White History Month Float Stirs Controversy!

Wonder why The South lost? Beats me! But I know they're still relishing on being losers!

A town outside of Fayetteville, North Carolina had it's Fourth of July parade in which a farmer brought some unwanted attention to his float. He used his First Amendment speech to promote his float.

On his float is regards to WHITE HISTORY MONTH. And asking the public to have sympathy for a White person by giving them a hug.

In the Fayetteville Observer reports that the tractor was a feature at the parade and it's attracted controversy.

Several spectators at the Hope Mills Fourth of July parade have complained to town officials that they're offended by a float that appeared in the parade Thursday.

The incident is prompting officials to review the town's parade application process later this month.

In the parade that went through downtown Hope Mills, a float carrying a bed full of watermelons was attached to a John Deere tractor. A Confederate flag was attached to the back. On each side, there were two small white signs. They said "White History Month" and "hug wht ppl."

Town officials have received about a dozen phone calls or emails about the float. Others have voiced concerns on the Facebook page of the town's Parks and Recreation Department as well as on social media.

The float was one of eight entered by Donnie Spell in Thursday's parade, said Kenny Bullock, director of the Parks and Recreation Department.

Spell could not be reached for comment Friday.

Bullock said Friday he had asked a member of Spell's family to take the signs down before the parade started Thursday morning. He said he does not know why they did not comply with the request.

He learned the signs were still on the tractor midway through the parade when people started calling his cell phone, he said.

Hope Mills Mayor Jackie Warner said she received a few phone calls and an email about the float. She did not see the float during Thursday's festivities because she was part of the parade. She later saw a photo of the float.

Conservatives believe Blacks are "racist" because they have Black History Month. Conservatives don't understand why Blacks have a month devoted to them, but not to White people.

"I believe we've got to make sure we're sensitive to all people's feelings," she said.

The spectator who sent her the email said the float is not representative of the Hope Mills community. She agreed and said residents should not have to see a float they find offensive in the parade.

"Our town has become more diverse," she said Friday.

All floats in town parades are entered through the Parks and Recreation Department, Bullock said. He said the application process includes a brief description of what a float will include. Those signs were not included in Spell's application, he said.

Bullock said Spell has entered tractors in the town's parades, which also includes a Christmas parade, for years.

The board plans to review the application process to ensure it does not happen again, Warner and Bullock said.

Warner said the discussion will be added to the commissioners' July 15 meeting.

Bullock said recreation officials will make recommendations to the commissioners about how to better screen floats in the future.

"I feel like, in my opinion, I feel like there's a time and a place for everything," Bullock said. "Was the parade the place? I don't think so."

GOP Pollster: Blacks Are "RACISTS"!

Jamie Foxx as Django in the movie Django Unchained.

Yeah, right!

Tell me if you have a friend or co-worker who is White utter comments about non-White people?

According to right wing pollster Scott Rasmussen, he's thrown together a poll about how Americans feel about race. So far he's determined that more Americans view Blacks as the "racists" than White (non-Hispanic), Latinos and Asians.

Again, why do we waste my time with these false narratives.

I agree that everyone has a prejudice against someone. Everyone has a reactionary fear towards something.

I think sometimes that conservatives live in a bubble. They can't stomach the fact that they're not liked among the Black community so they'll try to reassure their hatred in false polls and heresay.

In this poll, Rasmussen finds that Americans consider blacks more likely to be racist than whites and Hispanics in this country.

Thirty-seven percent (37%) of American Adults think most black Americans are racist, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 15% consider most white Americans racist, while 18% say the same of most Hispanic Americans. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

There is a huge ideological difference on this topic. Among conservative Americans, 49% consider most blacks racist, and only 12% see most whites that way. Among liberal voters, 27% see most white Americans as racist, and 21% say the same about black Americans.

Scott Rasmussen

From a partisan perspective, 49% of Republicans see most black Americans as racist, along with 36% of unaffiliated adults and 29% of Democrats.

Among black Americans, 31% think most blacks are racist, while 24% consider most whites racist and 15% view most Hispanics that way.

Among white adults, 10% think most white Americans are racist; 38% believe most blacks are racist, and 17% say most Hispanics are racist.

