Stunned NBC Chief Foreign Correspondent Wonders Why Obama Supported Mubarak Overthrow

NewsBusters ^ | September 13, 2012 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Quick! Get NBC's Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel a chair.

Engel claims that he was so shocked at Barack Obama's statement that he now considers Egypt neither an ally nor an enemy that he "almost had to sit down."  So if this is true, why did Obama support the overthrow of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak who was very much our ally, Engel wonders. Here (and below the fold) in this video is Engel in desperate need of a chair over the shock administered by Obama's uncertainity about whether Egypt is friend or foe.

[PJ-Comix]

Will this observation from Engel be purged from NBC Nightly News later today? Stay tuned!

[dalebert]

WELL DUH!

[STJPII]

Mika & Co. will have his office cleaned out by COB today.

[dfwgator]

Yo, Barack

[AU72]

Dawn shines on Marblehead!

[GeronL]

How can this be allowed in the Obama Cheerleader Squad??

[ladyjane]

But...but...but...they were fighting for democracy.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Expect Engel to be out of a job....now..
Hey Engel, you work at NBC News, your not allowed to use any logic remember

[TigerClaws]

He’s assuming Obama puts US interest first. Go watch 2016!

[tiki]

So, did he find the empty chair?

[gunnyg]

“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

Two names: Valerie Jarrett and Huma Abedin.

[skeeter]

Good question Dick - maybe NBC can investigate why a president of the USA would assist in overthrowing an ally for the benefit of an apparent enemy.

[tumblindice]

[annieokie]

OOPS, freudian slip Mr. Engel? Did you wonder the same thing while it was happening? just some strange goings on these days.

[bgill]

NBC finally bought a clue.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Did he forget to coordinate that question with the other reporters?

[Belteshazzar]

Well, let’s see, Engel is in Cairo across the square from the demonstrations. What happens if the whole situation goes out of control either through Egyptian government complicity or ineptitude? What happens to Engel and his crew? I do not think he would like to experience the affections of the crowd in the same way as Lara Logan, especially since it would be administered more in the manner of that dished out to Ambassador Stevens in Libya. What happens if the whole city, the whole country, the whole region spins out of control? There is no guarantee that any Americans will get out safely.

There is an old saying: “A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.”

I suspect Mr. Engel has a more accurate understanding of all the possible consequences here than the safely-ensconced-in-DC Chuck Todd. In other words, the same spear looks very different if viewed from the opposite end.

[JDS1950]

Obama is an empty chair—Engle can sit there.

[The Cajun]

Bet Axelrod is burning up the phone lines to NBC bigwigs today.

[jersey117]

Paging Axelrod..... time to coordinate an attack on Mr. Engel. He dared criticize our dictator.

[bronxville]

A moment of truth.

One wonders what’s going on behind the curtain.

[onyx]

FOR SURE!

[In Maryland]

In unrelated news, the IRS today announced it was undertaking an audit of the tax returns of Richard Engle, citing suspected “unreported income from foreign nationals”. /sarc

[Ranger Warrior]

Gee, that train left the station awhile back. Wake up and smell the cordite!

[Dansong]

Wow! Has Rush played this clip yet? Stunning.

[petitfour]

Did he need an empty chair? An empty chair is a better foreign policy than what this admin has.

[opentalk]

Russians Say Attack in Libya Vindicates Their Position

..."It is a tragedy to the family of the poor ambassador, but his blood is on the hands of Hillary Clinton personally and Barack Obama personally," Mr. Satanovsky said. He said Russian warnings against intervention in the Middle East came from the bitter experience of the Soviets in Afghanistan...

[History Repeats]

Obama doesn’t support our allies he only supports our enemies. Doesn’t that say something about Obama’s loyalties?

It says to me that Obama is not rooting for America. He’s rooting for the other team.

[dennisw]

Richard Engel graduated from Stanford. This hi-IQ idiot neglected to read up what the Muslim Brotherhood is all about. Just from the name I am leary of the outfit. Engle obviously never read what Taqiyya is about otherwise he might have been more suspicious of the Muslim Brotherhood is about and how they have toned down their act but not their goals. Recent history about them is not to hard to pick up and how they tone down strident militancy and similar statements

[353FMG]

Engel’s and many Americans’ mistakes are that they still presume that Obama has America’s best interests in mind.

[PGalt]

Wake up, Dick. Dick, wake up.

[timestax]

OBOBO IS AN evil entity! That's why he's doing all this bizarre, evil stuff!

[1035rep]

"So, did he find the empty chair?"

[uncbob]

So if this is true, why did Obama support the overthrow of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak

Same reason Carter supported overthrowing the Shah

[blueunicorn6]

Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Hil-la-ry has got to go!

Hey! Hey! Hil-la-ry! How many dead Americans will there be?

[TigersEye]

This mental giant Engel just now thought of this? LOL

[Ann Archy]

Hey Engel.....Murabak made a peace treaty with ISRAEL.....THAT’s WHY Obama had him turned out, you idiot.

[kabar]

Separate Obama from TOTUS and you have a gaffe machine equal to Biden. Incompetence reigns.

[kabar]

No Sadat did. The Camp David Accords were under Carter.

[TigersEye]

Sit down, Dick! No one is using this chair.

[Ann Archy]

Oh right, and then Mike Wallace got Sadat KILLED, but Hosni KEPT the treaty....quite well indeed.

Hey Egypt.....how do you guys make any money when NO ONE will Travel to your country???? Shot yourself in the foot, now you can suffer the consequences.

[popdonnelly]

Here’s my explanation. Mubarak was both friendly to the U.S. and to Israel. Therefore, he was a “bad” dictator in Obama’s lexicon. So now Mubarak is gone, and Obama’s insistence, and neither we nor Israel can trust Egypt. This is supposed to be seen as an improvement.

Democrats have a long history of punishing our friends and rewarding our enemies.

[popdonnelly]

Mika needs to be a has-been, like her father.

[dfwgator]

She’s a never-was.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Hello, Richard Engel NBC wonder boy........simple, Obama is dedicated to his most precious and beloved “Muslim Brotherhood” brethren.

[Osage Orange]

Good post!

[IslamE]

Comcast is run by liberal elites, this guy will be whipped back into line!

[GOPJ]

Huma Abedin - hmmmm - might be the reason Hillary’s so surprised the ME didn’t reward us with gratitude. One on one - Arabs can be very gracious - part of the culture. But that has nothing whatsoever to do with how they feel about a person or country...

[factoryrat]

Richard Engel is going to be unemployed in the very near future. Can't show any signs of doubt in the liberal-socialist-propaganda machine. The blind followers of despotism must toe the party line, or else.