How did these dirt-poor Libyans *see* this film....most of them earn $2./day...what? They all have iPhones? ‘Net connections?
They were stirred up by their immams at services. Aided and abetted by our very own president...leading from behind.
First I read that it was showed on Egyptian TV on 9/11, then elsewhere I read that it was shown on an Egyptian talk show either a month or a week before, depending on the reports. It had been floating around on the Internet for months before that. It’s hard to get the details straight.
In any case, it was clearly broadcast by the Egyptians themselves on their state-controlled television precisely to stir up trouble.
And somehow, nobody in the ME, no matter how poor, seems to have trouble getting a video-capable phone and some kind of internet connection.
Per capita income in Libya is 20 times your estimate at over $14k, and Egypt is approximately ten times your estimate, at $6k a year. Those who want to provoke a mob certainly have the resources to do so, and almost everyone knows someone with a smart phone or at least an Internet capable phone. Libya is the wealthiest African country - because of their high oil production relative to their population.
This was almost certainly staged, possibly all the way back to producing the film, but poverty is not part of the evidence.