Overall, just 30% of all Americans now rate race relations in the United States as good or excellent. Fourteen percent (14%) describe them as poor. Twenty-nine percent (29%) think race relations are getting better, while 32% believe they are getting worse. Thirty-five percent (35%) feel they are staying about the same.

These figures reflect more pessimism than was found in April when 42% gave race relations positive marks and 39% said race relations were improving.  However, the April number reflected all-time highs while the current numbers are more consistent with the general attitudes of recent years.

And in his previous polls he found that perennial loser Mitt Romney was likely to trounce President Barack Obama in the general election.

And in his last poll he thought that the Democrats would lose the U.S. Senate in the 2010 U.S. Midterm elections in which the Republicans won control of the House of Representatives and state/territorial governorships.

Ignore the pollster behind the curtain.

Thanks Rob Redding for posting the headline, and me finding the link.

Plane Crash In San Francisco!

Tragic news out of San Francisco.

Tragic news out of the San Francisco area. There was an airplane crash at the San Francisco International Airport in which it injured 130 and killing 2.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the those lost in this horrible tragedy.

All information comes from the Associated Press. Any changes to the information will be later posted.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Officials say one person is unaccounted for and two are dead in the crash of an Asiana Airline flight.

The flight from Seoul, South Korea, that crashed while landing at San Francisco International Airport Saturday.

Airport spokesman Doug Yakel said 181 people were taken to local hospitals. There were a total of 307 people on board the plane -- 291 passengers and 16 crew members.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Flight 214 crashed while landing before noon PDT. Passengers could be seen jumping down the emergency slides.

Pieces of the tail were strewn about the runway.

The National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team of investigators to San Francisco to probe the crash.

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Zimmerman Trial!

Extremist are hoping for a race riot if that idiot is acquitted of murder.

Where's the outrage?

I don't see anyone planning on rioting in the streets. I mean how many Black folks rioted?

According to The Guy Who Throws Shit To The Wall and Kookspiracy advocate Crazy Jones, a massive riot in the streets if that idiot is acquitted of murder of Trayvon Martin.

If you're looking for the WILD NIGGER stories, find all the possibilities with racial extremist Paul Joseph Watson. He quotes information from CNN and the Sanford Police about the possibility of rioting if that idiot's trial ends in his favor.

Sanford Police Chief Cecil Smith and other city officials are worried that the outcome of the George Zimmerman trial could spark “violence” and have crafted a “secret law enforcement” plan to deal with potential social disorder.

A CNN report shows Sanford police going door to door in an attempt to calm residents about possible unrest in response to the Zimmerman verdict.

“Our worst fear is that we will have people from outside of the community coming in and stirring up….violence in the community,” Smith told CNN’s David Mattingly.

Sanford Mayor Jeff Triplett echoes Smith’s concerns, warning that just one person intent on violence could spark wider disorder and “a provocation of violence”.

City Manager Norton Bonaparte is similarly on edge, fearing a Rodney King-style riot if Zimmerman is found not guilty.

“I’m saying that’s a scenario that’s certainly a possibility,” said Bonaparte, adding that plans had been made through law enforcement but that he would not go into detail on the nature of what they were.

Police Chief Cecil Smith was similarly evasive when asked if SWAT teams or “special personnel” were on standby to respond to disorder.

“As far as the particulars of the plans, we’re not releasing that,” Smith told CNN.

Authorities have also enlisted the help of local pastors who are acting as “observers” in the Zimmerman trial and will then report back to their congregation.

Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin takes the stand.

Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin takes the stand. The Associated Press and The Daily Mail report on the testimony of Fulton and her oldest son.

The mother and brother of Trayvon Martin testified Friday that screams for help captured in the background of audio of a neighbor's 911 call came from the 17-year-old.

Sybrina Fulton and Jahvaris Fulton took the witness stand during the trial of George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer charged with second-degree murder in Martin's shooting death. Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty and says he shot the teen in self-defense during a fight.

After the audio was played, prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda asked Sybrina Fulton, "Who do you recognize that to be?" She replied, "Trayvon Benjamin Martin."

Identifying the screams on the 911 call could be critical to the case because it may help determine who was the aggressor during the scuffle between Zimmerman and Martin.

Brother of slain teenager Trayvon Martin takes the stand. Jahvaris Fulton-Martin is the half-brother.

Under cross-examination, defense attorney Mark O'Mara suggested that Sybrina Fulton may have been influenced by others who listened to the 911 call, including relatives and her former husband.

