Egypt and Arab States circle toilet bowl

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

Only hindsight will validate which arguments were stronger.

True dat.

[Pico and ME]

In other news, Fox says ObamaCare could cause the same kind of uprising here.

Obama's been warned!

[TheMercenary]

Chris Matthews: Panama Canal is in Egypt

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/28748

[TheMercenary]

I guess it could go either way... but Iran thinks they know.

Iran: Riots sign of Islamic awakening

Supreme leader Khamenei satisfied with Egypt uprising. 'The echoes of the Islamic Revolution are being heard. It is an earthquake and defeat for the US policy, and the Zionists are more concerned than anyone else,' he says during Tehran sermon.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...023909,00.html

[TheMercenary]

This was an interesting assessment as well....

The Obama administration's initial, tepid response to the crisis, with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calling Mubarak's regime "stable" and Vice President Biden declaring that he didn't regard Mubarak as a dictator, did little to endear Washington to a region that has long yearned for political reform.

President Obama has since adopted a tougher stance, but his language has not gone far enough to convince Arabs puzzled by America's seeming inability to embrace a revolt that they think coincides with America's own ideals, said Shadi Hamid, director of research at the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...020306882.html

[DanaC]

Oh please don't post links to the Daily hateMail. It's fucking embarrassing.

[TheMercenary]

I didn't know you called them that. There were other sources and it has been going around on numerous news sources.

[DanaC]

I'll be honest i didn't even check the link :P

[Undertoad]

It's a different Daily Mail. This one's in Charleston, West Virginia.

Also, Chris Matthews saying Panama instead of Suez is on par with Fox's graphics intern problem.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

It's a different Daily Mail. This one's in Charleston, West Virginia.

Also, Chris Matthews saying Panama instead of Suez is on par with Fox's graphics intern problem.

Chris Matthews has an excuse - he's ADD.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Also, Chris Matthews saying Panama instead of Suez is on par with Fox's graphics intern problem.

I agree completely... But look how quickly people jumped on it with the aim of attacking Fox News. MSNBC is certainly no better. And people have failed to divide out news commentary and opinion from raw news. That is a big failure. If you can listen carefully you can weed out a lot of the spin during a broadcast.

[Pico and ME]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

It's a different Daily Mail. This one's in Charleston, West Virginia.

Also, Chris Matthews saying Panama instead of Suez is on par with Fox's graphics intern problem.

I don't think verbal missteps rate quite the same. But they are both very embarrassing.

[DanaC]

I think differentiating between news coverage, commentary and opinion is made more difficult by the 24 hour nature of the news channels. There's a tendency, I think, to blur the edges. News is sexier if it comes with an opinion and opinions carry more weight if they have the respectability of news.

[Stormieweather]

Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one. And many of them are full of shit.

And sadly many people just jump on the nearest bandwagon without a single fact in sight.

Media rarely report just the news because then people would need to form their own opinion and that could be dangerous. So keep the sheep in line and in the dark and feed us our daily bullshit.

[TheMercenary]

Egypt VP Target of Assassination Attempt That Killed Two Bodyguards, Sources Tell Fox News

A failed assassination attempt on Egypt's vice president in recent days left two of his bodyguards dead, sources tell Fox News.
Such an attempt on the life of Omar Suleiman would mark an alarming turn in the uprising against the government of President Hosni Mubarak, who only recently named Suleiman as vice president in an effort to quell the unrest and possibly line up a successor.
A senior Obama administration official confirmed that the attack happened soon after Suleiman was appointed, on Jan. 29. The official described it as an organized attack on Suleiman's motorcade.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/02...tell-fox-news/