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Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

The religion of peace...and understanding?

Shut up and have the food ready when we visit your rotting pyramids.

People without a sense of humor shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a position of authority.

(unmutes work PC, strains to hear it over the canned pop music)  Pretty good bit, actually.

#seriousbusiness

Oysterman: [wildhunt.org image 480x360]

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oblig?

O_O

hardinparamedic: So insulting the Egyptian President can cause you to be arrested and dragged off by the Egyptian police?

Dear President Mohammad Morsi,

You smell like the fetid coont of a Cairo prostitute at three in the morning. Your intelligence is less than that of the shiat your mother just took into your father's mouth. You have sex with pigs. Please feel free to fark off and die.

You owe Cairo prostitutes an apology for that insult as they are a much higher level of class than that Morsi c00nt.

miss diminutive: Oysterman: [wildhunt.org image 480x360]

4 seconds?!

*shakes tiny fist*

Oysterman came first.

I think jokes and ridicule should be become a standard part of our diplomatic mission.  It sure beats the hell out of bombing the crap out of a country.  Though the islamic response to insults does seem to involve shiat blowing up, unfortunately.

hardinparamedic: So insulting the Egyptian President can cause you to be arrested and dragged off by the Egyptian police?

Dear President Mohammad Morsi,

You smell like the fetid coont of a Cairo prostitute at three in the morning. Your intelligence is less than that of the shiat your mother just took into your father's mouth. You have sex with pigs. Please feel free to fark off and die.

Sir... please step away from the keyboard and leave your hands where we can see them.

This is the second time the Egyptian embassy twitter account has posted something controversial that pissed off the locals, right?

Whoever has the password to that thing needs to be reassigned.

Dear Middle East: Lighten the fark up! Jebus!

 Hugs and kisses, OETKB

I suppose you could look at it as poor judgment, but frankly I think the Egyptian government deserved to see Morsi's ridiculous hypocrisy laid bare and ridiculed in typical Jon Stewart fashion.

Egypt angered over comedian making fun of Egypt being angered over comedian.

Huh.

Well its good to know that Hillary sent out a directive that every embassy have its own Twitter feed. Though I'm sure the ambassador to Libya would have preferred more guards with guns. Especially when his counterparts in Egypt and Tunisia decide its time to start tweeting segments from Stewart and Colbert.

It takes a real coward to be scared of words, especially truthful ones.

sendtodave: Egypt angered over comedian making fun of Egypt being angered over comedian.

Huh.

Yo dawg Morsi, I heard you like hate comedians, so we had a comedian make fun of your anger at another comedian's jokes, so you can be angry about being angry.

Animatronik: Well its good to know that Hillary sent out a directive that every embassy have its own Twitter feed. Though I'm sure the ambassador to Libya would have preferred more guards with guns. Especially when his counterparts in Egypt and Tunisia decide its time to start tweeting segments from Stewart and Colbert.

A Twitter feed doesn't have a cost. If the Libyan ambassador needed more guards, Congress should have funded them.

And the embassy should apologize for nothing. If that offended the Egyptian government, then the Egyptian government is the problem. It was a call for them to not be dicks.

The only thing inappropriate and unbecoming here is their locking up a satirist for satirizing.  But hey, they're just locking him up instead of murdering him; I guess that's what passes for 'progress' in the Muslim world.

The president should get some guys in whatever agency to subtitle it in Egyptian and send it in a ribboned package to Morsi.

Seriously, we shouldn't have to apologize. We SHOULD occasionally risk "diplomatic incidents" over this sort of stuff. Maybe they would start thinking twice. Maybe then the US could plausibly say that it supports democracy worldwide.

Soooo he puts a guy in jail for making fun of his hat, then gets mad when someone points out that this is stupid and immature? Yeah that totally sounds like the kind of stable dude you want running a country.

I wonder if in ten years he will be a full-blown dictator, and if so, will we all look back at this and say yeah, that was when we should have known?

Registering the US's disapproval of things like arresting journalists for not sucking the local president's dick every time they're on air is... pretty much exactly what embassies are for, dude.

The wording of TFA actually makes it seem that the reason their bosses are upset with them is because they  removed the tweet after the fact, not that they made it.  Stewart's rant actually pretty much summarizes the US position on the matter, iirc.

KrispyKritter: Ignoring that American rudeness is not welcome everywhere is ignorant and amateur. Words do have meaning. People take offense. Nothing new.

The bit was not rude at all, did you not watch it or are you functionally illiterate?  Most of it consisted of playing a clip of Egypt's president saying his government wouldn't do exactly this (arrest journalists for expressing disapproval of his actions) without any real commentary.

KrispyKritter: Ignoring that American rudeness is not welcome everywhere is ignorant and amateur. Words do have meaning. People take offense. Nothing new.

Oh please. Satire =/= rudeness. Pointing out the flaws of world leaders isn't ignorance.
/I got your rudeness right here

ambercat: Soooo he puts a guy in jail for making fun of his hat, then gets mad when someone points out that this is stupid and immature? Yeah that totally sounds like the kind of stable dude you want running a country.

I wonder if in ten years he will be a full-blown dictator, and if so, will we all look back at this and say yeah, that was when we should have known?

He's not already?

AlanSmithee: Abacus9: ambercat: Soooo he puts a guy in jail for making fun of his hat, then gets mad when someone points out that this is stupid and immature? Yeah that totally sounds like the kind of stable dude you want running a country.

I wonder if in ten years he will be a full-blown dictator, and if so, will we all look back at this and say yeah, that was when we should have known?

He's not already?

More like a half-blown dictator.

Well, he DID go off half-cocked.