Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Wants Egypt To Apologize For Lara Logan’s Attack

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by Alex Alvarez | 2:24 pm, February 21st, 2011

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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D) of Texas is, understandably, upset over the attack and sexual assault sustained by Lara Logan as the CBS correspondent covered celebrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. Unlike other politicians and media figures who have spoken out about the attack, however, Jackson Lee has a unique proposal: She wants the Egyptian government (she’s unclear about whether she specifically means ousted president Hosni Mubarak‘s former government) to issue an explanation for the attack – which, according a recent report from Britain’s The Daily News, was at least partially instigated by reports Egyptian state-run media claiming foreign journalists covering the revolution were Israeli spies.

Lee Jackson then called on the the U.N. ambassador from Egypt to apologize not only to Logan, but also to the American people.

The Hill has Jackson Lee’s address to her fellow members of Congress:

As you watch the conflict in Egypt, where we celebrated what happened, but many of you are aware of the tragedy that happened to one of our American reporters, Ms. Logan.

The United Nations is where we can call upon the Egyptian government to explain themselves and to apologize, and call upon the U.N. ambassador from Egypt to apologize to Ms. Logan and apologize to the American people for the tragedy that happened to this woman who was doing her job — the sexual assault, the vicious sexual assault that occurred to her.

She also argued against de-funding the U.N., opining that the organization could help broker “other disputes between countries.”

h/t The Hill

Egypt, Lara Logan, Sheila Jackson Lee, UN

tatboy

This has got “good idea” written all over it.
chatmandu002

Political grandstanding to deflect investigations of her.
The Lantern of Truth

Investigate . Arrest . Punish . Swiftly .
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

Sheila Jackson Lee should be minimally censured for using a brutal sexual assault as some kind of political item. This is beneath contempt and only stands to prove the moral vacuum on Capitol Hill. Ms. Logan’s horror should not even be media fodder let alone Congressional point scoring.

For shame!
kvon

What a retard.

When is America going to issue a blanket apology for George W. Bush?
Annie Oakley

kvon said:
What a retard.

Sheila is affirmative action at its finest. A YALE graduate with a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law!
BatBoy

I want Sheila Jackson Lee to apologize for being Sheila Jackson Lee.
Dave Richards

Sheila Jackson Lee should apologize to Texas.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ken-Hansen/1696941384 Ken Hansen

Who is Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee to demand ANYTHING on behalf of the CBS reporter? How does she know what Ms. Logan wants?

It is the height of arrogance for Rep. ‘big hair’ Lee to presume she has any role to play in Ms. Logan’s tragedy.

Isn’t this the same woman who answered her cell phone during a town hall meeting?

Isn’t this the same woman that accused capital guards of racism and sexism because she forgot to wear her ‘congressman’ pin to get through a security check-point?

Isn’t this the same woman that ‘proved’ obamcare was constitutional, because the constitution guarantees life, liberty and pursuit of happiness?

Isn’t this the same woman that said obamacare didn’t have any ‘penalties’ it has ‘incentives’?

Dems, can we make a deal – send her home and let someone else vote for her? She is beyond embarrassing her party, now she is proving herself a national embarrassment…
LoyalOpposition

One word three syllables; id-i-ot!
rover37

I want the state of Texas to appologize for electing this fat gross cow term after term…
Nacho

Alex Alvarez, you are shameless. The selective way you chose to pass on this article from The Hill and sensationalize an aspect of it is unethical.

After providing her quote, you add: “She also argued against de-funding the U.N., opining that the organization could help broker “other disputes between countries.””

According to The Hill article, her call for an apology was part of her argument against de-funding the UN.

I agree her call for an apology is totally completely ridiculous but the way you framed it is completely misleading. If somebody didn’t take the time to read The Hill article, they could easily walk away with a fabricated reality that you once again have painted.
http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

I’m pretty sure this is how Big Momma’s House 4 starts…
Probably NOT wrong

Sheila Jackson Lee should apologize to her mirror!
Thelonious Funk

That will totally make the boo boo all better
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

Nacho said:
Alex Alvarez, you are shameless. The selective way you chose to pass on this article from The Hill and sensationalize an aspect of it is unethical.

After providing her quote, you add: “She also argued against de-funding the U.N., opining that the organization could help broker “other disputes between countries.””

According to The Hill article, her call for an apology was part of her argument against de-funding the UN.

I agree her call for an apology is totally completely ridiculous but the way you framed it is completely misleading. If somebody didn’t take the time to read The Hill article, they could easily walk away with a fabricated reality that you once again have painted.

Nice try Nacho, but she said it. And it is in context. Besides, your point actually makes her look worse. We should continue to fund the increasingly anti-US United Nations so we have somewhere to demand an apology for a rape? Seriously? That is part of her reasoning? So instead of just looking pathetically naive, she looks pointedly inane.

I suppose we will now want the National Hurricane Center to apologize for 2004 and 2005. And maybe Haiti can apologize for all the natural disasters they have sustained.

Or Sheila Jackson Lee can simply apologize for being a self serving thoughtless idiot that uses the suffering of others to further her agenda.
sean_m

Political grandstanding? Yep!
zombietimeshare

The same Sheila Jackson Lee who thought Neil Armstrong planted a flag on Mars, yes Mars, in 1969?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Elaine-Jesmer/614756658 Elaine Jesmer

Thank you, Jackson Lee, for doing something about violence against women. It’s not the most popular issue on the menu. I don’t think you’re speaking out just for the cameras, I think you mean it. At least, I hope so…
http://www.facebook.com/people/Thisisur-Conscience/100000016136639 Thisisur Conscience

The congressWOMAAAAAAAANN, should apologize for that crown weave she wears on top of her head.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Thisisur-Conscience/100000016136639 Thisisur Conscience

She is Houston’s most embarrassing moment – EVER.
X-3

“Ropehead” Lee is a total fool. Demanding apologies from people who are insane is useless.