Colbert Takes On Mubarak, As Egyptians Take On Regime With Bread Helmets

Who better to explain what is going on in Cairo to America's masses than Stephen Colbert. And yes, Jersey Shore analogies are most certainly included for comprehension's sake...

First:

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Mubarak Mu Problems
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Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> Video Archive

and Second:

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Cairo Turns Into the Jersey Shore
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Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog</a> Video Archive

And, indicatively, this is how Egyptian protesters protect their heads during a revolution:

Have you ever wanted freedom so bad, that you strapped bread to your head?

And this:

h/t Scrataliano

Comments

[the grateful un...]

where have you been living?

[Yen Cross]

No just respectfully retarded. But hey! We saved his Grandmother and his bosses in France and Isreal. I'm Republican. Save the world. Team America. Fxxx Yea!

[JW n FL]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHZYtSfJB74

Hans Blix Talks About His Team America Alter Ego

[anony]

"Time is a room, not a road".

[downwiththebanks]

Colbert is a postmodern hack.  His job is to take legitimate reasons for dissent, anger, protest, and popular action and transform it into fatalistic snark.

[JW n FL]

He has done more to educate the idiot masses than you are giving him credit for, I junked you.

[blindman]

http://streamsofwikileaks.tumblr.com/post/3103403508/clip-transcript-memri

Clip Transcript | MEMRI

  Asmaa Mahfouz, Organizer of the Demonstrations in Egypt, Talks About Her Decision to Use Facebook to Take Action    

Following are excerpts from an interview with Asmaa Mahfouz, organizer of Egypt demonstrations, which aired on Al-Mihwar TV on January 31, 2011:

Interviewer: How did you come up with the idea, and what did you do?

Asmaa Mahfouz: I will restrict what I am saying to what happened before January 25. The January 25 demonstrations were initiated by the April 6 Youth Movement, based on the fact that we held activity last year on January 25, which is Police Day. That was the first year that there was an official holiday for the entire country on Police Day. Everybody began to wonder why we have Police Day. We remembered that in the past, the police suffered casualties, who fell in defense of the country. But in the current state of affairs, the police is oppressing the people. Anyone who does anything suffers torture. Anybody who utters a word of truth in this country is oppressed by the police. That was on January 25 last year.

This year, we added something new. Following the Alexandria terror attack, we saw that there was dereliction of security. The police oppress demonstrators under the pretext of protecting the country, but we have seen that there is no security. Every so often, there is a terror attack, and people are killed – in Upper Egypt, in Cairo, in Alexandria, and elsewhere.

[…]

At first, there were only two demands for January 25 this year: The first was to dismiss the interior minister, and to hold accountable all those responsible for the failure in security, and the second demand was to dissolve the parliament. These were the first two demands.

Following the attack in Alexandria, and later, the events in Tunisia, we felt – when talking to the people in the streets – a change of tone. Whenever we talked to the people and told them to express their views, they would say: “Who can we talk to? We will be thrown in prison and tortured.” When they saw what happened in Tunisia, the people realized that there was an Arab people that revolted and demanded its rights.

Following these events, we began to tell people that we must take action, that we must revolt and demand our rights. People began to set fire to themselves, one after the other, and the response of the officials was that these people were mentally ill. The people’s blood began to boil. So the third, and main, demand on January 25 became: “A life of liberty and human dignity.”

The number of people setting fire to themselves gradually rose, and in response, people began to say, on the streets and in Facebook: “How come nobody is dong anything? Why aren’t you taking action? Everybody says that something must be done, but the streets are empty.”

Interviewer: These things were said on Facebook?

Asmaa Mahfouz: Yes, on Facebook and by communiqués on the streets.

Interviewer: But the first activity was on Facebook?

Asmaa Mahfouz: Yes. I was angry that everybody was saying that we had to take action, but nobody was doing anything. So I wrote on Facebook: “People, I am going to Tahrir Square today.” This was a week before January 25. I work in Al-Ma’di, and it takes me half an hour by train. I wrote that I was going to demand the rights of the people who died, and the rights of my country. I wrote that I was 26 years old…

Interviewer: That’s how you announced it?

Asmaa Mahfouz: Yes. I wrote that whoever is worried about this country should come with me, and that anyone who is worried about me or thinks that I am mentally ill should come in order to protect me. If anyone thinks I might set fire to myself – I have no such intentions. If the police wants to burn me – fine, I will be at Tahrir Square in half an hour.

