CNN Airs Footage Of Anderson Cooper And Crew Getting Attacked In Cairo

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by Colby Hall | 4:22 pm, February 2nd, 2011

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In an era where its de rigueur to openly mock American media personalities, its important to be reminded just how dangerous serious journalism can be. To wit, CNN just released video of Anderson Cooper and his CNN crew getting attacked by what can only be described an unruly mob on the streets of Cairo as we’d reported earlier. Cooper told CNN hosts via the telephone “I would be an idiot if I wasn’t frightened.”

One of the objectives of the instigators seems to be to stifle the live coverage that is coming from a very fluid situation in Cairo. While the situation in Egypt has been fragile, today it took a turn for the dramatic as pro-Mubarak protesters clashed with anti-regime protesters throughout the streets of Cairo, often in violent fashion.

The video clip below illustrates both how chaotic the scene in Cairo is right now, as well as the relatively brave and calm reaction by Cooper and his crew. You can hear the CNN anchor repeatedly claim “calm down” to non-English speaking protesters as they look for cover from the angry mob.

Watch the video below courtesy of CNN:

anderson cooper, Cairo, CNN, Egypt, Egyptian Uprising

juan

It’s Dangerous!
juan

Are the THUGS members of Islamic Brotherhood?
Tribunal

Hopefully he’s doing ok now. Did they even have security? Doesn’t make sense for CNN to send their main guy without security.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Kim-Barker/693546751 A Kim Bo

juan said:
Are the THUGS members of Islamic Brotherhood?

No, they’re most likely paid members from Mubarak’s police force. In other words, on the US payroll considering how much money we’ve given Mubarak over the years. You need to stop watching Fox News.
juan

A Kim Bo said:
No, they’re most likely paid members from Mubarak’s police force. In other words, on the US payroll considering how much money we’ve given Mubarak over the years. You need to stop watching Fox News.

As if I would ever take advice from you and your ILK!

FOX ROCKS!
espo222

Leaked memo from Ted Turner to Anderson:

Anderson,
While in Egypt, you must do something to get some viewers. Fox is killing us and even MSNBC is beating us with Lockup reruns. I don’t care if you have to start a riot or get beat up. Take one for the team.

Yours,

Teddy
nice_thought

espo222 said:
juan says:
February 2, 2011 at 4:26 pm (Quote)
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Are the THUGS members of Islamic Brotherhood?

Hehe…. Not entirely impossible. Lol
sarainitaly

scary!
Obtuse

juan said:
Are the THUGS members of Islamic Brotherhood?

ChristWire is reporting they are actually the Tea Party, having secretly flown in a day ago.
mcf1757

Arizona to Secede http://bit.ly/fRu5uL
cjd ohio 1

A Kim Bo said:
No, they’re most likely paid members from Mubarak’s police force. In other words, on the US payroll considering how much money we’ve given Mubarak over the years. You need to stop watching Fox News.

must be SEIU
libra blue

I don’t really know what this footage is supposed to confirm. It just looks like a big shoving match. You can barely make out Anderson in any of the shots, you just hear him repeatedly say “calm down”. I will admit that it could have developed into a truly dangerous situation and it looked like Anderson was slapped once or twice, but I did not see any punching or kicking.

Frankly, I have seen worse brawls on playgrounds.
Color Me Badd

juan said:
Are the THUGS members of Islamic Brotherhood?

Oh no not the Islamic Brotherhood!!!

That sounds so scary! It’s like Cobra or something. Where is GI Joe??

Stop watching Fox News and you might learn that the Islamic Brotherhood had nothing to do with this insurrection and actually came late to the game, they are trying to catch up now. But ask any real expert on Egypt including Egyptians in the country right now, and they all say that the Islamic Brotherhood is playing very little roll in all of this.
Color Me Badd

I wonder if the teabags who said Anderson was making this up are going to apologize. If you have ever been in a large crowd or in a riot you know how bad things can go with a lot of angry people. Anderson and his crew were lucky to escape unharmed or even killed. This was a very scary video to watch.

