Don’t these Egyptians realize they’re supposed to provide a nice backdrop for these newscasts and stop moving around so much? Ignore the Americans in their safari shirts. Sure, you should kill each other in the back of the shot. That’s great. But stay a safe distance away.
This same thing happened to Christiane Amanpour too, even though to most Americans would think she’d fit right in with these browns. Yes, these Egyptians “hat” Americans. “We WANT Mubarak,” some guy says. Hmm, defensive much?
So that’s two out of three of the broadcast news agencies getting swallowed whole by these Egyptians. But what about Brian Williams? Has anyone seen him? No. That’s because he has infiltrated these mobs and been taken in as one of their own, for he is WILLIAMS of ARAAAAABIA!
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So Hosni has sent in the Brute Squad, eh? I think I saw Andre the Giant in the background.
Does Mubarak have six fingers on his right hand…?
Inconceivable!
"We'll never survive!"
"Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has."
He is the Brute Squad.
Well Katie, that's a little tougher than a guest shot on Glee! isn't it?
She's so pretty when she's angry.
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I was of the opinion that Egyptians were spitters, not swallowers!
I believe that you may be confusing them with their camels, you quick commenting, joke ruining racist.
(Donny, you're out of your element, too!)
No, no, no! They've proven their ability to swallow for 30 years—what more do you want? And now they love to be whipped by swarthy men on horseback. A versatile people, and hot!
Now, let's go shop for discounted Luxor tours! Maybe we can get some $5 donkeymouth? So romantic, so actually-happened, so much why-we're-hated-and-not-welcome-anymore. So much for our once-grand empire.
Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait! I don't see a single one of them walking like an Egyptian! What gives??
Tut, tut…
Get Glen Beck and Bill O'Reilly over there STAT.
I'm sure they're on their way to Baghdad as we speak.
O'Reilly's going to open a falafel stand.
Since I don't watch Beck, I have to depend on Tweety to track his crazy talk for me. Chris never disappoints. Europe is about to yield to the Bush/Obama Muslim overlords? I agree with Chris Matthews, but take it one logical step forward. No, Chris, there isn't chance that Beck is mentally disturbed. It's pretty much a fact.
When will Ayles (sp?) realize the ratings boost if Beck were in a straight jacket, marking on his chalkboard by holding the chalk in his teeth while a street guy with a golden voice supplied the narration? It's would be money, Roger, MONEY!
I know I'd watch. No mean feat, that.
Yeah, right…you're confusing tough guys in pancake with actual tough guys. Glenny would cry like a girl the moment one of the Egyptians approached his camera while screaming "Roger, make the evil browns go away! I don't want to be here anymore!" (watch the scene from 'True Romance' when Christian Slater shoves a gun in Bronson Pinchot's face for the equivolent of any brown person approaching Glenn Beck in Egypt). Bill O' given his history of valor wouldn't leave the hotel room and if he did it would only be to try and get a discounted rate on falefel brandishing whores.
All the kids in the marketplace say
Ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh
Walk like an Egyptian
Has Wonkette been hacked by Mubarak's thugs? Either they have that much time on their hands, or we are that important! Jack, this is your step to world journalism! Such as it is today. Just watch out for horsemen with whips, not that there's anything wrong with being into that.
Final solution time. SEND IN OPRAH.
"And, if you all look under your seats you'll find……A NEW DEMOCRACY!!!!!!"
More likely…A CAMEL!!
You get a new democracy! And you get a new democracy! Everyone gets a new DEMOCRACY!!!!
But, Egyptians, remember; as Oprah giveth, Oprath can taketh awayeth.
Over/under on bottles of hand sanitizer in the safari jacket—–10.
Anyone here been raped and has cellphone footage of it?
wat
Edward Behr's gold standard of journalistic insensitivty, overheard in 60's Congo, updated for the internet age. Known as irony in certain parts….
Haven't you heard? There is no such thing as rape anymore. Elections have consequences, MaxN.
Neilist lives!
I can strongly sense that I'm not going to start feeling good about Egypt until those people in the background start flashing peace signs and shouting "Hi Mom!"
여보세요, 어머니! !
(Sorry, wrong dictatorship.)
Brian Williams is staying in his make-up trailer until his hair is "just right".
They're clearly upset the US media covered the Todd Palin/penis massage rumor instead of just asking Todd if it was true.
Clearly, Couric is no Bindi Irwin.
