Is it the ghost of King Tut? The ghost of King Farouk? The ghost of Yul Brynner? The ghost of Keith Olbermann’s career?
Is it the ghost of King Tut? The ghost of King Farouk? The ghost of Yul Brynner? The ghost of Keith Olbermann’s career?
Check out the 1:20 mark of this video clip and you see a translucent, green figure floating through – and over – the crowd of rioting Egyptians. It appears to be a rider atop a horse.
What the hell is that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UKz3GVrHI8
Source: Fox News
Hosni Mubarak, who was supposed to resign on Thursday night, didn’t. And he flipped a figurative middle finger at President Obama in his non-concession speech.
Hosni Mubarak, who was supposed to resign on Thursday night, didn’t. And he flipped a figurative middle finger at President Obama in his non-concession speech.
We know the guy’s a brutal dictator, but damn, how many times have you wished we had a president with balls instead of two First Ladies?
RadioPatriot quotes Mubarak:
During the meeting with the Military Council Mubarak made the following statement:
“We are brothers, soldiers, we have bled together for Egypt, we have shed blood together. Today, we are faced by an enemy who demands we hand Egypt over to our enemies. The people of Egypt have been silenced by these insurgents and we have been more than patient. Will we all sit here and obey the Obama regime? Will we not once again, with honor stand up to our enemies? Will we not continue to stand for Egypt with honor?
Brothers, would you have me crawl away at the command of Obama? Would any of you crawl away like a dog that has been kicked? Would any of you bow down to the fools he has chosen to take our nation from us?
I leave to you, men of honor, the fate of Egypt, the honor of Egypt and in so doing, I know you will decide that which is right and honorable. We have known each other all our lives, we grew to be men together, we have eaten bread in each others houses and honored each others families. Will we now throw all that away for political expediency?”
Translation: “Screw you. I am a warrior, not a community organizer. Now shut the hell up and leave me alone.”
H/T: RadioPatriot
Believe it or not, MSNBC’s leading Obama sycophant appeared on Morning Joe to harshly criticize the way President Obama has handled the Egyptian crisis.
That thrill up Chris Matthews’ leg has turned into a lump in the back of his pants.
Believe it or not, MSNBC’s leading Obama sycophant appeared on Morning Joe to harshly criticize the way President Obama has handled the Egyptian crisis.
Matthews said Obama’s words and actions have made him “ashamed as an American.” He reamed the President for his disloyalty to Egypt’s leader, Hosni Mubarak.
“Barack Obama,” Matthews said, “as much I support him in many ways, there is a transitional quality to the guy that is chilling.”
“I believe in relationships…” he continued. “You treat your friends a certain way. You’re loyal to them.”
Don’t read too much into this, because Matthews is like an abused wife who has her husband arrested and then drives down to the jail to bail him out. By this time next week he’ll once again be telling us he loves Obama.
Robert Gibbs insisted that President Obama wants a transition of power in Egypt now. But all that tough talk started to fall apart when a reporter had the temerity to ask what Obama’s definition of now is
Robert Gibbs put on one of his more remarkable bravura performances in a White House press briefings last week.
He insisted that President Obama wants a transition of power in Egypt now. But all that tough talk started to fall apart when a reporter had the temerity to ask what Obama’s definition of now is and heard Gibbs define it as sometime between yesterday and September.
This clip shows the entire boring press briefing, so save yourself some pain by going to the 14:45 mark in this clip. (Transcript follows the video.)
Q Thank you, Robert. When you talk about the transition happening now, how do you define “now”? Because now means today not September.
MR. GIBBS: Well, no, now means yesterday — because when we said now we meant yesterday.
Q Right.
MR. GIBBS: So I mean I think the definition of now is —
Q But when you say now today, it means now —
MR. GIBBS: And I meant yesterday —
Q — or yesterday.
MR. GIBBS: This is — again, I want to be clear. This is — though we are in the here and now, now started yesterday. Again, I think that’s what, Dan — what the people of Egypt want to see is not some process that starts a week, a month or several months from now. This is a —
Q So you’re not satisfied with September as an out date for President Mubarak?
MR. GIBBS: If you’re asking if now is September, it is unseasonably warm, but it is not September. Now means now. The transition — there are things that the government needs to do. There are reforms that need to be undertaken, and there are opposition entities that have to be included in the conversations as we move toward free and fair elections that we’ve advocated for quite some time.
Q So is the White House then satisfied with Mubarak in power until September?
MR. GIBBS: Again, I am not going to get into all the details of what they discussed. The conversation was frank and the transition must begin now.
