Some people are surely brainwashed. But the people don’t act without a trigger. The death of Wissam Al Hassan got them angry – but it didn’t get them to attack Lebanon’s Serail.
The funeral wasn’t even over yet when someone who was unkown to the majority of the Lebanese people decided to grab the microphone and start shouting.
He said every single thing unimaginable while the children of the person being buried cried their father. He worked the crowds’ instinct with cries of sectarianism and hate. He was uninhibited. He was out of line. And he took center stage.
Nadim Koteich called on these people not to hear their politicians and to attack the serail. Which they did. Nadim Koteich, the miracle child of Future TV, with a 30 minute TV show in which he provides “valuable” political analysis, the kind that doesn’t offer anything new except get people worked up and angry, needs to be fired.
A person like him, with obvious political prospects, doesn’t even have the inhibitions to know what can be said from what cannot. A person like him should never be given a platform because once he gets going, he doesn’t know where to stop.
I blame the politicians who saw it fit to give such a person a podium in order to shout. But I cannot ask for them to be fired. Is Nadim Koteich getting fired the best thing that can be done? No. The best solution would be an overhaul of our social system, one where people like Nadim Koteich would speak words that fall on deaf ears. But firing him is something that can be needed. If he remains in his job, spreading his poisonous, empty and useless words, it will seem as if it’s okay to get people to attack the Serail. It will seem as if what he did was nothing wrong.
He needs to be punished for what he has done. If it’s not for the sake of the country, let it be for the sake of the man whose funeral he just turned into a freakshow.
It would be a shame if history was to write that a man like Nadim Koteich managed to let the country slip into the mayhem it looks to be heading to. Such a disgrace of a human being.
A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares 
He didn’t even bother apologizing on Kaleim l neis!
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awesome words mate . was thinking those exact words last night while watching that freakshow.
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Very well said.
Lara, not only did he not apologize on Kalem el Neis, he had the courage to say that even if it would costed us a civil war, he would still have went on with what he has very thoroughly planned with his wife for our country.
This guy felt he had a five minute chance to get himself a moment of Fame, at the expense of the country ofcourse! There were the politicians on phones and screens trying to clean up the mess he caused!
He should not have been given a microphone.
Honestly at first, I was also worried seeing him as one of the guests at the talkshow Kalam El Neiss yesterday, I thought what else could he irresponsibly solicite. But all worries disappeared as I realized how un-charismatic he turned out to be. Seriously, all this guy needs is a bit of Xanax, and an empty playground where he could practice his speeches without a microphone, if ever they decided to hand him one again. I underline IF EVER !
RIP Wissam El Hassan.
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Very well said.
Lara, not only did he not apologize on Kalem el Neis, he had the courage to say that even if it would have costed us a civil war, he would still have went on with what he has very thoroughly planned with his wife for our country.
This guy felt he had a five minute chance to get himself a moment of Fame, at the expense of the country ofcourse! There were the politicians on phones and screens trying to clean up the mess he caused!
He should not have been given a microphone.
Honestly at first, I was also worried seeing him as one of the guests at the talkshow Kalam El Neiss yesterday, I thought what else could he irresponsibly solicite. But all worries disappeared as I realized how un-charismatic he turned out to be. Seriously, all this guy needs is a bit of Xanax, and an empty playground where he could practice his speeches without a microphone, if ever they decided to hand him one again. I underline IF EVER !
RIP Wissam El Hassan.
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i live in usa and i love everything nadim doe s ,i like his show i respect his courage,his knowledge ,i wish him all the best wherever he is…
,sobhi. michigan usa
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