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Mort Zuckerman Smacks Down Eleanor Clift's Claim Egypt Protesters Are Secular: 'That's Nonsense!'
News Busters ^ | 2/13/11 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 02/13/2011 8:17:38 PM PST by Nachum

For the second week in a row, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift found herself in a hostile crowd on PBS's "McLaughlin Group."

During a lengthy segment about the crisis in Eqypt, after Clift claimed the protesters were secular, the entire panel almost pounced on her with Mort Zuckerman saying several times, "That's nonsense" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

MORT ZUCKERMAN: We have an absolutely perfect example of whether our interests and our values are aligned here in Egypt, because our interests as Pat says, we're tied in with a lot of very, very conservative, monarchial or shall we say non- democratic regimes, all throughout the region of the Middle East. They're in our interests. The question is, our values, if democracy becomes our sole value, we're going to have a lot of problems. So the President does have a very difficult line in a sense to walk.

JOHN MCLAUGHLIN, HOST: Did he preserve a line of proper distinction and clarity between these, these, these two situations? The United States and Egypt? Did he draw too close to Egypt.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: down; mort; smacks; zuckerman
Vid at link
1 posted on 02/13/2011 8:17:43 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Eleanor Clift is still around?


2 posted on 02/13/2011 8:19:46 PM PST by americanophile ("The Constitution is the guide which I will never abandon." - George Washington)
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To: Nachum
Eleanor Rodham Clift is a member of state-run media!

How DARE anyone question anything she says!

3 posted on 02/13/2011 8:20:48 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
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To: Nachum

Eleanor Clift has a voice that goes right through you and rattles every bone in your body right down to the very core. I’d rather listen to a discordant symphony of five year-olds slowly dragging their fingernails across a blackboard while getting a root canal than have to listen to that woman speak more than a few seconds.


4 posted on 02/13/2011 8:37:15 PM PST by csense
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To: Nachum

Wait a minute . . . Pat Buchanan is taking a position that just might peripherally benefit Israel???


5 posted on 02/13/2011 8:38:42 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (" . . . HaShem, HaShem, 'Qel rachum vechanun, 'erekh 'appayim verav-chesed ve'emet!")
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To: Nachum

Eleanor Clift is a liberal moron zombie sheep.


6 posted on 02/13/2011 8:39:39 PM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: Nachum

Feb. 13: An anti-government protestor shouts during a demonstration against the evacuation in Cairo. Egypt's military moved Sunday to restore order in Cairo after weeks of mass demonstrations and two days after Mubarak surrendered power to the military but still some refused to leave Tahrir square (Reuters). Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/02/13/egypts-military-rulers-dissolve-parliament-suspend-constitution-protests/#ixzz1Du9j89jb

7 posted on 02/13/2011 8:40:05 PM PST by NoLibZone (Obama must be impeached and tried for treason.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I have as much respect for Newsweek's Eleanor Clift’s intellectual integrity as a discarded, used piece of chewing gun laying on a sidewalk, and absolutely no more!
8 posted on 02/13/2011 9:17:48 PM PST by J Edgar
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To: Nachum

A teachable moment.

Cliff clearly demonstrate how Liberals attempt to impose their version of reality on top of actual reality. They do this all the time. What they WANT to be true is more important to them than what is actually true.

Anyway, why should she care if they are secular or not. She is a devotee of “religion of peace” mantra crowd.

But her comment and Mahr talking about Zero’s claim of a Christian awakening points out that the Libs are ‘finally’ starting to grasp the fact that supporting and embracing Islam is embracing a (gasp!) religion.

These people spend their lives suppressing and even outlawing any form of religious expression but somehow they love all things Islamic. So, they backpeddle by claiming that most Muslims are secular when everyone in the world knows that just the opposite is true.


9 posted on 02/13/2011 9:20:39 PM PST by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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To: Nachum

When you look up the word “shrill” in the dictionary, there is a picture of Eleanor Clift.She has the most annoying voice on the planet.I always hit the mute button when she speaks.


10 posted on 02/13/2011 9:23:50 PM PST by chuckee
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To: csense
And then there is Susan Estrich.


11 posted on 02/13/2011 9:45:52 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: Nachum
Eleanor Clift is a propagandist. I suppose those two ladies in black just got back from a ski trip.


12 posted on 02/13/2011 10:11:55 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Only two things come from Texas and I see you're wearing an "I Heart Austin" t-shirt)
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To: Nachum

Look. Clift got her orders from the White House, and no amount of arguing is going to send her off-message.


13 posted on 02/13/2011 10:30:43 PM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: Nachum

Eleanor, You ignorant....


14 posted on 02/14/2011 12:06:21 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously..... You won't live through it anyway.)
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To: Nachum

Eleanor “LET ME FINISH” Clift is the most HIDEOUS woman on the eft, and that’s saying something!!


15 posted on 02/14/2011 4:34:52 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion is the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Everytime I hear Susan Estrich, I think “Harvey Firestein, in drag”.


16 posted on 02/14/2011 10:52:48 AM PST by SuziQ
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