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Welcome to the Post’s new politics and culture blog, “She the People: The World as Women See It.” Though dedicated to the proposition that politics properly understood encompasses just about everything, I thought we’d start with some predictions about Tuesday’s caucuses in Iowa, where a bunch of our writers rang in the new year with Republicans. My own bet is that Rick Santorum will indeed score the surprise of the night, just as he told me he would . Yet even if he wins outright, four years from now in Iowa, I further predict that we in the media will...

Now that Herman Cain is out of the Republican presidential race, we have officially kicked off the phase where everyone reflects on the ups and downs of his campaign. And on This Week today, George Will wasted no time in calling the ex-candidate “disrespectful” and a “charlatan” for using his candidacy to promote his book and not be a serious candidate bringing ideas to the table like everyone else. Christiane Amanpour asked the panel if Rick Santorum had the best chance of getting more support in Iowa, particularly from Cain supporters. Will argued there was indeed room in the GOP...

Presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann appeared on ABC’s This Week today, and Christiane Amanpour put Bachmann on the defensive when she asked the candidate if her non-interventionist Libya position would mean she would have been okay with “hundreds of thousands” of dead civilians in the streets of Libya and Moammar Gadhafi still in power. Bachmann defended her position by pointing out that it was former Defense Secretary Robert Gates who admitted several months ago that Libya was not a “vital interest” for the United States. Bachmann suspected the military action seemed to be more focused on regime change than “humanitarian purposes.”...

Christiane Amanpour just (typically) lied (Oct/30/11) on her ABC program 'This Week to Michele Bachmann that Iran did 'not' threaten to use nukes on US / Israel... Facts: Iranian official: If threatened, we will use nuclear weapons - Israel Jan 5, 2007 – News: After countless declarations of peaceful intentions of nuclear plan, Iran's chief nuclear envoy confirms fears by saying if county is ...http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3348748,00.html [Reuters] Iran threatens to nuke Israel, US military bases - World News - IBNLive Jul 12, 2008 http://ibnlive.in.com/news/iran-threatens-to-nuke-israel-us-military-bases/68749-2.htmlhttp://www.reuters.com/article/2008/07/12/us-iran-nuclear-idUSL1246593220080712?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews ---Related:Ahmadinejad Was Not Mistranslated What Iranian Leaders Really Say about Doing Away with Israel: A Refutation of...

Despite businessman Herman Cain's stunning rise in the polls, conservative columnist George Will said Sunday that Cain does not merit serious attention from President Obama's reelection campaign. Will said on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour" that Cain has not shown that he has staying power and that without a traditional campaign infrastructure, it's not clear that he is a serious candidate. "We're having a kind of Andy Warhol primary where everybody is leader for 15 minutes and Cain's turn today but it's not clear that Cain has staying power," Will said. "He's not running for president, sort of strolling...

"I just talked to somebody very knowledgeable ... that thinks that he's in a villa, a nice comfortable villa," Christiane Amanpour revealed on the October 3, 2008 edition of "Real Time" with Bill Maher. Amanpour cited an anonymous source. He's "in Pakistan. Not a cave," she added.

CNN's Anderson Cooper and his camera crew were attacked and repeatedly punched by pro-government forces near Tahrir Square in Cairo today. "My team were set upon by the crowd," Cooper said on CNN this morning via telephone from the safety of a hotel balcony. "There was no rhyme or reason to it—it was just people looking for a fight, looking to make a point, and punching us." According to a Twitter post from George Hale, the English editor of the Ma'an news agency, who cited a CNN "manager," Cooper was punched "10 times in the head." Bonus Video! Video:Leave Our...

Those Democrats were just too focused on doing the right thing for the American people. And gosh darn it, they were "successful." Unfortunately, in their determination to save the country, they forgot about "politics" and "messaging." That's why they're facing defeat at the polls two days from now. So went Christiane Amanpour's rationalization on GMA today. View video here.

(Video here) Listen to this fast-talking, silver-tongued jihadist. Shilling for bloodthirsty savages under the guise of sober political analysis and Islamic "moderation." Next he'll be dropping the Zyklon B into the showerheads, telling us it will be good for the progression of the "Islamist" parties. Pure evil, straight up. And shame on Christiane Amanpour for sanctioning this evil. UPDATE: Alec Rawls in a previous thread: On Aslan calling people neo-Nazis, readers might be interested to learn of his comments on this subject at a "Welcome to the Islamic Reformation" talk he gave at Stanford several years ago (2005 maybe?): http://www.stanford.edu/dept/humsci/external/news/aslan_event.htm...

