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With Rise Of Muslim Brotherhood In Egypt, Red Eye Asks ‘Did We Open A Pandora’s Box?’

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The panel of guests on Red Eye typically debate some of the sillier stories in the news, but frequently make time for some serious issues as well. With national media attention so heavily focused on Libya, Greg Gutfeld turned the spotlight back over to Egypt where reports indicate the Muslim Brotherhood is gaining influence and might form a “modesty police” to combat immoral behavior in public areas. Yet the panel had comically different levels of outrage in response.

Gutfeld wondered “did we open a pandora’s box by forcing Mubarak out” in Egypt? Comedian Paul Mercurio didn’t really think this was that big of a deal, saying “you’re not going to stop religious fanatics from organizing – they’re religious fanatics!” And liberal commentator Marc Lamont Hill warned “whenever you want democracy and freedom there is going to be struggle” and suggested every country, even America has religious fundamentalists. Gutfeld yelled that our fundamentalists “don’t kill people!”

Later Andy Levy joined the conversation and got Hill to explain that he’s not suggesting America’s religious fanatics are as dangerous as those in other countries, but just that he found Jerry Falwell and his attack on teletubbies to be really annoying. Hill also gets the last laugh in, suggesting it’s not worth promoting his show Our World with Black Enterprise on Fox News since there’s likely only “two black viewers out there.”

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  • Color Me Badd

    Never heard of this show.

  • tatboy

    Color Me Badd said:
    Never heard of this show.

    Not the first or last lie you will tell…

  • Media Matters Wins

    I’ll have to tell Ailes to give Glen a slot on this show.I hear they’re good with chalkboards as well…..

  • Liberal Tormentor

    No worries, according to those who speak for Obama, they are a secular organization.

  • BruceGoose

    Other peoples freedom is so damn inconvenient, isn’t it? Not like the good old days, like when they lived under that dictatorship we supported.

  • NOBAMA 2012

    The Muzzies don’t need an excuse to murder…just look at the 1983 Marine Barracks suicide bombing in Beirut, the 1993 World Trade Center attack, Lockerbie, and of course 9/11…just to name a few…

    Islam Is Not A Religion, It Is Foreign Law
    http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/27211

  • Davo

    BruceGoose said:
    Other peoples freedom is so damn inconvenient, isn’t it? Not like the good old days, like when they lived under that dictatorship we supported.

    The 9/11 terrorists had their “freedom” I definitely consider “inconvenient.” Cummon, Dim, are you really gonna side with the Muslim Brotherhood as a preference to Mubarak? What a silly question………….OF COURSE you are. Liberals always side with enemies of America.

    Gotta say though, I told ya so. Those of us with a complete brain warned that the uprising in Egypt wasn’t simply a bunch of warm and fuzzy lil’ revolutionaries seeking liberty and justice for all. The rebels in Libya are affiliated with Al Qaida, and Muslim radicals are uprising in Yemen, Syria, and Jordan.

    ‘Raise your hands if you don’t think Iran is behind all these uprisings as Ahmadinejad hopes to ignite the entire Middle East in a Muslim takeover of Israel and the US.

    Now, Dims, are you gonna admit to being too dense to understand world affairs and sit down and shut up about foreign policy, or are you gonna admit to being allied with terrorists?

  • Barack Must Go

    Truth be told “real ” black Americans don’t see things in black & or white. They just choose not to tune in because they think Marc Lamont Hill is as huge a tool as Alan Colmes or Ellis Heniican, not that ” FOX NEWS ” doesn’t appeal to ” real ” black Americans, as the tool would have you think.

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    Who is the one who looks like a rat, Greg Gutfeld?

  • Black and Gold Brad

    Barack Must Go said:
    Truth be told “real ” black Americans don’t see things in black & or white.

    Of course, the bigoted comments displayed in that panel are from Mr. Hill. He automatically assumes that black people won’t do something because … … they are black. No individually, just skin color.

  • notsofast

    LOL

    Already the rebels in Libya are calling Barry out; can’t wait until the Egyptians do likewise!

  • tatboy

    Black and Gold Brad said:
    Of course, the bigoted comments displayed in that panel are from Mr. Hill. He automatically assumes that black people won’t do something because … … they are black. No individually, just skin color.

    Kind of like how you guys portray the Tea party.

  • tatboy

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Who is the one who looks like a rat, Greg Gutfeld?

    This coming from a guy with an avatar of the worst hair plugs in history. Funny…

  • Dem4Ever

    There is a large percent of blacks that silently watch and identify with Fox. There is a stigma within the black community against other blacks who hold fiscally conservative views which is why we rarely hear any speak up.

  • tatboy

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Who is the one who looks like a rat, Greg Gutfeld?

    You do realize Beck has built a media empire… Right?

  • BruceGoose

    Davo said:
    The 9/11 terrorists had their “freedom” I definitely consider “inconvenient.” Cummon, Dim, are you really gonna side with the Muslim Brotherhood as a preference to Mubarak? What a silly question………….OF COURSE you are. Liberals always side with enemies of America.

    Gotta say though, I told ya so. Those of us with a complete brain warned that the uprising in Egypt wasn’t simply a bunch of warm and fuzzy lil’ revolutionaries seeking liberty and justice for all. The rebels in Libya are affiliated with Al Qaida, and Muslim radicals are uprising in Yemen, Syria, and Jordan.

    So you’d rather have Gadaffi, the guy behind the killings of 189 Americans in the bombing of Pan Am 103, who has trained and supported terrorists openly… over his people who want democracy and freedom like we have? Also, little bit of news for you, 15 of the 9/11 hijackers were from our ally Saudi Arabia, 2 from our ally UAE, 1 from Lebanon, and their leader was from our ally Egypt.

