Call Me Stormy

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Egyptian Embassy in De-Nile-Al

Jon Stewart’s support of Bassem Youssef after the Egyptian comedian got locked up for making fun of the president of Egypt was passionate and expected.  What was unexpected, however, was a Twitter fallout between the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and Egyptian officials. The U.S. Embassy made the mistake of tweeting a link to The Daily Show‘s video, which angered Egyptian officials and Islamists. The embassy tried to correct the mistake by taking down its entire Twitter page. Tsk, tsk.

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