O'Mara also asked Fulton hypothetically whether she would have to accept it was Zimmerman yelling for help if the screams did not come from her son. He also asked if she hoped Martin didn't do anything that led to his death.

"I heard my son screaming," Fulton said. "I would hope for this to never have happened and he would still be here."

Hardcore race baiting from the likes of That Guy Who Throws Shit To The Wall.

Jahvaris Fulton, Martin's brother, also testified the screaming voice was that of Martin.

But O'Mara asked him why last year he had told a reporter that he wasn't sure if the voice belonged to Martin. Jahvaris Fulton, in explaining his comment to the reporter, told O'Mara he was "shocked" when he heard it.

"I didn't want to believe it was him," Jahvaris Fulton said.

O'Mara asked to play the television interview for jurors, but Judge Debra Nelson denied his request for the time being.

Jahvaris Fulton's testimony was broken up by efforts to unlock the evidence room adjacent to the courtroom. Unable to open it, court officials called a locksmith with a drill to help them out.

Idiot and defense attorney went to That Guy Who Helped Obama Win. That interview was used in trial.

Before testifying, Sybrina Fulton posted on Twitter "I pray that God gives me the strength to properly represent my Angel Trayvon."

After the mother and brother testified, the doctor who performed an autopsy on Martin took the witness stand. Associate Medical Examiner Shiping Bao started describing Martin as being in pain and suffering after he was shot, but defense attorneys objected. The judge sustained the objection, and Bao was directed away from that line of questioning.

He later estimated that Martin lived from one to 10 minutes after he was shot, and the bullet went from the front to the back of the teen's chest, piercing his heart.

"There was no chance he could survive," Bao said.

Summer Heat!

Okay, Friday brings forth the release of the jobs report. And there's a sign that the economy is improving.

The Labor Department reports that there were 196,000 jobs added in the month of June. Unfortunately the unemployment number continues to stand at 7.6%.

The signs that more Americans are looking for jobs with cautious optimism. So there's a slight possibility more Americans are confident to find a job in less than a week.

There is still long term joblessness. People are very cautious of looking for a job. People continue to think we're still in a recession despite the improvements in the economy and stock market rebound.

There are more service industry jobs that offering less hours and low pay. But require overwhelmingly hard work.

Congress job approval is terrible. The congress has job approval at 13%

The president's job approval is at 45%. Mostly due to the controversies of the NSA, IRS and lack of progress in his second term.

The country is bouncing back.

But there's still some who would rather take it to the ground so they can have a "gotcha moment".

Feds Stall Obamacare In The Workplace!

In the potential of conservative backlash, the president stalled implications of the controversial health care law that required employers to provide insurance to workers or face fines.

The controversial legislators in Washington are crowing about the president's pull back on the Affordable Healthcare Law.

The conservative business owners decided to stiff the part time and temporary worker by cutting their hours so it forces them to quit, and/or forces full time workers to be available for any shift necessary to the needs of the company.

It's happening in the service industry and manufacturing industry.

So in order to quarrel the outrage and also save grace for the potential defeat in the 2014 U.S. Midterm Elections, the White House issued executive orders to hold back the mandate for businesses until 2015.

The businesses already plotted against the worker. They wanted that perennial loser Mitt Romney to win.

He didn't win, so now they'll either punish the workers with cuts in their hours or mandatory layoffs.

The Washington Post reports that the Affordable Care Act requires all employers with more than 50 full-time workers provide health insurance or pay steep fines. That policy had raised concerns about companies downsizing their workforce or cutting workers’ hours in order to dodge the new mandate.

In delaying the enforcement of that rule, the White House sidesteps those challenges for one year. It is also the second significant interruption for the Affordable Care Act, following a one-year delay on key functions of the small business insurance marketplaces.

Together, the moves could draw criticism that the administration will not be able to put into effect its signature legislative accomplishment on schedule.

Elbert Guillory: Tokens Please!

Another Black Republican comes out and the junk food media folks embrace the reactionary.

Those conservative agitators in the junk food media are putting on another Black Republican as their savior against the massive outcries of bigotry within the Republican Party.

Some nobody from Louisiana named Elbert Guillory has announced last month he's switched parties.

