Nightmarish, sadly the people responsible will probably never face any punishment.

This is an important piece. Noteworthy:

A British newspaper broke this.

The crowd was incited by gouvernment run state media (not some Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy).

Another lesson here: Anti-Semitism (actually, Anti-Jewish) sentiments played a big role in all of this. That’s not a surprise, but it informs us on the course of State Department and diplomatic efforts. Exploiting mutual self-interest of the parties rather than a coming together. What set the Carter Accords apart was that we were able to demonstrate to the Israelis and the Egyptians that a good business case could be made for peace.

I hope this doesn’t lead to another bash Ms. Logan piece, in the O’Reilly Jennifer Moore tradition, so favoured by some of our rightist male and female posters.

A horrifying account that I hope is wrong .

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/02/lara-logans-vicious-violent-gang-rape-medias-silencesanction.html

The Lantern of Truth said:
A horrifying account that I hope is wrong .

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/02/lara-logans-vicious-violent-gang-rape-medias-silencesanction.html

Are you seriously trying to use this to further perpetuate your views?

The Real Royal King said:
This is an important piece. Noteworthy:

I hope this doesn’t lead to another bash Ms. Logan piece, in the O’Reilly Jennifer Moore tradition, so favoured by some of our rightist male and female posters.

You’re slime kid, using this to make political points.

The Lantern of Truth said:
A horrifying account that I hope is wrong .

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/02/lara-logans-vicious-violent-gang-rape-medias-silencesanction.html

CBS reported that it wasn’t a rape – so I am not sure, but i don’t think this account is accurate. Lord, I hope not.

The_Reasonable_Lib said:
Are you seriously trying to use this to further perpetuate your views?

Moron .

The Lantern of Truth said:
Moron .

I’d say you’re the moron for posting an article which tries to use this to attack the media.

I am all for a reporter going out, and doing what it takes to get the story… but they simply cannot continue to think they are invincible! This is awful, and should have never happened. Sometimes it’s okay to put yourself above the story… as a news viewer, we want the info, biut not at the cost of any reporters well being.

Hope she recovers.

@ Royal

First off… nobody is interested in you, “I’m gonna say something moderately on topic, so that I can then attack FNC and the others as I do.” What you’ve done is transparent as anything else you’ve done. Just gotta create enough cover so that you can “be on topic” before you go back to normal.

Secondly… again with the “u”s. “Gouverment” and “favoured.” But I assume you’re still insisting you’re from Texas, right?

@ Reasonable

I assume you’ll say the same to the real, Royal… right?

ImNotBlue said:
Secondly… again with the “u”s. “Gouverment” and “favoured.” But I assume you’re still insisting you’re from Texas, right?

RRKING responds . I’m froum undour a rock on the outskourts of Fourt Wourth . Cheeourio !

ImNotBlue said:
@ Reasonable

I assume you’ll say the same to the real, Royal… right?

…Lantern isn’t Royal? Oh my God, I’m shocked.

And sure? I honestly don’t get your attempts to portray every liberal as a hypocrite.

ImNotBlue said:
@ Reasonable

I assume you’ll say the same to the real, Royal… right?

Although if you must know I have a tendency not to read King’s or most people’s posts unless there’s a response to me or a link in there.

The Real Royal King said:
This is an important piece. Noteworthy

I am not sure what rock you have been living under, but most of us knewabout the anti Israeli sentiment by many Egyptians and the Muslim Brotherhood.

sentiment.

The Real Royal King said:
I hope this doesn’t lead to another bash Ms. Logan piece, in the O’Reilly Jennifer Moore tradition, so favoured by some of our rightist male and female posters.

Do you mean bashing the Right like you do?

@ Reasonable

I believe you missed my point. Royal used this to “perpetuate his views,” much as fake Royal did and you called out.

My question… why call out one, but not the other, despite the similarities?

And really? Unless there’s “you” or a link, you don’t read it? Even when there are only 4 or 5 posts. This may be your lamest excuse ev-ah.

The Real Royal King said:
What set the Carter Accords apart was that we were able to demonstrate to the Israelis and the Egyptians that a good business case could be made for peace.

