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Inquiry launched against popular Egypt TV host

Accused of jabs at Morsi in case testing freedoms

CAIRO — Egyptian prosecutors launched an investigation on Tuesday against a popular television satirist for allegedly insulting the president in the latest case raised by Islamist lawyers against outspoken media personalities.

A lawyer, Ramadan Abdel-Hamid al-Oqsori, accused Bassem Youssef, a TV host, of insulting President Mohammed Morsi by putting the Islamist leader’s image on a pillow and parodying his speeches.

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morsi=god.   Pete Townsend said it best,  "meet the new boss, same as the old boss."