Anderson and his crew are doing some really great reporting and really do have some guts.
Pablo

libra blue said:
I don’t really know what this footage is supposed to confirm. It just looks like a big shoving match. You can barely make out Anderson in any of the shots, you just hear him repeatedly say “calm down”. I will admit that it could have developed into a truly dangerous situation and it looked like Anderson was slapped once or twice, but I did not see any punching or kicking.

Frankly, I have seen worse brawls on playgrounds.

I’ve been in tougher mosh pits.
Obtuse

Color Me Badd said:
the Islamic Brotherhood had nothing to do with this insurrection and actually came late to the game, they are trying to catch up now.

Like the pro-government protesters who just showed up?

Just kidding. =)

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/31/world/la-fg-muslim-brotherhood-20110131
StandUp

Color Me Badd said:
Stop watching Fox News

A Kim Bo said:
You need to stop watching Fox News.

This article has nothing at all to do with Fox News, but you leftys just can’t go one article without cheap, empty insults at Fox News and their many viewers. It is clear that most Leftys here have “Fox on the brain”.
Fox is #1 and will be for a long time, the sooner you realize that and get over it, the happier you’ll be. Trust me.
dummy123

Electric Car, High Speed Train…or solar powered magic carpet ?
StandUp

I always heard that liberals were smarter than the rest of “us”. How smart is it to spend your day obsessed and consumed with the very things they hate – Fox News, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush, etc.?
Most rational and clear-thinking people steer away from the things they oppose or dislike, but not liberals. They apparently have a defect in their brain that prompts them to go towards things they dislike…it’s weird.
http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

juan said:
As if I would ever take advice from you and your ILK!

FOX ROCKS!

Yes … but you have to also think about the fact that the US supported this man.. an man the people hate… and now it is coming back to us.

Face reality, it’s not so scary. We put this man in charge and helped keep in in charge because we are his ally.

Why do you think the people are revolting though? Because the US put someone in charge not based on his ability to make the people happy.. but his ability to keep the US happy.. and Israel happy.

Adding FOX ROCKS!!!!

seems like some sort of sad attempt to ignore facts, America isn’t perfect… there’s a reason Iraq and Afghanistan went so bad.. we dont belong in the middle east. Lets just get outttttt stop wasting money and go back to things were in the 90′s!
TeaPartyPatriot

Evidently, Egyptians can’t stand these lamestream socialist propagandist liars any more than Americans can.
Obeezy

Color Me Badd said:
Oh no not the Islamic Brotherhood!!!

That sounds so scary! It’s like Cobra or something. Where is GI Joe??

Stop watching Fox News and you might learn that the Islamic Brotherhood had nothing to do with this insurrection and actually came late to the game, they are trying to catch up now. But ask any real expert on Egypt including Egyptians in the country right now, and they all say that the Islamic Brotherhood is playing very little roll in all of this.

Wow where do you get your info? Olbermann..Cnn has the Brotherhood on right now and asking them what they want and how they are involved and what they plan to do with the govt…
Pablo

Snowspot said:
We put this man in charge and helped keep in in charge because we are his ally.

No, we didn’t put him in charge and no we didn’t keep him in charge. He assumed the Presidency by succession when Sadat was assassinated, and like virtually every other Arab regime, a man in power stays in power for a long, long time. Yes, we were allied with him, and yes we supported him. The truth is bad enough. No need to make stuff up.
Cali

Color Me Badd said:
I wonder if the teabags who said Anderson was making this up are going to apologize. If you have ever been in a large crowd or in a riot you know how bad things can go with a lot of angry people. Anderson and his crew were lucky to escape unharmed or even killed. This was a very scary video to watch. Anderson and his crew are doing some really great reporting and really do have some guts.

Why should they apologize? The tape still doesn’t clarify anything more than a shoving match. Not the punching and kicking that was described and he has no marks on his face as he would have if he had been punched or even slapped hard. I never doubted at first that he had been violently attacked as was said until the pictures and now the video. If this is your idea of very scary then you better not go near any school yards.
libra blue

@Pablo, “I’ve been in tougher mosh pits.”

Yeah, those can be brutal. Not sure Anderson could handle that.
BatBoy

I’m suprised this Teabagger (Anderson) was not killed.