Wow, that is a ridiculous naive assessment. Th Camp David Accords didn’t demonstrate bupkis to the “Egyptian People”. It was an agreement forged entirely between the Israeli government and Anwar Sadat, nothing more, nothing less. After Sadat’s death, the only thing that allowed the peace agreement to continue undisturbed, was the largess of the American people paid directly and indirectly to Mubarak and his military establishment. Absent Mubarak, and without America’s protection money, the peace agreement becomes tenuous at best, precisely because it’s not popular at all with the at-large Egyptian public.

Egypt’s “peace” with Israel has not been a genuine reflection of the will of the Egyptian people. But you’re right, it was a “business case” – it was a business deal between the prey (the Israelis), and the lion tamer (Sadat and then Mubarak). The lions have escaped their cages last week, and the Israelis are right to be fearful about it.

Republitarian said:
Wow, that is a ridiculous naive assessment. Th Camp David Accords didn’t demonstrate bupkis to the “Egyptian People”. It was an agreement forged entirely between the Israeli government and Anwar Sadat, nothing more, nothing less. After Sadat’s death, the only thing that allowed the peace agreement to continue undisturbed, was the largess of the American people paid directly and indirectly to Mubarak and his military establishment. Absent Mubarak, and without America’s protection money, the peace agreement becomes tenuous at best, precisely because it’s not popular at all with the at-large Egyptian public.

Egypt’s “peace” with Israel has not been a genuine reflection of the will of the Egyptian people. But you’re right, it was a “business case” – it was a business deal between the prey (the Israelis), and the lion tamer (Sadat and then Mubarak). The lions have escaped their cages last week, and the Israelis are right to be fearful about it.

35 years of success counts for nothing. Most astute observation.

BatBoy said:
I am not sure what rock you have been living under, but most of us knewabout the anti Israeli sentiment by many Egyptians and the Muslim Brotherhood.

sentiment.

Do you mean bashing the Right like you do?

You’ll have to forgive me. I do usually cry out against those who victimize the victims as happened here last week with Ms. Logan and her detractors. I tend to forget that the rightists are the true victims in 21st Century. Thanks for reminding me. Would you like me to organize a Telethon? Maybe put little collection jars in 7-11′s?

The Real Royal King said:
35 years of success counts for nothing.

Right, 35-years of “success”, that was only possible with Mubarek’s strong-man tactics to especially include keeping the Jihadist elements of the Egyptian public entirely in check; Secret prisons, beatings, torturing, murder and the “constitutional” prohibition on Islamic political parties were all part of the political leverage that made that “success” possible. Under Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood that was foreclosed from the political process (to the extent that there was a political process) , will now be fully capable of capitalizing on the antisemitism that is so prevalent in Egypt.

But hey, if you want to spin some yarn about the success of the Camp David Accords and the business case for the Egyptian people, don’t let me stop you. I’m sure you’ll find some morons to actually believe it.

Here’s some more information from the Australian.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/mob-beat-journalist-lara-logan-with-flagpoles-and-fists/story-e6frg6so-1226009065311

What an Irony! the Israelis have the most to loose from the so called revolution. Why would they be supporting the media that helped the revolutionaries.

ImNotBlue said:
My question… why call out one, but not the other, despite the similarities?

Isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black! You might consider this yourself. Examples Michelle. OlbySucks. They do a lot of driveby insults that you seem to ignore. Yet act like you’re Michelles bodyguard. At least the King puts some thought and intelligence in his posts, rather than just spewing out rightest talking points and or one line insults.

More sources are needed. I’ve yet to see a direct quote from the Sunday Times. The Daily Mail is essentially a tabloid, and only directly attributes the part about the pinching to the Times. Who contacted the “medical sources” isn’t mentioned at all – is that from the Times? The Mail?

There’s also a You Tube video spinning a much more detailed and improbable account out there, that I think the Mail may also be using without saying so.

Not minimizing what happened to her, but I wouldn’t trust the Mail’s account of anything.

The Lantern of Truth said:
A horrifying account that I hope is wrong .

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/02/lara-logans-vicious-violent-gang-rape-medias-silencesanction.html

Could you please find a more unreliable, biased resource? I am not sure this one is adequately using Ms.Logan’s nightmarish attack to their best advantage. What next, we quote the Sunday funnies?

