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CNN's Amanpour wishes reviled Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe 'happy birthday'
The Daily Caller ^ | February 21, 2013 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 02/21/2013 4:22:05 PM PST by Rufus2007

In a video blog post headlined “Happy Birthday, President Mugabe,” CNN International’s Christiane Amanpour took time to commemorate the 89th birthday of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, the internationally reviled dictator who has led the once-prosperous country into near-total economic and humanitarian ruin.

Despite the persistent allegations of horrifying human-rights abuses and crippling financial issues still plaguing Zimbabwe, Amanpour’s tribute to Mugabe’s 33 years of power was mostly positive.

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Usually I'm not rattled by this sort of statement from CNN, but this really comes off as embarrassingly ignorant of third-world brutality.
1 posted on 02/21/2013 4:22:15 PM PST by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007

Mugabe has been a disaster. Its like having Obama as president for 33 years.


2 posted on 02/21/2013 4:25:00 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Rufus2007

The libs now seem to love anyone we conservatives loathe. I’m having a hard time coming up with anyone we both dislike. Anyone have an example?


3 posted on 02/21/2013 4:26:55 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: Rufus2007

wow.


4 posted on 02/21/2013 4:26:55 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Or that we both like?


5 posted on 02/21/2013 4:28:08 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: Rufus2007

Curse those who put darkness for light and light for darkness!


6 posted on 02/21/2013 4:38:43 PM PST by IslamE (epiphany)
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To: Rufus2007

So what? Who watches CNN, other then fellow Marxist
and other assorted perverts?
I have never seen CNN other then in airports. Even then, I ignore it.
Only one satellite here carries CNN.
That is why I refused to buy it, and bought G-Sat, which has only FOX.
I have to confess...Even FOX is becoming unwatchable.
I am clicking over to it less and less.


7 posted on 02/21/2013 4:38:50 PM PST by AlexW
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You’re right - no one watches CNN. Even the liberals I know don’t watch it...


8 posted on 02/21/2013 4:43:13 PM PST by GOPJ (To be free is to own one's risk - Jonathan Levy)
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To: Rufus2007

Remember when even a Lib Washington Post reporter like Tom Shales called her a globe-trotting fancypants who was completely out of touch with America? Not much has changed since then.


9 posted on 02/21/2013 4:43:39 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Rufus2007

The Commonwealth of Nations (formerly known as the British Commonwealth) suspended Zimbabwe back in 2002. Zimbabwe withdrew from the Commonwealth in 2003. This is very notable, as you really have to work at being bad to get suspended from the Commonwealth (in that regard, it’s like a self-esteem school — you get points for attending, and seeming to make an effort to look like you’re trying to improve).


10 posted on 02/21/2013 4:44:18 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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Everything I need to know about this woman is displayed on her dining room wall.


11 posted on 02/21/2013 4:46:16 PM PST by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: AlexW

Agree with you on Fox. Dont’ watch much anymore. I only put Fox and Friends on in the morning to put something on while I get ready for work. And I happen to like Gretchen Carlson. :-)


12 posted on 02/21/2013 4:52:14 PM PST by cld51860 (Oderint dum metuant)
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Exactly. fox n friends and gretchen are all i can stomach. the five isnt bad but truly cant stomach beckle.


13 posted on 02/21/2013 6:05:50 PM PST by Donnafrflorida (Thru HIM all things are possible.)
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To: Rufus2007

When I think of a typical lefty journo with a stick up her/his azz I think of Amanpour, with Kathleen Parker winning honorable mention.
But it’s a long list: Geraldo, Chrissie, Brian, `Howdy Doody’, Andrea `Hatchetface’ Mitchell, Cooper, Wolf, Dowd, and on and on and on.
The lyin’ MSM, Obama’s buttbuddies ... the `stick-people’. The hollow men.

Isn’t it great to have Free Republic back?


14 posted on 02/21/2013 6:38:15 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

” I’m having a hard time coming up with anyone we both dislike. Anyone have an example?”

Such an example cannot exist. Conservatives want limited government, while liberals want an all powerful government. Conservatives cringe when they hear Obama complain that the US Constitution is outmoded because it prevents him from doing what he wants to do for “the people”. Libs, on the other hand, worship megalomaniacs who will use their power to throw some crumbs to them at the expense of other citizens.


15 posted on 02/21/2013 10:28:44 PM PST by haroldeveryman
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