CNN tells the truth
CNN provides a description of how two of its reporters escaped the rampaging mob in Cairo on Friday night (Hat Tip: The Muqata). Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, a producer working for CNN, rushed to help escort Amer through the angry crowd. But suddenly the two reporters were pinned against the railing of an overpass by young men who were accusing Amer of being an Israeli spy.When one's own life is in danger, the veneer of political correctness fades rather quickly. Here's hoping that Amer and Fahmy remember (but don't re-experience) the visceral fear that they felt on Friday night the next time they report.
Yelling "I'm Egyptian," Fahmy managed to pull Amer another 10 meters down the road, until the pressure from the mob overwhelmed the pair.
Amer screamed as she and Fahmy were knocked to the ground and the crowd started to trample them.
Other CNN journalists tried to reach in to help, but were pushed back by a wall of angry men.
Fahmy lay on top of Amer, shielding her with his body.
"I was thinking, how powerless I was because there was no police to save us," Fahmy said. "I was worried that they were going to rape her."
At that moment, a student bystander named Mohammed el Banna called out to the journalists and pointed out a nearby car.
Somehow, Fahmy managed to carry Amer to the open door of the public television crew's car, where two of her female colleagues were waiting just a few feet away.
The mob pounded on the windows and tried to reach into the vehicle as the panicked reporters fumbled and struggled to get behind the steering wheel.
When Margaret Warner, a correspondent with the PBS program "Newshour" managed to get the vehicle moving away from the crowd, men threw stones at the departing vehicle.
Amer had few words to describe the terrifying ordeal.
"They were animals," she said.
I wonder if they even thought about what the security guards in the Israeli embassy were feeling around that time.
Labels: Arab spring, Egyptian regime change, Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:24 PM
2 Comments:
MARGARET WARNER!?! I watched her on McNeill Lehrer Newshour for years, until I couldn't stand her editorial stance anymore. It took me a long time to read enough other info and history to figure out what they were doing. CNN may have let the cat out of the bag here, but I bet Margaret will not. Our taxpaid propaganda people will either not report it or will somehow make the poor Egyptians into victims of the apartheid wall that surrounded the Israeli embassy. There's a video of an Egyptian valley girl calling it an apartheid wall! The way the Egyptians treated Margaret and others on the street will be presented by PBS and NPR in their peacevoice as thoroughly understandable. This is Government Media's bigotry of low expectations.
Not to worry though, it's CNN's official editorial stance to defame Israel and blame everything from the weather to tsunamis on the Jews.
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