Women’s Site Hollywood Life Asks Whether Lara Logan Was “Irresponsible”

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by Alex Alvarez | 6:46 pm, February 17th, 2011

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The story about the attack and sexual assault CBS correspondent Lara Logan endured while covering celebrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square has been a major topic of discussion this week, as have certain individuals’ reactions to it – individuals like, for instance, former NYU fellow Nir Rosen, who resigned after his Tweets about the attack drew major criticism from his followers and CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

Now, Hollywood Life, a website covering celebrity gossip for a female audience – describing itself as “Your Celebrity News, Gossip & Style BFF” – is weighing in on Logan’s attack, asking whether it was “irresponsible” of Logan, a mother of two, to “put herself” in such a situation. Gossip Cop, which devotes itself to “busting bad dish,” noted the incongruity of a site catering to women essentially placing blame a female victim of sexual assault. They write:

HollywoodLife, a site run by and catering to women, has done the unimaginable – blamed the victim.

After noting that Logan is the mother of two children, the blog asks, “Is She Brave Or Irresponsible For Putting Herself In This Kind Of Danger?”

“Irresponsible”?

HollywoodLife then essentially repeats itself, though more emphatically, in its opening paragraph: “Do you think she’s really brave, or completely irresponsible for putting herself in such a dangerous situation when she has two little kids waiting for her to come home?”

It’s difficult to imagine a news outlet wondering the same about a male journalist taking assignments in volatile, dangerous areas while his children are at home. Gossip Cop went on to offer Hollywood Life some helpful advice on how to approach a news story of such a sensitive nature:

Rather than re-victimize Logan, a women’s site like HollywoodLife should be grateful she survived, and laud her for her accomplishments instead of calling her “irresponsible.”

As with many major stories involving a well-known media figure, it’s always enlightening (and often times disheartening) to see what angles certain outlets take in covering the story. Ethical qualms and emotional reactions to Hollywood Life’s story aside, one has to wonder whether this particular angle – and the word choice used throughout the article – best serves the site’s intended audience.

h/t Gossip Cop

Gossip Cop, Hollywood Life, Lara Logan, Sexual Assault

Harry Flashman

Yeah!!!!

Let’s keep them women at home where they belong!!!!!!! Who does this girl think she is, leaving those kids and working at her job? She’s got kids fergodssakes.

Men don’t get hurt on the job. Ever. I mean, look at all those construction workers…um, wait…I mean…look at all those cops….oh, wait, I mean…um…..look at male reporters, wait what? Palkot? Anderson? But that doesn’t matter.

She should be a nurse or a secretary. Yeah, that’s it. A secretary. They don’t get hurt.

MY GOD, DO YOU LIBERALS EVER LISTEN TO YOURSELVES?????
Annie Oakley

Harry Flashman said:
Yeah!!!!

Let’s keep them women at home where they belong!!!!!!! Who does this girl think she is, leaving those kids and working at her job? She’s got kids fergodssakes.

Men don’t get hurt on the job. Ever. I mean, look at all those construction workers…um, wait…I mean…look at all those cops….oh, wait, I mean…um…..look at male reporters, wait what? Palkot? Anderson? But that doesn’t matter.

She should be a nurse or a secretary. Yeah, that’s it. A secretary. They don’t get hurt.

MY GOD, DO YOU LIBERALS EVER LISTEN TO YOURSELVES?????

NO, LIBERALS DON’T listen to themselves or even comprehend their idiocy!

Should Daniel Pearl have stayed home, since his wife was expecting and he was Jewish?
libra blue

CNN’s Nic Robertson has two children and he is in Bahrain right now. What does “Hollywood Life” think about him?
redleaf

Harry Flashman said:
Yeah!!!!

Let’s keep them women at home where they belong!!!!!!! Who does this girl think she is, leaving those kids and working at her job? She’s got kids fergodssakes.

Men don’t get hurt on the job. Ever. I mean, look at all those construction workers…um, wait…I mean…look at all those cops….oh, wait, I mean…um…..look at male reporters, wait what? Palkot? Anderson? But that doesn’t matter.

She should be a nurse or a secretary. Yeah, that’s it. A secretary. They don’t get hurt.

MY GOD, DO YOU LIBERALS EVER LISTEN TO YOURSELVES?????

Honestly, does everything that happens in the world get broken down into liberals and conservatives? I’m sure Hollywood Life is a pansy, union-loving, tofu-eating bunch of Prius-driving, tea-sipping, Obama-loving, Bush hated, abortion-pushing, Olbermann-watching skirts. I mean, they announce their political affiliation right on their homepage, don’t they?

