots to take power when they are forced to withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq in humiliation.

If they are playing The Bob as their soundtrack, it must be damn old stuff.