Of course, not by the peaceful protesters just yearning for self-government and individual liberty. No. Because we all know the only thuggery exists on the side of the government who has insisted for years that it’s just not right to try to eliminate the Jews.
Theater.
In a way, Cooper got lucky. Had the little swish visited Egypt once the Muslim Brotherhood takes power he likely would have been buried up to his chest in the sand and then stoned to death with rocks and very unstylish sandals.
For freedom.
By the way, who knew there was a pro-Mubarak movement?
I’d heard such a thing didn’t exist anymore.
That time I was run off the road? A Democrat.
I believe its time to send Keith Olberman to Egypt.
Had the little swish visited Egyptonce…
Am I the only one with a mental image of Andy Vanderbilt visiting an Egyptian drag queen what looks like Beyonce?
Not any more!
Cooper strikes me as the sort who’d enjoy a little rough mano-a-mano action.
If CNN were really interested in ratings they be showing this repeatedly on Headline News.
Damn, and I was hoping it was true…
:insert ritual denunciation here:
I blame Mubarak’s parents, and claim that the root cause is that they named him “Hosni”.
Now be honest. Who among you hasn’t wanted to beat Anderson Cooper at one time or another?
There’s reports that the Egyptian Museum is afire due to molotov cocktail tossing. Bugger all if they don’t destroy what they’ve got wanting more. No Burke is no Burke though.
Someone needs to remind that swish who he’s dealing with. I mean, if the Muslim brotherhood had no problem rubbing out Sadat, then they wouldn’t even think twice about doing AC.
And I don’t mean doing him in the manner that would make AC swoon.
Right. You mean rubbing one out. Er, rubbing him out. Er, turning him into a sticky mess.
Oh, I give up.
Freedom!… to massacre Copts.
This is quickly turning into a game between the Yankees and the Red Sox.
May they both lose.
Yeah…Cooper got punched.
Shocker.
Anywho…wired tight, full grit run down of the whole Egyptian dealio courtesy of a West friendly, educated local. Great read.
I don’t know how I missed this earlier, but: shouldn’t the headline be “Reporters, and also CNN’S Cooper, beaten in Egypt?”
I can only hope that the attackers repeatedly asked the rhetorical question, “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?”
Only in Egyptian… or Austrian, or whatever they hell the speak over there.
Talk like an Egyptian…
So the SEIU and ACORN are astroturf organizing for Mubarak?
In my part of Tahrir, pro-#Mubarak mobs arrived in buses, armed with machetes, straight-razors and clubs, very menacing.
Be careful of reality v reality in this situation. Other reports are that the middle class are the ones doing the busing (retired military from other parts of the country that are quiet) to secure the middle class areas so that the looters won’t get out of control again.
One man’s machete carrying thug is another man’s machete carrying security detail.
Plus I wouldn’t trust Kristof to report accurately on their trash pick up.
“Plus I wouldn’t trust Kristof to report accurately on their trash pick up.”
Make Believe Media
See here:
http://pajamasmedia.com/michaeltotten/2011/02/01/the-iranian-revolution-echoes-in-egypt/
Totten I trust.
Did you read the report from Clarice Feldman’s man on the inside from yesterday?
Foreign Policy is in the very best of hands…
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/02/02/obama-very-concerned-that-mubarak-hasnt-started-to-transition-yet/
One official described the administration’s public stance on the issue as having had to change “every twelve hours” as events in Cairo has developed so rapidly.
“First it was ‘negotiate with the opposition,’ then events overtook that, the it was ‘orderly transition,’ and events overtook that, then it was ‘You and your son can’t run,’ and events overtook that, and now it’s ‘the process has to begin now,’” the official said. “It’s been crawl-walk-run – we had to increase the pace as events required.”
Reactionary radicals – whoda thunk?
I forgot my sarc> tag and was warning days ago of the propaganda war going on. I do trust Totten to give it straight as he finds it. And I am very grateful that you linked the American Thinker piece the other day. It started many branches of thought going about more than just Egypt for me.
Mark Kirk rises to the occasion and suggests what’s needed is a new America-pimped rent boy dictator for to oppress the Egyptian people in the style to which they’ve become accustomed.