The Real Royal King said:
This is an important piece. Noteworthy:

A British newspaper broke this.

The crowd was incited by gouvernment run state media (not some Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy).

Another lesson here: Anti-Semitism (actually, Anti-Jewish) sentiments played a big role in all of this. That’s not a surprise, but it informs us on the course of State Department and diplomatic efforts. Exploiting mutual self-interest of the parties rather than a coming together. What set the Carter Accords apart was that we were able to demonstrate to the Israelis and the Egyptians that a good business case could be made for peace.

I hope this doesn’t lead to another bash Ms. Logan piece, in the O’Reilly Jennifer Moore tradition, so favoured by some of our rightist male and female posters.

King, this is out of line by all standards. The only lesson in this story is that there are brutal violent people everywhere that regard women as play toys and handy victims. I guess I need to remind you that most American media long ago voluntarily adopted a policy of not going into the details of sexual assaults. Accepting a British tabloid rag as factual just as an excuse to slap someone politically is pathetic.

This also applies to anyone that quotes the Atlas Shrugs site as factual.

This is a human being,a woman, who has been horribly and brutally victimized. Anything other than wishes and prayers for her recovery are simply inappropriate.

Oh,and Colby and the rest of Mediaite – stop with the details on this. I know you work for a ratings and PR starved Dan Abrams, but even he should know better. Whether or not you want to realize it, every time you run with some unconfirmed and fairly unreliable resource on this story you look like idiots. In fact, I would say that you are running with it just to get traffic. Well, do us all a favor and especially do Ms.Logan a favor and stop the rumor and gossip on this story. It helps nobody and serves no purpose.

Keeva said:
King, this is out of line by all standards. The only lesson in this story is that there are brutal violent people everywhere that regard women as play toys and handy victims. I guess I need to remind you that most American media long ago voluntarily adopted a policy of not going into the details of sexual assaults. Accepting a British tabloid rag as factual just as an excuse to slap someone politically is pathetic.

This also applies to anyone that quotes the Atlas Shrugs site as factual.

This is a human being,a woman, who has been horribly and brutally victimized. Anything other than wishes and prayers for her recovery are simply inappropriate.

I don’t disagree with anything you said about the tabloid or Ms. Logan. We had a gaggle of nincompoops last week blaming this attack on the Muslim brotherhood and on Ms Logan for her blond hair and her presence in the area, which seemed to me to diminish the attack. The attack was personal, it was violent, it wasn’t about politics, it wasn’t about sex.

The Real Royal King said:
I don’t disagree with anything you said about the tabloid or Ms. Logan. We had a gaggle of nincompoops last week blaming this attack on the Muslim brotherhood and on Ms Logan for her blond hair and her presence in the area, which seemed to me to diminish the attack. The attack was personal, it was violent, it wasn’t about politics, it wasn’t about sex.

I saw the “blame the victim” chorus last week and was disgusted by them. It does not matter whether the attackers were Muslim Brotherhood or not. The attackers are sub-human in my book and their politics and religion mean nothing in this context.

While the Oxford dictionary does spell honor as ‘honour’, it does not spell government as ‘gouvernment’.

Keeva said:
This is a human being,a woman, who has been horribly and brutally victimized. Anything other than wishes and prayers for her recovery are simply inappropriate.

I once posted something similar to this and was roundly ignored. I also said that trying to score “political points” off this was as grotesque as trying to score points off of the shooting in Tucson and was called ignorant. How gracious. Anyways, thanks for making a plea for sanity.

Of course, I just posted a link to a source that was also reporting on the story so I suppose I’m a bit of a hypocrite myself.

We can’t be sure the attackers were Muslim. We can’t be sure it was because she was blond. We can’t be sure it was sexual. We can’t be sure the attackers were men. We can’t be sure she was even there.

Keeva said:
I saw the “blame the victim” chorus last week and was disgusted by them. It does not matter whether the attackers were Muslim Brotherhood or not. The attackers are sub-human in my book and their politics and religion mean nothing in this context.

