Good Grief: Haha, it would have been amusing if Anderson Cooper was also sexually assaulted

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Maybe This Nir Rosen Person Should Reconsider Tweeting


A journalist named Nir Rosen doesn't like Lara Logan, the CBS News reporter, because, he argues, she is a "warmonger." Therefore, Rosen found humor in the the fact that Logan was sexually assaulted in Cairo. Apparently, Rosen doesn't understand much about violence against women; he also doesn't seem to understand much about Twitter. From The Daily Caller:

The initial tweet by Rosen stated, "Lara Logan had to outdo Anderson. Where was her buddy McCrystal." From this tweet he went further, writing that he would have been amused if Anderson Cooper had also been sexually assaulted.

"Yes yes its wrong what happened to her. Of course. I don't support that. But, it would have been funny if it happened to Anderson too," wrote Rosen.

The two comments gave way to more. Rosen called Logan a "war monger" and expressed doubt that she was actually assaulted.

"Jesus Christ, at a moment when she is going to become a martyr and glorified we should at least remember her role as a major war monger" wrote Rosen.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/02/maybe-this-nir-rosen-person-should-reconsider-tweeting/71343/

"Look, she was probably groped like thousands of other women, which is still wrong, but if it was worse than I'm sorry."

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1. That is disgusting!

I'm surprised it is Nir Rosen, he is a pretty good journalist, if he is who I'm thinking of.

No way can his offensive remarks be justified. It is pitiful that in the year 2011 some people still have no idea of the seriousness of sexual assault.
Clearly...it has never happened to this journalist. If it had, he would not be so glib.

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2. The same

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

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3. What a pig.

I don't Tweet but hooray for Twitter if it's going to bring scumbags like this into the light.

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4. What a dick.

I was as disgusted as anyone about her defense of "her buddy McChrystal", but she didn't deserve that, even if it were really just being "groped". And, I fail to see the humor in Anderson Cooper being sexually assaulted. Or, anyone else.

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5. cbs said she suffered a "brutal and sustained sexual assault"

That doesn't sound like a grope.
And a grope doesn't put one in the hospital.
I don't care what her politics, I wouldn't even wish this on Michelle Bachman, and I really hate her!