He’s already showing the character of a U.S. senator and he’s just started. Impressive! He’s making Meghan’s coward daddy look uncomfortably stalwart and principled.
“It started many branches of thought going about more than just Egypt for me.”
could you elaborate?
If I get time to pull them together I’ll pub post.
“And I am very grateful that you linked the American Thinker piece the other day”
yes that analysis (i don’t live there and don’t know) sounded accurate. much more than the make believe media’s “narrative. the stupid templates being forced on unique situations.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/258749/does-white-house-think-mubarak-coptic-christian-paul-marshall
This is gonna end badly. And it dovetails with Rumsfeld’s maxim – Known Knowns and Known Unknowns
These folks think a wonderful speech and adoration will flow and unicorns will lie down with dragons.
And Unknown Unknowns… damn multitasking
Thank you Sephanie, another piece goes click.
YMVVW. BTW AlJ is reporting automatic gunfire in Liberation Square, and the crackdown is really getting serious. AlJ lost its feed and is now reporting that they were cut off. The Sheraton Cairo also supposedly has a live feed, but it appears to be bored hotel staff for the most part.
But days of watching the protests mushroom on the streets of Egyptian cities convinced administration officials — some facing their first national security crisis in these roles — that Mr. Mubarak probably would not weather the political storm.
Former President George Bush, whose ties to Mr. Mubarak were cemented by the Egyptian leader’s commitment to supply Arab troops during the Persian Gulf war in 1991, called Mr. Mubarak, on his own initiative, to discuss the crisis, officials said. It was not clear what Mr. Bush told Mr. Mubarak.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/world/middleeast/02transition.html?_r=2&hp
http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/02/02/game_over_the_chance_for_democracy_in_egypt_is_lost
This is a professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Seems to line up with Clarice’s guy’s commentary.
The Brotherhood joins in, in force.
For the first time, a U.S. government supports granting a government role to an extremist Islamic organization: the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
Gibbs said the Muslim Brotherhood must reject violence and recognize democratic goals for the U.S. to be comfortable with it assuming a role in the new government. This caveat does not significantly alter the new American approach, which is very different than that of the previous Administration, in which George W. Bush pushed Mubarak for democratic reforms but never publicly accepted a role for Islamists.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142101
I should add that this will give the pretext needed for the Army to move to cracking down on the MB and have the protests portrayed as all being from them though that is not true. Then again truth is very much an early causality in all this.
Now The Atlantic has pulled the Mubarak thought to be Coptic part.
Google cache still has the National Journal original of the story.
Gibbs said the Muslim Brotherhood must reject violence and recognize democratic goals
Have these guys even studied Islam? I mean seriously studied it?
MB to Odummy/Gibbs: We reject violence we swear…. turn around to Israel – Thwap!
Which re the correction…. interesting since the original story was based on not so much a verbal update as a “here’s a bunch of papers on what we think of this” update given to the press. Other blurbs I’ve seen today are critical of the lack of access the press has been given as far as video v handouts. Press is pissed.
BTW have you seen this?
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=58866
LULZ
This one is also the same story but with more added. The national Journal one was from Tuesday morning and this one is from this morning if the time stamp is to be believed.
Ambinder Tweets that it was his error.
Ambinder is taking one for the team.
I don’t buy it. In that last link in your prior post it reads like a bullet pointed memo turned into a paragraph. Bam bam bam… How would Coptics even come up in discussions of who’s leading the riots? Which two sentences make sense as being transposed… none.
Agreed. Truth evolves,twists and bends to keep the the king looking as if he still has clothes.
Subtract a “the” there. Transpositionsl error no doubt.
Twas I an evil genie (in addition to reading minds and such), I would note that any Obama without clothes would be… gross, so maybe it could be considered a public service – from a certain point of view.
Now that I have left you with nightmares…
YMVVW. Mental floss is on me in the morning. Just remember not to dispose in the sink when you are done. Detritus clogs drains.
Since lying is ok for Islamist how can you trust any news coming out of Egypt now. As for the professor’s view that is just what it is – his view. Right now I discount everything; we’ll find out later – maybe – what really happened.