The little Couric girl is a journalist? That's like calling the Palin gal a biblical scholar.
"Look, I'm trying to work here, people! Hey! Hey! Oh…screw it, guys. Let's go back to the hotel and get hammered."
Brian would look totally hot in those flowing white robes.
Too bad he's a head shorter than Sir Pete O'Toole.
I guess these good people don't understand when you have the opportunity to be in the back of a news shot you don a rainbow Afro wig and wave a sign that says "Johns 13:16."
The right wing nut talking head gasbags keep talking about this "Muslin Brotherhood."
It's the first religion I ever heard of that has its own union.
But is it affiliated with the AFL-CIO. If not, I don't intend to honor their picket lines.
Someone needs to tell the teabaggers that if the party had formed in America, we'd have called it the Republican Party…
Knights of Columbus local 224 would beg to differ.
"So, Hosni, which Egyptians do you like to torture?"
"All of them!"
Gotcha!
Katie Couric will just sit there and blubber, but Christiane Amanpour will cut you in a New York minute.
In a back alley fight, I want my back covered by Laura Logan.
Or my front – as she prefers.
I'll take Arwa Damon with me any old day of the week.
Agreed on Lara Logan. Got to spend an evening a couple years back drinking with her and a couple guys I worked with in Afgh/Iraq (they owned the company that provided her security when in-country), she's a lot of fun, very funny, and even hotter in person. Unfortunately I was a bit in my cups by the time the camera was broken out, and had my post-deployment haircut (or lack thereof) going… http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff119/geoman77... http://s236.photobucket.com/albums/ff119/geoman77...
Jeeze, she photographs well.
BTW, I had no idea she was South African.
C'mon, go easy on Katie. She's not supposed to be Stephen fucking Hawkin or Rambo. She's actually pretty good and has great legs. And she is Hawkin next to anybody on Fox…
Quiet, or Faux News will use this as an excuse to invade…we can't have browns roughhousing CNN's "own" beloved Anderson Cooper, can we?
I think the nice Egyptian man was asking if you are married, blonde lady.
Aha, but not important enough for Savannah Guthrie to go over there. Which shortens the list of things to do to get her over to my house.
Deep in his lair, Mubarak pets his angora. Hearing that Cooper, Christine, and Couric were coming, he turns to his henchmen. He cracks his neck.
"Release zee camels!"
Bwhahahaha.
The imagery; she is priceless.
You know, I've never seen Brian Williams and Mubarak in the same place at the same time….
If I were a lesbian, I would be gay for Christiane Amanpour. On second thought, I guess I am gay for CA. Have been for years.
Maybe I need to finally have that talk with the family.
Smart and fearless is a hell of a combo.
NOW do you understand what the fucking internet is Katie? Go Mubarak!
I don't think we're in the Today Show, anymore…
Word on the Nile is U.S. "journalists" taste good on a pita with hummus.
The Egyptians don't like western TV personalities. The tradition in Egypt had always to embalm before death.
If Egypt would just lift the ban on alcohol, most Westerners would gladly embalm themselves.
Problem with that theory is: 1: There's no such ban (you can't base half your economy on tourism and ban alcohol).
2. The Egyptians invented beer.
Even given tourism, I've always been so surprised how many Muslim-majority nations allow the sell and drinking of alcohol when it is so very forbidden in the religion.
From some quick research, it seem that only a little more than half a dozen nations ban it including Iran and Afghanistan, most countries on the Arabian peninsula, Libya, and Bangledesh.
I can tell you that despite the ban, the booze flowed freely just about every damn night during my months in Kabul. In Kuwait, totally outlawed, and a black market fifth of Johnnie Walker Red or Bacardi went for $140, Stoli $180. I only made short visits to Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Qatar, and didn't have time to really get familiar with the places, but you could get booze at the hotel bars and some restaurants like Trader Vic's. But really, that was all that was necessary, because who wanted to go outside when it's 120 degrees and 110 percent humidity?
There's also the issue of Muslim countries with substantial non-Muslim minorities, which includes Egypt.
The wonkeratti are clearly not taking this Muslims eat people news seriously. I suggest you monitor the radio/teevee broadcasts of Sean O'Rushbeck.
Oh, and if you do–tell me what those crackpots are ranting about now. I know that two minutes worth of their gasbaggery is more than I can stomach.
