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2011-02-03 Africa North
Cooper punched in the head as Couric and Amanpour are attacked by protesters in Egypt
MSM standards are slipping badly. In the good old days we could have an intelligent newscast from say CNN based on their censorship deal with Saddam. Now all we get are hysterical news clips of Cooper getting his coiffured locks ruffled and Katie and Christiane getting hassled by the crowd. Sigh!!
We watch them every night, often reporting from exotic and far-flung lands - but rarely do we see America's newscasters in actual physical danger.

The escalating crisis in Egypt, it seems, is breaking the mould as footage of three of America's best known news broadcasters coming under attack in Cairo emerged.

First, CNN journalist Anderson Cooper was punched in the head ten times by angry pro-Hosni Mubarak supports while reporting on Egypt's domestic crisis.

Then footage of CBS news anchor Katie Couric and ABC news anchor Christiane Amanpour being roughly jostled by the crowd also emerged yesterday.

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Posted by tipper 2011-02-03 02:19|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 Once in the Mediterranean, a Roman citizen was inviolable. Then the Fall came. How's it feeling now Katie that your 'One' has announced the 'Decline'? Still dancing like its 1999? /rhet question.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-02-03 03:56||   2011-02-03 03:56|| Front Page Top

#2 You mean the crowd didn't immediately fall on their faces and and worship them?

OMG! It must have been horrible for them. After all - to Couric, Anderson, and Amanpour - it's all about then.
Posted by CrazyFool 2011-02-03 08:15||   2011-02-03 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 After all - to Couric, Anderson, and Amanpour - it's all about them.

(need.... coffee....)
Posted by CrazyFool 2011-02-03 08:16||   2011-02-03 08:16|| Front Page Top

#4 I haven't heard to much American flag burning at these protests. But they punch out representative of the Make Believe Media? Maybe the protesters understand American opinion better than I think.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-02-03 08:59||   2011-02-03 08:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Procopius, that inviolability was always more day-to-day and legal than practical. Caesar's youthful adventure with the pirates was an example of that inviolability in practice.

I had a Roman History professor who started off his intro course with a long geographical tour through the provinces as if the students were Roman citizens from a provincial town playing tourist (he used the bumpkin town up the valley he lived in as his fictional provincial town... which I eventually moved to myself, but anyways). This went on for an entire lecture, until he brought us to the great slave depot on Delos in the Aegean, whereupon he, having lulled us into a daze with the geography and so forth, proclaimed us all dead, butchered by the naval forces of Mithridates the Great, who sacked Delos & slaughtered tens of thousands of Roman citizens in the course of the Asiatic Vespers of 88 BC.

In other words, being specially protected above others by the law means that when the laws fail, you've a big fat target on your back.
Posted by Mitch H.  2011-02-03 09:37|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/  2011-02-03 09:37|| Front Page Top

#6 I could imagine the Arab slaver equivalent of a used car salesman giving a pitch to some dubious Saudi businessman about how Couric and Amanpour would just look great in his harem, and he will go talk to his boss about giving him a super deal on them.
Posted by  Anonymoose 2011-02-03 09:45||   2011-02-03 09:45|| Front Page Top

#7 It doesn't appear that Anderson, Amanpour, and Couric have First Amendment protection in Egypt--or it could be they tick off the Egyptians as much as they do us.
Posted by JohnQC 2011-02-03 11:08||   2011-02-03 11:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Having the terrorist cheerleader Amanpour roughly jostled is only barely the beginning of the Karma coming her way.
Posted by DarthVader 2011-02-03 11:16||   2011-02-03 11:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Gotta love it when the pretentious progressives meet their beloved 'Religion of Peace' face-fist.
Posted by abu do you love 2011-02-03 12:14||   2011-02-03 12:14|| Front Page Top

#10 This is what happens when the bars are closed in the safety zones. Somebodies gotta go out and do some reportin' kind of stuff and such.
(No real journalists were harmed in the making of this news.)
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2011-02-03 12:35||   2011-02-03 12:35|| Front Page Top

#11 How come they get to punch anti-news anchors in the face and we don't?
Posted by CrazyFool 2011-02-03 13:35||   2011-02-03 13:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Too bad to see people injured.

