Posted on 08/02/2010 11:20:25 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
With pomp and panoply befitting a visit from a foreign dignitary, ABC raised the curtain on its newly revamped "This Week" program and introduced in a big way the superstar who's taken it over in a big, big way: Christiane Amanpour, veteran CNN foreign correspondent now uneasily relocated to a desk job.
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Perhaps in keeping with the newly globalized program, the commendable "In Memoriam" segment ended with a tribute not to American men and women who died in combat during the preceding week but rather, said Amanpour in her narration, in remembrance of "all of those who died in war" in that period. Did she mean to suggest that our mourning extend to members of the Taliban?
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I don’t know. I think MTP should have been hosted by Monica Crowley.
“I don’t know. I think MTP should have been hosted by Monica Crowley.”
My bad. I meant This Week. Ann Coulter should host MTP.
Why is drudge so popular? Because he created a way for people to judge for themselves what the story is and what they think. Network news is dead. People are not naive idiots that listened to some old sage like cronkite to tell them what they think. Give us the raw video, tweet, or post and we will surmise for ourselves what it means and why its important. If those people out there can not do that by now they never will.
IDIOTIC DECISION!!
No network that values its news division would hire someone born in Iran, educated in exclusive (left-wing) English boarding schools and married to a member of the Clinton administration. That's why she's so perfect for ABC.
Maybe it's just me, but I think her voice and mannerisms reek of arrogant elitism.
Totally agree.
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