Bill Clinton said, “It all depends on what your definition of is is.” The Gibbs Corollary is, “The definition of now is different now than it was then.”
Source: WhiteHouse.gov
Some of the Egyptian protesters hate Hosni Mubarak and call him a Jewish collaborator. But others protesters, who seem to hate him just as much, call him Hitler.
Some of the Egyptian protesters hate Hosni Mubarak and call him a Jewish collaborator. But others protesters, who seem to hate him just as much, call him Hitler.
Make up your minds, damn it. Which one is it?
Part I: New survey discovers that Egyptians are schizophrenic
IHateTheMedia.com’s crack team of investigative reporters and Egyptologists has put some alternate reasons that explain the outbreak of rioting in Cairo.
Oh, sure, the mainstream media tells you the Egyptians are rioting because they’re pissed at America and because they’re pissed at Israel and because they’re pissed at Mubarak and because they’re pissed at each other. But there are other reasons the Egyptians are pissed. Reasons the mainstream media never talks about.
Luckily, IHateTheMedia.com’s crack team of investigative reporters and Egyptologists has ferreted out some others reasons for the rioting in Cairo. Such as:
1. Angelina Jolie being cast in the remake of Cleopatra.
2. Nation’s failure to inspire a Top 40 hit or stupid dance craze since the mid-1980’s. (See video on left.)
3. Tired of Iranian dominance of the “Crazy Muslim Caucus” at Arab League meetings.
4. Facebook’s “Everybody Draw Ramses Day.”
5. Twilight series of books and movies doesn’t feature a mummy character along with the vampire and werewolf kid.
6. Cairo Blockbuster bringing back late fees.
7. They just found out that the Library of Alexandria was burned down.
8. Practicing soccer hooliganism for upcoming World Cup.
9. Redneck cops tasering innocent camels.
10. Haven’t had a chance to break out the camel cavalry outfits and sabers since World War I.
11. Rioting is their way of saying, “My religion of peace will bash in more heads than your religion of peace.”
12. Introduction of an innovative new program called “Winning the 14th Century.”
13. Muslim chicks dig rioters.
14. Rumor that Justin Bieber was playing at Tahir Square.
15. It’s an Islamic thing. You wouldn’t understand.
This chart above sadly tells the tale of the declining #iranelection Twitter activity of this nascent second Iranian Revolution.
Twitter is widely recognized for the role it has played in assisting the people of Iran in their struggle to regain their voice, lost in the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The tweets (Twitter messages) from supporters all around the world, particularly the United States, gave them hope, tactical and logistical information, and importantly, a megaphone to the outside world.
The volume of tweets was astonishing, producing never before seen numbers. It was so invaluable that our state department asked Twitter to postpone a critical scheduled system maintenance. Tens of thousands of tweets tagged with the hashtag #iranelection were being made each hour.
But, the chart (real-time here) above sadly tells the tale of the declining Twitter activity of this nascent second Iranian Revolution. We attribute part of it to the punishing crackdown by the Mullahs. The rest can be explained only by the short attention span of the media and its spectators. On to the next topic: Michael Jackson, which was enough to even snuff out most discussion of the Cap and Trade vote.
But, maybe, just maybe if our president would have “meddled,” and led a Reagan-like rallying cry, it might have kept the issue alive in the media, ignited the world beyond Twitter, to whole nations, to do more for the Iranian people. What could we have done more? We don’t know exactly. We never do. And we will never know.
The “hope” seems to be gone now, the once-in-a-generation chance for “change” gone. Inspiring, courageous leaders, who believe their words, make a difference.
A guide to helping the Iranian protesters in Iran so you do not harm the Iranian protesters by doing things on Twitter that can give away locations of people tweeting and otherwise communicating to us from within Iran, or spread other information that could play into the hands of the Iranian government.
There are several tweets per second regarding Iran on Twitter right now. You can catch what going on at either:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=iranelection
or
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=gr88
It’s inspiring, sad, angering and confusing. But it’s history unfolding in front of your very eyes. It very well could be the first revolution aided by social networks, in particular Twitter.
But make sure you do not harm the Iranian protesters by doing things on Twitter that can give away locations of people tweeting and otherwise communicating to us from within Iran, or spread other information that could play into the hands of the Iranian government.
Here are some rules of the road:
By the way, we just heard a report of a group of 500 security forces turning sides. We can only hope and pray this is true.
Note: If you have any other things we should cover, place a comment here and we’ll update the list with it.