You know how much they like to kill Gays over there.
http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

Enough already CNN – they took a few shoves from the side they’re NOT routing for, and now we have to hear abou it all day?
Leftist Asshat

A Kim Bo said:
No, they’re most likely paid members from Mubarak’s police force. In other words, on the US payroll considering how much money we’ve given Mubarak over the years. You need to stop watching Fox News.

I knew Rupert Murdoch was behind it all! Poor Anderson. I hope he’s alright. Who knows what kind of liquid that was that he got splashed in the face with!
George Sore-ohs

I am sure the majority of the media would be cheering if it was a Fox crew that was threatened.
Dem4Ever

“I would be an idiot if I wasn’t frightened.”

Hey Cooper…your still an idiot!!!!
George Sore-ohs

Hopefully Cooper had put on his Depends today.
Courteous Commentary

libra blue said:
I don’t really know what this footage is supposed to confirm. It just looks like a big shoving match. You can barely make out Anderson in any of the shots, you just hear him repeatedly say “calm down”. I will admit that it could have developed into a truly dangerous situation and it looked like Anderson was slapped once or twice, but I did not see any punching or kicking. Frankly, I have seen worse brawls on playgrounds.

Yeah, playgrounds with hundreds of thousands of people?
Courteous Commentary

Dem4Ever said:
“I would be an idiot if I wasn’t frightened.” Hey Cooper…your still an idiot!!!!

So saith the brave one from his seat in his cozy room.
Courteous Commentary

Pablo said:
I’ve been in tougher mosh pits.

It is amazing how the extreme right wing treats this as a joke because it is CNN over there. A lot of people have been killed in Cairo. And you laugh?
SpineCrusher

George Sore-ohs said:
I am sure the majority of the media would be cheering if it was a Fox crew that was threatened.

HA! You think any of those wimps would dare go to Egypt! You’re not fooling anyone.
BarneyFranken

Way to take one for the team Anderson. RATINGS$$$$$$!!!
George Sore-ohs

SpineCrusher said:
HA! You think any of those wimps would dare go to Egypt! You’re not fooling anyone.

The only ones who might go would be Geraldo, Greta or Shep. All left leaning. The others dont really run a show akin to chasing ambulances around the globe.
Grammie

Courteous Commentary said:
It is amazing how the extreme right wing treats this as a joke because it is CNN over there. A lot of people have been killed in Cairo. And you laugh?

.
I think you misunderstand the nature of the jokes.

We are poking fun at the coverage of the coverage.

I hope that everyone involved fares well and comes to no harm. However, it seems that for all the risks involved we are getting singularly insular coverage rather than on the broader scope of what is happening and sometimes it seems the emphasis is on the newsmen themselves.
Mr B

“on the US payroll ”

Obama money?

Anderson Cooper was never roughed up at a Tea Party gathering. Ever.
Gasket

Dem4Ever said:
“I would be an idiot if I wasn’t frightened.”

Hey Cooper…your still an idiot!!!!

You’RE an idiot.

Grammie said:
.
I think you misunderstand the nature of the jokes.

We are poking fun at the coverage of the coverage.

I hope that everyone involved fares well and comes to no harm. However, it seems that for all the risks involved we are getting singularly insular coverage rather than on the broader scope of what is happening and sometimes it seems the emphasis is on the newsmen themselves.

Good post Grammie.
http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

BatBoy said:
I’m suprised this Teabagger (Anderson) was not killed.

You know how much they like to kill Gays over there.

Ahh your true colors. The only Teabaggers in egypt are the people that work at tea-shops cause god knows no Republican has the balls to go over there and do some reporting. Republicans are terrified of everything. Plus if they discovered facts… they would have to disavow them because chances are they’d be a fox news reporter.
Just_MC

Let me start by saying how serious a life and death situation this is. How millions of people may struggle to CHOOSE their future, whether it be a continuance of repressive government or some semblance of freedom. This is never to be taken lightly. I certainly hope the current administration and Congress will see the light and GET THE HELL OUT OF THEIR BUSINESS. Even when we have good intentions, we do far more harm than good. Iran would probably never have become a theocracy without our overthrow of Mossadegh in favor of the Shah, a dictator so repressive he made radical religious fundamentalism look attractive.

And regardless of WHO might take power, we should stay out of it. There are people fighting for their own liberty over there. Imagine if YOU were trying to throw off a brutal regime of 20+ years–what patience would you have with outsiders, say from China, who came in and mucked with your struggle in order to “secure their interests” in YOUR region.

