Journalist Christiane Amanpour
The leftist media cabal constantly imagines itself as the grand embodiment of democracy and freedom of speech, even as it seeks to put Republicans in jail and hopes to censor them from speaking on social media. It doesn’t live up to its First Amendment boasting.
For example, there’s “CNN International” host Christiane Amanpour, whose leftist ravings are also broadcast on PBS stations. On Jan. 23, Amanpour led off her show with this attack on President Donald Trump: “He says he’s bringing free speech back to America, but one year into Trump 2.0, few presidents have done as much to degrade civil liberties and muzzle the free press. Former Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron joins me to discuss how American journalism can survive.”
Oh, the overwrought ardor! How will journalism survive as they seek to destroy Trump 24/7? Any pushback on their destruction campaign will be painted as an attack on freedom of the press.
Amanpour mischaracterized Trump’s remarks in Davos, Switzerland, when he said, “I only get negative press. That means that it has no credibility. And if they’re going to get credibility, they’re going to have to be fair.”
It’s true that the media have been almost entirely negative on Trump for 10 years. It’s also true that they’d have more credibility with more Americans if they weren’t so relentlessly unfair.
But Amanpour claimed Trump was saying that “he needed a good press, implying that it has to be positive about him, otherwise it lacks [has] no credibility.” Baron agreed: “[W]hat he means by good press is good for him. What he means by a free press is free to say what he—only what he wants it to say.”
In all this moralizing, as Amanpour celebrated Baron for being legendary in “holding the powerful to account,” they could not imagine anyone would find them guilty of refusing to hold Democrats to account and suppressing stories Democrats don’t like. Exhibit A is the Hunter Biden laptop story right before the 2020 election.
This is where the hypocrisy really kicked in that their actual belief is “free speech for me, not for thee.”
Amanpour argued, “This administration and others like it around the world, populists, nationalists, have used the word ‘free’ simply for their own side. And anything that criticizes their side, whether it’s the extreme Right, as JD Vance talked about a year ago in Munich, accusing, you know, Western governments of removing the freedom of their people by trying to, you know, stop their hate speech.” Baron agreed, arguing that Vance and others distorted “the real meaning of words.”
Is it distorting the word “free” for Vance to complain that European governments are jailing people for tweets? Vance added that Britain was punishing silent prayer in front of abortion clinics. In Scotland, they warned against private prayer inside your own home if it’s near an abortion clinic. In Germany, a man faced a dawn raid with six cops because he called a politician a “pimmel” (slang for penis).
But as we know, the American media likes European censorship. CBS’s “60 Minutes” even did a whole segment lauding the German censors. If you want to brag that you’re for freedom of speech and for journalists holding the government accountable, you would advocate it for both sides.
But journalists like Amanpour and Baron live by the slogan “truthful, not neutral,” which translates into my leftist beliefs are “truth,” and the opposing view is “misinformation” and “hate speech.” Seeking neutrality or fairness equals bowing down to Trump. They believe that the “right side of history” gets to punish and censor the “wrong side.”
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
Reprinted with Permission from Daily Signal – By Tim Graham
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How surprising they do what they accuse other of doing. That’s been the MO of the democrats for years.
if TRUMP was a true dictator what would he do to people such as amanpour?
see, iran, north korea, cuba and other true dictatorships.
The ungodly are afflicted with the tendency to lie. They are following “the father of lies, satan. They may not realize it of course. Satan has distorted God’s truths since the garden of Eden.The ungodly are following in his footsteps to their own eternal destruction. We can only pray for these people to turn their hearts towards God, repent and be saved by the saving grace God offers us through Jesus Christ his son. Jesus said, “ I am the way, the truth and the life”.
Leftists LIE, DISTORT, TWIST AND MANIPULATE. Period. End of sentence.
