{"id":10221,"date":"2012-07-18T09:37:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T16:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=10221"},"modified":"2012-07-18T09:37:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T16:37:48","slug":"hillary-clinton-hearing-chants-of-monica-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2012\/07\/18\/hillary-clinton-hearing-chants-of-monica-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton hearing chants of “Monica” in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A blast from the past in the standard “Protest the American Statesperson” protests in Egypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The news that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s motorcade was\u00c2\u00a0pelted with shoes and tomatoes<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0by Egyptian protesters, who also taunted her by\u00c2\u00a0chanting<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Monica! Monica!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as she left the U.S. consulate in Alexandria on Sunday,\u00c2\u00a0delighted conservative bloggers<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in the United States<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“Monica!” \u00c2\u00a0Really? \u00c2\u00a0Wow. \u00c2\u00a0That’s, like, from the last Century and stuff.
\nAlso. \u00c2\u00a0How can this delight Conservative bloggers? \u00c2\u00a0Didn’t they get the memo? \u00c2\u00a0Clinton’s the Centrist that the new Leftwing Obama Administration is betraying.<\/p>\n

Bassem Sabry<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>I really don’t understand what this anti-Hillary protest sign says. But the picture sort of hints towards the meaning
\n\"\"\u00c2\u00a0<\/em> \u00c2\u00a0“Clinton had the right of that you have the feeling and humanity but you don’t see except your personal interest only.” \u00c2\u00a0There is something lost in translation here — I think the protesters were using babelfish.<\/p>\n

The story goes on to suggest that these protesters are picking up on tea-party esque conspiratorials about how Obama is a Muslim and stuff.<\/p>\n

As my colleague\u00c2\u00a0Kareem Fahim reported<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0on Sunday, some political opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt claim that the United States even plotted to install the Islamist party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presidential candidate in office. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Although wildly counterintuitive,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0my colleagues David Kirkpatrick and Mayy El Sheikh observed on Saturday<\/a>, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that conspiracy theory has tapped into the deep popular distrust here of the United States.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Egyptian writer and blogger Bassem Sabry\u00c2\u00a0reported on Twitter<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0that the protesters at Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rally roared their approval when they were addressed by Tawfik Okasha, the host of a popular television program who has been called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Egypt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Glenn Beck,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because of his embrace of conspiratorial thinking and hatred of political Islam. Last month,\u00c2\u00a0Mr. Okasha insisted<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0that the presidential election had been rigged at the behest of the U.S. to deny Ahmed Shafik, a former general who was Hosni Mubarak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s last prime minister, the victory he earned at the ballot box.<\/em><\/p>\n

Egypt’s Glenn Beck.
\nIs that same concept as the\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Russian version of Married With Children, for instance<\/a>?
\nOf course, now I’m back in the same territory of quick anachronisms that come along with Egyptian protesters shouting “Monica!”. \u00c2\u00a0Glenn Beck is soooo 2009. \u00c2\u00a0That’s from another decade!<\/p>\n

And, of course, we do have the partisan switch over here. \u00c2\u00a0When a liberal smirked at Hugo Chavez making a line about President Bush, or an Iraqi throwing a shoe at him… well, I’m sure we can find some bloggers making the “Respect the Office, and Defend the American Ambassador” no matter her politics with regard to Hillary Clinton in Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  A blast from the past in the standard “Protest the American Statesperson” protests in Egypt. The news that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s motorcade was\u00c2\u00a0pelted with shoes and tomatoes\u00c2\u00a0by Egyptian protesters, who also taunted her by\u00c2\u00a0chanting\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Monica! Monica!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as she left the U.S. consulate in Alexandria on Sunday,\u00c2\u00a0delighted conservative bloggers\u00c2\u00a0in the United States. “Monica!” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10225,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10221\/revisions\/10225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}