All that said, if there is any levity to be had in the “coverage of the coverage”here, it is the notion that some people are so foul that they may have given “punching Anderson Cooper in the head” a bad name. But honestly, the gravity of this whole mess, and in it our culpability in propping up Mubarak with 30 billion dollars, and using him as our outsourced torture provider in Rendition, is such that there is little room for levity.
wasjustsayin

libra blue said:
@Pablo, “I’ve been in tougher mosh pits.”

Yeah, those can be brutal. Not sure Anderson could handle that.

Have you made it your life long career to spend your entire day posting about Anderson Cooper?
RowdyHoward

Courteous Commentary said:
Yeah, playgrounds with hundreds of thousands of people?

Shouting in Arabic…these guys who are claiming this is nothing would have shit themselves if this happened to them. We all know how bad they fear muslims
entahomar

Two things for western reporters to learn form this:

1. Now you know what aljazeera reporters go through…..and after all of that, our people here in the U.S. describe them as prejudiced, while people in the ME regard it as “the voice of the weak”. *if you noticed, the secret police closed Aljazeera’s office in Egypt and took all the cameras and equipments they had* y, b/c that is what they go through everyday every week to bring the truth.. they don’t sit in their offices and talk about photos that they recieve from civlians….

2. Now it is more than obvious who the pro-mubarak mob are…..as the anti-mubarak protesters describe them: they are secret police, police force, government employees, and prisoners who were released under the conditions and all were ordered that they participate in such acts so the media would not report the nasty tactics mubarak’s regime is using…
RowdyHoward

Snowspot said:
Ahh your true colors. The only Teabaggers in egypt are the people that work at tea-shops cause god knows no Republican has the balls to go over there and do some reporting. Republicans are terrified of everything. Plus if they discovered facts… they would have to disavow them because chances are they’d be a fox news reporter.

F-yes, and high five!
Pablo

wasjustsayin said:
Have you made it your life long career to spend your entire day posting about Anderson Cooper?

A very logical deduction. Bravo!
Pablo

Snowspot said:
The only Teabaggers in egypt are the people that work at tea-shops cause god knows no Republican has the balls to go over there and do some reporting.

1. Anderson Cooper is there so your theory obviously fails.

2. How do you know if a reporter is a Republican?
Yargburger

Fantastic coverage of Egypt right now with Richard Engel on MSNBC. “There was a clear order today by whoever sent this organized group of demonstrators…” “They were hunting down reporters.” There are reporters still missing tonight. There was a reporter stabbed today” “Clearly not popular anger against journalists.”

That doesn’t sound like playgrounds in my town.
Gasket

Yargburger said:
Fantastic coverage of Egypt right now with Richard Engel on MSNBC. “There was a clear order today by whoever sent this organized group of demonstrators…” “They were hunting down reporters.” There are reporters still missing tonight. There was a reporter stabbed today” “Clearly not popular anger against journalists.”

That doesn’t sound like playgrounds in my town.

Definitely not a studio journalist.
http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

Compare the outrage MSNBC is expressing on the attack of a driver, pulled from his car as he drove through a riot area, with the way the covered the Rodney King verdict riots.

Is there a Blatant Bias in the difference between the coverages, pushing a dishonest story?
libra blue

@wasjustsayin , “Have you made it your life long career to spend your entire day posting about Anderson Cooper?”

Maybe you should ask Mediaite why they post so many blogs about Anderson. I think the point of posting these blogs is for people to comment about the subject.

Is it your life long career to spend your entire day reading my posts? You might want to read other blogs on this site. I comment on them as well.
libra blue

@Courteous Commentary, ” Yeah, playgrounds with hundreds of thousands of people?”

I think you misunderstood my point. I was ridiculing the way CNN made this attack bigger than the story of the Egyptian revolution. According to Richard Engel many journalists were mobbed. I don’t remember hearing about them. Also, journalists should never take the focus off of the subject of the report.

I don’t think anyone wants to see Anderson, or any other journalist placed in danger or injured.
Yargburger

NORBIT Jr. said:
Compare the outrage MSNBC is expressing on the attack of a driver, pulled from his car as he drove through a riot area, with the way the covered the Rodney King verdict riots.

