U.S. State Department building in Washington, D.C.
(Credit: Getty Images) Humor sometimes does not travel well.
Earlier today, the U.S. embassy in Cairo pulled a tweet that managed to annoy Egypt's government. The apparently innocuous link to a "Daily Show" episode from earlier in the week, which tweaked Egypt's government for going after a prominent television critic, had quickly transmogrified into a mini-diplomatic crisis yesterday after Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's office tweeted a tart response: "It's inappropriate for a diplomatic mission to engage in such negative political propaganda."
In the last year the two governments have butted heads on a number of issues, the latest being legislation pushed by Egypt's Islamist-leaning government to regulate nongovernmental organizations. Also, a new law, adopted by the Shura Council, limits the ability of people to gather and demonstrate.
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