Or maybe Hollywood Life is a website targeted to a female audience so they asked a question they believed would resonate with females.

Meanwhile, that parking ticket you got last week has nothing to do with the political affiliation of the ticketing officer. Your meter simply expired.
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

Harry Flashman said:
MY GOD, DO YOU LIBERALS EVER LISTEN TO YOURSELVES?????

No, they don’t. Not on stuff like this. Blame the victim/exonerate the actual criminal is one of those New Liberal mantras that make no sense at all.
http://www.swissarmyjew.com Keeva

redleaf said:
Honestly, does everything that happens in the world get broken down into liberals and conservatives?

Normally, I would agree with you, but this really is one of those New Liberal things that is just goofy. Easily as goofy as the New Conservative dodging of all responsibility for anything by blaming the media.
lane

Women-based sites often insult women, kind of like women’s magazines show sickly thin women as an ideal beauty when most women and men realize that a woman that looks like a heroine addict is sad and sickly. Bottom line is this is a new level of insult, and kudos for any site to call them out on it. It’s not 1980 anymore, people. Stop the insanity..
lazzzlo

This is where I got in trouble on the 1st post two days ago.

I admire what a journalist may go through in harm’s way to get a story. I do think that producers with a film crew can get reckless in search of a story.

I read through a lot of the different posts that women wrote in the aftermath. Debbie Schussel and Pam Gellar weren’t my style.

But what I was struck with was how many women blamed Lara Logan.

Whether by her “politics” or by her sense of femininity.
lazzzlo

Normally, I try to joke on these boards but I’m not right now.

The concept of Katie Couric strapping on body armor while playing catch up to an already unfolding story doesn’t tell me any more of the story the way she could if she just reported from an anchor desk.

I’m seriously not trying to be sexist.

I think that large groups of people all fired up (I got yelled at because I mentioned the word “mob”) are probably either the best or the worst interview subject.

And everyone should be careful.
Harry Flashman

lazzzlo:

Debbie Schlussel is a far right wack-job. She no more represents the right than far right imbeciles like Mike Malloy represent the left in it’s entirety.

You’re right. She is definitely out there.
Eruptor75

She is an unusually attractive women and things can go wrong when you are surrounded by a mob of 75 IQ thugs. It is hard discount her supermodel looks as not being a factor in the attack. I mean, they just wanted to beat up that Tranny Amapour.
lazzzlo

Harry Flashman said:
Debbie Schlussel is a far right wack-job. She no more represents the right than far right imbeciles like Mike Malloy represent the left in it’s entirety.

Yeah, I did gather that by reading a few of her posts.
treecutter

I thought all this was pretty much covered the last two days. Some of us thought she used bad judgement others said its her job go for it. I guess we’ll see what happens when she does this again.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

One of the problems with blogging as an institution is that many of the writers on the corporate sites got their gigs from someone they know or because they worked one place, which led into another. A lot of times they aren’t qualified for the position and they have little to no relevant expertise, they just happened to be at the right place at the right time.

(I could point to one blogger from this site’s past this would describe or I could relate a story that came up first on a Yahoo! trend, where a writer for a Hollywood-like site blogged that Bernadette Peters had “big shoes to fill”, when she replaced Catherine Zeta Jones in a Sondheim musical)

With that said, according to the deleted scenes from Foster’s interview with Ms. Logan before the attack, she was returning to Cairo in the company of her producer and her husband. Perhaps this raises a different child-rearing question, but I feel they’re entitled to provide for their children as they see fit and if someone were to make a value judgment about their family choices, they shouldn’t consider hers alone.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

Disclaimer & Clarification: I should say that I have no knowledge of Ms. Dunn’s experience, history or qualifications and may only jumping to a conclusion based upon the quality of the site and the expansion/acquisition rate of her employer’s blog network over the past year.

I should also say that in addition to a lack of experience both in life, with a subject or in craft, I should also add knowledge to that which is often lacking in writers for corporate blogs because the one who dissed Ms. Peters wouldn’t have had to have been an actor to know that she’s a Broadway star.
http://www.libertarianism.com/ Jack Burns

Women’s Site Hollywood Life Asks Whether Lara Logan Was “Irresponsible”

Wow I can’t believe what I’m reading here. What happened to the ole war cry from women of years ago. “anything you can do, I can do better.” I guess they found out they couldn’t. So its better if they just stay home and be baby factory’s is the new mantra??? What really puzzles me is how the “NOW” gang, and other womens groups don’t ever say anything about how they treat women over there…..
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lazzzlo

Magister said:
I should also say that in addition to a lack of experience both in life, with a subject or in craft, I should also add knowledge to that which is often lacking in writers for corporate blogs because the one who dissed Ms. Peters wouldn’t have had to have been an actor to know that she’s a Broadway star.

huh?