There were lots of messages saying: Wait until January 25. I said: There is no reason to wait for the 25th. I went to Tahrir Square and raised a sign. Three guys from the political movement joined me. My sign read: “Four Egyptians have died from humiliation and poverty.”

I began to shout at the top of my lungs in Tahrir Sqare: “Egyptians, four people set themselves on fire out of humiliation and poverty. Egyptians, four people set fire to themselves because they were afraid of the security agencies, not of the fire. Four people set fire to themselves in order to tell you to awaken – we are setting ourselves on fire so that you will take action. Four people set themselves on fire in order to say to the regime: Wake up. We are fed up. We are setting ourselves on fire in order to convey a message.”

Then I began to talk about thirty years of corruption.

Interviewer: In Tahrir Square?

Asmaa Mahfouz: Yes.

Interviewer: People began to gather to listen, and filmed me with their cell phones. All of a sudden, I saw four vehicles of the Central Security Agency arriving, and the square was suddenly filled with hundreds of agents and officers, most of whose faces were familiar from the demonstrations. They tried to push us into the entrance of a building. People began to shout: Leave them alone, leave them alone.

When they got us into the building entrance, the officers began to say: We are as fed up as you, but why didn’t you inform us of your demonstration? I said: What are you talking about? Four people set themselves on fire, and you are asking why we didn’t announce the demonstrations? You should be asking yourselves why they set themselves on fire. Because of the poverty and the corruption. One of them couldn’t feed his daughter. Yet you still continue this oppression. I am not going to remain silent. If you want to set me on fire – go ahead. I am not budging from Tahrir Square.

[…]

[downwiththebanks]

Check out Colbert's 'inverview' with Ron Paul:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNIOGQveWmE

Now I think Ron Paul is a moron, but he knows his stuff on a few things.  The way he gets played here by a professional disinfo artist is sad, reprehensible, and very, very illustrative of the true role played by the Stewart/Colbert/Viacom franchise.

[blindman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmaa_Mahfouz

Asmaa was quoted as saying-

“As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance, then there will be hope^[20].”

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comment:  obama needs to give his nobel peace prize to this woman.  imo

[toros]

Interesting development

http://www.businessinsider.com/senior-us-marine-says-multiple-platoons-a...

[the grateful un...]

http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/news/middle-east/2001-rights-ngo-claims-that-israeli-planes-carrying-crowd-dispersal-weapons-have-arrived-in-egypt

it does smell a bit like Iraq. Topple the central government and what have you got? A country wedged between competeing interests, Israel on one side, the more radically Islamic countries on the other side. And the interesting thing you see about the government in Iraq, such as it exists, is no impetus toward central control and a large standing army. Muslims don't trust the army. If the new ruling coalition disbands the army in Eqypt, what does that mean? 

[the grateful un...]

surprised so many don't understand Colbert's art. He mocks Fox network by pretending to be Fox network. His major accomplishments include the word "truthiness".  But there is a wink and nod to every gambit, to help you get it. Notice his pro-democracy rant, which turns on a dime the moment he realizes it might cost ten cents a gallon more for gasoline. We want Democracy in Egypt, we just don't want to pay for it. (something he might have said, for instance)

[slewie the pi-rat]

ty, blind one.

maybe we are arriving at a table in the room of time where we decide whether the planet will be organized according to the wills of the the tribes of the peoples, or: the bankster cabal out the City, and the real QE 2 and her degenerate spawn. prob. too duslistic, but at least it is simple, eh?

this is the kinda globalism a pi-rat can appreciate...

might be fun to just hijack a carrier and a coupla cranes from joisey and ship the statue of liberty to the people of egypt with a little note:  to the people of egypt from the slaves of the Great Satan, with love.

we could hum along to this while we unscrewed our fave BiCH from her bloomie platform...

YouTube - Metallica - Four Horsemen

[blindman]

there seems to be original principles, or as has been said,

locally contextual universal principles that underlie all tribes

or social units for that matter,  adherence to which constitutes

"civilization" and the hope for progress.  these principles we

take to be self evident and appear across all cultures and tribes.

 or something like that.

. check this out...

On the Edge with Chris Cook – 4 February 2011

http://maxkeiser.com/2011/02/05/ote95-on-the-edge-with-chris-cook-4-february-2011/

.

Nomi Prins: The Corporate Mugging of America- Alex Jones TV

• http://maxkeiser.com/2011/02/04/nomi-prins-the-corporate-mugging-of-america-alex-jones-tv/

and  ....

