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CNN's Amanpour Hoped ‘Beyond Hope’ Boston Bombing Suspects Weren't Mideast Muslims
Newsbusters ^ | April 19, 2013 | 11:16 | Tim Graham

Posted on 04/19/2013 12:17:18 PM PDT by drewh

Dave Weigel at Slate reported from an awards dinner Tuesday night for the leftish Arab American Instiute about the crowd's discomfort with the notion that the Boston assailants would turn out to "look like them." (That, I think, would mean Middle Eastern and Muslim, although AAI president James Zogby describes himself as a Maronite Catholic.) They tried not to say it out loud, he said, but then CNN's Christiane Amanpour, there to receive an award, said it for them.

"How many of us feel this burden of association and hope beyond hope that this doesn't turn out to be what it might be?" said Amanpour. "No conclusions yet." Weigel reported she read from a New York Times essay by Haider Javed Warraich, a medical resident in Boston who fretted that he didn't run into the action because as a young Pakistani male with stubble, "I look like Hollywood’s favorite post-Cold-War movie villain."

"There are no conclusions," said Amanpour. "Is it international? Is it domestic? But like all of you—I'm not Pakistani, and I'm not Arab, but I am part Iranian. And I do understand the burden of association. And I know when we know who did this, we will all unite in strong condemnation."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: amanpour; cnn
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To: RJS1950
I thought the same thing. I wonder if he fingered the two and the government let him go.
41 posted on 04/19/2013 12:43:16 PM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: drewh

So she’d rather be seen as going down flaming, I guess.


42 posted on 04/19/2013 12:45:27 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: fuzzylogic

MUSLIMS DO NOT PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS.


43 posted on 04/19/2013 12:45:29 PM PDT by ez (Laws are for little people. Criminals, politicians, police, and David Gregory are exempt.)
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To: drewh

And WHY would she wish such a thing?

When we are attacked, I kind of hope its one of our current enemies, because we don’t need new ones.

She wants a different enemy, that is the key.


44 posted on 04/19/2013 12:46:05 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: ozzymandus

What is sickening is that the Left has “radicalized” the Tea Party .... and folks in the so-called Tea Party are regular folks, socially and fiscally conservative, a lot of them Christian and certainly not violent. Tea Party rallies in DC ... no problems, grounds left cleaner than than before, etc. There have been plenty of Leftist terrorists .... no Tea Party terrorists that I’m aware of.


45 posted on 04/19/2013 12:46:14 PM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: drewh

I would call Amanpour a lying, muzzie slut, but that would be unfair and unkind to hard working sluts.


46 posted on 04/19/2013 12:46:41 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (1 Cor 15: 50-54 & 1 Thess 4: 13-17. That about covers it.)
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To: drewh

We’ve always known you were unreasonable Christine, duhhh!


47 posted on 04/19/2013 12:47:04 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: drewh
Does this act of terrorism actually change anyone here's perspective on Muslims or more accurately Islam? If it does then you haven't been paying attention.

One good thing that may come out of this is that maybe more people, particularly liberals, will finally recognize the threat.

NAWWWWWW..

48 posted on 04/19/2013 12:47:24 PM PDT by saleman
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To: drewh
SUCK IT, AMANPOUR!


49 posted on 04/19/2013 12:47:49 PM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: ez

Only doing this to change my tagline.


50 posted on 04/19/2013 12:49:08 PM PDT by ez (Muslims do not play well with others.)
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To: drewh

A Muslim is a Muslim, is a Muslim, is a Muslim and a Muslim is a damn Muslim.

AND, you ain’t ever going to find one of these bugs at a tailgate party after a Rodeo... they be Muslim.

Hey Christine, you wanna pet my dog?


51 posted on 04/19/2013 12:51:50 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
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To: drewh

She has such twisted thinking and she knows better than to say that.


52 posted on 04/19/2013 12:55:31 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Dallas59

I’ve seen that picture many times but it never fails to crack me up.


53 posted on 04/19/2013 1:00:39 PM PDT by GnL
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To: drewh

What she
Hoped beyond hope” was that they would be Tea Party white people, preferably gun owners........


54 posted on 04/19/2013 1:01:10 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: drewh

If islamic whacko is the first thing she thought of then she shouldn’t be surprised it’s the first thing the rest of us thought of.


55 posted on 04/19/2013 1:02:05 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: MissMagnolia
The left can't stand the right because we make them look so bad. It's like being ugly and stupid and having a beautiful sister who makes straight A's and keeps her room clean. You're always hoping she'll do something wrong. Not that I'm speaking from experience.
56 posted on 04/19/2013 1:04:21 PM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: newnhdad
pardon me but WTF is wrong with these people??? Why are they so obsessed with color and race and ethnicity??? It is a derangement.

identity politics and political correctness of libtards

57 posted on 04/19/2013 1:07:23 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: drewh

95% of Muslims give the other 5% a bad name.


58 posted on 04/19/2013 1:08:55 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: drewh
I hate to admit it, but I will... I'm very pleased that they weren't white, Christian, registered Republicans with Tea Party and NRA stickers on their cars. The left uses such examples to punish me and they are relentless. So, I too am guilty.

Difference being, whites, Christians, NRA members and Tea Party supporters haven't declared war on America, but that variable seems to get swept under the rug by the commies.

59 posted on 04/19/2013 1:13:32 PM PDT by FunkyZero (... I've got a Grand Piano to prop up my mortal remains)
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To: drewh

Globe-trotting fancy-pants Amanpour brays on about how, as a reporter, she’s above such petty things as loyalties to the United States and ends her program with tributes to “all who died in war” instead of the normal tribute to American soldiers. Now she’s worried about how Middle-Easterners are being portrayed because she’s one of them. I guess she’s not above feeling loyalty to her Middle Eastern roots.


60 posted on 04/19/2013 1:14:06 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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