Bernadette Peters?
lazzzlo

Magister, I think I saw yer point about Broadway. Not really the point I wanted to make.
Nacho

I wanna hear how she was sexually assaulted. I hope that is made public. It seems to be a big part of this story.
ndanielson

Jack Burns said:
Women’s Site Hollywood Life Asks Whether Lara Logan Was “Irresponsible”

Wow I can’t believe what I’m reading here. What happened to the ole war cry from women of years ago. “anything you can do, I can do better.” I guess they found out they couldn’t. So its better if they just stay home and be baby factory’s is the new mantra??? What really puzzles me is how the “NOW” gang, and other womens groups don’t ever say anything about how they treat women over there…..

Well, they really shouldn’t play football in the NFL…they are suspiciously quiet about that, too…
lazzzlo

ndanielson said:
Well, they really shouldn’t play football in the NFL…they are suspiciously quiet about that, too…

I did try to not mention 240 lb linebackers.

But then again, they do seem to be smarter than me.
Nacho

OK, I read the hollybaby (hollywoodlife?) link and I read the Gossip cop link.

It almost like a game of telephone but the story gets more devilish as it goes down the line.

I noticed the same thing happened with the Sarah Palin “Time” story that Alex Alvaraz talked about using Gossip Cop as the middle man. It wasn’t a very honest or fair piece. This one looks pretty similar. It appears almost as if Alex is trying to be a trouble maker just for the sake of it.

Ms Alvarez, do you think that when you reference Gossip Cop, would disclosure that they are Mediaite’s “Sister site” be appropriate?
lazzzlo

Nacho,

Gossip Cop is literally to the bottom left of my comment….along with Geekosystem, Stylite and SportsGrid.
Alex Alvarez

Nacho said:
OK, I read the hollybaby (hollywoodlife?) link and I read the Gossip cop link.

It almost like a game of telephone but the story gets more devilish as it goes down the line.

I noticed the same thing happened with the Sarah Palin “Time” story that Alex Alvaraz talked about using Gossip Cop as the middle man. It wasn’t a very honest or fair piece. This one looks pretty similar. It appears almost as if Alex is trying to be a trouble maker just for the sake of it.

Ms Alvarez, do you think that when you reference Gossip Cop, would disclosure that they are Mediaite’s “Sister site” be appropriate?

I’m not actually 100% sure that they’re our “sister site.” GossipCop wasn’t actually created by Dan, as far as I know; I think it’s described as being “co-founded” as opposed to “founded,” or some similar distinction. But I’ll check!

I’m also not sure how I made the story “more devilish.” Honestly, I think GossipCop’s take was much harsher on Hollywood Life than mine is.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

@lazzzlo: I figured it was a non-threatening, non-divisive topic that wouldn’t point fingers at anyone we know, plus I’ve had a thing for Bernadette Peters since “ All’s Fair”“.
Ajolily

Harry Flashman said:
Yeah!!!! Let’s keep them women at home where they belong!!!!!!! Who does this girl think she is, leaving those kids and working at her job? She’s got kids fergodssakes. Men don’t get hurt on the job. Ever. I mean, look at all those construction workers…um, wait…I mean…look at all those cops….oh, wait, I mean…um…..look at male reporters, wait what? Palkot? Anderson? But that doesn’t matter. She should be a nurse or a secretary. Yeah, that’s it. A secretary. They don’t get hurt. MY GOD, DO YOU LIBERALS EVER LISTEN TO YOURSELVES?????

