Breitbart reports that ABC’s Christiane Amanpour is slated to host a new ABC mini-series on the history and roots of the Middle East conflict. Amanpour has never even tried to keep her antipathy toward Israel (or America) under wraps, so it’s not clear why ABC is setting itself up for such a huge credibility hit:
Join ABC News’ Christiane Amanpour on the ultimate road trip as she travels to the lands of the Bible to explore the powerful stories from Genesis to the Birth of Jesus. “Back to the Beginning” peels back the layers of history and faith that has inspired billions. Amanpour, the veteran war correspondent, wanted to investigate the roots of those stories that have created so much conflict, and at the same time so much of the healing she has seen across her career. It is an extraordinary journey through the deserts and cities of the ancient world, to the historical and pilgrimage sites associated with the epic tale that is the backbone of Judaism, Christianity and Islam today. “BACK TO THE BEGINNING,” a two-part, four-hour special, airs on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21 (9:00 – 11:00 pm ET) and FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28 (9:00 – 11:00 pm ET)on the ABC TELEVISION NETWORK.
The last time Amanpour hosted a similar mini-series, 2007’s “God’s Warriors” on CNN, she brought on John Mearsheimer for an uncritical interview about the “Israel Lobby” and portrayed Israeli settlements as the main obstacle to a two-state solution, according to CAMERA. For her efforts, she won the title of Dishonest Reporter of the Year from Honest Reporting.
And it’s not just pro-Israel groups that have noticed Amanpour’s anti-Israel bias. Washington Post TV columnist Tom Shales cited this as one of the main reasons she shouldn’t have been hired to host ABC’s This Week — which proved prescient after the ratings tanked and she stepped down. Why ABC would choose such a polarizing and overtly biased commentator like Amanpour to lead a mini-series on the Middle East conflict is baffling.
Not too baffling. The political and anti-Semitic bigotry of the so-called 'main' media outlets has been all too apparent for decades. Even Fox, the only half way decent news organization that can even be referred to as a 'news' organization, occasionally has the lingering Nazi Patrick Buchanan as a guest. Deplorable. The distinguished conservative William Buckley referred to Buchanan as an anti-Semite. He was being too kind.
It's not baffling in the least if you live in our culture. It's status quo.
Add to that Amanapour's bias against Christians,and ABC gets a two-fer.
I penned a note to ABC asking them to hire either Hamas or David Duke instead since at least they'd gain the credibility of someone who openly states their beliefs with the courage of their convictions no matter how grotesque they are. Amanpour isn't even a good liar on that score.
Bwa hahaha! If I could vote-up your comment a thousand times, Your Highness, I assuredly would do so.
Abe, I looked it up, and I thought you'd want to know that one properly addresses an empress as her Imperial Majesty.
By Jove, you're right, Master of Protocol Ahad. I extend my sincerest apologies to Her Imperial Majesty, as well as Her loyal and ever-watchful Court for my base, but wholly unintentional faux pas. I can only hope and prey that I will not be struck off the hunting season's imperial party lists. Perish the thought. The woods, I hear, are veritably lousy with game this Winter….perhaps you too have noticed the growing number of Paulbots springing out of the thickets with every instance the word "Paul" appears on this site?
I have, and I am grateful for Her Imperial Majesty's response to them — and needless to say, for yours. Keep punching!
Interesting, that ABC would premier what will undoubtedly be another "authoritative" antisemitism-lite shlock well into the Jewish Sabbath. n nBut let us seek goodness in humanity and assume that ABC has some vestigal remnants of decency left in trying to spare at least the Sabbath-observant Jews from throwing up all over their living room rugs.
Have you noticed also how anti-Israel demonstrations nearly always seem to be scheduled for the Jewish Sabbath?
Oh, yes, I have. But it doesn't work at universities, I also noticed, as no one's up until the afternoon on Saturdays. And then, the suffering scholars need to hydrate with endless cups of coffee in bed, while the sound of their own breathing makes them wince, never mind the jolly shouts of alahu akbar, "free Palestine," "death to the Jews" and such.
The ancestors of those kids used to shout hep, hep, as they murdered Jews over the fact that Jerusalem was in Muslim hands and not in Christian hands. n nNow their descendants want to murder Jews over the fact that Jerusalem is NOT in Muslim hands. n
But let's remember that if you need to protect yourself from charges of anti-Semitism, a Jewish spouse is an excellent shield. And James Rubin, the parve State Department Jew who regularly defended Clinton's and Madeline Albright's love for Yassir Arafat, suitably serves the purpose.
Amanpour is a fascist who doesn't even try to hide it.
We complain about NPR, we groan about the NYTimes, we cry over PBS and CNN, we wring our hands over all the bad things those naughty Arabs and Iranians say about us, and we beg the Europeans to love us, pretty please. How pathetic it all is. n nAnd perhaps the worst of it is how we allow our own Evil Sons and Daughters, those Jews who slander Israel and Judaism, while doing all they can to lend support to Israel's enemies, the Arabs who consider Jews less-than-human and who desire nothing more to slit our throats. And we say nothing, do nothing—as these Jews put us and Israel in grave danger. And they are everywhere these Evil Sons and Daughters. We know who they are, we hear what they say, read what they write—and do nothing about it. n nNow comes Christiane Amanpour, who is married to an openly anti-Semitic Jew, James Rubin. Amanpour once again plans to slander Israel on television. She's been at this for decades, and has probably caused many deaths in Israel already. If not opposed, even discouraged from going on as she has, she will doubtless cause many more Jewish deaths. n nWhy is she doing this, and why does ABC go along with her and those associated with her? Who are they? Who are all of them, the ones who think they can say and do as they like when it comes to harming Israel and the Jewish people? Who can overestimate the contempt they must feel for us? How is it that they slander and threaten Israel, without any response from us—other than these lame, repetitive articles? Do those who write them think we need to know every detail about our executioners? Will "knowledge" stop the executions? Did knowledge stop the Holocaust? n nIs it any wonder that Jew-hatred is again showing ominous signs of exploding into violence? Or that, again, we Jews are held in contempt everywhere in the world? Nothing is more dangerous to us than contempt. Contempt is prelude to treating Jews as sub-humans, with all that implies. n nI cannot tell any Jewish man what to do, but the words "honor" and "Never Again" come to mind. What happened to those words? Have we forgotten what occurred to our relatives just 70 years ago throughout Europe? Then, honor was uncommon among Jews, at least the kind of honor that other men respect. As for Never Again, none alive then had any idea what was coming. Now, we do. What's our excuse this time?
"I cannot tell any Jewish man what to do, but the words "honor" and "Never Again" come to mind." nSo do the words "NRA Personal Protection Course". And the words "striker fired," "center fire" "polymer frame" and "double stack magazine"
Episode 1: Adam and Eve, the First Palestinians….