However, it should remind everybody that Obama's suck up tour to the Moslem world (his 'summa' venue was Cairo) did essentially nothing to change Egyptian hatred of America and reduced Egytian fear of committing anti America acts. I'd like people to tell Cooper, Couric and Amanpour this to their face.
Posted by Lord Garth 2011-02-03 15:00||   2011-02-03 15:00|| Front Page Top

#13 These progressives being attacked reminds me of the analogy of the Vegan who cannot understand why the Bull attacks them.
Posted by airandee 2011-02-03 15:43||   2011-02-03 15:43|| Front Page Top

#14  I'd like people to tell Cooper, Couric and Amanpour this to their face. Most unlikely to work, if you consider the intensity of their bias. They won't change their minds unless confronted with the truth 'face-fist', as was said earlier.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-02-03 15:53||   2011-02-03 15:53|| Front Page Top

#15  being specially protected above others by the law means that when the laws fail, you've a big fat target on your back. And to continue with the history lession, the Asiatic Vespers was then followed by a massive Roman invasion, the abolition of whatever political entity Mithridates the Late was part of, and the death &/or slavery of far larger numbers of his admirers and hangers-on than were killed by his people in the Asiatic Vespers. 'Mess with the Imperium, Die like the Rest'
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-02-03 16:00||   2011-02-03 16:00|| Front Page Top

#16 In the long run, we're still dead, Anguper.
Posted by Mitch H.  2011-02-03 16:28|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/  2011-02-03 16:28|| Front Page Top

#17 did essentially nothing to change Egyptian hatred of America and reduced Egyptian fear of committing anti-America acts.

I don't know about that: they did punch Anderson Cooper in the head, which kind of seems like a pro-American act to me.
Posted by Secret Master 2011-02-03 16:32||   2011-02-03 16:32|| Front Page Top

#18 they did punch Anderson Cooper in the head, which kind of seems like a pro-American act to me.
Secret Master, just as long as he can ride his bike, he should be OK.
Posted by tipper 2011-02-03 17:13||   2011-02-03 17:13|| Front Page Top

#19 I nominate Secret Master for the "Snark 'O the day".
Posted by DarthVader 2011-02-03 17:14||   2011-02-03 17:14|| Front Page Top

#20 Or the tourist who admiring their beauty and taking pictures walked right up to momma Bison and calf.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-02-03 17:17||   2011-02-03 17:17|| Front Page Top

#21 I listened to an interview with a young lady in Alexandria yesterday afternoon. She said they weren't really angry at America or Americans but were really angry with Obama. Join the Club, I say.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-02-03 19:05||   2011-02-03 19:05|| Front Page Top

#22 Having the terrorist cheerleader Amanpour roughly jostled is only barely the beginning of the Karma coming her way.

I believe the way karma works is you get reincarnated into the caste you deserve once this life is over. For instance, a serial killer might be reborn as an amoeba, whereas a great humanitarian might be reborn as a high-caste Brahmin.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-02-03 19:34||   2011-02-03 19:34|| Front Page Top

#23 I listened to an interview with a young lady in Alexandria yesterday afternoon. She said they weren't really angry at America or Americans but were really angry with Obama. Join the Club, I say.

After 9/11, they were saying more or less the same thing, except they substituted Bush's name for Obama's. It is what it is. These people think we're the ultimate cause of all their problems.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-02-03 19:38||   2011-02-03 19:38|| Front Page Top

#24 We watch them every night...

Ummmmmmmmm...no. We don't.
Posted by tu3031 2011-02-03 20:26||   2011-02-03 20:26|| Front Page Top

#25 I'd watch a Youtube, though.....prolly a couple hundred times
Posted by Frank G 2011-02-03 20:32||   2011-02-03 20:32|| Front Page Top

#26 These know nothing people in the Lame Stream Meda were the ones telling us that the world would like us if Obama was elected President.
Posted by Blossom Jutch5669 2011-02-03 23:08||   2011-02-03 23:08|| Front Page Top

#27 AM NEWS > Foreign Journalists have repor been threatened wid BEHEADING by anti-Mubarak Protestors???
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-02-03 23:38||   2011-02-03 23:38|| Front Page Top

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