The cat is out of the bag about who the truly liberated women are and it is worth it for them to sacrifice all women to silence conservative women. The first I started hearing about women not being able to run for office and take care of her children was when Sarah Palin was running. All of a sudden she was a bad mom for having a career. They do the same to Bristol.
avoidswork

redleaf said:
Honestly, does everything that happens in the world get broken down into liberals and conservatives? I’m sure Hollywood Life is a pansy, union-loving, tofu-eating bunch of Prius-driving, tea-sipping, Obama-loving, Bush hated, abortion-pushing, Olbermann-watching skirts. I mean, they announce their political affiliation right on their homepage, don’t they? Or maybe Hollywood Life is a website targeted to a female audience so they asked a question they believed would resonate with females. Meanwhile, that parking ticket you got last week has nothing to do with the political affiliation of the ticketing officer. Your meter simply expired.

thank you, redlealf.

this isn’t a liberal vs. conservative POV issue. what happened to ms. logan (and many other women that day, i am certain) is terrible and i wish nothing but the best for her adn her recovery.

those of you *sses on this board, however, pointing left/right, lib/con fingers, are a bunch of d*uchebag/d*uchenozzle *sshats.

if you cannot speak about this issue with anything but compassion or horror, STFrakU. seriously.

it would be better if we can use this as a dialogue to discuss violence against women around the world, including this nation. this is the hidden cost to women in certain fields of work (there’s another story on this board regarding that fact). just ask our military women (yes, ours) about being raped. think of the horrible blackwater story of jamie leigh kelly. think of rwanda. think bosnia. think of all the silent victims out there, victimized. and please remember, it happens here, too.

and then, men, look at your gender and help us solve this frakking problem.
avoidswork

Ajolily said:
The cat is out of the bag about who the truly liberated women are and it is worth it for them to sacrifice all women to silence conservative women. The first I started hearing about women not being able to run for office and take care of her children was when Sarah Palin was running. All of a sudden she was a bad mom for having a career. They do the same to Bristol.

Shocking! Bringing “Palin” into a situation she has nothing do with. Hell, she’d want Lara to have her rapist’s child. God’s plan and all.

What does Ms. Logan’s gang rape have to do with anything you dribbled about and blathered in your post?

Oh, that’s right. Nothing.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

Because the Mediaite/Gossip Cop relationship has been commented upon, I thought that I’d toss out this old post and spirited clip of Dan announcing its launch on MSNBC for fun.
Ajolily

avoidswork said:
Shocking! Bringing “Palin” into a situation she has nothing do with. Hell, she’d want Lara to have her rapist’s child. God’s plan and all. What does Ms. Logan’s gang rape have to do with anything you dribbled about and blathered in your post? Oh, that’s right. Nothing.

LOL, What does she have to do with it? The fact that she was the first I noticed the left saying was a bad mom for not staying home with her kids. I am sure she is not the first but she was the first I noticed. Until then NOW would jump on anyone who said such a thing. Her views on a rapist child does however have nothing to do with the topic but that is typical from you libs. OMG Shocking! LOL I am not interested in Palin just that the liberals no longer want woman to be in office or on dangerous jobs since conservative women found their voice. Your really too much! Really pushed your buttons.
treecutter

How many times does she go over there in the middle of angry men rioting getting attacked and raped before you say that she is not making very smart decisions. I’d like to know what is the magic number for you before you say she’s just not thinking straight?
lazzzlo

Magister said:
Because the Mediaite/Gossip Cop relationship has been commented upon, I thought that I’d toss out this old post and spirited clip of Dan announcing its launch on MSNBC for fun.

Thank you…”Mediaite Publisher Dan Abrams appeared on a number of television shows today to promote his new website Gossip Cop.”

Also, nothing against Bernadette Peters at all. I just got confused with the logic…not the 1st time.
avoidswork

Ajolily said:
LOL, What does she have to do with it? The fact that she was the first I noticed the left saying was a bad mom for not staying home with her kids. I am sure she is not the first but she was the first I noticed. Until then NOW would jump on anyone who said such a thing. Her views on a rapist child does however have nothing to do with the topic but that is typical from you libs. OMG Shocking! LOL I am not interested in Palin just that the liberals no longer want woman to be in office or on dangerous jobs since conservative women found their voice. Your really too much! Really pushed your buttons.

Silly me. I forgot that Palin is the ultimate/sole female victim to some. Poor Lara has nothing on the brave and fierce Palin.

And yes, buttons are pushed. Palin doesn’t have a thing on Logan – brains, beauty, dedication to her job – and bringing up Palin is just offensive.
Pablo

Keeva said:
No, they don’t. Not on stuff like this. Blame the victim/exonerate the actual criminal is one of those New Liberal mantras that make no sense at all.

What’s funny is that I’m finding they really don’t want to talk about the actual criminals, and it appears that there are more than a couple of them. CBS/Lara made a bad call here, but that doesn’t absolve the dirtbags that did this to her.

