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Anderson Cooper Just Got Beat Up By Pro-Mubarak Thugs in Cairo
Gawker ^ | February 2, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 02/02/2011 12:06:32 PM PST by 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."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amanpour; andersoncooper; breakingnewsabuse; cairo; cbs; christianeamanpour; cnn; cooper; gaybashing; katietheclown; msm; notbreakingnews; perkypig
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To: cripplecreek
"pro Mubarak"

Seriously, this has nothing to do with Mubarak any more. It's all about whether they want islamist rule in Egypt
41 posted on 02/02/2011 12:19:05 PM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge, MA grad student. Any potential conservative Christian FReepmail-FRiends out there?)
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To: lbryce

These liberal “journalists” smeared the Tea Party with all kinds of vile, unproven and outrageous accusations all last year, making us out to be racist, violent and stupid. They have spent the past few weeks mischaracterizing the Muslim Brotherhood as some kind of freedom fighters.

And now they are being schooled, live on TV, that what they say/hope/believe/wish/think does not equate with reality. I think the ideology runs too deep for them to actually learn the lesson, but it will be entertaining. If only my satellite signal wasn’t blocked by three feet of snow!


42 posted on 02/02/2011 12:19:35 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

“They” still do not understand the beheading of Daniel Pearl. Guess what, life cannot be directed and scripted around the world the way lazy Americans allow their political landscape to be manipulated by the “rich and famous” airheads.


43 posted on 02/02/2011 12:19:52 PM PST by All Blue State
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To: 1010RD

Meanwhile one of the FOX reporters said that there are unconfirmed reports of many Coptic Christians being killed. He said one report was that 15 had been gunned down in one small village.


44 posted on 02/02/2011 12:19:52 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: lbryce

How could he tell they were Pro Mubarak?

Were they wearing signs that said “Keep Mubarak!”


45 posted on 02/02/2011 12:20:21 PM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: lbryce

The beating of a media creature warms my heart. It is just compensation for the years of sedition, treason, pornography, lies, deceit, and hypocrisy by members of the journalistic trade.


46 posted on 02/02/2011 12:20:21 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: lbryce

When is Chrissy Matthews going to Cairo?


47 posted on 02/02/2011 12:20:26 PM PST by fullchroma
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To: GeronL

Well the repost from Fox last hour said that all of the poepl who have been grabbed whe they have attackd someone are carrying police ID’s.


48 posted on 02/02/2011 12:20:57 PM PST by chris_bdba
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To: lbryce

Cooper must have forgotten that 85% of these “pro democracy activists” favor stoning homosexuals to death.

Just try to stay on the down-low the next few days, Coop


49 posted on 02/02/2011 12:21:43 PM PST by PGR88
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To: RatRipper

I was thinking the same thing. he probably was thinking that they are coarse and just like those 70 year old farts in the Tea Party Movement..They were hurting my wrist! “I didn’t fight back because it would have made them mad.”


50 posted on 02/02/2011 12:22:19 PM PST by richardtavor (One of the rare establishmt Republicans backed by the "Tea Party" movement that wants limited gove)
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To: lbryce

Just how does he know they weren’t the Muslim Brotherhood? Because they didn’t kill him?


51 posted on 02/02/2011 12:22:33 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: lbryce

Ha! SWEET...


52 posted on 02/02/2011 12:22:54 PM PST by April Lexington (Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: tobyhill
The MSM picked sides again and this time one side decides they are going to fight back. That's right.
53 posted on 02/02/2011 12:23:01 PM PST by ColdOne
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To: lbryce

I oppose violence but my belief is being tested here!


54 posted on 02/02/2011 12:23:01 PM PST by rogue yam
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To: PGR88

Maybe he can risk his life for “social justice” the way so many Americans have for our freedom.


55 posted on 02/02/2011 12:23:33 PM PST by All Blue State
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To: lbryce

Oh, the humanity. The poor MSM.

Caught up in the very same riot incited by
... the MSM, Obama, Bill Ayers, al Qaeda and Ikhwan.

56 posted on 02/02/2011 12:23:52 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: fullchroma

I’ll kick in a few bucks for his one way ticket. Any other takers?


57 posted on 02/02/2011 12:24:05 PM PST by LadyBuck (In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher')
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To: chris_bdba
"Fox just reported that he wasn’t the nly one.They had a call from Fox Business Network’s Ashley Webster who is in Cairo said the government forces broke into the room and told them to get out of Egypt."

Does that mean they're coming back here?!
58 posted on 02/02/2011 12:24:22 PM PST by Darteaus94025
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To: Williams
Mubarak was elected in ‘05 to a 6 year term and has said he won't run again so I'm not sure why Obama and the MSM feels it necessary to jump on the anti-Mubarak bandwagon?

They tried to start something to make Obama look like some sort of hero but they bit off a lot more than they could chew and now he looks like the idiot he is.

59 posted on 02/02/2011 12:24:52 PM PST by tobyhill
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To: lbryce

“And they were shouting What’s the frequency Kenneth”


60 posted on 02/02/2011 12:25:10 PM PST by Mr. K (Empty, Stupid Happy Talk is NOT 'Reaganesque'!)
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