[email protected]usembassycairo @thedailyshow @drbassemyoussef It’s inappropriate for a diplomatic mission to engage in such negative political propaganda
— Egyptian Presidency (@EgyPresidency) April 2, 2013
From yesterday:
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo has earned a reputation for being awfully active on Twitter, where it often engages critics directly and, at times, even jabs at Egypt’s most powerful people and institutions.
The embassy’s official Twitter feed took a bit of a swipe at Egyptian President Mohamamed Morsi today, linking to a “Daily Show” segment in which Jon Stewart lambasted Morsi for his government’s arrest of Bassem Youssef, a hugely popular TV political satirist who is sometimes compared to Stewart himself. Youssef, now released on bail, was imprisoned briefly this weekend for “insulting Islam” and “belittling” Morsi.
Update: Amateur hour at the State Department continues.
The official Twitter account for the U.S. embassy in Cairo was restored after a brief outage on Wednesday after Egyptian government officials objected to a tweet containing a link to a ‘Daily Show’ monologue by Comedy Central host Jon Stewart.
The embassy’s twitter feed no longer contains the tweet in question. Watch Stewart’s monologue here.