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GOP Members Of Congress Hold Surreal Press Conference In Egypt Thanking Military For Overthrowing...
Business Insider ^ | Brett LoGiurato

Posted on 09/09/2013 4:22:49 PM PDT by sopwith

Republican representatives Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), and Steve King (R-Iowa) held a press conference last week in Egypt, praising and thanking the Egyptian military for a July 3 ouster of what Bachmann called the "common enemy" Muslim Brotherhood.

Via the Washington Post's Max Fisher comes video of the press conference, which is bizarre, to say the least.

Bachmann thanked the Egyptian military for the coup and the military-led government's crackdowns on protests, implying that the Muslim Brotherhood — of which former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was a member — was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

"We were cheering in front of our televisions back home in the United States,” Bachmann said, referring to when the Egyptian military overthrew Morsi. "We were cheering for you."

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Iowa; US: Minnesota; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: egypt; iowa; louiegohmert; michelebachmann; minnesota; muslimbrotherhood; obama; steveking; texas
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1 posted on 09/09/2013 4:22:49 PM PDT by sopwith
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To: sopwith

For those who don’t know, the Egyptian military has been keeping the peace for decades.
Only someone with a political agenda would say otherwise.


2 posted on 09/09/2013 4:25:06 PM PDT by Zathras
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3 posted on 09/09/2013 4:26:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: sopwith
implying that the Muslim Brotherhood — of which former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was a member — was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

It's disgraceful that numbskulls like this reporter have any megaphone at all.

All three of Al Qaeda’s leaders, Osama bin Laden, Saif al-Adel and Ayman al-Zawahiri were members of the Muslim Brotherhood or one of its arms.

4 posted on 09/09/2013 4:30:23 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: sopwith

Al-Qaeda is a wholly owned franchise of the Muslim Brotherhood. They are the “shock troops”, much like the Waffen-SS was the direct supporting army of the National-Socialist German Workingmen’s Party (commonly abbreviated as “Nazi”).

The parallels are striking.


5 posted on 09/09/2013 4:32:26 PM PDT by alloysteel (Those who deny natural climate change are forever doomed to stupidity. AGW is a LIE.)
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To: sopwith

Bachmann will be missed.


6 posted on 09/09/2013 4:33:07 PM PDT by BarnacleCenturion
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To: BarnacleCenturion

Bachmann voted to keep Bonehead as Speaker, she lost a lot of credibility there too


7 posted on 09/09/2013 4:34:04 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: sopwith

Business Insider isn’t worth a pitcher of warm spit on business news either


8 posted on 09/09/2013 4:35:35 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: GeronL

Agreed


9 posted on 09/09/2013 4:37:58 PM PDT by svcw (Stand or die)
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To: RightGeek; sopwith

Yep, it’s peopled with Left-wing blog pimps who specialize in numbered lists: 40 reasons not to post BI to FR

Although, that’s one I haven’t seen yet. I hate going there or seeing their stories.


10 posted on 09/09/2013 4:39:53 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: sopwith
The Muslim Brotherhood spawned Al Quaida. The Blind Sheik came out of them, as did Osama Ben Ladin. All the effort to reestablish a Muslim empire across the middle east comes from their founding documents. So the author's bias, and lack of knowledge is on display with this article.

The Muslim Brotherhood wanted one vote in Egypt, all the time claiming that they would not field a presidential candidate (please correct me if I'm wrong on that point).During the process of that election,they intimidated and threatened many to not vote.

They then gained power, suspended the constitution, voted in a Sharia Law instrument, and started the process of establishing a radical Muslim state (including the killing of Coptic Christians), and ending the hope for a democratic process in the future.

This author's bias is really showing in this article. I find it really revealing that President Obama had us involved in promoting a false Arab spring across north Africa (really an effort to bring radical Muslims into power), and now wants the US to be Al Quaida’s air force in Syria. Isn't that what we were in Libya for the radical Muslims?

Assad has killed those who oppose him(fellow Muslims). A branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (Al Quaida) killed thousands of Americans on 9-11. Now Obama is pushing us to side with Al Quaida against Assad?

This action by our President is what's crazy, not our representatives thanking the Egyptian military for responding to the 23 million Egyptians who demonstrated against Morsi, and the Muslim Brotherhood.

11 posted on 09/09/2013 4:44:53 PM PDT by Yulee (Village of Albion)
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To: sopwith

Gee, uh, she’s dead on right.

The entire Free World (minus it’s putative leader, of course) were cheering when the Egyptian military dumped the 7th century troglodytes turning Egypt into an Islamist dictatorship.

If this is the kind of inside information BI puts out, read everything they say and do the exact opposite!


12 posted on 09/09/2013 4:45:35 PM PDT by Regulator
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Palin/Gohmert: 2016!


13 posted on 09/09/2013 5:01:54 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: RightGeek

Agreed.


14 posted on 09/09/2013 5:04:04 PM PDT by sopwith (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
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To: sopwith

NEWSFLASH!

Moderate Muslims rise up and overthrow radical Islamists in Egypt...Business Insider fails to notice.

Effn idiots.

Business Insider writers know less about geopolitics than most liberals, and that’s saying something.


15 posted on 09/09/2013 5:06:06 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: RightGeek

BI is owned by a left wing loon and nothing more than a Dem party website.


16 posted on 09/09/2013 5:06:55 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty media out in full force)
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To: Zathras

‘Business Insider’ is a Democrat propaganda organ designed to pretend it is competing with genuine business publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Investors Business Daily, etc.

Don’t take silly crap like Brett LoGiurato seriously. I never heard of him but I would bet he’s fresh off some Daily Collegian somewhere and aiming to someday write silly screed for Rolling Stone or The Nation or some other lefty laughingstock.


17 posted on 09/09/2013 5:12:43 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: alloysteel

It is all Sunni vs Shiites. Until we get that we are painfully ignorant as Christians.


18 posted on 09/09/2013 5:14:32 PM PDT by SADMILLIE (r)
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To: sopwith

Why was this ‘surreal’. These three patriots did the right thing.


19 posted on 09/09/2013 5:33:48 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: sopwith

Kudos to Bachmann, Gohmert, and King for sticking their fingers in the eyes of our Whiner in Chief, Susan Rice, Hitlery, and the other anti-American crowd in D.C.


20 posted on 09/09/2013 5:50:26 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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