Is there a Blatant Bias in the difference between the coverages, pushing a dishonest story?

I would be surprised if MSNBC could have covered the Rodney King riots unless they had a time machine. It occurred 4 years before they existed. Let alone the fact that it started much more conservative than it is now. Though, GE/Comcast/Kabletown could have invented a time machine to send their biased reportes to cover it biasedly.

I was more surprised how much they tried to underplay the possibility that the driver was killed on live television.
wasjustsayin

libra blue said:
@wasjustsayin , “Have you made it your life long career to spend your entire day posting about Anderson Cooper?”

Maybe you should ask Mediaite why they post so many blogs about Anderson. I think the point of posting these blogs is for people to comment about the subject.

Is it your life long career to spend your entire day reading my posts? You might want to read other blogs on this site. I comment on them as well.

No, I just joined this site earlier this week. Everything you say has something to do with Anderson, and it’s hardly ever complimentary either (yet you have a pic of him as your icon?)
You’re just a weirdo, that’s all.
http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

Yargburger said:
I would be surprised if MSNBC could have covered the Rodney King riots unless they had a time machine. It occurred 4 years before they existed. Let alone the fact that it started much more conservative than it is now. Though, GE/Comcast/Kabletown could have invented a time machine to send their biased reportes to cover it biasedly. I was more surprised how much they tried to underplay the possibility that the driver was killed on live television.

MSNBC, NBC, ABC, NY Times, AP, BBC, NPR, you know the list!
Yargburger

NORBIT Jr. said:
MSNBC, NBC, ABC, NY Times, AP, BBC, NPR, you know the list!

My bad. I thought you were trying to make a salient point. Clearly you prefer to keep your media criticism to a black & white dichotomy. Let me get into character first. *cough cough* “Lamesteam media covers nothing right!” Is that better?
libbyliberal

StandUp said:
This article has nothing at all to do with Fox News, but you leftys just can’t go one article without cheap, empty insults at Fox News and their many viewers. It is clear that most Leftys here have “Fox on the brain”.
Fox is #1 and will be for a long time, the sooner you realize that and get over it, the happier you’ll be. Trust me.

I don’t give a crap about Fox News, it looks like you are are here to pick a fight and defend Faux to the death. IHave at it Spartacus. It seems like it’s you that has fix on the brain. Fox Nation is missing you.
libra blue

@wasjustsayin, “(yet you have a pic of him as your icon?)”

What are you Anderson’s keeper? Since you are not informed, I will tell you that I have given Anderson plenty of compliments as well. However, you might want to take a closer look at that icon.
Kat

Pablo said:
I’ve been in tougher mosh pits.

If I wasn’t convinced the other night about you, when you wouldn’t give an inch on that debate you were having about Megyn Kelly and the words either being literal or not. This statement here shows just how big of a dick you really are.
http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

Pablo said:
1. Anderson Cooper is there so your theory obviously fails.

2. How do you know if a reporter is a Republican?

Sane people aren’t Republicans… because the Republican platform is insane.

Plus Anderson is gay, and why would gay people or minorities ever vote Republican when Republicans judge everyone and make up excuses to be greedy and selfish.
Dem4Ever

Gasket said:
You’RE an idiot.

Good post Grammie.

Suck my choolate salty balls!
scottbeckford

The law and order situation is deteriorating in the Egypt day by day. They must reach a decision to sort out this problem. To be frank, nobody knows what is gonna happen ahead in Egypt.
Max Cleanse Pro
hanoisteve

Could you imagine Sean, Bill’o or Griff jinkins out it that crowd………never the cowards.
I don’t even have to mention Glen Beck and the other “news” men at Fox.
http://libertyinprogressnow.wordpress.com/ ProgLib

Snowspot said:
Sane people aren’t Republicans… because the Republican platform is insane.

Plus Anderson is gay, and why would gay people or minorities ever vote Republican when Republicans judge everyone and make up excuses to be greedy and selfish.

Anderson Cooper isn’t gay… where did you hear that from? For all we know, he has sex with a different woman every week. I wouldn’t be surprised if he banged Kathy Griffin between commercial breaks during New Years.