Whack Job of the Week is Christiane Amanpour

Born in London, January 12, 1958, to father Mohammad, an Iranian airline executive, and British mother Patricia. The family soon moved to Tehran, Iran. The Amanpour family led a very lavish, privileged life under the government of the Shah of Iran. At age 11, she returned to England to attend first, the Holy Cross Convent School in Buckinghamshire, England, and then the New Hall School, an exclusive Roman Catholic girls' school. Her family was forced to flee Iran after Jimmy Carter's indecisiveness as the U.S. President, failed to head off the extremist Islamic Revolution of 1979. Some consider this to be the start or the catalyst to the Long War with Islamic Fascism we find ourselves in today. And if you look back over the last 28 years, it's clear to see who in our political world, as well as the media world, had the fortitude to publicly recognize and stand against the growing Islamic aggression... as well as who amongst them ignored it.

Amanpour moved to the United States to study journalism at the University of Rhode Island. During that time she also worked in the News Department at WBRU-FM Providence. She graduated from URI Summa Cum Laude, with a BA in Journalism, in 1983. From there she went to work for NBC affiliate WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island as an electronic graphics designer. Also in 1983, she was hired by CNN where she began honing her career as an on-air personality. In 1989, she was posted to Frankfurt, Germany, where she reported on the democratic revolutions sweeping Eastern Europe at the time. Massive change brought about by Ronald Reagan's stand against tyranny, but not always reported as such.

It was her coverage of the Persian Gulf War that followed Iraq's virtual devouring of Kuwait in 1990, that made her a famous face.

During the Clinton days she reported from the Bosnian war and many other conflict zones. Her overkill emotional delivery from Sarajevo during the Siege of Sarajevo led many viewers and critics to question her professional objectivity and journalistic integrity, which she replied to by saying this, "There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing."

Wait a minute... rewind that... "There some situations one simply cannot be neutral about..." But I thought she was supposed to be an un-biased reporter for a major cable-news network... "the most trusted name in news." And what about this, "giving each side a hearing..." crap...? Do we really need to hear much more from people who will either lie to us... or attempt to convert or kill us...?

From 1996-2005, Amanpour contracted with CBS to file four to five in-depth, international news reports a year as a special contributor on that network's newsmagazine program, 60 Minutes. She has had many memorable moments in her career, one of them being a telephone interview with Yasser Arafat during the siege on his compound in March 2002, during which Chairman Arafat hung up on her. Another was landing the first and only post-election interview of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by a Western journalist in 2005.

Based out of CNN's London bureau, Amanpour is one of the most recognized international correspondents on American television. Her willingness to work in dangerous conflict zones has reportedly made her one of the most highest paid field reporters in the world. She speaks English, Persian, and French fluently, and she has been the recipient of countless industry awards, including a Peabody, Polk, and International Emmy awards.

Now, all of her credentials and accolades are very impressive, she's obviously a very intelligent and accomplished lady... she doesn't exactly rank with some of our previous, more violent or actually crazy WJOTW's, and I'm sure on a personal, human level, she's probably a very interesting person to talk to... but where is it written that Ms. Amanpour is genuinely objective in her reporting of the news...?

Case in point... her marriage to an obvious Liberal and hardcore Democrat operative. In 1998 Ms. Amanpour married James Rubin, who early in his career was the Assistant Director of Research at the Arms Control Association. He went on to serve under President Clinton as assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Chief Spokesman for the State Department from 1997 to May 2000. He went on to be the chief foreign policy spokesman for NATO failure, General Wesley Clark and his dismal 2005 presidential campaign, and then worked for Democratic nominee John Kerry, serving as a senior advisor for national security affairs. And the Liberal coincidence furthers with Mr. Rubin's sister... Ms. Amanpour's sister-in-law, Elizabeth Rubin, who just happens to be a staff-writer for The New York Times Magazine. And these close family-ties have no affect on her personal or political views or the way in which she reports on world events and situations... situations which she herself admitted she cannot be neutral about...?

A Vietnam veterans group once wrote in the New York Times, "Now that the Sarin gas fraud has been exposed -- what about Bosnia coverage by Christiane Amanpour who fed the American people a nightly diet of slanted reports and chilling images?"

The very Liberal Washington Post even complained once on the op-ed, "When it comes to Israel, Amanpour is certainly no friend. The same can't be said about her attitude toward the PLO. And in neither case can she fairly be labeled an objective journalist."

