CNN’s Upcoming Miniseries Equates Christian Activists with Taliban?

NewsBusters.org ^ | 8/20/2007 | Matthew Balan

[Pyro7480]

CNN's upcoming miniseries "God's Warriors," hosted by left-wing bias exemplar Christiane Amanpour, looks like it will play the old liberal game of moral equivalence. Amanpour reportedly compares Christian chastity advocates to the Taliban in the miniseries. Even the promos for the miniseries which have been running on CNN for the past few weeks demonstrate the probable "game plan" that Amanpour and CNN have in mind, grouping together pro-life Christian college students protesting in front of the Supreme Court, Jewish settlers on the West Bank, and Islamic radicals. To paraphrase an old children's jingle, "two of these things are not like the other."

An "unprecedented six-hour television event," the miniseries will examine "God's Jewish Warriors" on Tuesday night, "God's Muslim Warriors" on Wednesday night, and "God's Christian Warriors" on Thursday night. A preview of "God's Christian Warriors," which ran on Friday's "The Situation Room," featured an interview of Jerry Falwell, which was conducted a week before the evangelical pastor's death. As one might expect, Amanpour asked Falwell about his much-publicized connection of the 9/11 attacks with secularism in America, in particular, the legalization of abortion.

The preview also juxtaposed clips from the Falwell interview with file footage of the bombing at a Birmingham, Alabama abortion clinic in 1998, and other attacks on abortionists from the 1990s that, in Amanpour's words, were conducted by "radical opponents [who] had long waged their holy war against abortion clinics," which also "terrified many women."

Amanpour also claimed that this violence "not only frightened a number of abortion clinics into closing, it also caused a public backlash," presumably against the wider pro-life movement, which is a debatable claim, given the continued viability of the pro-life movement. It is not clear from this preview whether Amanpour mentions in her documentary the fact that all mainstream pro-life leaders and organizations have repeatedly condemned violence against abortion providers.

The AP's David Bauder wrote positively of Amanpour and the upcoming minseries in an article on Monday. Bauder mentioned Amanpour's treatment of a "fundamentalist Christian group" called BattleCry in the miniseries (a preview of this can be viewed on YouTube). The following excerpt is another clue which supports the theory that Amanpour and CNN have their "moral equivalence" hat on.

The segment on Christians explores BattleCry in some depth, digging at the roots of an organization that fights against some of the cruder elements of popular culture and urges teenagers to be chaste. In noting how girls at some BattleCry events are encouraged to wear long dresses, Amanpour asks the group's leader how it is different from the Taliban.

Encouraging modest dress is the same as forcing girls out of school, beating women who don't wear burkhas, and publicly-executing offenders?

Given all of the above, it looks like the MRC will have a lot to write about in the upcoming week.

—Matthew Balan is a news analyst at Media Research Center.

[onedoug]

Television.

[Buckhead]

christiane is a nasty piece of work. having worked with her many years
ago, she was incredibly snobbish and self-centered. people really were
invisible to her. i’m sorry that such a dreadful person has been rewarded
so well in her work and life.

wife o’buckhead

[ma bell]

If she is married to Rubin...why do they still refer to her as..

Reached overseas, Ms. Amanpour confirmed to The Observer that she had received Mr. Murdoch's apology. "While I would not like to reveal details of my correspondence with Mr. Murdoch..

as "Ms"?

[skinkinthegrass]

More of the same from CNN

Tailwind (Part II).....no doubt

[Jacquerie]

IIRC the former Mr. Rubin, a raging DC metrosexual is working for Hildebeast’s campaign.

[Clintonfatigued]

I saw ads for this broadcast this morning, and thought it was careless at best, slanderous at worst. People of faith should not watch CNN. And this is not the only reason.

[longtermmemmory]

folks, if we want to make a statement go for the advertisers.

Simply let the advertisers know we will remember whose products will be advertised there.

Do it correctly and the only product advertised will be san francisco parade tickets

[Suzy Quzy]

Jamie Rubin came back from living in Paris as a House Husband to help Hillary??? WOW!

[khnyny]

Here’s the transcript of Amanpour’s interview tonight on Larry King re her series “God’s Warriors”. Unbelievable. Spread the word. It’s a real hit piece on Israel too.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0708/20/lkl.01.html

[Clintonfatigued]

“It’s a real hit piece on Israel too.”

I will definitely spread the word where it will do the most good.

[Salem]

"Here’s the transcript of Amanpour’s interview tonight on Larry King re her series “God’s Warriors”. Unbelievable. Spread the word. It’s a real hit piece on Israel too."

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0708/20/lkl.01.html

"I will definitely spread the word where it will do the most good."

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[bray]

The only group you are still allowed to Hate is White Christians.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Grunthor]

“CNN’s Upcoming Miniseries Equates Christian Activists with Taliban?”

To the Godless any belief in Christ is anathema and possibly dangerous.

[khnyny]

Just some more background info. I’m sure you and most others probably know this, (been mentioned before) but I’ll be redundant anyway, lol.

Christiane Amanpour is married to James Rubin, who was an Assistant Secretary of State and spokesman for the US State Department under Clinton.

Her sister is also a producer for British television.

They all live in London.

Personally, the fact that her husband worked for Clinton is all I need to know.

[Salem]

"Personally, the fact that her husband worked for Clinton is all I need to know."

Ha! Yeah, pretty much.  

[PRePublic]

I was thinking for quite some time about protesting CNN’s Christianne Amanpour’s trivializing & even glorifying Islamic Jihad as a “Godly” thing.