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EGYPT: Today’s Latest News Updates: Mubarak Warns of ‘Chaos’ (Video) UPDATE: Five-Day Internet Shutdown Cost Egyptian Economy $90 Million UPDATE: Blogger ‘Sandmonkey’ Free UPDATE: Tanks Fire on Protesters?

Christiane Amanpour interviews Hosni Mubarak: He said he’s fed up with being president and would like to leave office now, but cannot, he says, for fear that the country would sink into chaos. . . . When I asked him what he thought seeing the people shouting insults about him and wanting him gone, he […]

El-Baradei: CNN’s Choice, Not Egypt’s

A little-noted passage in a Wednesday news article: The Obama administration also reached out to Egypt’s top military officer, stressing the U.S. desire to see calm restored to the streets of Cairo, where pro- and anti-Mubarak forces fought with fists, stones and clubs. One of the things that has puzzled me for the past couple […]

VIDEO: Battle of Tahrir Square

One of my Twitter friends is closely following events in Egypt: You may have already seen some of this footage showing Wednesday’s charge (by what one of our blog commenters called “irregular cavalry”) on the anti-government protesters in Cairo. But it is, as Alyssa says, “astonishing.” The Christian Science Monitor has an account of the […]

Obama ‘Siding With Chaos’?

So says a leading Egyptian businessman: Shafik Gabr was one of President Obama’s greatest fans eighteen months ago. Today, as Mr. Obama presses for the immediate resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, not so much. “The United States is siding with chaos if they force Mubarak out now,” says Gabr. Gabr is the Chairman of the […]

Egypt! Egypt! Egypt!

Turn on the TV news, and that’s all you hear. Whereas Jehovah smote the ancient Egyptians with a series of plagues, now we’re cursed with a repetitive plague of Egyptians on TV news. Dan Collins reacts poetically: In Aegyptus did Kubla Bam A peaceful transition decree . . . Read the rest, although I prefer […]

Egypt Gets Violent, Obama Gets Angry, Networks Get Ratings, I’ll Pop the Popcorn

Let’s start with the basics: When you carry signs and chant slogans, that’s called a “protest.” When you start throwing rocks and molotov cocktails, that’s called a “riot.” So it’s time for the talking heads on TV to stop using terms like “protesters” and “demonstrators” to describe the mob in Cairo. Furthermore, don’t ever try […]

VIDEO: Christiane Amanpour Starring in ABC’s New Hit TV Show, The Cairo Riots

Following up on my previous description in an update, we see further evidence that the Egyptian situation has turned into a celebrity-journalist festival, with Christiane Amanpour doing riot duty in Cairo: (Via Hot Air.) Notice the extent to which this story is about Amanpour: Christiane talking, Christiane walking, Christiane the expert on the scene, with […]

In Desperate Bid to End Cairo Violence, Levi Johnston’s Sister Agrees to Pose Nude

State Department sources say the Egyptian rioters have demanded to see Mercede Johnston naked. Initial attempts by the Obama administration to quell the uprising with Kim Kardashian nude photos led to further negotiations. While the Muslim Brotherhood had at first insisted that they would not settle for anything less than full frontal Alyssa Milano, U.S. […]

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