ABC News' Christiane Amanpour has done a great service today with her panel discussion on whether America should fear Islam. Thanks to guests Franklin Graham, Robert Spencer and Peter Gadiel refusing to submit to Allah and political correctness, and the brashness of Anjem Choudary, Americans watching broadcast television have learned more about Islam in the hour long show than many have in the nine years since 9/11.Franklin Graham was unapologetic in his stance on Islam, however he differentiated between Islam the religion and Muslim people. Gary Bauer and Ayaan Hirsi Ali also deserve credit for speaking truth to Islam on...

ABC is jumping head-first into the New York City mosque debate with a special town hall edition of “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” focusing on Islam in America and a “20/20″ prime time special with Diane Sawyer on the same topic. Amanpour will tape the town hall tomorrow night in New York City at ABC’s Times Square Studios. It will air Sunday, October 3. Amanpour lives in New York but commutes to DC for her show. The “20/20″ special airs Friday night at 10pmET. This is Sawyer’s first primetime special since taking over as anchor of “World News” late last...

Interviewing David Axelrod on Sunday’s This Week, Christiane Amanpour asked him to explain why “people don't appreciate some of the amazing legislative agenda” that President Barack Obama has “accomplished,” then with Senator Mitch McConnell she denigrated Republican Senate candidates who are Tea Party favorites: “Are you not afraid that their somewhat, one would say, some might say bizarre statements, their sort of fringe quality might actually turn people off?” She also condescendingly demanded of McConnell: “What is Christine O'Donnell's qualification for actually governing? What is Sharron Angle's actual qualification for governing?” In a third segment, she cued up Jordan’s Queen...

ABC News “This Week” anchor Christiane Amanpour gets interviewed by the Columbia Journalism Review. Among other topics, she discusses her passion for international reporting, and whether the American audience, particularly the traditional Sunday morning audience, is interested in watching that. The bottom line is this: I have a mission and my mission has been to bring, through all my work, a broader understanding of the world to U.S. viewers—first with my job at CNN and now at ABC with This Week… I’m not going to put the cart before the horse. I’m just going to say that I’m pleased with...

With pomp and panoply befitting a visit from a foreign dignitary, ABC raised the curtain on its newly revamped "This Week" program and introduced in a big way the superstar who's taken it over in a big, big way: Christiane Amanpour, veteran CNN foreign correspondent now uneasily relocated to a desk job. -snip- Perhaps in keeping with the newly globalized program, the commendable "In Memoriam" segment ended with a tribute not to American men and women who died in combat during the preceding week but rather, said Amanpour in her narration, in remembrance of "all of those who died in...

Christiane Amanpour just sealed her victory as recipient of my Obama Parrot of the Week Award . . That's the dubious prize I give out to on my local TV show to the media member most ardently echoing the Obama party line. The moderator of This Week sewed up the win with her remarks on GMA this morning, as she sought to explain the big turnout at Glenn Beck's rally yesterday. Readers will recall that at that ritzy fund-raiser in San Francisco, candidate Obama explained the attitudes of poor rural Pennsylvanians in terms of "bitter" people who "cling" to their...

Title: Christiane Amanpour’s biased reporting causes a backlash to her selection as host of ABC’s This Week ### This Sunday, former CNN war correspondent and television host Christiane Amanpour will take over as host of ABC’s venerable public affairs show “This Week.” Her selection for the post, however, has caused a surprisingly potent backlash. Putting aside issues such as the suitability of a foreign affairs reporter for a show on domestic politics and reports of behind-the scenes opposition to her appointment, most of the criticism has concentrated on Amanpour’s political views and her allegedly biased reporting. In one form or...

As we continue with America’s most left-biased, working journalist list we feature a journo that takes herself quite seriously as a non-opinion styled journalist. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour really does think that no one can tell that she is a true-blue left-winger. Sadly, there is that all too human penchant of fooling oneself as much as one tries to fool others with this one. But that doesn’t stop her from making the claim. In 2008, for instance, Amanpour said of herself, "I stay away from commentary and I stay away from ideology. All this stuff that we have seen marching into...

CNN fired an editor for expressing "a lot" of "respect" for a Hezbollah leader the US had designated a terrorist. So how has ABC dealt with someone with similar views? By hiring her and awarding her the prestigious plum of host of This Week. So what's the difference between Octavia Nasr and Christiane Amanpour? According to Cal Thomas, little, when it comes to their views. It's just that Amanpour is too smart and sophisticated to stick her views on a Tweet. Thomas shared his insight on this weekend's editon of Fox News Watch. View video here.