I agree.

writer said:
We can’t be sure the attackers were Muslim. We can’t be sure it was because she was blond. We can’t be sure it was sexual. We can’t be sure the attackers were men. We can’t be sure she was even there.

That’s not it writer. I’ve been trying to get at this for days and couldn’t explain it correctly but thankfully, someone has

im_lovin_it said:
Keeva said:
This is a human being,a woman, who has been horribly and brutally victimized. Anything other than wishes and prayers for her recovery are simply inappropriate.
I once posted something similar to this and was roundly ignored. I also said that trying to score “political points” off this was as grotesque as trying to score points off of the shooting in Tucson and was called ignorant. How gracious. Anyways, thanks for making a plea for sanity.

While the attack was tragic, it is impossible to narrow down who the attackers may have been. They could have been senior citizens from Norway. It’s anyone’s guess.

writer said:
While the attack was tragic, it is impossible to narrow down who the attackers may have been. They could have been senior citizens from Norway. It’s anyone’s guess.

The point , that that kind of horrible violence occurs almost everywhere in every culture. You can’t examine it and say what caused it. It’s a pointless exercise.

The main thing is to insist that the attackers weren’t who they are.

@ Kat

Stick to the contents of this thread. If you’re going to call someone out with only 4 posts offered, you have less an excuse to ignore another. Reasonable ignored Royal, despite doing the same, for political reasons. And with only 4 posts available… it’s hard to believe differently.

@ Writer

Perhaps our boy is once again mixing personalities. He believes that so be a “British subject” he must insert U’s all over the place. But with so many different names going, he’s having trouble keeping track of who’s British, and who’s Texan. Ha!

Either way, I’m sure we’re all impressed.

>>>> RELIGION OF PEACE at work <<<<

flagringo said:
>>>> RELIGION OF PEACE at work <<<<

And another one uses the horror this woman suffered to make a pathetic political point – and one with no evidence at all.

Lantern of Truth what possible purpose could be served by posting the link to the graphic description of Ms. Logan’s attack and glorifying it? Whatever tiny shred of privacy she had left was removed by the Atlas Shrugged website’s breathless reporting of unverifiable details that will in no way enrich anyone’s daily life.

When CBS New released its statement and said no further info would be forthcoming, that should have told you all you needed to know.

I guess it’s probably time for you to trundle on over to the Piggly Wiggly and get this week’s copies of the Star and Enquirer. Don’t forget to snap pictures of any car wrecks and dead bodies you find on the way….

Sprocket said:
antern of Truth what possible purpose could be served by posting the link to the graphic description of Ms. Logan’s attack and glorifying it?

There isn’t any purpose, is there? This is obviously not anything on which Ms. Logan cares to dwell or to air in public. Different people handle things differently. Scott Brown has elected to go public. That’s fine. I can respect that. Ms. Logan has sought to handle her ordeal privately, or amongst friends and family. That’s fine. I can respect that. Since that is her option, we all ought to respect that.

The Real Royal King said:
There isn’t any purpose, is there? This is obviously not anything on which Ms. Logan cares to dwell or to air in public. Different people handle things differently. Scott Brown has elected to go public. That’s fine. I can respect that. Ms. Logan has sought to handle her ordeal privately, or amongst friends and family. That’s fine. I can respect that. Since that is her option, we all ought to respect that.

Somebody want to tell Colby Hall and Mediaite this?

A mob has no conscience. Don’t consider religion, sex or morality.
Mobs do not reason, they vent emotion.

Ms. Logan should be given her privacy. And grudging kudos to the King for being able to make it through a thread about a woman without mocking her clothing and makeup.

The religion of “peace” sure knows how to treat women.

Islam, given the chance, would “love” women to death.

Rusty Shackelford said:
The religion of “peace” sure knows how to treat women.

While I agree the track record of muslim men sucks when it comes to the treatment of women, I think this was just some male psychopaths (and prime candidates for castration) having a good time. Other members of the religion of “peace” came to her aid. I think members of the Christian faith have stepped over that line a few times too.
I have been a fan of Ms. Logan’s reporting from hazardous places and would not begrudge her if she chose to stay out of the field. She did not deserve this kind of treatment.

