RWers telling American journalists to 'stay out of it'

[Enrique]

I've been hearing it a lot on RW radio, the conservative hosts mocking Anderson Cooper and the other American reporters there, telling them they shouldn't be there.

This is clearly (to me) because the reporters are making Mubarak look really bad, they are making it clear that the violence is one-sided, that it's coming from Mubarak. Mubarak is attacking his own people.

Without the American journalists there, the situation could look much more muddled. Those hosts, our government, everyone, could go around calling "on both sides" to refrain from violence, while Mubarak slaughters his people. The official story would be that "no one really knows what happened".

Foreign media reports don't help much. People still equate Al Jezeera with the terrorists. Unfortunately, even Jon Stewart just made a joke re-inforcing that ridiculous misconception.

Maybe some reports would come out later in some magazine like the New Yorker, we'd all be reading it here at DU, saying what really happened. That's great, but meanwhile Mubarak has crushed the protests and is torturing hundreds of people involved in it.

That's why Anderson Cooper and the rest are so important. They are there now, on TV, telling people what Mubarak is doing.

[gratuitous]

1. Totally understandable

You know how right-wingers just hate to meddle in the internal affairs of other sovereign nations. And what's more meddlesome and inconvenient than a popular uprising against a repressive regime?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Any FOX "news" correspondents in Cairo, or even Egypt at the moment?

[OHdem10]

3. I agree. The truth would never have been known. Mubarak would

put down the protesters and would right back in power.

[RKP5637]

4. RW = Authoritarians, so very understandable, they love suppression. n/t

[jwirr]

5. Of course, they do not believe in freedom of speech in the first place.

They also do not believe in the informed voters that Jefferson talked about.