Yeah…well according to Fox the goon squads aren't goons they're defending peace in the Middle East against socialist/communist/fascist obama-bot muslins. Oh, and if that freedumz giving democratically elected and pro-US Mubarak is forced out, Egypt will IMMEDIATELY attack Israel and then overthrow the US government next, naturally. Oh and I think somebody suggested we send our over-extended military in there to "secure" the country, because as evidence suggests that always turns out well.
Well, Brian Williams is the most ethnic looking anchor we have. They will never find him. He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he needs. Willaims' got friends in every town and village from here to the Sudan, he speaks a dozen languages, knows every local custom, he'll blend in, disappear, you'll never see him again. With any luck, he's got the interview already.
I heard he got lost in his own television studio once.
Just like Brasky!
Well, Katie, how many riots have you been in?
All of them.
And since Glenn Beck has said that we must support Mubarak to stop Obama's Islamo-Socialist take over of the world, I am sure he is there, personally a part of the good squad.
I am sure he is there, personally a part of the goon squad.
Fixed.
I don't think so…Beckster is a complete coward personally, if he were there you'd hear a sound of a man screaming hysterically in all the cameras and it would be identified as an unharmed Glenn Beck.
That's what you get all you liburl lamestream media eleets for trying to ask so many gotcha questions!
The Anderson Cooper video is just him walk/running away from angry protestors who threw water on the camera lens. When the video starts, Cooper says he'd been hit in the head "10 times" but I wanted to see that. I'm sure his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt doncha know, just poured another vodka.
Is anyone watching Rachel? She's bravely showing footage of people burning cars and beating up people, while Richard Engel talks in that strange, blurry speech that comes across on the feeds and makes them sound like they all spent too much time in the bar at the Dictator Hilton.
Seriously: is anyone watching? This is turning into a helluva situation. A tank seems to have put up some kind of smokescreen to protect the protestors, I'm assuming from the paid thugs. I tried to watch Anderson, too, but it's that interview show that eats the middle of CNN's prime time and spews out pap.
I am. Almost sunrise, things gonna look a little different.
I watched. Brian and Engel weren't drunk, they'd literally been up for hours on end all through the night and day previous.
The most riveting part was when they took the guy out the truck, beat him senseless, and then put him back in the trutck not knowing if they were trying to save him or burn him alive in the truck.
Good god, I'm watching Rachel Maddow right now…and Egypt seems to be in a state of street combat between Pro and Anti-Mubarek protestors. Way to call in the goon squad Mubarak you slime of humanity. This is sort of what would happen here and yes, the Pro Mubarak protestors are the equivolent of US wingnuts, only not nearly as fat and/or scooter-bound (if you're keeping score at home). Horrible to watch, this is. Seriously, why doesn't Hosni Mubarak just abdocate already? The country has pretty well declared "Tits or GTFO" and since he doesn't have anything aside from man boobs to offer…GTFO, you slimy motherfucker.
Oh and by the way…this is when a dictator goes from maybe getting away with 30 years of repression to crimes against humanity if this gets uglier than it is now. Also, even though none of this comment has been funny (but heavily sarcastic) I do hope all the news teams get out of this disintegrating situation well enough. Knowing Fox they probably sent Sheppard Smith out on location since he's the only non-wingnut left in the entire network.
I think it's a fucking revolution. Or a non-fucking revolution given the fact they're Islamic. It really does look, from the safety of my snow-bound home, like something has just shifted. Does anyone even remember if Tunisia is a country or a Weight Watcher's casserole recipe?
I do love a good Tunisia Fish Salad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrkwgTBrW78
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money
for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right
my handicapped brother ADORES katie. watches her every place he goes, can't leave the house til her show is over, has a signed autographed picture of her. therefore, i cannot hate on her.
also: she took out snowbilly.
Does he also only fly Qantas? Could be worth something in Vegas.
I've been watching a livestream of Al Jazeera all day, so I have no idea what the hell you all are talking about.
I did hear somewhere that Anderson Cooper was arrested by the thugs this morning. But then, the "authorities" have arrested at least 70 journalists and beaten most of the rest.
Over to you, Chet.
Egypt will not be legitimiately democratized until there is an Applebees and McDonald's on Tahrir Square.
Anderson Cooper: 'Don't touch me! I"M WEARING PRADA!'
Brian Williams has infiltrated the Egyptians… is he wearing face paint like Al Jolson? Is that him creeping over Katie's left shoulder at 0:10?
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