The Tea Weasel® said:
While I agree the track record of muslim men sucks when it comes to the treatment of women, I think this was just some male psychopaths (and prime candidates for castration) having a good time. Other members of the religion of “peace” came to her aid. I think members of the Christian faith have stepped over that line a few times too.I have been a fan of Ms. Logan’s reporting from hazardous places and would not begrudge her if she chose to stay out of the field. She did not deserve this kind of treatment.

Very fair. These were bad guys… but not bad because they’re Muslims.

Every group has some bad eggs… it’s whether or not they tolerate them, or cast them out that becomes the real issue.

The Real Royal King said:
We had a gaggle of nincompoops last week blaming this attack on the Muslim brotherhood

Let me see, they were calling her a Jew. Who hates the Jews? Does the Muslim Brotherhood ring a bell?

Keeva said:
Oh,and Colby and the rest of Mediaite – stop with the details on this. I know you work for a ratings and PR starved Dan Abrams, but even he should know better. Whether or not you want to realize it, every time you run with some unconfirmed and fairly unreliable resource on this story you look like idiots. In fact, I would say that you are running with it just to get traffic. Well, do us all a favor and especially do Ms.Logan a favor and stop the rumor and gossip on this story. It helps nobody and serves no purpose.

More people like you would make the comment section better.

Terrible stuff.

gordonbloyershow said:
Let me see, they were calling her a Jew. Who hates the Jews? Does the Muslim Brotherhood ring a bell?

So obviously you can’t read real well, can you? Let me try again – this entire thread is about an article Mediaite put up based on rumors from anonymous web postings. Aren’t you the same person that rails about folks posting here under assumed names? But you choose to accept ones that you somehow agree with and will happily use those anonymous rumors this woman’s worst nightmare to promote your hateful agenda?

So you are both a hypocrite and a fool. Excellent!

Those Al-Jazerra assholes aren’t even reporting her assault:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2011/02/al_jazeeras_silence_on_lara_lo.html

nice_thought said:
More people like you would make the comment section better.

Thank you.

I don’t want to hear another word – factual or rumor – of the details of the attack against Ms. Logan. There is absolutely no reason for me to know as much as I do now. Until and if she decides to say something herself, I think Mediaite – and us as commentors – should shut the hell up.

The Real Royal King said:
I hope this doesn’t lead to another bash Ms. Logan piece, in the O’Reilly Jennifer Moore tradition, so favoured by some of our rightist male and female posters.

TRRK demonstrates his serial idiocy by neglecting to mention that lefty Taliban-loving Nir Rosen was the worse offender in attacking Lara, along with other snide sillyboys like Anderson C, and that the Right actually likes Lara for sticking up for McChrystal after his ambush by traitor Wenner, and for being embedded in Iraq & Afghanistan for years while flaky females hung back and tut-tutted Lara’s every move. The female ditzes saying she got what she deserved are all anti-Semitic Hollyweird featherweights who are leftist crones.

Just shows that TRRK combines ignorance, duplicity and arrogance in a trifecta of twaddle—he should go back to earning a living instead of showing his stupidity on these threads.

I agree. Let’s leave this one alone.

“Guards who had escorted her into the square were also badly beaten by the mob, with one suffering a broken hand, and it took women in the square and about 20 soldiers to finally rescue her from her attackers.”

“The military presence controlling the amount of people entering Tahrir Square seemed to evaporate, and an angrier element had flowed in.

Miss Logan was attacked around 1am as she filmed in the square.

Egyptian state media had been publishing negative stories about foreign journalists, with many reports alleging that many Israeli spies were masquerading as news crews.

Days before her attack, Miss Logan had been held in Alexandria on suspicion of being foreign spies.”

THE REAL ROYAL KING said:
I don’t disagree with anything you said about the tabloid or Ms. Logan. We had a gaggle of nincompoops last week blaming this attack on the Muslim brotherhood and on Ms Logan for her blond hair and her presence in the area, which seemed to me to diminish the attack. The attack was personal, it was violent, it wasn’t about politics, it wasn’t about sex.

The attack wasn’t personal, it wasn’t about politics???? Chanting Israeli and Jew is very political.