And Fox News is making the anti-Mubarak crowd out to be the terrorists???! They really do not have a single foothold in reality, do they?

Looks like A-J was doing too good a job of reporting what was going on.

After watching Al Jazeera English almost non-stop, I can see why the Saudi’s are setting up an authoritarian news channel with Rupert Roo and his News Corp partner, Saudi Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal.

He’s just making it worse on himself. Al Jazeera’s is a respected news organization throughout the Arab World. The action of having their offices burnt will only make those in other countries angrier at how much long this hated leader should go on. And others wonder about their own authoritarian regimes.

This is how gangsters leave town the world over. We need to support the victims, and help them reconnect with all our lives.

Indeed, Al Jazeera is actually doing what news outlets used to do over here: JOURNALISM.

And it’s also worth noting that Saudi Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal is a Wahabist who happens to write the paychecks for Glenn ‘Anything for a Buck’ Beck and Bill ‘Falafel Rub-Down’ O’Reilly..

Mubarak has the full support of the US government. On the surface of course there are tepid calls for “restraint”. So transparent. If Obama et al were serious, there would be envoys to Egypt and Mubarak on a comfy plane to someplace like Monaco.

This just about sums-up the entire Right-Wing apparatus here in the USA:

“Republicans Vote To Repeal Obama-Backed Bill That Would Destroy Asteroid Headed For Earth – http://www.theonion.com/articles/republicans-vote-to-repeal-obamabacked-bill-that-w,19025/

:)

What is worse the Mubarak government run version of the protest or the right wingnuts of America version of the protes?

Check out the link and behold the bizarro world of the right. And I do mean Bizarre. I don’t think Superman would even fly there.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/feb/03/middle-east-unrest-glenn-beck

Glenn Beck says he will let Mubarak live at his New England McMansion until he finds work as a FOX News consultant.

Meanwhile, Mr. Beck is preparing yet another daring raid, on camelback, against the Al Jazeera office in Cairo. As he was riding into Tahrir Square, looking for children, women, and old people to trample along the way to his objective, Glenn told the thugs holding the reporters (who had been gagged and hog-tied by his fellow Pro-Mubarak thugs):

“You’re going to have to shoot them in the head.”

Who would have thunk? Apparently, some people in Egypt watch FAUX News.

You should know that they are all crediting the spread of the struggle for democracy in the ME to Bush. I kid you not.

They made a “terrorist” out of a grandmother on Facebook, remember? You don’t think the protesters are less of a threat?

The power structure in Egypt, as in the United States is all too desperate to maintain its power at whetever cost, whether to its own people (refusing to leave (relenquish) and let the people kill each other), to destroying the freedoms of Speech and the Press. Distortion and lies cannot work against the Truth, so if you can’t lie well enough, destroy your foe, the TRUTH.

One day in the future it will come out that the US intelligence machine has loads to do with these “thugs”. This fits the MO of these chumps, our tax dollars has been supporting dictators like this asshole for decades, and we will for decades in the future. And they hate us for our freedumbs???

The MIC has profited and has also invested billions into the Mubarak regime, they’ll do anything to protect that investment and future profit.

Since all journalists are being targeted, I would not infer AJ is doing any better or worse reporting than other media. And I am already starting to see it on RS- pointless to blame the US govt for the violence, we don’t have control over the mobs- either one of them.

Over the past many decades the USA has given Mubarak billions.
This so-called mob that torched the Al Jazeera Cairo office has been the recipient of loads of US tax dollars for quite a long time. These are Mubarak’s goons.
Just a fact you cannot deny unless you watch Fox, then of course it becomes another issue entirely.

“Now” means the day BEFORE yesterday…

They are Mubarak’s goons, yes. you are a master of the obvious. And yes we have given billions to Mubarak(if you don’t understand why, see why we sided with the Soviets in WW2. It’s a very comparable analogy). They US govt is not to blame for the goons who are attacking all forms of foreign media as we are not in control of events on the ground.(or should we say “were” as the violence seems to have lessened today) since the goons have calmed down, the US should get credit by your logic, correct?

Agreed.
A-J has done a great job so far, and kept relatively neutral all things considered. Respect.

Wonder when Faux will go up in Smoke?

Too early to give credit. But Obama did just say some very positive things.
The US government gets some credit for the actions of those we’ve funded, there just is no excuse. Again, we’ve funded these goons, just a fact not to be refuted. Foreign media has nothing to do with these goons.
AJ has done a much better job reporting than any American media outlet, pretty obvious, eh? Are you the master of the moronic American Fox drones?
Edit:Master of the obvious? piss off, Mubarak is a US goon to begin with.

