Anderson Cooper Just Got Beat Up By Pro-Mubarak Thugs in Cairo

Gawker ^ | February 2, 2011 | Staff

[lbryce]

CNN's Anderson Cooper and his camera crew were attacked and repeatedly punched by pro-government forces near Tahrir Square in Cairo today.

"My team were set upon by the crowd," Cooper said on CNN this morning via telephone from the safety of a hotel balcony. "There was no rhyme or reason to it—it was just people looking for a fight, looking to make a point, and punching us." According to a Twitter post from George Hale, the English editor of the Ma'an news agency, who cited a CNN "manager," Cooper was punched "10 times in the head."

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[LasVegasMac]

Why did CNN and others send news people into the thick of things anyway? At a time when the State Department has urged Americans to leave, and other countries are evacuating their citizens, the people at CNN think they won’t be in danger by going in there?

Same reason TWC sends their reporters into the hurricane while normal folk are leaving or have left.

My guess is a negative balance in the IQ department.

:)

[crusty old prospector]

How does he know it was ten? Was he counting one, two, three...?

[Rummyfan]

According to a Twitter post from George Hale, the English editor of the Ma'an news agency, who cited a CNN "manager," Cooper was punched "10 times in the head."

Is it alright to say that I hoped they knocked some sense into him? What does AC expect when out among a million people in the street? You're going to run into some nasties inevitably, and the 'But I'm Anderson Cooper and I'm on CNN' defense ain't gonna cut it.

[Caipirabob]

Anderson Cooper Just Got Beat Up By Pro-Mubarak Thugs in Cairo

I hope he's ok and actually learns something valuable from the experience.

[kiltie65]

The guy probably prefers his camel over Katie.

[Buckeye McFrog]

How do we know they’re pro Mubarak thugs?

How true. Seems they might have been a roving band of television critics...

[Doogle]

*deep breath*.......*holding*....LOLOLOLOLOL....*deep breath*

[Candor7]

He was cuffed about the ears 10 times. thats not beaten, no blood was drawn.

The libs cannot face the fact they are not lubbed, when in fact they need to arm themselves, or hire a security team.
They reluctantly awaken to the fact that they are not covering a protest in down town New York City.

Mubarak’s people know exactly how to handle an Obama propaganda team.

Heres to seeing them pound the MSM propagandists again and again!!!Delightful!

[Cheerio]

We will never get that out of the state run dying lame stream media, NEVER.

[Sicon]

"There was no rhyme or reason to it—it was just people looking for a fight, looking to make a point, and punching us."

Hey Anderson, I think the "point" they were making was something along the lines of:

"Get out of our country, you weak-wristed, self-important, teleprompter-reading infidel!"

[tiki]

I was wondering if the news orgs were crazy for sending their stars instead of war correspondents. I guess they thought it was going to be a polite revolution.

[Tzimisce]

I’m sorry, I can’t stop laughing.

The Liberal Elite thinks that it’s not like the rest of us dumb Americans. Then they go overseas and discover that the people over there see us as all one in the same.

[Doc Savage]

Not even a camel would do Katie!

[TheThinker]

Is there video?

Was he truly injured?

Did the thugs have pro-Mubarak buttons on their shirts?

Were they hired by the Mulsim Brotherhood?

[urtax$@work]

Lemme buy a round of beer for those ‘thugs’ !

[omegadawn]

Muslim brotherhood is known for pretending to be members of the opposing party to make them look bad.

[ßuddaßudd]

Good for him and welcome to the real world Coop.

[Luigi Vasellini]

I want to see the tape. I dont believe him. Its a publicity stunt

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Did they beat him up because he is an alleged jourwhoralist or because he is gay?

[Oztrich Boy]

Or did it ever occur to Anderson and everyone that there is an anti-American, anti-western element to these protests? And that he and his team were a strong symbol of that?