It Figures. NYT Hypocrites Outraged at Conservatives – Claim Bloggers “Enjoyed” Egyptian Shoe Chuckers
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 12:05 PM
Members of liberal and Christian political groups protested against visiting US secretary of state Hillary Clinton last weekend. They accused Washington of cutting a ‘secret deal’ with Egypt’s radical Muslim Brotherhood.
Egyptians protest against Hilary Clinton visit last Saturday (Photo:Reuters)
The New York Times is upset with US conservatives. Not only does the Old Gray Lady insist that conservatives are behind rumors floating around in Egypt, but the NY Times also says US bloggers enjoyed it when Egyptian protesters chucked shoes and tomatoes at Hillary Clinton.
The Lede reported:
Updated | Tuesday, 10:03 a.m. The news that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s motorcade was pelted with shoes and tomatoes by Egyptian protesters, who also taunted her by chanting “Monica! Monica!” as she left the U.S. consulate in Alexandria on Sunday, delighted conservative bloggers in the United States.
What has attracted less attention, however, is the extent to which the Egyptians who vented their rage during Mrs. Clinton’s visit appear to have been inspired by fears that the Obama administration harbors a secret, pro-Islamist agenda which originated with American conservatives.
As my colleague Kareem Fahim reported on Sunday, some political opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt claim that the United States even plotted to install the Islamist party’s presidential candidate in office. “Although wildly counterintuitive,” my colleagues David Kirkpatrick and Mayy El Sheikh observed on Saturday, “that conspiracy theory has tapped into the deep popular distrust here of the United States.”
The strength of that belief was on full display on Saturday in Cairo, as hundreds rallied outside Mrs. Clinton’s hotel, waving placards that read: “Stop U.S. funding of the Muslim Brotherhood,” “Clinton is the supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood” and “To Hillary: Hamas will never rule Egypt,” suggesting an even-wider conspiracy, including the Islamists in neighboring Gaza.
How soon they forget.
After all, it was the NY Times that raised Muntadhar al-Zaidi to celebrity status after the Iraqi radical chucked shoes at Goerge W. Bush in Baghdad. In fact, they assigned Muntadhar folk hero status in their report titled, “In Iraqi’s Shoe-Hurling Protest, Arabs Find a Hero. (It’s Not Bush.)”.
A day after an Iraqi television journalist threw his shoes at President Bush at a news conference in Baghdad on Sunday, his act of defiance toward the American commander-in-chief reverberated throughout Iraq and across the Arab world.
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In Syria, he was hailed as a hero. In Libya, he was given an award for courage.
Across much of the Arab world on Monday, the shoe-throwing incident generated front page headlines and continuing television news coverage. A thinly veiled glee could be discerned in much of the reporting…
Maybe the hypocrites at the NY Times ought to look in the mirror before that start accusing conservatives of political games.
Hat Tip Scott
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Blue Hen commented:
Yup. Right wing bloggers released their Egyptian minions. The vast right wing conspiracy is well, vast. I’m sure that pushing Mubarek out and saying crap like “the muslim brotherhood is largely a secular organization” had nothing to do with it.
Yepper, we’re goooood.
robins111 commented:
The real reason the lefties have such a snit on was it ruined a head line they were working on… it was supposed to read..’ Egyptian crowd enthusiastically welcomes Shrillery with gifts of food & clothing’.
asdf commented:
I absolutely enjoyed it. I couldn’t be more thrilled. Democracy in action.
Finncrisp commented:
This tack IS the game.
Militant conservative commented:
Yup they could have thrown
more offensive things.
Like a wake for Hillary.
snap boy commented:
I did grin…
Spider commented:
Every thing is a conspiracy with these nuts.
democraps suck commented:
I for one absolutely loved it…wish the people there were a bit smarter and chucked better objects at the fugly beeotch
Tim in Cali commented:
I’m buying extra tomatoes…I do love a B-L-T..
Carbon Pootprint commented:
That’s funny. The progressive traitors in the city that attacked America and who side with the Islamist against the rest of the country at every turn are accusing others of conspiring against them.
crackermike commented:
The drug intake of the msm writers is finally becoming apparent as they fanticize deep connections between American conservatives and Egyptian militant islamists. After all, everone KNOWS Rush Limbaugh and Morsi went to school together and were complicit in JFK’s murder in Dealy Plaza. (sarc off) A large proportion of the msm are taking street drugs and more than one are sexually insane child molesters protected by the large newspapers and networks even as they expose Jerry Sandusky. It’s getting more “Soviet” all the time.
J. Knight commented:
The NYT’s staff should look up the meaning of the word irony.
bg commented:
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one can lead a prog-dem-lib to maturity, but one
cannot force a prog-dem-lib to grow up” – bg
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bg commented:
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oops, quote that “one for me..
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Tim in Cali commented:
When that “not welcome ” banner hits eBay…I’m putting a bid
donh commented:
I didn’t even comment on this story because it wasn’t the muslim brotherhood trying to kill Hillary after she helped bring them into power …. These were used and screwed people that hoped for freedom expressing their frustrations at being sold down the Nile river into Sharia Law slavery by treachery and deceitful back stabbing of the US New World Order islamo fascist agenda. There is no pleasure in seeing that..Its SAD american no longer stands with good people on the right side of history.
MicahStone commented:
“Not only does the Old Gray Lady insist that conservatives are behind rumors floating around in Egypt,..”
Hey Gateway Pundit – get up-to-date: the “All The News That’s Fit to Fake” NYT long ago stopped being the Gray Lady and is now the lunatic-left Gray Whore of unethical. biased, leftist-propaganda maskerading as “journalism.”
American Woman commented:
Our Orwellian media will stoop as low as it can go to protect a far-left fascist ideology that goes against the grain of a free and democratic society. The NYTimes is its flagship.
I keep hearing NYT is teetering on financial ruin, but it still clings to existence. Who or what is behind its life support?
BarbaraS commented:
I was surprised the media even reported the event. Could it be this is the first step in barring her from running in 2016. Usually they say nothing about anyone in the obama administration being dissed anywhere.
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