The first victim of war is the truth.

Master of the obvious??
Well you just need to understand your comment that the US government has no control of the Mubarak goons is as laughable as it gets. What these Mubarak goons are practicing fits the MO of CIA tactics practiced all around the world.
So be a master of ignorance for all I care, Obama said some nice and positive things, but he didn’t call for Mubarak to step down as he clearly should.

My “these are Mubarak goons” was a direct response to your lame ass comment that the USA has nothing to do with the violence towards the pro-democracy protesters. You can bet our CIA is there in force, and just take obvious guess who they side with??

Just like they credit Reagan with ending the Cold War, or we liberated Iraq.
Pure fantasy from these clowns, the whole premise of spreading democracy by invading countries and killing loads of innocent people is disgusting as most of us know.

The neocon madness is built upon the same lame propaganda as all fanatical empires in history. Any wonder why they all failed?

Just like when the gang of thugs from Washington blew up the Al-Jazeera office in Kabul and Baghdad. Bush wanted to blow up its headquarters in Qatar as well.

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” – Aeschylus, Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC – 456 BC)

Shooting the messenger. Genuine reporters to become an endangered species and we’ll be left with the lackeys who brown nosed Bush into the Iraq invasion. Bush wanted Al Jazeera bombed during the Iraq invasion, Mubarak actually burned them down

No need, when people attempt to silence the news media, they wish to prevent the truth from being told. With Fox, there is no possibility of truth being told so no need to torch them.

this is a shame. i’ve been streaming jazeera for hours since this whole thing has started and their coverage has been great, they have some real top notch reporters and obviously many of these people have really been putting their safety and lives on the line to help keep the world informed.
Plus if you go over to youtube there are a good number of recent jazeera videos with interviews with experts and such about the historical context of the situation and what the possible/likely outcomes will or might be…interesting. of course the live streaming is most immediate and vibrant.
and the website has many fine articles too if you like to read up on things. what a great news organization!
Down with mubarak….leaving on a jet plane….

I am reading this again and again. here one from the jazeera report today on the huge demonstration in alexandria

“There was an incident of an undercover security officer who tried to start a fight, he was apprehended but not hurt, however, he said he was paid to come and start trouble.”

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/20112414420594592.html

obama and the US keep mouthing words about an “orderly transition”. the protests have been extremely peaceful (rather amazing considering the number of people involved and how often they have been provoked), it’s the gov’t which keeps making things dis-orderly. ergo, it is the government of egypt it is mubarak that has to go….

We bomb them, Egypt burns them, they must be doing something right to make governments irate.

Who do you think the CIA is siding with? yes no doubt the CIA is there, but are you insinuating they are working AGAINST the pro democracy protesters and the current position of the Obama Admin?? Why would they be doing that at this point in time?

Fucking comical, errr, sad that you believe that.

You look at the fact that we have supported Egypt in the past, but don’t seem to have an understanding of the historical context as to WHY and how things have changed dramatically in the last two weeks.

It’s a knee jerk reaction for the “blame America first crowd”. don’t worry you are not alone, it happens all the time.

One thing worthy of considerable admiration here is the fact there is no hype, in fact little mention of this event at Al Jazeera.

http://english.aljazeera.net/

If Mubarak & Co. are looking for International support they need help in PR.

Mubarak needs to go but if the muslim brothhood gets in there could be a serious chance for a new ME war, and not a little one. Watch what happens to the price of gas.

Reichstag fire..! Find a way blame Obama and his dangerous Socialist agenda..(no, wait.!.I mean his Sharia Law..no, wait ! Obamas connection to the Muslim Brotherhood! No, wait..! ACORN did it for Obama…!) and Obama’s army of liberal “socialist” left-wingers

Yes, I’m not alone with blaming America here. Mubarak has received around a few billion a year from the USA to stay in power, he also used that money to suppress Islamic activism. Second only to Israel in foreign “aid” from the USA. The MUKHABARAT, Egypt’s vast security apparatus, was used with the blessing the CIA to crack down and anyone suspected of ANYTHING radical. The CIA trained many of the torturers in the USA. Egypt is known for using extreme methods of torture and was feared by both citizens and visitors because of the well known CIA involvement with the rendition of people that have never been heard from again.
Comical? No dumbass, tragic, and regrettable for America.
Knee jerk reaction? No dummy, just the facts!

So piss off moron, if you think for a second that the CIA is siding with the people protesting Mubarak you know next to nothing about Egypt and Mubarak.

