So a Manic Progressive tweeted several somethings stupid and screwed up his easy life. Ah sounds like a glass half full moment to me.
Randumb thoughts on twitter,……. could this eliminate a need for IQ tests?

google rape and sharia law. not a pretty picture.

The “insane passions” to which I referred were, of course, Jew-hatred. It is scarcely a secret that one reason the protesters were so eager to be rid of Mubarak was the same reason that Mubarak’s predecessor was assassinated: Namely, their support of an unpopular peace with Israel.

The absurd suspicion of the Cairo mob that Logan and her crew were Israeli agents is further evidence that decades of anti-Semitic propaganda have poisoned the minds of “the Arab street.” But it isn’t as if we didn’t already have enough evidence of that. I remember watching the news on 9/11 and seeing the crowds in Cairo jubilantly dancing in the streets.

A riot is a riot is a riot. If you ever see, or find yourself in one, the only course of action is to get as far away as possible.

When the mob collectively loses its shit bad things can happen to anyone in the vicinity. Individual inhibitions go out the window as many get caught up in the moment. Even people who were, one second, in the mob can suddenly, and quite irrationally, become the new target of the mob.

In a misogynistic and sexually repressed crowd like that in Cairo it is not surprising that they chose to target the little blond foreigner. I suspect most local women knew better than to be there, or as the story implies knew that survival meant moving in large groups.

But really, it could happen anywhere. Look at what has happened during some of the pro sports ‘celebrations’ that have gotten out of hand over the years. Or those ‘peace, love, and music’ revivals that were faked during the 1990′s up around Woodstock, NY.

If you need to send your ‘person on the street’ reporter out with a security phalanx it is time to re-evaluate just what it is you expect the reporter to report upon.

It is also clear that her security detail was a bunch of poseurs who were obviously not willing to go to war with thecrowd once she became separated from them. A body man has one job, and one job only – remain glued to the client. He either does that job or falls attempting to perform it. There is no other excuse.

Nir Rosen richly deserved to lose his fellowship at NYU even before his comments about Lara Logan. Nir Rosen like so many on the left hang themselves with their own words. The only difference between loony left and radical right is that the loony left is rarely called out for their outrageous comments.
It seems to me that many times people on the right are held to a different standard in the mass media. Americans are catching on that the mass media leans left. But it is sad when they turn on their own and eat their own children. Nir Rosen is a product of the left-leaning education system in the United States that seems more interested in politics and winning no matter what the cost, than producing intellectually honest individuals.
Nir Rosen will surface again somewhere no doubt.

Twitter gives a ready and convenient outlet for poor impulse control. In the coming years Twitter will out more and more of the unhinged.

I guess he thought Logan worked for Fox News, and paid the price for his mistake.

“Despite my attempt this morning to draw feminist fire, they were too busy claiming the scalp of a left-wing anti-war writer”

Yeah, it appears they went after Rosen, because we expect our people to avoid being morons. We, sadly, know your views on these subjects and expect you to be a jerk.

Still, if one expects the American South to be a font of democracy despite historical Antisemitism, then one can hope Egypt can rise above its tragic past of the same and after a century of Lost Cause mythology, it can embrace real democracy.

Looks interesting over there at TGR, Ran.