Posted on 03/24/2015 10:51:15 AM PDT by Bratch
CBS News 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan is back in the hospital in Washington, D.C., due to years-long complications stemming from the brutal sexual assault she endured in Egypt while covering the Arab Spring in early 2011, several sources close to her—including one family friend who went on the record—confirmed to Breitbart News on Monday evening.
A 60 Minutes spokesman also confirmed to Breitbart News late Monday that Logan was in fact hospitalized.
“Very few people know how stoic and incredibly tough this lady is. In spite of everything she’s had to face in the last two years, people have no idea the physical suffering she has been enduring due to the brutal sexual assault she encountered in Egypt during the Arab Spring while reporting for 60 Minutes,” Ed Butowsky, a close friend and confidante of Lara and her family, told Breitbart News. “I’ve been in and around this business and people don’t understand how hard reporters work and how much time they put in. Lara, above all of it, has been doing it for four years since this brutal attack and suffering in every way, shape or form. Maybe it’s time for people to realize these people are human beings.”
“We were sorry to hear this morning that Lara was readmitted to the hospital,” the 60 Minutes spokesman added in an email. “We wish her a speedy recovery.”
Butowsky said that Logan has been going in and out of the hospital for the last few years since returning after the brutal attack in Egypt, all while continuing reporting from the most dangerous places on earth and raising her family. Logan has two children. Specifically, Butowsky said, she has been in the hospital at least four times this year alone.
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Thanks for all your hard work executing these folks Sissi. You’re a stand up guy.
Right? Talk about dropping a goldfish into a piranha tank.
Argh. I am of an older generation, and I don’t believe in putting women in that kind of situation, especially a woman with young children, unless there is an invading army or something like that, then what is there to lose?
I feel badly for her, because what they did was brutal and criminal, but...that is the modus operandi of many (not all) men in the muslim world, especially towards someone like her.
And sanctioned by the religious and political leaders.
I just don’t see why a woman would be asked, be allowed by her employer, or want to put herself in that situation.
I think it is insane.
I’m sure she would thank you for such a patronizing pat on the head.
Sorry Benito, I agree with rl. Men need to protect woman and not put them purposely in bad situations.
I had to set up a trade show booth today that took a bit of physical labor with several trips across the hall to the car for carts full f stuff. My co-worker is 6 months pregnant. She wanted to come help but I told her that I wouldn’t let her.
The Bible describes women as the weaker vessel. That’s not an insult, but a reality. We should treat women with respect and not expect them to be one of the guys.
I’m sure rlmorel would appreciate your apology.
So would your wife.
Sorry that you are such a jerk. FR is not where you should be hanging out.
That was not a “so’s your old lady” reply, if that’s how you took it. I was merely stating that your wife (if you have one) would probably take a different view of things vis a vis your enlightened view of gender equality.
Gotcha. But you would be wrong.
My attitude towards this has nothing to do with patronization, it has to do with a recognition of unadulterated reality.
I don’t know anything about this woman. I don’t know if she was subject to that liberal arrogance that imbues members of the media with a sense of invincibility not far removed from the “Don’t you know who I am” mentality, or if she had the equally stupid useful idiot impression that she would not be harmed because the people on the other side of the camera somehow “knew” that she sympathized with whatever cause liberals come down on the same side of. I don’t know any of that.
I do not hold her responsible for the actions of others.
But in an area of the world where people, male or female, are PREDICTABLY abducted and horribly murdered, she should not have been where she was, and not far behind that is the sentiment that a westerner, particularly an American and doubly a woman, should not have been where she was.
A westerner or American male might well have been beaten to death by that crowd. But it is unlikely he would have been sodomized or otherwise sexually molested, though it isn’t outside the proclivities of these beasts to do even that.
But the violent sexual assault on this woman is no reason to make her a hero because she was a victim of it. She should have seen that kind of assault was highly predictable. If she deserves blame of any kind, if is for the lack of judgement on the part of her and her employer, and the hubris (as another poster apply put it) that the spectacle of the camera and her status as a western media personality was going to render her immune and somehow protect her.
The obvious answer is yes. She didn't go over there to lose her life or be sexually violated, I am pretty sure that the way things turned out were quite an unpleasant surprise to her. Nobody ever leaves their house in the morning thinking they will be killed in an auto accident on their way to work.
I saw something on a form that they are now narrowing the definition of AA to mean having ancestry of original sub saharan peoples. Still a worthless descriptor since there are people of colour not fitting that definition. I know there are very few in the US but what would they call an Australian Aborigine? An Australian American?
LOL, I don’t THINK it is going to happen, but I sure keep in mind that if I don’t stay aware, it is more likely to happen...
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