Who do you suppose they might have been? What motivation do you suppose might have driven this attack?
Pablo

treecutter said:
How many times does she go over there in the middle of angry men rioting getting attacked and raped before you say that she is not making very smart decisions. I’d like to know what is the magic number for you before you say she’s just not thinking straight?

I remember being young and bulletproof. I suspect Lara is discovering that she is, in fact, not bulletproof. (I figured it out a couple of decades ago.) She’s a very gutsy lady, and she’s a very good reporter. But she got herself into something she shouldn’t have been in if she and CBS were really considering the risks of putting her in there. I think she just learned a very hard lesson. I’m pretty much positive that it ain’t gonna break her. I’m just hoping she’ll be a bit more careful going forward.
Ajolily

avoidswork said:
Silly me. I forgot that Palin is the ultimate/sole female victim to some. Poor Lara has nothing on the brave and fierce Palin. And yes, buttons are pushed. Palin doesn’t have a thing on Logan – brains, beauty, dedication to her job – and bringing up Palin is just offensive.

Gee and I thought we had agreed it wasn’t about Palin. I never compared Logan and Palin in anyway beyond both being attacked for choosing a career which took them out of the home or in a dangerous area. Neither did I point to Palin being the ultimate victim. I distinctly remember saying she was only the first I noticed this tactic being used on. Sole victim? I think not, if she was this wouldn’t be an issue. Brave and fierce Palin? I don’t know how brave and fierce she would be as she never went to a dangerous area like Lara and that puts Lara into the area of being brave and fierce. It is the a liberal site that attacked Lara for making bad choices not I. I only pointed out that the tactic began when conservative women began to have a voice. Its just too bad you are offended by Palin (boo hoo) because you better get used to being upset, I don’t think she is going away anytime soon.
Pablo

avoidswork said:
if you cannot speak about this issue with anything but compassion or horror, STFrakU. seriously.

I had no idea this was an “emoting only” subject. Was there a memo?
Pablo

I’m catching up late here, I guess. Have we discovered how this attack is Sarah Palin’s fault? It was only a matter of time.
Nacho

George Soros financed the mob to rape that Jew.
Ajolily

Pablo said:
I’m catching up late here, I guess. Have we discovered how this attack is Sarah Palin’s fault? It was only a matter of time.

Sorry I brought her into the conversation because she is also attacked for being a bad mom because she has a career. It pushed some buttons. I have had a good laugh so I am not too sorry.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

In addition to the perceived gender-based double standard that Alex points out in the OP and the fact that her husband was with her in Egypt (which I linked from my initial comment, I was going through my Twiiter feed and ran across a press release from the DoD;

In 2006, 6.8 percent of women and 1.8 percent of men on active duty indicated experiencing some form of sexual assault in the year before they were surveyed. Last year, that dropped to 4.4 percent of women and 0.9 percent of men.

The release comes in the wake of testimony provided by the Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs before a House Committee. The subject was the proposed budget, but because a class action suit has recently been filed, Sec. Gates testified to the headway being made by Pentagon programs.

Though, if we were to take those figures and apply them to the “Hollywood Life” writer’s logic, one would have to ask if it’s “irresponsible” for soldiers (of either gender) to take such a dangerous job away from home.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

Whoops! Forgot to link the DoD release.
Nacho

lazzzlo said:
Nacho,

Gossip Cop is literally to the bottom left of my comment….along with Geekosystem, Stylite and SportsGrid.

I just now got what you were referring to. Yes, you are correct.

I like I imagine many others here, have become used to ignoring the ads and peripheral links that are none tangible to my purpose of visiting this web page. I can make the connection to SportsGrid because their stories are often featured. The others I never notice. The affiliation to Gossip Cop only came to my awareness when Abrams mentioned it in a recent post rightfully patting himself and his staff on the back for their most recent successful milestone.
MorningQuickie

The saddest thing is that this whole situation could have been avoided if CBS has taken some precautions: http://morningquickie.com/2011/02/18/why-lara-logan-raped-female-reporter-safety/
http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

I like lovely Lara and agree with the distasteful post above by “eruptor” that a tranny like Amanpour would only get her bell rung, not be viciously sexually assaulted as Lara appears to have been.

There’s a clear lack of feminist solidarity here for two reasons, the lefty NOW types don’t like females like Lara embedded with the troops and subsequently sticking up for Gen. McChrystal when Rolling Stone treacherously broke the ground rules and reported on sidetalk and joking by the Gen concerning sensitive material. Lara is a journalist and RS is seriously lacking in REAL journalism, only specializing in agitprop attack journalism which is anti-American and anti-US military. So Lara is seen as being pro-war by the thimblewits at NOW & Salon & cascading down the sewers of feminist blogs and sites.

