I think she really meant the "mate" part; and obviously never got over it.
Hey, Christiane, you *do* know that Lee Harvey Oswald (who killed your "mate") was a Communist, don't you?
A little bit of transferred Stockholm Syndrome, there, what?
Cheers!
Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t kill JFK Jr; he killed JFK Sr.
Despite asserting in 2009 that “nobody knows my biases,” Amanpour has gushed over many left-wing politicians, including Hillary Clinton: “...A lot of the women that I meet from traveling overseas are very impressed by you and admire your dignity.” She also justified Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize win, lauding, “He’s obviously done something very significant” since the U.S. now has a “new relationship with the rest of the world.”