Some cross-network love for Jake Tapper on Morning Joe today, as MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski expressed respect for ABC’s Jake Tapper, and disappointment that ABC News had not chosen him as permanent host of its Sunday talk show, This Week. Instead of elevating its home-grown talent, ABC has brought in Christiane Amanpour, late of CNN, to fill the vacancy created by George Stephanopoulos’ move to Good Morning America. Joe and Mika made their comments after rolling tape of Tapper asking Bill Clinton, in an interview aired yesterday, whether he should have been considered to fill the impending Supreme...

CNN's Christiane Amanpour sent a note to her colleagues today telling them she is "stunned and humbled by all your words and thoughts and good wishes." Amanpour announced yesterday she would be leaving CNN for ABC News to moderate "This Week." Keep doing CNN's important work, without which the world would most definitely be a poorer place. Never forget who you are. Never forget what CNN is. Never forget how we all together changed the world. The entirety, after the jump...

CNN's Christiane Amanpour, who's been in talks with ABC for "This Week," has reportedly been offered the job. FishbowlDC reports that Amanpour told CNN colleagues about the offer and is currently "50/50" as to whether she accepts. If Amanpour does accept, the long-running Sunday show could he shaken up, according to the report. Amanpour said she wants to make "This Week" more about foreign affairs and less focused on domestic American politics. If she takes the job, her desire is to do a number of shows each year outside the country. If she takes the post, sources say this would...

Christiane Amanpour, the Chief international correspondent of Cable News Network grew up in Tehran where her father was a shill for the Shah's government. Since that the overthrow of the of the Shah, Christiane, a Roman Catholic, has been making up for her father's support of the Shah by supporting Islamic Terrorism every chance she has. Christiane cut her teeth on her her one-sided coverage of the conflict in Bosnia. Since then she has continued to support the Islamofacist cause every chance she can; be it her admiration for Yassir Arafat (a terrorist and baby killer) right down the line...

cnnnewsroom@cnn.com   When will Islamized Amanpour explain the west to HER Arab bigoted world?   April 6, 2009   Christiane Amanpour was all smiles, overly excited to CNN's anchor's announcement of Obama's words to Turkey: "US is not, never will be at war with Islam".In an orchestrated "question" by CNN's news anchor she was "asked" what US population "know" or feel about Islam, she said that 55% don't know much about Islam and 48% view Islam unfavorably, all in a programmed leading up to her prepared statement that she is going to have a program about "education Americans on Islam" -...

The invitation was on creamy stationery with fancy calligraphy: The Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran "requests the pleasure" of my company to dine with H.E. Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The dinner is at the Intercontinental Hotel — with names carefully written out at all the place settings around a rectangular table. There are about 50 of us, academics and journalists mostly. There's Brian Williams across the room, and Christiane Amanpour a few seats down. And at a little after 8pm, on a day when he has already addressed the U.N., the evening after his confrontation at Columbia, a...

God’s Warriors oh I get it, the, “more people have been killed in the name of religion than any other belief system,” argument which isn’t even remotely true. More people have been killed in the name of secular humanistic philosophies and practices than have been killed on behalf of religion. [Come on Ms. Amanpour you'll have to do better than that!]

The three part series on Christianity, Islam and Judaism is an enormous six hour long undertaking presented by veteran reporter Christiane Amanpour who is known to millions of Americans for her stellar reporting during the early days of the Iraq war.

For several weeks CNN has been hyping their miniseries God’s Warriors as an “unprecedented six-hour television event.” The series dedicates two hours each to “God’s Jewish Warriors,” “God’s Muslim Warriors,” and “God’s Christian Warriors.” Prior to the first airing, CNN invited several bloggers to preview a few clips from the series and to submit a question for Christiane Amanpour to be answered during a special webcast. The three clips provided by CNN each highlighted one of the “fundamentalist” branches of the three Abrahamic faiths: the segment on Jews focused on theocratic Israeli settlers, including the man who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin;...

“In the Footsteps of bin Laden” is the work of Christiane Amanpour and Peter Bergen, the CNN consultant who famously interviewed the terrorist in a cave in Afghanistan in 1997. Mr. Bergen, on whose book “The Osama bin Laden I Know” this program is partly based, is mindful of the ways his subject manipulates the American media. He admits that Mr. bin Laden gave his first interview to Peter Arnett on CNN because he wanted to “use” the cable news channel to promote jihad. Nonetheless, in tonight’s documentary, Mr. Bergen sounds awed anew by the cloak-and-dagger shenanigans that Mr. bin...

