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.
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Hannity and O’Reilly have excerpts
Full 8 minute video of Marc Thiessen racking Christiane Amanpour——>>>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUl3iBN4PjI
And yes, re wter boarding vs water torture; while 'words mean things'; we know they do not and never will, to any Leftist worth his salt; and hence, always the soft lies embedded in all they say. . .and the 'hard lies' used to justify all they do. . .
Great exchange! Marc was great, as he didn’t look emotional, while Christiane did.
Thank you for the link to the full exchange.
Thiessen did an excellent job of hanging in there and getting out the important information despite the attempts to prevent him.
After listing thwarted attacks among which could have been an attack in London near where Mr. Sands’ office is located, Thiessen says,
“My question to Philippe is, which of the attacks would you prefer we hadn’t stopped”?
Priceless!
...and, more importantly, the lives of the people on the aircraft.
rude bitch in heat alert
Important point from the video:
He thanked his interrogators for water-boarding him. He said "You must do this for all the brothers". Why did he do that? The reason he said he did that was because the jihadi philosophy is that Allah will prevail no matter what they do. So their moral responsibility is to resist as much as they can, and then once they have resisted, they are free to say as much as they want to do, they can spill their guts.The main thing that waterboarding does is to give jihadis a face-saving way to surrender to the interrogators and cooperate.
“My question to Phillipe is, which of these attacks would you have preferred we hadn’t stopped?”
Touche!
Amanpour was the genius who informed the world that John Paul II was the “first Catholic Pope” in 200 years.
Of course, as the daughter of Mohammed Amanpour, an Iranian businessman, she may be a little shaky on Christian history.
Thiessen handled himself well. He had the English academic speechless after Thiessen listed some of the terror attacks that were avoided as a result of enhanced interrogation - including offices in London perhaps near the academic’s office - and then asked him something like “Which of those planned attacked would you prefer had not been stopped?”
Bravo Marc Thiessen!
I’m sure glad CNN and Christiane Amanpour are ‘moderates’, ‘centrists’ with no ideology. I’d hate to see what their network would be if they were left-wing ideologues. ;^(
awesome job debating the twit.
“...babbled like a brook...”
I love a great metaphor!
“What these leftists don’t get and don’t want to know about is that we do water boarding quick and clean to get information not to torture.”
and it seems the CIA has only done it three times - and valuable information was obtained.
I hope Theissen continues to fight the good fight, and sells tons of books.
This was not only most excellent, it is essential. We can no longer allow leftists intent on stripping liberal societies of all effective lawful defenses against mass-murdering, fascistic nihilists to "excuse" themselves.
And, btw, what ever happened to the liberals who one day, though now decades past, used to be among the first in line to denounce and expose anti-liberal leftists like Amanpour and Sands? Are there no liberal liberals left? It would appear they've all either become conservatives, or willingly joined the illiberal left, or devolved into feckless "useful idiots".
Folks here do know who the harridan is married (bearded) to?
The cap is not as high quality as the one you linked, and it’s in two peices, but linked below is an even more complete youtube of the debate. (Adds about 4m30s to the beginning and about 55s to the end.) It appears to be the full segment:
Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T87PGOU2tyo
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jR9KmtD5jw
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