Posted on 05/12/2008 7:50:38 PM PDT by Pyro7480
Christiane Amanpour interviewed former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, famous for her October 2000 meeting with North Korean dictator Kim "He’s Not a Nut" Jong Il, as part of her "Notes from North Korea" program, which aired on Saturday and Sunday evenings. During the segment, the CNN senior international correspondent failed to note how her husband, James Rubin, worked as spokesman and Assistant Secretary for State for Albright from 1997 until May 2000. Albright emphasized how "it's possible to have verifiable agreements" with the North Korean regime and how "negotiations need to be pursued actively." The Clinton administration that she worked for conducted negotiations with the communist dictatorship during the 1990s and signed a nuclear agreement with them, which the North Korean government violated by conducting a secret uranium enrichment program. So much for "verifiable agreements."
Amanpour did call the North Korean regime "a police state" and a "dictatorship" during her special, but she downplayed the communist government’s responsibility for the deaths of millions of North Koreans during a famine in the 1990s. [audio available here]
...During the interview segment, which began 34 minutes in the hour-long program, Amanpour ran footage from Albright’s visit, showing the then-Secretary of State posing, walking, and meeting with the North Korean dictator, as well as being treated to one of the country’s "legendary mass dances" ["Airplane!" director David Zucker famously spoofed Albright's visit in a 2006 political ad]
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Why are they always clapping ?
Christiane Amanpour is a woman?
But my main problem with her at State was that she honestly thought the US being the only super power was bad for the world and she worked to reduce US influence while building up the EU and others. She claimed there must be a balance of powers - a tension. That's my recollection from her speeches, papers and readings during the time.
No, and neither is albright.
I worked in Viet Nam in the mid 90’s. There were only a couple of TV channels and most ex-pat bars put the tube on CNN Intl. Nearly every segment featured Christian Amanpour with Andrea Koppel as the primary talking head.
Gawd, it was awful! Two people saying fairly clearly every day that everyone should hate America.
I didn’t read the entire article; does it note that Amanpour is Iranian? She is, in fact.
CNN senior international correspondent failed to note how her husband, James Rubin, worked as spokesman and Assistant Secretary for State for Albright
Yes, but she herself isn’t Muslim. She’s a secularist through and through.
This woman hates Israel, and Christianity. Did anyone see her "Special" on religions? Islam was constantly "explained" and Judeo-Christianity had to be "exposed."
Kim Jong Il: Now you see, the changing of the worrd is inevitabre!
Lisa: I'm sorry, it's what?
Kim Jong Il: Inevit, inevitabre.
Lisa: One more time.
Kim Jong Il: [shouts] INEVITABRE! Things are inevitabrey going to change! G*ddamnit, open your f*cking ears!
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