Anderson Cooper Just Got Beat Up By Pro-Mubarak Thugs in Cairo

Gawker ^ | February 2, 2011 | Staff

[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 it—it 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."

Bonus Video! Video:Leave Our Katie Alone:"Intrepid" CBS News Anchor Narrowly Escapes Mob

Watch Katie Display Her Fish-Out-of-Water Style Reporting From Cairo That Plays Like Parody

[hennie pennie]

<<<< MI< "Muslim brotherhood is known for pretending to be members of the opposing party to make them look bad." <<<<<

I didn't know that they had the reputation of doing this, but it was something I already presumed that they were doing.

[TASMANIANRED]

First dose of reality in his lifetime.

Bet he cried like a baby.

[mass55th]

"Anderson Cooper Just Got Beat Up By Pro-Mubarak Thugs in Cairo"

Did he at least get a T-shirt?

[McGruff]

Ah yes. Reminds me of the good old days of

[unixfox]

When is Chrissy Matthews going to Cairo?

If he does go, there won't be any tingles running down his leg. It'll be piss.

[BerryDingle]

I watched that video expecting the idiot to be sporting a Bill Clinton ashtray face. I’m wondering now which half of this is the bull and which half is the other end.

[rfp1234]

At least Coop didn’t get teabagged in Cairo. Oh, wait, he probably wishes he did.

[GeronL]

liberals do that too

[TxDas]

I suspect after 10 good punches from a FReeper he would not look so unscathed. Maybe he was bitched slapped 10 times in a gay bar and just thought he had been punched.

[Noumenon]

I think Cooper would enjoy being in an Egyptian prison.

Yes, but does he like gladiator movies?

[Noumenon]

Awwww. Poor little AC -

Not.

[SunkenCiv]

And who among us hasn’t wanted to do that? :’) But seriously, is the footage (euphemistically speaking in the age of digital media) on YT yet? Thanks lbryce.

[sniper63]

"Katie Couric? Seriously, I heard she was going...."

She's probably just getting some background info for her new Mooslem Sitcom........

[worst-case scenario]

Oh give me a break. At least he had the guts to be out there getting the coverage. Where were the guys from MSNBC or Fox?

Cooper faced an actual danger. He responded in a pretty brave manner, from the video.

[worst-case scenario]

Well, you heard it on the radio. It *must* be true, right?

[no-to-illegals]

my oh my.... the stories one could tell, if one would not be (let me say removed, Sir), if one could tell the stories. Not knowing for certain, hennie pennie, I cannot tell through my screen, yet I do not believe you to be a Sir, thus no reference to you, when Sir was stated.

[SuperLuminal]

Oh happy day!

[Varsity Flight]

1. We do not watch so called “national” news here.

2. Egypt is not part of the United States.

3. Egypt is not in the U.S. Constitution.

4. Not interested in another attempted distraction from our economic conditions and their instigators.

5. Our “friends” are our fleets of floating aircraft carrier armadas.

[lbryce]

Desperately needs to do his own live mob coverage, get the beating of his life he so fiendishly deserves. He’s busy covering the ‘2011 Annual Best Meatloaf Cook-Off’ Championship going on in downtown Boondocks, La, this week,
won’t make it to Cairo, until at least mid-February.