    “When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you” – probably some commie pinko or George W. Bush, not sure anymore.

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Mark Lamont Hill IS a tool and not a very sharp one, at that. The first time I ever saw him on television, he was so angry and viscerally upset over the “rape” of that poor, shy mother of three at Duke. No matter that he didn’t have any facts- he didn’t need them. As I recall, he never made any effort to find out the facts and never recanted over his certain judgment that those “overprivileged” white boys raped that “poor” black “girl.” The man should never have been allowed on television in the first place, for he’s a fool.

  • mibwilso

    Somebody needs to tell the Red Eye folks that “we” didn’t open a Pandora’s box.

    The US had little to do with the uprising in Egypt (other than stating that we think Mubarak should step down after the writing was already on the wall).

  • mibwilso

    So, are they basically saying that freedom and democracy are only good things if it results in elected people who agree with us?

  • Liberal Tormentor

    mibwilso says:

    The US had little to do with the uprising in Egypt

    Hm interesting since alot of libs were trying to credit Obama the Messiah with starting it.

  • Davo

    BruceGoose said:
    So you’d rather have Gadaffi, the guy behind the killings of 189 Americans in the bombing of Pan Am 103, who has trained and supported terrorists openly… over his people who want democracy and freedom like we have?

    Supporting Al Qaida today versus Gaddafi’s support of terrorism 30 years ago isn’t my idea or rational thinking. I do, however, like your characterization of Al Qaida as “:people who want democracy and freedom like we have.” It shows the clear connection and affection between Dims and terrorists.

  • TrollJuice

    Are there any intelligent people/commentators on Fox News?

  • slickerwick

    I have to say, that show cracks me up. And unlike MSNBC, the panel usually includes guests from both political sides.

  • Judge Mental

    Of course we opened a Pandora’s box in Egypt. And not just with respect to the Muslim Brotherhood:

    Reporting from Baghdad, Iraq yesterday, NBC’s Tom Brokaw said the Saudi Arabian monarchy is “so unhappy with the Obama administration for the way it pushed out President Mubarak of Egypt” that it has sent senior officials to the Peoples’ Republic of China and Russia to seek expanded business opportunities with those countries.

    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/nbc-s-brokaw-saudis-so-unhappy-obama-adm

  • BruceGoose

    Davo said:
    Supporting Al Qaida today versus Gaddafi’s support of terrorism 30 years ago isn’t my idea or rational thinking. I do, however, like your characterization of Al Qaida as “:people who want democracy and freedom like we have.” It shows the clear connection and affection between Dims and terrorists.

    So do you think the rebels in Libya are Al-Qaeda, just like Gaddafi claims? We know that Al-Qaeda doesn’t like Gaddafi and some of the rebels are affiliated with that group, but If you think our military and CIA would be working with Al-Qaeda, then congratulations, you’re smarter than our intelligence services. Gaddafi is crazy and nobody likes him except Chavez. Oh, by the way, check this out via Business Insider:

    Mar. 15, 2011
    Colonel Qaddafi is switching scare tactics.
    For weeks he warned that any ouster of himself would let Al Qaeda take control of Libya.
    Now he warns that in an invasion he would join forces with Al Qaeda. Qaddafi told Il Giornale: “We will ally ourselves with al-Qaida and declare holy war.”

    http://www.businessinsider.com/qaddafi-al-qaeda-2011-3

  • Davo

    BruceGoose said:
    So do you think the rebels in Libya are Al-Qaeda, just like Gaddafi claims?

    I don’t make these determinations………….I just repeated what the rebels themselves stated. Maybe our intelligence services know better………after all, they aren’t often surprised by missile and nuclear developments in Iran and No. Korea, right?

    The point is, Gaddafi has been harmless for 3 decades. He even volunteered surrender of his nuclear program after we took Saddm out. Good guy? No. Enemy worthy of American deaths? Hell no. A dictator worse than Al Qaida? Sheesh…………..we shouldn’t even have to have this discussion.

  • Resistance Is Futile

    Some guy people drove off the list warned us here about the probable rise of the Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt. No one listened to him amid the personnel attacks.

  • BruceGoose

    Davo said:
    I don’t make these determinations………….I just repeated what the rebels themselves stated.

    None of the rebel leadership are Al-Qaeda and the vast majority of the fighters are regular people who don’t even know how to handle a weapon. They didn’t expect to be in this situation, we didn’t either, but it’s just a matter of playing with the cards that have been dealt. If we wouldn’t have stepped in, Gaddafi would currently be rounding up and executing a lot of innocent people. Saying we shouldn’t help them because there’s a couple Al-Qaeda fighting with them is a cop out. This is what we currently know about Al-Qaeda among the rebels, everything else is playground info:

    While the opposition’s leadership appeared to be “responsible men and women” fighting the Gaddafi regime, Admiral Stavridis said, “we have seen flickers in the intelligence of potential al Qaeda, Hizbollah, we’ve seen different things.”
    “But at this point I don’t have detail sufficient to say there is a significant al-Qaeda presence or any other terrorist presence,” he added.
    The remarks are likely to be seized on by Col Gaddafi who has repeatedly claimed that the uprising is being driven by terrorists.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8414583/Libya-al-Qaeda-among-Libya-rebels-Nato-chief-fears.html

  • Barack Must Go

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Who is the one who looks like a rat, Greg Gutfeld?

    It’s a mirror dummy, you’re looking in a mirror.

  • lane

    I’m always surprised by how informative Red Eye is as well as just being funny. No wonder the show is so popular…

    I just love the embracing of different viewpoints. Sadly unique in the news TV landscape…

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