There seems to be a delusion among some journalists that simply *being* a journalist somehow makes them immune to things like bullets and angry mobs. The MFM was so shocked when Cooper and Amanpour and Polkit and now Logan got beaten up by the mobs in Egypt. Well...they’re MOBS. Large numbers of people whipped into a frenzy do strange and unpredictable things. Sometimes, if they’re Muslims, they see a Western face and decide they’re going to rearrange it. Or in this case, they decide they “want them some of that.” Pro-Mubarak, anti-Mubarak, doesn’t matter.
I’m actually quite surprised this happened. Logan is a veteran reporter, she’s been in and out of the sandbox for over five years. She’s been there, done that, and I’m kind of shocked that her danger sense didn’t tell her that a good-looking, blonde, obviously Western female shouldn’t be wandering around in a group of thousands of hyped-up Muslims. That doesn’t justify her being raped, of course—NO woman ever “has it coming,” that’s just asinine—but wow, maybe keep a headscarf handy and throw it on after you get off-camera in the hopes of lowering your profile? Keep some security around? Stick to an area where you can get out if things go sideways?
The saddest part is that she’ll never get justice. In a mob that large, there’s no way the Egyptian authorities will ever be able to identify the perps. Hopefully the soldiers that rescued her kicked some ass when they pulled the guys away from her, but that’s about the best that could come of it.
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Oh yeah, I remember the one reporter who was told to get out that she wasn’t wanted and she headed right out. Cooper as well.
What ever possessed this woman to go there is beyond me. It can’t be that she didn’t know what it was all about. More like she figured that she was with her crew. So she had some false sense of security. Probably figured her editor wouldn’t send her if the danger was really still very likely. All mixed in with the idea that she was a veteran of reporting in war zones and could find a way out if she really had to.
I am betting that she was separated from her crew so fast that by the time she registered the danger she was in too deep to extract herself. Much like combat, it probably came so fast and all of her senses were in overload that she couldn’t grasp it all as it happened.
She is lucky to be alive that is for sure. I guess what bothers me the most about this is how they are portraying everything as a good transition. I bet that more than half of Americans have no idea what is really happening there. We here, who probably have a better grasp than most are only getting bits and pieces.
Sadly, the MSM continues to allow the propaganda that Obama has orchestrated some great change there. I actually saw a clip of Chris Matthews saying how happy he was that Obama had done this and how excited he was for Obama. His words were
“It took Obama to do this”
How prophetic and on the mark he was. Only a hard core closet Muslim would support such atrocities and claim that they are all going according to plan.