Fox Business Reporter’s Cairo Hotel Room Invaded by Security: 'They're Going to Kill Us!!'

The Daily Caller ^ | 2/2/11 | Jeff Poor

[Nachum]

Covering the melee in Cairo as an American journalist has taken a turn for the worse in the last 24 hours. In addition to the dangers of reporting from an area where the government has failed to ensure basic safety, an alleged pro-Hosni Mubarak mob has infiltrated the protests and is turning violent on protesters and western journalists. Ashley Webster, the overseas market editor for the Fox Business Network, is the latest to face the threats from the pro-Mubarak demonstrators. On Monday, around 10 a.m. Eastern time, Webster tweeted the following:

[Carling]

Thank you for the rare laugh in the midst of such a serious moment in history.

Well done, FRiend!

[Kimmers]

My friends MIL (American) whose deceased husband was from Egypt. Her MIL was a teacher in Egypt for over a decade and goes to Egypt once a year.

She is traveled to Egypt before this mess started. She was staying on the coast of Egypt before she traveled to Cairo. She had no idea this was happening due to news black outs within the country.....now she is stuck but safe (so far)

Why any American travels beyond our borders is a real head scratcher to me...

[DoughtyOne]

You may want to rethink that tip of the hat to the writers.

The implication is that those people were actually the secret police. (Mubarak’s)

It may have been your take that they were intimating that it might have been anti-Mubarak people trying to make Mubarak look bad. I’m not sure they want to make that case, being anti-Mubarak and all.

[lonevoice]

"According to his Twitter feed, Webster explained the hotel was warning the “pro-regime crowd [is] angry at cameras and journalists from the West.”

Imagine that. What in the world are Fox Business Network reporters doing in Cairo right now?

[Trod Upon]

Being that Cooper is a known homosexual, I think real Muslim protesters would have killed him. Smells like a fraud to me.

[444Flyer]

Quick! Somebody send in Wolf Blitzer. He'll know what to do!

[TheThirdRuffian]

The only solution is to send Geraldo to Cairo to do man-on-the-street interviews. By himself.

Or maybe with Shep Smith, too.

[El Cid]

Notice they are saying it is pro-Murbarak’s people who are doing the threatening. I don’t know for sure who it is, but, surely, it can’t be the peace-loving anti-government people

Well, in this case I could believe it.
The Media is supporting anyone who takes an anti-Western tact - be they islamics, leftists, or whatever -- and wraps them in the fake gown of 'fighters for democracy' (aka, 'mob rule'). So if you are an islamic or leftist scum - you understand the Media is on your side. If you are pro-Mubarak - you're probably P.O.'d at the Media tools.
Of course I also acknowledge that you have leftists who will try to agitate, and you have Media who will lie -- so 'who knows' ... but I could believe it that the pro-Mubarak folks are applying most of the bashing to the Media.

[skeeter]

Well, the media has been intimating that the pro mubarak "mob" is laced with his security forces, too. So I guess I missed the distinction.

However, I'm happy to retract any undue credit given to the western press. Their performance has been and continues to be farcical during this whole thing.

[pointsal]

Just came back from two weeks in Israel. Felt safer there than here in California.

Wonder what the report was thinking? If you go poke a stick at a barking dog, well you may get bitten.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Given the media creatures prediliction for sedition, treason, pornography, drugs, hatred of private property(other than their own)any threat to their well being is ok by me!

[DoughtyOne]

I wasn’t looking for a retraction. SAT

Our current press is absolutely terrible.

My fave moment was when Shep Smith stated that this current unrest across the Middle East was like the Iron Curtain falling there.

And what’s worse, he didn’t get a moments grief over it.

[Elwood P. Doud]

When did Hosni Mubarak suddenly become a Good Guy?

[jimjohn]

Reporters are tweeting. So, I guess the internet is back on again?

[A Texan]

Does anyone find it funny that these “reporters” are being attacked yet no one has gotten it on camera? I mean, itn’t that the whole point to being over there, isn’t it their freaking job?!?!

[LostInBayport]

Stupid liberals....do they think their “goodness” will protect them?

They do! Liberals think they are good little soldiers in "The Struggle" against capitalists and the rich, and that the protestors will sense this and it will be like Woodstock (except without the nudity, drugs and mud). What liberals do not realize is that this is about religion, specifically the Muslim religion, which does not tolerate anything else for any reason. Muslims hate anyone who is not a practicing Muslim. End of story.

[GOPJ]

Prayers for the brave reporters... (Come on guys - when reporters are doing this kind of work - they’re not liberal or conservatives - they’re humans...)

[JohnBovenmyer]

I wonder whether MSM will consider their experiences in Egypt and revise their characterization of the Tea Party as violent racists, bigots, etc.

[Yet_Again]

When did Hosni Mubarak suddenly become a Good Guy?

Well, he's honored the peace treaty with Israel. He has suppressed the largest organization of terrorists in Egypt (which has the support of some 60% of Egyptians according to polls). The viewpoint of the new government of Egypt is that the army should prepare for war with Israel. I'd say that in comparison, Mubarak's a pretty good guy. http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/muslim-brotherhood-tells-egyptian-army-to-prepare-for-war-with-israel/

[beandog]

Exactly what are they doing? Sticking their nose in a country that is none of their business. I know I wouldn’t be happy if some foreign reporters were over in my country messing in my business.

These reporters are over there to make news, not report it, and a name for themselves. We don’t need them there.