Also, Lara’s misfortune happened to break into the happy narrative being proclaimed by the “official” NYT & alphabet network that the Peaceful Revolution was a kumbayeh moment free of discord and hate. When attacks came, they were always from New Democracy pro-Mubarak types, from this perspective.

Now it turns out that Lara may have been attacked by Muslim Brotherhood thugs rather than Mubarak types—sticking a giant fork in the overcooked or rather half-baked official agitprop party line put out by cadres like Williams, Cooper, Amanpour, Zakaria, Engel & other so-called experts. Clapper & Panetta were at the same time trying to prepare the way for the “Peaceful” new improved Muslim Brotherhood types.

If Lara were raped by New Democrat types, they wouldn’t have been yelling “Jew, Jew,” because they’re reconciled to a long-term peace with Israel. Terminal haters like the MB have the admiration of ignorant libs like NOW, and the alphabet media who share with MB the hateful anti-Semitism their spiritual mentor [in Brian Williams' case] Jimmy Carter has infected the American Left with over the decades since Camp David.

Don’t you hate it when the narrative line goes off the rails and CBS has to bury her rape story for FOUR DAYS???
treecutter

David Mangan said:
I like lovely Lara and agree with the distasteful post above by “eruptor” that a tranny like Amanpour would only get her bell rung, not be viciously sexually assaulted as Lara appears to have been. There’s a clear lack of feminist solidarity here for two reasons, the lefty NOW types don’t like females like Lara embedded with the troops and subsequently sticking up for Gen. McChrystal when Rolling Stone treacherously broke the ground rules and reported on sidetalk and joking by the Gen concerning sensitive material. Lara is a journalist and RS is seriously lacking in REAL journalism, only specializing in agitprop attack journalism which is anti-American and anti-US military. So Lara is seen as being pro-war by the thimblewits at NOW & Salon & cascading down the sewers of feminist blogs and sites. Also, Lara’s misfortune happened to break into the happy narrative being proclaimed by the “official” NYT & alphabet network that the Peaceful Revolution was a kumbayeh moment free of discord and hate. When attacks came, they were always from New Democracy pro-Mubarak types, from this perspective. Now it turns out that Lara may have been attacked by Muslim Brotherhood thugs rather than Mubarak types—sticking a giant fork in the overcooked or rather half-baked official agitprop party line put out by cadres like Williams, Cooper, Amanpour, Zakaria, Engel & other so-called experts. Clapper & Panetta were at the same time trying to prepare the way for the “Peaceful” new improved Muslim Brotherhood types. If Lara were raped by New Democrat types, they wouldn’t have been yelling “Jew, Jew,” because they’re reconciled to a long-term peace with Israel. Terminal haters like the MB have the admiration of ignorant libs like NOW, and the alphabet media who share with MB the hateful anti-Semitism their spiritual mentor [in Brian Williams' case] Jimmy Carter has infected the American Left with over the decades since Camp David. Don’t you hate it when the narrative line goes off the rails and CBS has to bury her rape story for FOUR DAYS???

Dead on dude!
Pablo

Ajolily said:
Sorry I brought her into the conversation because she is also attacked for being a bad mom because she has a career. It pushed some buttons. I have had a good laugh so I am not too sorry.

No problem here. I enjoy watching the things Sarah is responsible for stacking up. She’s more powerful than global warming!
CAconservative

CBS is clearly to blame. You do not send in a defenseless male, let alone a female journalist into a hot zone without proper protection. That situation was begging for trouble and when it happened people became outraged? Duh!!
newsjunkie

She went to Afghanistan when she was pregnant and she didn’t stay in the relative safety of Kabul. She went out in the field with a military unit. I think that’s a little irresponsible. What about the life of her unborn child? Wasn’t she putting that unborn baby at risk by doing such a think in a combat zone? I’m all for women going to the same places as men do when covering the news. There should be no exceptions made based on gender. But going into a dangerous conflict zone when you’re pregnant? Does that show a lapse in judgement?
http://humanitariandefense.org Humanitarian Defense

The assault in Cairo could have been prevented by the presence of a competent security person. The question that keeps coming to my mind is, “where was her security”? Its mentioned in several news reports that she had security, but I would love to know how they let it get that far? Professionals would’ve been watching out for her and very likely would’ve given their lives to protect her from such a terrible assault.