Elbert Lee Guillory (born June 24, 1944) is an African American Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate.

He represents District 24, including his native Opelousas, Louisiana, and an assortment of rural precincts.

Up until 2007, Guillory had been a registered Republican. He became a Democrat in 2007 when he first ran for the state House in the heavily Democratic District 40.

During the 2013 regular session of the Louisiana Legislature, Guillory switched his party affiliation back to Republican.

Officially, Guillory's party-switch occurred on May 31, when he was presented with the Frederick Douglass Award from the @Large Society. Earlier, State Senator Karen Carter Peterson, the chair of the Louisiana Democratic Party, had indicated racism to be the reason why the Louisiana Legislature and Governor Bobby Jindal opposed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), a federal statute adopted in 2010 by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama. Jindal and the legislature had declined to implement in Louisiana that part of the federal act offering the states federal funding for Medicaid.

Guillory took exception to Carter Peterson's characterization of the opponents of Obamacare, but his intent to switch parties had already been under consideration.

Before Guillory's switch, the last Republican of African-American ethnicity in the Louisiana Senate had served during the Reconstruction era.

In accepting the award, Guillory compared himself to 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a Republican who had supported Abraham Lincoln.

Guillory has a conservative political philosophy.

Guillory explained his party switch in a 4-minute 17-second video widely circulated in state and national media outlets, including the radio programs of King Hippo, That Guy Who Helped Obama Win, and by Some Guy on Loserville.

The video was viewed on You Tube within the first three days by nearly 500,000. Filmed in the rear of the Senate chamber, the video calls the Democrats "the party of Jim Crow" and depicts the Republicans as "the party of freedom and progress." Guillory said that his defection to the Republican Party is "not only right for me, but for all of my brothers and sisters in the black community."

He decided that his principles are to be a "proud Black Republican". He wants to wake "us Black folk" out of the trance of Brotha Barack.

He believes that "NIGGERS" are taking advantage of the hard fought earnings of patriots who fought for the right to push religion in school.

He believes that evil "Democrat Party" started the Ku Klux Klan, gave Blacks no hope in New Orleans and other Black majority cities. He thinks that Planned Parenthood plots genocide, and that Muslim in the White House is a "socialist".

Guillory doesn't want to be trapped on "da plantation" like the rest of "us Black folk".

See he's a freed NEGRO. He's welcomed with open arms in the Republican Party. The party who freed the slaves.

The party that claims that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is one of their alumni.

The party who believes that Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Bill Clinton and the Muslim Socialist Mulatto are all racists in disguise.

Real heroes are like Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush made this country safe and stopped evils home and abroad.

He switched parties because he probably didn't get what he wanted out of a committeeship and the previous party was tired of his bullshit. So they've said good riddance to him. 

But to The Guy Who Helped Obama Win, King Hippo and The Guy Who Throws Shit To The Wall, he's the umpteenth new "BLACK HOPE".

Elbert Guillory played the bait and switch game. He was then a Republican, before became a Democrat, before he became a Republican. He wanted to bait Blacks into voting for him in a heavily Democratic district. Upon redistricting, he lost a portion of his district. So instead of competing for it, he'll just switch to become a Republican so he didn't have to face a defeat in the general election this year. Louisiana goes for another governor this year after Bobby Jindal, a Republican finishes his term.

This is another right wing bigot in Black skin. Another reason to why Blacks will not join the Republican Party. He only cares about winning than those suppose of Black folks he's trying to free from the Democrat Plantation.

Blacks are conservative at heart. But we're not stupid like those who paint us out to be. We're not natural born criminals. We see how conservatives treat Trayvon Martin and the young woman who was a witness.

We see how they reacted to a Cheerio's commercial on YouTube about an interracial family.

We see how they reacted to the notion of a Black woman scream she got an "OBAMA PHONE".

We see how they've disrespected Jay-Z, Beyonce, Jamie Foxx, Susan Rice, Van Jones, Eric Holder, Shirley Sherrod, Nelson Mandela, First Lady Michelle Obama, Ludacris, and Will.i.am. We know they're public figures but damn, these guys look at them as NIGGERS more so than entertainers and politicos.

The reaction to the president is enough for a Black person to not support the Republican Party.

They may have legitimate concerns with the president, fine. But the reactionary bullshit cause by those conservative agitators in the junk food media sponge the minds of these individuals.