Of course... TIME Magazine actually referred to Ms. Amanpour as... "most influential foreign correspondent since Edward R. Murrow." But please, consider the source... and by "influential," could they mean, she's the most likely and able to get her opinions across to more people...?

Opinions like... "To the West, martyrdom has a really bad connotation because of suicide bombers who call themselves martyrs," she said. "Really, martyrdom is actually something that historically was quite noble, because it was about standing up and rejecting tyranny, rejecting injustice and rejecting oppression and, if necessary, dying for that." Ok... did you catch that America...? Martyrdom is a noble cause. I'm not stupid, I realize the context in which she's saying this... however... she's still bold-faced justifying the Islamics killing themselves and others in the name of martyrdom and Allah.

The point is this my friends... Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Neal Boortz, and the like... are considered evil by the mainstream, dead-horse, drive-by media... and why...? Because they've broken up the Liberal media monopoly that held a suffocating strangle-hold on the dissemination of information in this country for decades. They demonize the Conservatives, Republicans, and Libertarians... slander them with stereotypical titles such as homophobic, fear-monger, war-monger, religious fascist or the recently ever present accusation of lying. Those voices on Talk-Radio, some on FOX News, and some on the internet... have been branded Hate Speech by those who simply disagree with them on ideology and politics. This is why the Dems want to reinstate the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which they know would virtually destroy Talk Radio as we know it, forcing "fairness," and "equality," down everyone's throats, whether we like it or not.

The Liberals and Socialists slam Limbaugh for being a "nasty, evil, conservative," and claim he's so horribly biased he and anyone like him simply cannot and must no be trusted. But in the same breath, they praise people like Christiane Amanpour for being a "politically strong journalist." And they appreciate the fact that she's attempting to affect American foreign policy with her hard-hitting jet-setting opinion-laced journalism.

Chris Mathews of NBC's Hardball was a speech writer for Jimmy Carter and worked for several other prominent Democrats, and clearly takes the Democrat Party stance during his "reporting," and debating... but no one question's his objectivity. George Stephanopoulos was the goddamned "Communications Director" for Bill Clinton... and works where now...? Well he took over David Brinkley's Sunday morning news program, ABC's This Week... and strangely, no one ever question's his credibility in reporting the news objectively. And yet... Sean Hannity is the devil...? How does that work out to be fair...???

Just listen to the "Hate-Hannity-Line" segment on Sean Hannity's nationally syndicated radio show and you'll hear people saying that he's a "lying sum-bag," and a "fascist piece of shit," and that they wished violence on him and his family... it's really disgusting. And why...? Because people disagree with his politics...? Because he has a different moral compass than others...? At least the man stands for something... and he's not afraid to admit and disclose his political and ideological ideas and desires for this country.

Unlike... Ms. Amanpour... who, although a reporter, obviously has her own political agenda, incorporating her own views into stories. And when she's accused of being biased, she has responded, "What does it mean to be completely unbiased? If I were covering the Holocaust, would I have to say, ‘Oh, the poor Nazis, maybe they have a point?’"

For instance... this distinguished, award-winning, chief-international correspondent for, "the most trusted name in news," the world famous Christiane Amanpour, of Iranian descent, seems to be going to great-televised-lengths to glorify and justify the culture and teachings of Muhammad and Allah... at the same time she seems to put into question everyone else. I'm referring of course to her new "documentary" series on CNN entitled, "God's Warriors," where Amanpour collects hours of interviews and video, comparing the three main world religions Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. She declares that all of these religions have respect for one another, until politics gets thrown into the mix and then the violence. Ignoring of course that violence fuels the majority of Muslims into their world domination mentality. She also seems to want to equate certain elements of the "peaceful" religion of Islam with the "totalitarian" like Christians and Jews, in America and Israel.

And if you doubt my words... please look at a few other perspectives on Amanpour's journalistic treatment of religion and politics on Newsbusters.org.

And if you doubt those view-points or deem them too partisan... take another hard look at the "peaceful" religion of Islam.

"And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place."

-- Christiane Amanpour

Patrioticthunder.com salutes our Whack-Job-of-the-Week... Ms. Christiane Amanpour... the non-American who makes money off our Capitalistic system by ridiculing and questioning everything about us... we salute you for pulling it off. You Toe the Party line while you bank on stupid Americans... your comrades should be very proud of you.

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