The citizens of Egypt know how deeply the CIA has partnered with their asshole dictator, and they’re sick of him. If you buy into the fantasy the CIA is on the side of the pro-democracy protesters then you’re a much bigger moron that I thought.
The links between the CIA and Mubarak are many and for many, many years, if you think they just packed up and went to the other side all I can say is you’re not too bright, dumbass.

Bill O’Reilly would probably applaud this because Al-Jazeera is Anti-American. The firing bombing of a news agency I’m sure in his opinion is very American and you’d have to be a damn commie to disagree. Comprehending irony has never Mr. O’Reilly’s strong suit.

Here are two excellent editorials from the last couple days on Egypt’s budding revolution:

This one from Fidel Castro:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27404.htm

And this one from Jayne Lyn Stahl:

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_6883.shtml

Also here’s George Galloway speaking from London Tuesday on these events:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe7367yueAY

Mubarak is going nowhere any time soon. Oh how hard it is to relinquish that thing called power. 82 year old Mubarak would rather see the death of hundreds, thousands, perhaps millions of Egyptian protesters if possible than easily give up power even after ruling for thirty years. Incredible.

So let me get this straight. you think the USA is siding with the Mubarak forces at this point in time? Really? I know you are angry and misguided, does not make you right.

If you were an American leader in the 80s, who would you have chosen to lead Egypt my little naive lamb?

shorter paragraphs please, they make me super sleepy.I like the word dumbass too. it’s a good one.

Well, there you have it. A brutal communist dictator, a british parlamentarian ousted by his own party, and an angry, sad poet are all in agreement. I can stop having to think for myself now! WOOHOO!

Amen brother! Like Chavez, Marx, Castro, Hitler, Hussein Stalin, Polpot, Breshnev, Mandela, etc. They all fell (or will) when reaility trumped propoganda.

BTW, is Iraq a democratic country now? If so, who liberated it’s people?

The pipeline explosion is very likely an Egyptian inside job to justify a crackdown.

What the fuck does “Islamic Activism” mean? Thankfully what I think it means is something that is not happening in Egypt at this point. You can keep calling me names little hater, but come on, the US Govt is not fighting the pro democracy protesters. I know you don’t respond to my points and just like to vent, but the US is not the bad guy here. PS I like the word dumbass almost as much as you.

the term “neocon” is universally hated. I didn’t like them myself. but can you name a neocon who has any influence in the events of the world today? It’s a challenge to be relevant. Classic conservative thought is logical however.

If it wasn’t for Al Jazeera, we wouldn’t have known half the shit that was exposed on what Bush and his sicko’s were doing in Iraq.

This organization should be nominated for a Nobel prize.

I can’t help noticing you chose not to take issue with the content of any of the commentary by Castro, Stahl, or Galloway, and instead opted for all smear and no content in your own remarks.

Is that supposed be persuasive? Did you even bother to read the editorials or listen to what Galloway had to say? Doesn’t sound like it.

I just farted, I wish you were here to enjoy it!

Go fuck yourself.

No one liberated Iraq, and it is far from democratic!!

Yes, propaganda works, but it only works for a limited time.

And just a little fuck you moron for including Mandela in that list.
Now please go crawl back up the asshole you were born from, thank you!

Wow, it keeps getting better and better. Did your mommy give you the keyboard today? That is your comeback? are you 7? And i love lighting my own farts little boy.

What part of go fuck yourself didn’t sink in, moron?

There was even a post here at Raw Story on Thursday that shows exactly what I’m talking about.
Obama and his clowns have proposed to have Mubarak step aside and be replaced with the CIA point man in Egypt that helped them, the CIA you dipshit, run their extraordinary rendition program.

Here is the link, moron;

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/us-plan-replace-mubarak/

Now, go crawl back up the asshole you were shit from, your mommy misses you up there.

hey little boy, grown ups are having a conversation here. go outside and wait until we need a cracker boy, then you can come back.

See post below, click on link, moron.

Thank you.

You must have a small penis. I can not think of another reason why you are so angry little dude.

Did you call me a cracker? Don’t do racism but I am always up for an adult conversation.

Every story here you enter and call people names and add nothing to the discussion. Shape up or ship out. It’s your choice, comet67.

Sincerely,
RS moderator

You might want to look up cracker boy and get back to us. It’s not a racist slur, but it does accurately explain your role here.

Anybody remember Bush’s old Shock & Awe (or should I say the Kagan boy’s Shock & Awe)? When the US attacked Iraq they took out the Al Jazeera offices and I believe they either imprisoned or killed a few of their reporters? I also mention the leaked footage of recent where American helicopter forces killed the Reuters journalist.

Reminds me of Nazi-Germany, or even worse!!

Or winning WWII. Don’t forget that one. It’s a real big one. The Empire is in its deathbed.