The democrats are interpreting Trump’s speech. They parse every word every verb and they add what they know is in his head. Because taking what he said at face value hell that would mean they agree with him. And they will never admit they actually are. Only it interferes with their plan to sow chaos and destruction to bring this country down. They are in a path from which there is no return. We can’t put the hot coals back into the bucket and extinguish the fire. They are bound and determined to destroy America. And what I find so strange with the dems and the MSM. Either these so called talking heads on CNN and elsewhere. They are either colored, female, a foreigner or a lesbian or gay. You know DEI hires. The “smartest” people in the world are telling us lies and scenarios that are lies but presented as the truth. Do you ever hear them talking about the people that are ranting about killing ICE agents, killing President Trump or Kristy Noem or Pete Hegseth or Mark Rubio. All smart and strong leaders. When the dem committee members interview them Pete, Kristy and Mark wipe the floor with them. They have no idea what is going on in the world in our cities and towns and most of all how our military was demoralized under Biden. President Trump put the pride back to those serving our country. Like iCE agents. They are getting a bad rap while they are protecting even the demonstrators from these evil criminals. Amanpour can talk till she is blue in the face. Just once I would like to see a plan from these lefties just as good as Trump has proposed. But they don’t have no plan. They are too busy parsing every word Trump utters. The country can go to hell for all they care. Criticism has its place. But not picking apart every word Trump says. That is not leadership, statesmanship it’s inciting the people to destroy this country.
This article plainly sums up the direction which journalists and MSM continue to follow — Down the toilet!
A poll was recently done on college campuses that revealed the indoctrination of the Democrat. Students overwhelmingly agreed that violence is permissible if you have an opinion that is different from theirs. There you have it that’s going to be our next group of leaders
that is a really long stretch to for folks to suggest that Amanpour is a journalist..lying slutty communist pig yes, but not a journalist ..
no pigs were injured in posting this truth
Leftist run social media like Twitter, YAHOO, Facebook etc., ALL used their platforms to censor and prevent freedom of speech when it challenged the Progressive Leftist idealogue. I know because it happened to me, and I never threatened, used foul words or spoke rudely, I simply gave my conservative outlook and exposed their lies.
PBS should be shut down. Why should the democrats have their own TV network paid for by the taxpayers?
Only speech to Please them or face Censorship
What’s needed??? David and Goliath moment. Clean em out. Won’t stop otherwise. day breed like rats – they are.
The leftist are only one thing enemies to America and the American people! We have listened to them for to long, it is time to put a end to them trying to destroying our country!
Tell the illegals that if they vote Republican they’ll be made automatic citizens and see how quickly the democrats rush to deport them all!! ????
We are the only country in the world where free speech is guaranteed in law.
Way ahead of you because I couldn’t stand the left and have been butting heads with them from the very start. In fact, I’ve been in and out of Facebooks so-called prison more than I can even remember for my anti-liberal posts. They are 2-faced, brainless and corrupt communist-socialist criminals who by no surprise live by a double standard. It’s also a fact that the odds are great that they will never criminally pay for their crimes and the proof is that none of them have been punished in a court of law as of yet, and they all should have been by now and Comey and James were already released from their charges by a liberal judge. This is why I firmly believe that their reign of corruption and evil will never be ended until it is ended by the hand of God.
The problem with the mainstream media, both print and TV/Radio/Digital, is that most of them are no longer journalists, but propaganda arms of leftist progressive and globalist programs and agendas. Theoretically they should not be recognized as the free press” any longer.
The Constitution and Democrats( and Libs and Pinkos) don’t belong in the same sentence.
Democracy, Freedom, Rights. Do you remember the Civil Rights movement? What did the southern states say about the Federal Government. Read a Gov George Wallace speech and see the similarities to what Gov Tim Walz talks about. It’s cynical how hard politicians will lie, cheat and steal to keep funding, both political and personal in the name of the constitution.
It leads one to believe that the radical liberal brainwashing of our youngest citizens is finally coming to fruition. Take over the schools, change the reality of history to make them hate their country and then promise them utopia. This has always been the way of Communism. We have a chance to change this ending by making sure these radicals do not get elected to ANY public office; local, state and federal.
C. Amanpour is NO journalist. She is a silly lying person and a propagandist who makes lots of money. Only in America. If she were in Cuba, they would put her before a firing squad.
The actual truth has never escaped her mouth in any broadcast or segment I have seen her on with the communist news network.
It would be interesting to see whether high schools are teaching the U.S. government correctly. Not the teacher’s version of their opinion. Just saying.
Liberal democrats just doing what they do. Really, nothing new here.
Leftist “Journalists”! They are professional liars who wouldn’t know the truth if it were to bite them in their rear ends.
I know first hand how Facebook, & YAHOO censored and prevented me from speaking my truth. I made sure it didn’t slander, use profanity or otherwise “violated their rules”, except it went against the Progressive Leftist idealogue they wished to promote. They are un-American in my book.
it’s like the Bible says they do not hear.