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Morsi says certain forces control media, give him bad press

By JTA

JANUARY 24, 2013 13:33

WASHINGTON -- Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi told US senators on Wednesday that he gets bad US press because "certain forces" control the media.

The senators who met last week with Morsi understood him to be referring to Jews and "recoiled," one of the participating lawmakers, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), told The Cable, a blog on the Foreign Policy magazine website.

The conversation grew heated, but Morsi never specifically named the Jews as responsible for his negative media and the senators decided eventually to move on to other topics.

At at a news conference afterward, the senators said the overall meeting was positive. They had raised among other topics the revelation last week that in 2010, Morsi had referred to Zionists as descended from "pigs and apes" and "bloodthirsty."

Morsi's spokesman said that the slurs had been taken out of context and Morsi respected those who belong to monotheistic religions.

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