If Davie Rossie's ramblings were simply those of one more angry liberal pundit, they'd hardly be worth a comment. But what makes his utterances noteworthy is that when Rossie isn't churning out his once-a-week column, he is editing the news for the Gannett chain. Rossie is Associate Editor of Gannett's Binghamton paper, the Press & Sun Bulletin. In today's column, 'Once There Were Giants in Television News', Rossie laments that they aren't making TV newsmen like Edgar R. Murrow any more. With what might be condemned as sexism, nay, misogyny, had it been suggested by a conservative critic, Rossie grumps...

- Iran lifted its ban on CNN on Tuesday, a day after the government barred the U.S. network from the country because of its mistranslation of nuclear comments by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, state television reported. Ahmadinejad ordered the reversal "due to the expression of an apology" from CNN over the mistranslation, the state-run TV broadcast said. Iran imposed the ban after CNN misquoted the president as speaking of developing "nuclear weapons" when he actually referred to "nuclear technology." CNN admitted the mistake in a broadcast. Hard-liners called the mistranslation a deliberate act to misrepresent Iran's position at a crucial moment...

Harvard University is ordered to pay back over $20 million to the US government as part of a settlement deal resulting from a multi-million dollar scam. Two Harvard employees are also ordered make restitution bringing the total settlement to $31 million. Two senior Harvard University advisors, Andre Shleifer and Jonathan Hay were paid under a US Agency for International Development grant to lead a project to provide advice to the nascent Russian economy on privatization following the fall of communism and the creation of fair and open markets and the rule of law. The US Attorney's Office alleged that instead,...

Last night I was burning the midnight oil watching Christiane Amanpour over at CNN-UN. They rushed her in from some war zone somewhere. And she was talking in her lofty tones about the Pope, and she got egg all over her face by the time she was finished: AMANPOUR: He never once did sit down with the press. He never really gave a formal interview. I know so many people would have wanted to talk to him. Do you think that it was extraordinary that he did not? JIM BITTERMAN: Well I think that's not exactly true, Christiane. In fact...

The staff of Unicef’s Sri Lanka operation are in their Colombo offices dealing as best they can with a flood of desperate people, people at the end of their tether, people in overwhelming need of immediate help. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, for instance. Ms Amanpour, or at least her producer, wants two orphans, preferably brothers who have lost at least six other members of their families, please, on the coast road between Bentota and Galle, tomorrow after two o’clock local time for a Sri Lanka — Land In Turmoil prime-time special. It is now 7.30 p.m. When approached by his assistant...

Thu Jun 24, 6:07 PM ET Pamela McClintock, STAFFIn a sweeping apology to TV and print journalists covering Iraq ( - ), a contrite Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said Thursday he was wrong in accusing them of sitting in their Baghdad hotels and publishing rumors.   "Just let me say to each of you who have worked so hard and taken such risks to cover this story, I extend a heartfelt apology and hope you will accept it," Wolfowitz wrote in the letter, dispatched via email. "I understand well the enormous dangers that you face, and want to...

<p>President Bush marked the first full day of his state visit to Britain with a key speech Wednesday defending the invasion of Iraq.</p> <p>Meanwhile, protesters took to the streets of London to protest U.S. actions in the Middle East country.</p>

<p>September 16, 2003 -- CNN news chief Jim Walton had a "private converation" with reporter Christiane Amanpour after she accused her own network of being "intimidated" in its coverage of the Iraqi war.</p> <p>Amanpour, a guest on last week's "Topic A with Tina Brown" on CNBC, set off shockwaves in the TV world over the weekend when she said she thought her employer, CNN, was "muzzled" in its war coverage by a combination of the White House and its competitive position with the higher-rated Fox News Channel.</p>

This Is CNN: Iraqi Celebration An "Orgy" April 11, 2003 Let's remember, now, that everything we hear from CNN we have to place in the context of what we now know - that the CNN director of news knew about horrors that were going on in Iraq for 12 years. In light of that, I want you to listen to a sound bite from Christiane Amanpour, Wednesday on Larry King Live. Amanpour complained that structures in Iraq have not remained in place, leading to looting and violence. What structures? The torture chambers and the rape rooms? Here is a CNN...

Before and after Sept. 11, 2001, the most prominent television anchor, journalist and authority on Islam and the Islamic world was CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour, who was born and grew up in an Islamic country, Iran.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - The military is offering reporters better access to American forces in a potential war with Iraq than they had in Afghanistan or the Persian Gulf, leading journalists said Monday. But the journalists said they remain wary of those promises, given the way they say the Pentagon handled journalists' access to U.S. forces in Afghanistan. "We got essentially zip, nothing of any value, during that campaign," CNN's Christiane Amanpour said at a forum on covering war and bioterrorism at the University of Michigan. Amanpour, the cable network's chief international correspondent, said the military needs to balance...