Anderson Cooper: Mubarak Is 'Stepping On The Blood Of The Egyptian People' (VIDEO)

Anderson Cooper continued his condemnation of the Mubarak regime on Thursday, as he reacted harshly to President Hosni Mubarak's speech--in which Mubarak refused to step down.

"This is a slap in the face," Cooper told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "This is stepping on the grave and the blood of the Egyptian people that has been spilled for more than two weeks now."

Blitzer said that Mubarak had only agreed to transfer "some" powers to his vice president.

"It's all lies," Cooper cut in. He then cut in again after Blitzer had talked some more.

"They [the Egyptian government] were trying to manipulate and create a crisis," Cooper said. "The chaos has been caused by the Mubarak regime. These are lies which this regime continues to try to sell, not only to the people of Egypt, but to the world."

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[the griff]

10:21 AM on 02/14/2011

Egypt is the story here Coop. Not you. Move on. Find a story where you will not have to lock yourself up in a motel room.

[the griff]

04:24 PM on 02/13/2011

I am so sick of Anderson Cooper!

[Raw Ron]

11:41 AM on 02/13/2011

Every time there is important news CNN does well. They are a traditional news organization and they make the investments for the journalist on the ground.

[JakeMontero]

10:56 AM on 02/13/2011

Anderson needs to go back to reading the news...

[loki]

08:21 PM on 02/12/2011

I want Mubarak to leave like most people do, but does anyone else get the impression that Anderson is asking like a spoiled little rich kid who was beat up, and is using his influence to verbally "get back"? I'm sure he isn't use to being hit being the son of the Vanderbilt's, and like most spoiled people who experience real world scenarios, they dont like it and bad mouth everyone involved.

[CarlIII]

10:48 AM on 02/13/2011

#419. I couldn't agree with you more. Anderson Cooper is a spoiled little rich brat. Just like Our previous president. Now that the little wuss has no chance of getting a nose bleed, Do you think he will don his "Indiana Jones" costume and head back to Cairo?

[Cannonball Taffy O Jones]

12:24 PM on 02/12/2011

There is a name for a journalist who runs away from a country days before the dictator stands down.
 
Useless.
 
Cooper should get himself a new job.

[Matt12]

09:08 AM on 02/12/2011

Cooper should watch Richard Engel and learn

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/11/richard-engel-draws-prais_n_822220.html#comments

[Matt12]

08:55 AM on 02/12/2011

That CNN's Cooper was "attacked" in Cairo should not be surprising. CNN mostly ignores most of the world on a regular basis and pays liip service to the status quo.

Is Cooper's so-called reporting reallly reporting? Though articulate, he is not thoughtful or well informed. He should stop using the same "experts" for opinion and seek more depth from people who know the history and facts and lack a personal agenda -- no more Foreign Relations Council mandarins, or Near Eastern Washington DC experts and all Washigngton DC think tank people, whose single agenda is Israel right or wrong.

Do we really understand the Middle East? South East Asia? Latin America? Did we understand why the financial meltdown was coming down the pike? Do we really understand how families are coping with the chronic unemployment? The latter may have the seeds of an American People's Revolution -- Cooper, don't wait until you have to do the obligatory on the street demonstrattion interview. People mayl be mad at you as well.

Gloria Borges? Please!.

[vascopyjama]

10:51 PM on 02/11/2011

Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper......it's all about me. CNN's 2011 hero of the year.

[loki]

08:23 PM on 02/12/2011

lol I bet your right. He will be CNNs 2011 hero of the year for this. Oh , the pain he suffered.. Poor rich boy

[vascopyjama]

10:44 PM on 02/11/2011

We are all Coopers tonight..........LOL.

[Sharmine Narwani]

07:15 PM on 02/11/2011

"Mubarak is stepping on the blood of the Egyptian people," says Cooper. Duh.

Look at the passion and compassion a few slaps across the head by Mubarak-goons elicited from Cooper. And from other Western journalists who found themselves in a tussle or two in Tahrir Square, Cairo last week.

I now know how to solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict... Send Cooper and some other Fox/CNN journos to cover the peaceful protests in Bilin next week. One day of Israeli tear gas and rubber bullets will have them beating their chests and howling. The next day, all UN Security Council resolutions on this conflict will be enforced.

Come on Anderson - just a few more hits for peace?

[TheMediaRanger]

07:28 PM on 02/11/2011

Oh, leave him alone, Sharmine. Coop was never in any serious danger -- Katie Couric had his back. That was her mean girl face ... she was never terrified out of her shorts.

[gene-garcon]

03:48 PM on 02/11/2011

Doesn't Anderson Cooper have a right to his speech?

[williamclinton]

05:00 PM on 02/11/2011

in Egypt? he has to play by their rules.

[jo smith456]

03:28 PM on 02/11/2011

TIME to pro se cute Mubarak and Su leiman.

[Clevelandinwi]

02:33 PM on 02/11/2011

'...cooper savages...'. Who is this guy, Attilla the Hun?

[hannabanana]

01:55 PM on 02/11/2011

How dare he interrupt Wolfie's recitation of the government scripted version of the events in Egypt.