Egyptian Blogger Ethar El-Katatney Tells Parker-Spitzer “We Got Punked”

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by Colby Hall | 9:16 am, February 11th, 2011

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The individuals who book guests on CNN’s Parker-Spitzer deserve a good deal of credit for booking Egyptian blogger Ethar El-Katatney last night, who provided a spirited account of the current upheaval in Egypt via Skype. El-Katatney described the reaction among social media watchers and activists to Mubarak’s apparent head fake in which he did not resign as widely expected by saying “we got punked.”

TimesUnion provides interesting commentary to the El-Katatney interview:

The sheer will of the Egyptian youth to prevent violence and remain peaceful, even in the face of such disappointment and oppression. Immediately after the speech, people camped out at Tahrir Square started building showers and latrines. They’re not going anywhere. You guys, this hardly ever happens during a people’s uprising. They’re singing songs. They’re holding Friday prayers and Sunday Mass, ALL at Freedom Square. There’s usually much more rage by now (like more looting, shooting. Yes, people are angry and willing to die and are marching to the Presidential Palace, but hey, that’s expected, too). But singing songs? sharing food? getting married in the middle of the square? Masha’Allah, that’s Egypt. In Doha, Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi (Egyptian cleric exiled from Egypt for decades) has been asking Muslims and clergy to stand up and protect churches in Egypt – he may have a feeling the regime is up to no good (again, understatement).

Watch the interview below courtesy of CNN:

wasjustsayin

I liked her…she was pretty interesting.
timzank

She wasn’t the only one to get punked, so far the entire Obambi Administration has been punked.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

You didn’t get punked, you punked yourselves. You guys played a big social network version of Telephone and convinced yourselves that Mubarak would be stepping down based on… absolutely nothing.

BTW, Egypt is a perfect case study for what restricting gun ownership gets you. The people are pissed and they have absolutely no leverage over the government.
skyfet

Got puncked! you betcha. These guys think real life or countries are ruled via twitter and facebook. They need to get real and chill till the September election. I can’t understand the desire of the Administration, the media to get rid of him so quickly, he is been their for 30ys, did they just noticed him?

They should be careful what they wish for, right now they are all pissing me off.
notsofast

How did Rita Hayworth get to Egypt?
Pablo

I feel your pain, Ethar. Our guy punked us too. We are all Egyptians now.
NeoKong

So the people crying out for democracy are disappointed that their angry mob could not force out the President of Egypt and replace him with some George Soros stooges from the muslim brotherhood…?

So sad..
skyfet

notsofast said:
How did Rita Hayworth get to Egypt?

How did you get connected to the web?
SilentSam

Pablo said:
I feel your pain, Ethar. Our guy punked us too. We are all Egyptians now.

You’re an idiot!
CosmosDan

Tony Westover said:
You didn’t get punked, you punked yourselves. You guys played a big social network version of Telephone and convinced yourselves that Mubarak would be stepping down based on… absolutely nothing.

BTW, Egypt is a perfect case study for what restricting gun ownership gets you. The people are pissed and they have absolutely no leverage over the government.

Violent bloody revolution. What a lovely thought. I think non violent non cooperation can eventually pressure the government to make changes. We should be doing something similar here to end the war in Afghanistan.
CosmosDan

NeoKong said:
So the people crying out for democracy are disappointed that their angry mob could not force out the President of Egypt and replace him with some George Soros stooges from the muslim brotherhood…?

So sad..

LOL!! That’s sad alright.
SilentSam

Mubarak has just stepped down. The people win!
writer

And then Ashton Kutcher came out giggling.
Pablo

SilentSam said:
Mubarak has just stepped down. The people win!

…a new military dictator!