They're entitled to be bigots. They have the freedom of speech, like this Guillory person.

But seriously, if I was a Black Republican, why is it that my party atone to all these characterizations?

Do they really want to be diverse?

The Republican Party is 90% WHITE and 10% everything else. Like cocaine.

By the way, I am tired of these NEGROS pissing on the graves of Fredrick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and any other Black leader who fought for the rights to be equal among all the races.

These grandstanding Black Republicans and their conservative allies don't want nothing to do with us.

They rather see the Black man in jail or killing one another. They can't stand Black leaders (i.e. Barack Obama) and hip-hop music.

They want control over us when it comes to entitlements, guns, employment, and housing. But we can't have control over them because we're supposedly the actual racists.

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Independence Day!

The third most active holiday in the year. Independence Day. We celebrate 237 years since the United States of America was formed.

The day we celebrate America's "freedom".

It's not a real great day for those who fought for Civil Rights in the South.

The Supreme Court revoked the portion of the Voting Rights Act in which would have the government watch localities that try to play shenanigans at the ballot box.

The junk food media's conservative agitators are hoping that idiot gets off with an acquittal of the murder of Trayvon Martin. They want to see Black America riot in the street so they can blame President Barack Obama for the decision. That idiot thought it was "god's plan" to kill an unarmed teenager. Yeah, those in the media want to wrap the case up with that idiot walking out in a hoodie.

We lost 19 of our brave firefighters in Prescott, Arizona. There was a severe wildfire in the desert and this "hot shot" team were caught off guard by a shifting wind and overwhelmingly hot temperatures. We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to those lost in this senseless tragedy.

The LGBT community can now have benefits as a married couple. In 14 states will allow gay marriage and the possibility of legal challenges will continue in states that don't accept it. Since the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act and the California Proposition 8, many same sex couples are celebrating and are rushing to the alter. The decision tosses it back to the lower courts.

Our men and women serving overseas in Afghanistan and military bases abroad are not here celebrating. We once again thank them for their service and wish them safe. The military have expanded its resources across the world and many Americans are cautious about intervention in Egypt and Syria.

The United States Congress are once again on a vacation. The members of Congress job approval is at 13%  right  now. With the conservative members of both the Republican and Democratic Party stalling progress, we the American people suffer. The student loans rate will go up now that the Stafford Loan expired.

Just like with the E85 and green energy credits expiring, now another benefit to helping is being scrapped.

You see that our Congress inactiveness has hurt the president's job approval as well.

We're in a sequester. A forced mandate in which it advocates painful cuts to the government and it's impact is being felt in the local communities. The air shows allow U.S. Air Force planes to perform at the shows. In my community, their annual air show ended with a tragedy. A woman who is a professional plane walker died along with her pilot in a crash. Jane Wicker and her pilot Charlie Schwenker died at the Vectren Dayton Air Show in June. Air shows have seen cutbacks with attendance with the lost of Air Force planes.

Look there are plenty of things to be thankful for this holiday weekend. I am proud to be an American.

But there are some things that makes me shake my head in disgust. Our freedom of speech has gotten even more nastier. I am more nastier in how I address the public nowadays. I keep a small circle and it's really getting smaller.

I am not perfect and I don't want to call myself anything less.

But nowadays, if we could allow our freedom of speech create hateful websites, countless gun crimes, legal limbo from the court and the lawmakers, and the despair of hundreds if not millions of those in need:

What is there to celebrate freedom for?

We can barbecue and have fireworks, but we don't have the decency to say thanks to a soldier or help a person in need because we're feed bias by the junk food media, yeah what's is there to celebrate freedom for?

50 Shades Of Bruisin' Lands 50 Cent In Hot Water!

Media mogul gets a day in court for domestic abuse.

The G-Unit honcho is landed again in hot water.

The rapper may face some time in the iron college after he allegedly attack his former girlfriend in Los Angeles.

Great way to get The Street King Immortal out there, Mr. Curtis Jackson.

The Associated Press and Huffington Post report that he was charged this week with attacking his ex-girlfriend and trashing her Los Angeles condo, city attorney Mike Feuer said Wednesday.

The 37-year-old "In da Club" singer, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, was charged with domestic violence and four counts of vandalism in papers filed Monday. If convicted, he faces up to five years in jail and $46,000 in fines.

