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CBS Complicit in News Coverup (Lara Logan)
The Boston Herald ^ | Thursday, February 17, 2011 | Michael Graham

Posted on 02/17/2011 7:29:30 AM PST by kristinn

Dateline — Egypt:

“[60 Minutes] correspondent Lara Logan was repeatedly sexually assaulted by thugs yelling, ‘Jew! Jew!’ as she covered the chaotic fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo’s main square Friday.”

Powerful reporting on an important story. Two problems: It didn’t run until yesterday, and CBS didn’t run it. The quote is from the New York Post. And it was The Wall Street Journal that reported “the separation and assault lasted roughly 20 to 30 minutes.”

But CBS? They sat on their own story. For five days, as reporters reveled amid giddy celebrations in Tahrir Square, and as President Obama praised President Obama’s handling of the Egyptian crisis, CBS reported nothing.

Only when other media had the story did CBS break the news that its own chief foreign correspondent was the victim of “a brutal and sustained sexual assault.”

Five days of silence — not even “60 Minutes” coverage of the Egypt story. No mention of the “mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy” who attacked their own reporter.

How is that not news?

SNIP

Having 200 “good guys” gang assault a female reporter while screaming “Jew! Jew!” doesn’t fit the narrative. Is that why CBS sat on the story?

Or is it the cultural issue? A rape in a bar is a sex crime. But a pack of political protesters who rape a “Jew” in public is a story about culture.

SNIP

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animals; dogs; egypt; laralogan; logan; pigs
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To: ladyjane
You know I have no idea what this poor woman was wearing ,but what ever she was not expecting a gang raped from savages..No one and I repeat no one should be raped by these Muslims or anyone else for that matter..It takes a sick mind to do something like that..
61 posted on 02/17/2011 8:44:54 AM PST by PLD
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To: Danae
Logan did not mind telling about supposed Egyptian military abuse:

Lara Logan's Egypt Interrogation Tell-All: "The Army Is Not on the Peoples' Side. The Army Is on Its Own Side."

62 posted on 02/17/2011 8:45:32 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (The Left is the Antichrist.)
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To: Carry_Okie
Precisely. She's not Jewish anyway.

They saw a pretty white girl from a wealthy country. They wanted her so that they could inflict revenge for their own worthlessness. So they made up an excuse that gave them cover.


Even if she'd been Jewish, they're still animals. They make me sicker as the days go by. I guess they can call me "racist" or "anti-muslim" or whatever. I don't care anymore. These "people" are mad.
63 posted on 02/17/2011 8:46:13 AM PST by youngidiot (Don't let the name fool ya, toots.)
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To: kristinn
I am becoming very skeptical of the “sexual” aspects of this story.
64 posted on 02/17/2011 8:47:08 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ( "Hokahey, today is a good day to die!" Crazy Horse, Lakota Sioux)
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To: primeval patriot

No comment!!


65 posted on 02/17/2011 8:47:22 AM PST by PLD
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To: kristinn
I am becoming very skeptical of the “sexual” aspects of this story.
66 posted on 02/17/2011 8:47:32 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ( "Hokahey, today is a good day to die!" Crazy Horse, Lakota Sioux)
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To: Individual Rights in NJ

You are clearly a sexist misogynist. What happened is the result of women wanting to be treated as equals and some really rose colored glasses jacka$$es making decisions.


67 posted on 02/17/2011 8:51:52 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ( "Hokahey, today is a good day to die!" Crazy Horse, Lakota Sioux)
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To: Eye of Unk

The initial reports said she was beaten and sodomized; when they rescued her, she had to be hospitalized immediately and then when she was gotten out of Egypt, she had to be hospitalized again for repair of the damage.


68 posted on 02/17/2011 8:52:56 AM PST by livius
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To: kristinn

They have to come up with a narrative.

Apparently they are deciding on “It was Mubarak’s thugs that did it!”

um... what?


69 posted on 02/17/2011 8:54:47 AM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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To: livius

70 posted on 02/17/2011 8:55:46 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (The Left is the Antichrist.)
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To: kristinn
Perhaps see-b.s. will eventually say the story is false, but still accurate.
71 posted on 02/17/2011 8:55:50 AM PST by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

Why? The reason CBS covered it up is that it made Muslims look like insane animals, and believe me, CBS wouldn’t have admitted that their heroes had committed a sexual assault unless the CBS head honchos were absolutely forced to do so, which they were because other news media (probably foreign) were talking about it. I think the first report I read was in a British source.


72 posted on 02/17/2011 8:56:54 AM PST by livius
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To: Berlin_Freeper; Monterrosa-24

OK, I stand corrected. I wsa just going from my gut... I wouldn’t want it reported if it were me. But thats just me.


73 posted on 02/17/2011 8:59:02 AM PST by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: Monterrosa-24

Thing is if the mob was against the side the MSM was cheering for then we would have heard all about the story within minutes, no matter what she wanted.


74 posted on 02/17/2011 8:59:53 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: kristinn; pissant; DakotaRed; sickoflibs; Liz; Cobra64; BenKenobi; cripplecreek; Tublecane; JPG; ...
Having 200 “good guys” gang assault a female reporter while screaming “Jew! Jew!” doesn’t fit the narrative. Is that why CBS sat on the story?

YES, that's why CBS didn't cover the story. It didn't fit their liberal narrative. IF she had been sexually assaulted at a Tea Party by 200 men we'd still be hearing about this story a year from now... and the Clintons would be asking for a memorial to be built in her honor...

75 posted on 02/17/2011 9:00:08 AM PST by GOPJ (http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
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To: Marko413

There is no circumstance where the correct action is to send any woman into any situation like the one.

You should be willing to take a discrimination lawsuit, let your company be shut down, etc... as long as you did the right thing-— which is why I stated it was a cowardly act by CBS and all Americans/South Africans should be mortified that is our culture.


76 posted on 02/17/2011 9:04:49 AM PST by Individual Rights in NJ (Infidel Inside)
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To: GOPJ
YES, that's why CBS didn't cover the story. It didn't fit their liberal narrative. IF she had been sexually assaulted at a Tea Party by 200 men we'd still be hearing about this story a year from now... and the Clintons would be asking for a memorial to be built in her honor...

Word.

77 posted on 02/17/2011 9:05:26 AM PST by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: livius

I can believe it though I wanted not to. I can only blame those that allowed her to be placed in such a bad place at the wrong time.
Now maybe the next time they send reporters out like this they will have several dozen armed security guards.

In summary the MSM is to blame for seeking sensationalism, they destroyed this person, I hope she wins a billion dollar lawsuit against them.


78 posted on 02/17/2011 9:06:02 AM PST by Eye of Unk ("These people are either at your neck or at your knees" A quote by Winston Churchill)
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To: Chuzzlewit

Oh come on Barry called her on the phone. He told her “Ya know the brothers were just kidding around Lara” “They didn’t mean it”. “Just a little fun”.


79 posted on 02/17/2011 9:07:37 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: kristinn

What did she do to deserve the rape? Fail to wear a headscarf? Show ankle? Walk around without a male relative?

Well, the Islamic Courts of Egypt should find her guilty of Adultery (unless she can find three witnesses) and have her stoned to death.

< / Sharia Law >


80 posted on 02/17/2011 9:07:54 AM PST by Uncle Miltie ("And did you exchange a walk on part in a war, for a lead role in a cage?")
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