Posted on 02/02/2011 12:06:32 PM PST by 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 itit 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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These liberal “journalists” smeared the Tea Party with all kinds of vile, unproven and outrageous accusations all last year, making us out to be racist, violent and stupid. They have spent the past few weeks mischaracterizing the Muslim Brotherhood as some kind of freedom fighters.
And now they are being schooled, live on TV, that what they say/hope/believe/wish/think does not equate with reality. I think the ideology runs too deep for them to actually learn the lesson, but it will be entertaining. If only my satellite signal wasn’t blocked by three feet of snow!
“They” still do not understand the beheading of Daniel Pearl. Guess what, life cannot be directed and scripted around the world the way lazy Americans allow their political landscape to be manipulated by the “rich and famous” airheads.
Meanwhile one of the FOX reporters said that there are unconfirmed reports of many Coptic Christians being killed. He said one report was that 15 had been gunned down in one small village.
How could he tell they were Pro Mubarak?
Were they wearing signs that said “Keep Mubarak!”
The beating of a media creature warms my heart. It is just compensation for the years of sedition, treason, pornography, lies, deceit, and hypocrisy by members of the journalistic trade.
When is Chrissy Matthews going to Cairo?
Well the repost from Fox last hour said that all of the poepl who have been grabbed whe they have attackd someone are carrying police ID’s.
Cooper must have forgotten that 85% of these “pro democracy activists” favor stoning homosexuals to death.
Just try to stay on the down-low the next few days, Coop
I was thinking the same thing. he probably was thinking that they are coarse and just like those 70 year old farts in the Tea Party Movement..They were hurting my wrist! “I didn’t fight back because it would have made them mad.”
Just how does he know they weren’t the Muslim Brotherhood? Because they didn’t kill him?
Ha! SWEET...
I oppose violence but my belief is being tested here!
Maybe he can risk his life for “social justice” the way so many Americans have for our freedom.
Oh, the humanity. The poor MSM.
Caught up in the very same riot incited by
... the MSM, Obama, Bill Ayers, al Qaeda and Ikhwan.
I’ll kick in a few bucks for his one way ticket. Any other takers?
They tried to start something to make Obama look like some sort of hero but they bit off a lot more than they could chew and now he looks like the idiot he is.
“And they were shouting What’s the frequency Kenneth”
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