A representative for Jackson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Jackson had already left when officers arrived June 23 at a Toluca Lake condo belonging to a woman who had a baby with him, police said.

Dr. Dre, 50 Cent and Eminem.

During an argument, the woman told police, Jackson began destroying her property before she locked herself into her bedroom. The woman said Jackson kicked open the bedroom door and kicked her, causing injury.

Police said they estimated about $7,100 in damage to the woman's home. They observed many broken items in the ransacked and clothes-strewn condo, including chandeliers, furniture and a television.

The woman told police she had been in a three-year relationship with Jackson.

"Regardless of perceived celebrity or notoriety, domestic violence is a serious crime and alleged perpetrators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law by this office," Feuer said.

The Queens-reared rapper has referenced drug-dealing and violence in many songs, and is known for having survived nine gunshots in an attempted assassination.

Jackson has also worked as an actor in recent years. He starred in an autobiographical account of his life as a drug dealer in "Get Rich or Die Tryin'."

Jackson is due for arraignment July 22.

50 Cent signed to Interscope in 2002 after encouragement from Jimmy Iovine. Iovine introduced the rapper to Eminem and Dr. Dre who both produced most of his albums.

50 Cent appears on Interscope Records. He is affiliated with Shady Records and Aftermath Entertainment.

Eminem appears on Aftermath Entertainment. He is affiliated with Shady Records and W.E.B. Entertainment.

Dr. Dre appears on Aftermath Entertainment.

BREAKING: Egypt Dumps Mohammed Morsi!

You're out of office.

We're experiencing another ouster of leadership in the African/Middle Eastern nation of Egypt.

A coup removes the conservative leader Mohammed Morsi.

The Associated Press reports that Egypt's military has ousted the nation's Islamist president, replacing him with the chief justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court, calling for early presidential election and suspending the Islamist-backed constitution.

Army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday, said a government of technocrats will be appointed to run the country during a transition period he did not specify.

An aide of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, Ayman Ali, said the former leader has been moved to an undisclosed location. He gave no details.

Cheers erupted among millions of protesters nationwide who were demanding Morsi's ouster. Fireworks lit the Cairo night sky. Morsi supporters elsewhere in the city shouted "No to military rule."

The Society of the Muslim Brothers  (Arabic: جماعة الإخوان المسلمين‎, often simply: الإخوان المسلمون, the Muslim Brotherhood, transliterated: al-ʾIkḫwān al-Muslimūn) is the Arab world's most influential and one of the largest Islamic movements, and is the largest political opposition organization in many Arab states.

Founded in Egypt in 1928 as a Pan-Islamic, religious, political, and social movement by the Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna, by the end of World War II the Muslim Brotherhood had an estimated two million members.

Its ideas had gained supporters throughout the Arab world and influenced other Islamist groups with its "model of political activism combined with Islamic charity work".

Bassem Youssef, a comedian and entertainer from Egypt really set the groundwork for the ouster.

Morsi and the government targeted the entertainer with prison time for insulting him and Islam.

Bassem Youssef, an Egyptian entertainer played a key role in getting Morsi out of office.

On January 1, 2013, the daily Al-masry Al-youm reported that an Egyptian prosecutor was investigating Bassem Youssef on charges of maligning President Mohammed Morsi, whose office claimed that Youssef's show was "circulating false news likely to disturb public peace and public security and affect the administration."

Despite all of the controversy it sparks, El Bernameg has been a major success.

It is constantly topping the regional YouTube charts, making Bassem Youssef's YouTube channel the most subscribed to in Egypt.

On March 30, 2013, an arrest warrant was issued for Youssef for allegedly insulting Islam and Morsi. The move was seen by opponents as part of an effort to silence dissent against Morsi's government. Youssef confirmed the arrest warrant on his Twitter account and said he would hand himself in to the prosecutor's office, jokingly adding, "Unless they kindly send a police van today and save me the transportation hassle."

The following day, he was questioned by authorities before being released on bail of 15,000 Egyptian pounds.

The event sparked international media attention as well as a segment on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show in which he declared his support for Youssef, calling him a "friend" and "brother" and saying to Morsi: "What are you worried about? You're the President of Egypt! You have an army! [Youssef]'s got puns and a show; you've got tanks and planes."