Anti-Morsi Rallies In Egypt Are Massive - American Media Ignores Because It Goes Counter To Obama's Template

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Anti-Morsi Rallies In Egypt Are Massive - American Media Ignores Because It Goes Counter To Obama's Template

From PJM:

It’s after midnight in Cairo and it appears things are quieting down. Today has undoubtedly been an historic day. What the consequence of it will be remains to be seen. We’ll be covering it here for you. But in closing this live blog, let me revisit some of the political and media establishment’s greatest hits over the past few years on engaging the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists in the Middle East:

Bruce Riedel, Brookings Institute ‘expert’: Muslim Brotherhood is “most reasonable option” for Egypt(Jan 2011ames Traub, NY Times Magazine and ForeignPolicy.com:Don’t Fear the Brotherhood (Feb 2011)

BBC: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood promotes moderate path (Feb 2011)

Reuters: U.S. to resume formal Muslim Brotherhood relations, officials say (June 2011)

Ed Husain, Council on Foreign Relations: Was Senator Kerry right to meet with the Muslim Brotherhood(hint: he says ‘yes’) (Dec 2011)

John Kiriakou, former CIA and Huffington Post contributor: Why John Kerry was right to talk to the Muslim Brotherhood (Dec 2011)

Michael Hirsh, national correspondent for National Journal:Can Obama safely embrace Islamists? (hint: yes) (April 2012)

Reuel Marc Gerect, Foundation for Defense of Democracies: The Islamist road to democracy (April 2012)

Also see my article here at PJ Media, “The Three Faces of John McCain on the Muslim Brotherhood.” I could add many more, of course, but you get my drift. Will today’s event cause any self-reflection on the past of the DC political and media establishment? Don’t hold your breath.

Thanks to everyone who followed my live blog today. Hope it was of some benefit to keep track of what was going on.

6:11p Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey, a long-time friend of PJ Media, reports that 4 people have been shot outside the Muslim Brotherhood main headquarters in Muqattam by gunmen inside the MB building.

5:33p Tamarod organizers are calling for another protest on Tuesday.

5:10p The 2nd biggest target of the protests today appears to be US Ambassador Anne Patterson. Her image is almost, but not quite, as ubiquitous as Morsi’s. Here’s just one photo:

4:51p This Al-Ahram video shows the hundreds of thousands outside the presidential palace earlier:

4:47p Department of Homeland Security adviser Mohamed Elibiary tweets dismissively that the Tamarod protests fighting against the fascism of the Muslim Brotherhood.

4:37p Tom Blumer at Newsbusters notes that the US establishment media is ignoring for the most part the anti-Obama, anti-American sentiment of the Tamarod protests.

4:28p 3 anti-Morsi protesters killed in Assiyut when they came under “heavy fire” from Morsi supporters as they were headed to the MB headquarters.

4:06p Game on. Reports are that a large crowd of pro-Morsi supporters are on the move and quite possibly headed towards the presidential palace where there are reports that hundreds of thousands of Tamarod protesters are still there.

3:53p The Ministry of the Interior has estimated the crowd sizes to be 17 million, which makes the NBC News claim of “tens of thousands” absolutely laughable. BBC is also citing the 17 million number.

3:49p Shorouk News has video of what appears to be gunmen on top of a Muslim Brotherhood office (the MB logo can clearly be seen on the building) in Garbiya firing onto the crowd below. Nothing to indicate that the crowd was doing anything remotely threatening.