Amanpour Says Her Version Of This Week Will Bring ‘Different Voices And Perspectives’
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Christiane Amanpour takes over ABC’s This Week Sunday, and today she was on ABCNews.com’s “Top Line” to talk about what viewers can expect and to preview the first show.
The “double exclusive” will include Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“I’ve landed in a place where there’s a massive story and it has been so for a few years, and I think it’s really peaking right now,” said Amanpour to hosts Rick Klein and Jon Karl. “It’s going to be competitive, because it is a Washington-based show.”
She also explained how her foreign coverage will inform her D.C.-centric program:
I am fascinated by the policy, by the principles of the US government, by the way the government works. Can it actually meet the needs of the people? I’m always fascinated by ‘what does this mean for the people?’ I’ve been searching that out in my travels abroad and I want to search it out here.
Besides Gates and Pelosi, Amanpour said to expect the roundtable that viewers “know and love” to remain on the show, however with some new guests. “We’ll also want to eventually start adding and increasing the different voices and different perspectives,” she said.
We’ll have more on Amanpour’s first week of guests as we get it…
Here’s Amanpour on ABCNews.com’s “Top Line” appearance:
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I plan to go the Vigil Mass Saturday night so I won’t miss this. At long last, intelligence. On American television news! Who would have thought?
AT FOX NEWS, HONESTY
IS NOT OUR POLICY.
This will be a disaster. She’s just another left-wing advocate.
She’s dignified…I’ll give her that. But she’s just another partisan hack. She actually feels that Obama deserved the preemptive Nobel Peace Prize. A prize that was give has he signed the authorization for a troop build up in Afghanistan……man you can’t make this crap up.
Partisan how? Conservative/Tory? (New) Labour? Liberal Democrat?
AT FOX NEWS, HONESTY
IS NOT OUR POLICY.
Insulting Rioters = Insulting Obama
“The black people in France are very proud and very hopeful for their future. They also live, many of them, in poor situations. And you know, you’ve had your own riots here and protests and disturbances in the Banlieue – in the city. At one point, when we were covering those riots, when you were Interior Minister, you called the rioters ’scum.’ And I’m wondering whether you feel, today, when you stand next to someone you clearly admire so much, and who has broken so many barriers, that you regret that term or that you wish you hadn’t said it?”
- CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour to French President Nicolas Sarkozy during a July 25, 2008 press conference with Barack Obama shown live on CNN. [Audio/video (0:51): Windows Media | MP3 audio]
Criticism of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize ‘Overdone’
“Can I just say, I think it’s overdone, this pushing back against his award. He’s obviously done something very significant, and that is, after eight years in which the United States was really held in contempt around the world, the United States has now had a new relationship with the rest of the world.”
- Christiane Amanpour, reacting to criticism of President Obama being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, December 10, 2009 American Morning on CNN. [Audio/video (0:44): Windows Media | MP3 audio]
Hillary’s Dignity, or Dependency?
“A lot of the women that I meet from traveling overseas are very impressed by you and admire your dignity. A lot of the people you meet are people who suffered, people you saw today, and who believe that they identify with you, because they have seen you suffer. And in a speech in Africa last year, you spoke about living for hope and reconciliation, living for forgiveness and reconstruction, and living for a new life – have you been able to apply that to your own circumstances? Have you been able to forgive your husband?”
- CNN’s Christine Amanpour to Hillary Clinton in Macedonia after a tour of refugee camps, May 14, 1999.
Scary ‘Totalitarian’ Christians
“On [Christian youth activist Ron Luce's Honor Academy] campus, students must follow a strict set of rules: No secular music or television. No R-rated movies. No alcohol. No drugs. No dating. [To Luce] When I, you know, read that women have to wear skirts of a certain length and guys aren’t allowed to, you know, go on the Internet unsupervised, I mean, I think, you know, totalitarian regimes.”
- Correspondent Christiane Amanpour in her August 23, 2007 profile of “Christian Warriors,” the last of CNN’s 3-part special on “God’s Warriors.”
Copy and pasting from Hot Air?
As usual, you copy and paste without comment and without context. What are you trying to prove by these comments? This is simply silly and tedious.
AT FOX NEWS, HONESTY
IS NOT OUR POLICY.
Kind of like your statements regarding AB:
He was angry over the question of reparations to African American farmers, and he found a living target. Whether you think reparations a good think or not, he had formed malicious intent.
At least mine are actual statements from my target.
Seriously. And Michelle, don’t forget that the God’s Warriors series also looked at Islam and Judaism. It didn’t single out Christians or unfairly persecute them.
MichelleFart has no original thought. What do you expect?
Let’s see what happens.
Great that she’s coming , because there’s been a serious shortage of sneering lefties on TV .
Yes we will hear “different voices.” Those of commies and terrorists who have wanted a stage on network TV because no one watches ‘em on MSNBC.
YES!!!1 Controlling the DRESS and BEHAVIOR of young people, limiting their access to “CORRUPTING” influences, INDOCTRINATING them into a certain way of thinking… totalitarian regime?!?!?1111 I THINK NOT!!!1 Sounds like good old fashioned CHRISTIANITY to me!!!1 Gimme that OLD TIME RELIGION!!!!1 MichelleF, your cut-and-pastes once again hit the NAIL right on the ol’ HEAD!!!11 Praise King Jesus!!!1
Christianne is a member of journolist; her reportage is not to be trusted. She carries the water, the message of himself, she bows at the alter of the obamasiah.
ABC had an opportunity to go fair and balanced, but instead threw their own under the bus, and hired an outsider who is nothing but another liberal left winger.
Fail.
Christiane needs an extra dressing room for her flying monkeys . … And the problem with Tapper was …?
@TfT: A search of the Daily Caller produces an article dated today about Amanpour’s perceived bias, but in the four pages on the website that is publishing the JournoList archives, she isn’t identified as a member and a search doesn’t produce her name in conjunction with any of the JournoList articles, nor is anything apparent via Google.
Is there a footnoted master list somewhere or is JournoList the new unfounded smear?
Mean while, over at Islam fanatic land, the Taliban are cutting women’s nose off.
Like I said, she also did special reports on Islam and Judaism, not that MichelleF, Hot Air, or other right-wingers care.
I know I watched the series. But it’s very hard to compare long skirts and supervised internet access to cutting off someone head in the name of Islam.
I think the point of the series was to show the differences between religious extremes in different locations and among the different major religions. As such I found it very interesting. I don’t think she was attempting to rank religious extremists. Plus, let’s not forget that Christian extremists commit murder as well.
You are completely right, they do at times.
Thomas J – Libertarian = the artist formerly known as “Liberty Banned” and “Liberty – Not Redistribution”
So kind of like The Artist Formerly Known As Prince?
Yeah but I’m not 4 foot tall, nor do I wear high-heels
Ha. It’s good to know you’re not a young girl, or Prince.
Christiane Amanpour’s biased reporting causes a backlash to her selection as host of ABC’s This Week
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/30/the-biases-of-christiane-amanpour/#ixzz0vAoZbiPy
A backlash? Really? Based on one off-the-record comment in a single story? Hyperbole much?
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