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CBS 60 Minutes Lara Logan Interview: What Really Happened?
Vanity ^ | May 1, 2011 | Self

Posted on 05/01/2011 5:38:53 PM PDT by Poundstone

Just watched CBS 60 Minutes' interview with Lara Logan and what happened in February in Cairo. I must say, I'm still confused: just what did happen? After watching Scott Pelley's interview with Logan, I still don't know if she was raped. It's more than an academic question; in every state in the U.S., there's big difference between sexual molestation and rape. I honestly don't know what happened to Logan that night, other than that a mob tore her clothes off and beat her. To be explicit, CBS didn't ask (or chose not to broadcast) whether a penis entered Logan's vagina - and that's the definition of rape used by every state in the U.S. and most countries around the world.

Another thing that was deeply dissatisfying about the 60 minutes interview: there was no context for why this attack occurred. I find this rather bizarre, to say the least.

Any fellow FReepers have similar thoughts? Different?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: journalism; media; rape; reporters
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To: jmacusa

Ahhh! So it’s HER fault!

Get an effing clue.


41 posted on 05/01/2011 6:24:55 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Let's apply the "reasonable man" standard to gun laws. How many would stand?)
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To: Poundstone

Early reports were that she was bitten, poked with sharpened sticks, etc. The details are now hidden so as not to discredit O’s good friends, the revolutionaries.


42 posted on 05/01/2011 6:27:16 PM PDT by Carley ( TYPICAL STREET THUG, NASTY BULLY, THAT'S OUR PRESIDENT.)
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To: Poundstone

They said it started as the camera’s battery was being changed. Debbie Schlussel really took her to task because they were yelling Jew, Jew, Jew...; but the reporter still won’t mention that the rapists were Muslim. The TV interview earlier this week, the reporter said she didn’t know that such violence was possible. Debbie also took her to task for that.


43 posted on 05/01/2011 6:27:57 PM PDT by llano2
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To: driftdiver
Why did it happen? Because she was a blonde in the middle of 10,000 screaming radical muslims who have no respect for women.

Actually, the mob descended upon her fiercely once someone said she was a Jew.
44 posted on 05/01/2011 6:28:16 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Let's apply the "reasonable man" standard to gun laws. How many would stand?)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Okay, I stand corrected.


45 posted on 05/01/2011 6:29:11 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: Poundstone

On the radio it was said that possibly hundreds of creatures molested her with their hands. Seriously that is horrible sexual battery even if you don’t feel it was rape. Fists and strong hands can do more damage than a penis. The poor woman.


46 posted on 05/01/2011 6:31:24 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Fishtalk
Like you ask, WHY did this happen? I don’t much like Muslim men but seriously, they are really not known as big rapist types and hardly on a scale of 200 men at a time.

During my Military Career, I served in several moslem countries. Overall, an unescorted woman is fair game for the taken. This is even true in the predominently moslem areas of the "westernized" or "secular" moslem countries.

Rape is standard procedure for female, and male, POWs.

47 posted on 05/01/2011 6:33:26 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Poundstone

Doncha just luv when the journos themselves are THE news?
Why do we need anything else, let’s have the news about the news,
and about the talking heads!


48 posted on 05/01/2011 6:35:37 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: driftdiver

Well said.


49 posted on 05/01/2011 6:37:11 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Reeses
"But leaving out certain details adds drama and ratings."

Holy crap, I don't believe it.

What does "treated for internal tearing" mean to you? The mob used force to "enter" her with their hands. That's something she can no doubt prove with medical records so how is avoiding the details adding drama? Did you want nice diagrams and maybe some closeup shots of the injuries from the hospital?

The fact that they were saving their "manhood" for young boys and goats doesn't change a thing as far as the way it impacts the victim. Nor does it change the nature of her attackers, they're friggin animals which is what Islam teaches them to be. Their own Profit even said that every Muslim is possessed by demons what can be called forth at any time.

50 posted on 05/01/2011 6:37:19 PM PDT by Rashputin (Barry is insane., so handlers keep him medicated and on the golf course.)
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To: Poundstone

I didn’t watch the piece because I know better, but I am sure they failed to mention that they were screaming screw the Jew and allahu akbar at the same time. I am sure that some would consider that a story, but not 60 minutes....


51 posted on 05/01/2011 6:39:18 PM PDT by richardtavor (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem)
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To: Poundstone
Where is your need to know this coming from? There will never be a prosecution. You will never be on the jury. We know enough to judge the pigs who did this to be sub-human. A culture that breeds them in such numbers can hardly be called a culture at all.

So you wanted this poor woman to tell the world that these animals penetrated her with their penis so 12 years from now some punk can pull up a video and play it back to her children. I just don't think that you fully thought this all out.

52 posted on 05/01/2011 6:40:41 PM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (If I weren't afraid of the feds, I would refer to Obama as our "undocumented POTUS")
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To: jmacusa

It’s a good idea to know the details of a story before you pronounce your judgements against people in the story. The journalist had a bodyguard. 200+ men over took the bodyguard and the other men that she was with; separating her from them.


53 posted on 05/01/2011 6:42:06 PM PDT by Boxsford (God Is.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I didn’t say her was her fault. I’m just saying I can’t believe she didn’t understand the nature of the danger she was putting herself in, that’s all. I believe the old timers ( our parents/grandparents) called it ‘’common sense.’’


54 posted on 05/01/2011 6:44:23 PM PDT by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: Poundstone

Sounds like she was tortured in numerous ways for no particular reason. She should have just let the medical report speak for itself.


55 posted on 05/01/2011 6:44:48 PM PDT by Razzz42
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To: driftdiver

What you said...


56 posted on 05/01/2011 6:45:40 PM PDT by Pharmboy (What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
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To: rawhide

Most states have a law called “rape by instrumentation”. That is the forcible or non-consensual penetration of a vagina by something other than a penis. The penalties are pretty severe.


57 posted on 05/01/2011 6:46:06 PM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (If I weren't afraid of the feds, I would refer to Obama as our "undocumented POTUS")
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To: RightOnline

Who cares! We know she was tortured...why do our interests need more for heaven sakes!


58 posted on 05/01/2011 6:46:46 PM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter")
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To: Boxsford

Please see my response to Red in Blue PA.


59 posted on 05/01/2011 6:47:32 PM PDT by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: jmacusa

She had about 8 people surrounding her as security etc.

She should be able to report (1) without being raped, and (2) without people saying it was her fault.


60 posted on 05/01/2011 6:48:23 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Let's apply the "reasonable man" standard to gun laws. How many would stand?)
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