February 3rd, 2011 by maxkeiser

We interview Sandeep Jaitly of BullionBasis.com

http://maxkeiser.com/2011/02/03/keiser-report-silver-stick-for-jp-vampire-e118/ sandeep jaitly " ... neoclasical economists ..they have no philosophy. " machines and ideology have none.  have no consciousness, no concept of value. 

minute  23 - to end !

[slewie the pi-rat]

bringin down the House w/ max.

[PeterSchump]

Ah, yes, Steve Colbert, saviour of the free world.

[Dr. Porkchop]

Satire has a long history as a form of commentary. What I find more disgusting is the cynical response of Hillary. Clearly, she wishes that this had never happened and that Mubarak still had a firm boot to the throat of the Egyptian people. What she represents is the long forgotten promise of what America had aspired to be. America has its own problem of an aristocratic class who are ripe for a lesson in the spirit of American revolution. The tree of liberty needs some fertilizin'.

[Joe44oz]

The breadstick sideburns are sweet but I prefer a cinnabonnet!

[slewie the pi-rat]

magnum p.i.sser:  i've fallen, and i can't get up

[Downtoolong]

Ah, the many faces of innovation. I still like the bread helmet the best. There's something symbolic about giving up food for protection.

[slewie the pi-rat]

lyrics (fr. sing365.com):

One last breath the fourth winds blow
Better raise your ears
The sound of hooves knock at your door
Lock up your wife and children now
It's time to wield the blade
For now you've got some company

Horsemen are drawing nearer
On leather steeds they ride
They've come to take your life
On through the death of night
With the Four Horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die
OH, YEAH YEAH!!

You've been dying since the day you were born
You know it's all been planned
The quartet of deliverance rides You have been dying since the day you were born
You know it's all been planned
The quartet of deliverance rides
A sinner once, a sinner twice
No need for confessions now
'Cause now you've got the fight of your life

The Horsemen are drawing nearer
On leather steeds they ride
They've come to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the Four Horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die
OH YEAH YEAH!!

Time has taken its toll on you
The lines that crack your face
Famine, your body it has torn through
Withered in every place
Pestilence, for what you had to endure
And what you have put others through
Death, deliverance for you for sure
Now there's nothing you can do

Gather 'round young warriors now
Saddle up your steeds
Killing scores with demon swords
Now is the death of doers of wrong
Swing the judgment hammer down
Safely inside armor, blood, guts and sweat

The Horsemen are drawing nearer
On leather steeds they ride
They've come to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the Four Horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die
OH YEAH YEAH!!

[serotonindumptruck]

Makes me think of that condemned prisoner on Texas death row. He got "strapped down and put down" about 15 years ago. Apparently, he quoted lyrics from "No Remorse, No Regret" when he killed his random victim.

Sodium thiopental

Pancuronium bromide

Potassium chloride

I wonder if he was humming that tune when he checked out?

[slewie the pi-rat]

i'm into non-violence, myself.  as MLK and ghandi took pains to point out, there's more than one way to bring the hammer down, eh?  but, if people are gonna take sides and talk about their differences, maybe this will help them understand a few things.  who knows?  if you've ever been shot at, you know how happy you get when they miss.  those are some of my best days, ever, and i didn't even carry a weapon.  too heavy!

[slewie the pi-rat]

never a fan of the death penalty either.  too racist.  and, w/ the level of police honesty and the snitches and stoolies, a bit unreliable for my taste;  barry scheck fan.

i know of this sacred trinity.  don't care for it, myself.  too many "little problems" in the goobermint/prison administration of this punishment.  good thing they made sure that guy was sane, first, eh?

[slewie the pi-rat]

time to weild the blade... bring the hammer down... fight of your life...these headbangers aren't goin much further than lesser poets, IMO.

now, if seratonin is an issue for you, get on that treadmill, and start pumping.  a pax upon ya! 

[minus dog]

This post makes me appreciate my modern kevlar helmet a lot more.

[slewie the pi-rat]

dbl post

[slewie the pi-rat]

make that a 3-way!  nightnight.

[slewie the pi-rat]

lightweight, too!  i'm goin w/ the sourdough round, myself (thx, M) w/ cinnabonnet earmuffs, if it's cold.  i hafta wear earmuffs when i ride my bicycle if it is below 50 degrees.  jeeeez!  my ears get sick, i'm in a world of hurt!