Posted on 01/30/2010 8:30:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
CNN spiked a hot story on Sunday. But if their plan was to keep a lid on a heated and unflattering Christiane Amanpour interview, it didn’t quite work out. Christiane Amanpour interviewed author Marc Thiessen about his hot new book, Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack last Wednesday, January 20. But Thiessen turned the tables on Amanpour and instead confronted her about her biased reporting.
The show broadcast to CNN’s international audience, as planned. The piece was then to air in the large U.S. market Sunday. However, it appears that after Thiessen firmly called out CNN’s star reporter for spreading mistruths about enhanced interrogation, one of her pet issues, the network opted to not air the show at all in the United States.
Here’s where the story gets interesting. Fox News Channel then grabbed the CNN video clips off YouTube and aired parts of the revealing interview on its two top rated shows, "The O’Reilly Factor" and "Hannity." The net effect was that parts of the interview were seen domestically by more than ten times the number who would have seen it had the show simply aired on CNN alone.
No doubt CNN would argue the Sunday airing was bumped by more pressing news, including Haiti, and that argument might normally fly, except that Haiti had already happened when Amanpour interviewed Thiessen, yet at the time the show’s producers had no problem guaranteeing that the interview would air on Sunday. It seems their decision changed after they saw the actual interview.
http://www.youtube.com/user/courtingdisasterbook#p/a/u/0/2HeAhjP9l8U
CLIP from Sean Hannity :
http://www.youtube.com/user/courtingdisasterbook#p/a/u/2/PNNtLD1x_CU
Too funny.
“Courting Disaster”
Isn’t that what is already happening?
Didn’t we very nearly lose an airline at Christmas???
"Yes" = Will get my vote
"No" = Will join obamao in his cell at Gitmo
"Not Certain" = Will get RINO-restoration coupon for free reattachment of certain body parts.
No, just one aircraft.
CLIP from the O’Reilly Factor:
http://www.youtube.com/user/courtingdisasterbook#p/a/u/0/2HeAhjP9l8U
CLIP from Sean Hannity:
http://www.youtube.com/user/courtingdisasterbook#p/a/u/2/PNNtLD1x_CU
The interesting part to me was that Ms. Amanpour used the following wording, “water torture” .. not “water boarding”, and there is a world of difference between the two. I believe some countries use water torture, and this was the info Ms. Amanpour used to denounce America.
But .. AMERICA DOES NOT USE WATER TORTURE! We have used water boarding (on 3 people) WITH GREAT SUCCESS. The mastermind of 9/11 babbled like a brook when they used it on him.
I was glad to see Ms. Amanpour get her due.
Wow...Mark Thiessens message on that Hannity clip needs to be sounded all across America. Chilling what Obama and cronies are doing to unprotect the nation from terrorists.
Way to go, Fox!!! LOVE IT!!!
I sure won’t be watching that sick bitch!
Having experienced water-boarding myself, I can tell you it is NOT torture!
I don’t understand how anyone can find Amanpour appealing. Every word out of her mouth drips with arrogance and condescension. She was so flabbergasted to be called out in HER interview. It really is priceless!
Ping
CLIP from the O’Reilly Factor :
http://www.youtube.com/user/courtingdisasterbook#p/a/u/0/2HeAhjP9l8U
CLIP from Sean Hannity :
http://www.youtube.com/user/courtingdisasterbook#p/a/u/2/PNNtLD1x_CU
CNN International is based out of London, it’s full of ex BBC staff. It’s broadcast to Europe and especially the Middle East, most of its advertising targets Middle Eastern consumers and its editorial line is really biased towards Middle Eastern perceptions and coddles to their grievances.
Europe tolerates it because their own medias do the same things, look at France 2. Amanpour can get away it in Europe, but not in the States. Thank Goodness! Bravo FOX!
Wow! I’ve never actually talked to anybody who experienced water-boarding before. You know I believe it’s not torture, but why do you believe it’s NOT torture ..??
She is one ugly person on the inside.
Surf's up!
Isn’t Sky News affiliated with Fox News? Maybe they can play it in Europe.
Amanpour is extremely biased and it has showed thru over the decades. glad to see that Thiessen “bitch-slapped” her for if there ever was a bitch that needed a slapping, it is her.
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