Christiane Amanpour, champion of terrorists around the world and a CNN employee is on a new tear. She wants the press to destroy Donald Trump and save the lives of her terrorist friends. Amanpour refused to call the Charlie Hebdo killers, terrorists. She insisted on calling them activists. You know, the same way the press refers to BLM as activists. She was at ceremony where her liberal friends gave her a liberal award, not worthy of mention.
Amanpour began with alarmism, framing Trump as a dictator-in-progress:
“I never thought in a million years that I would be standing up here after all the times I participated in this ceremony, appealing really, for the freedom and the safety of American journalists at home… Those bits from Donald Trump that were in that video basically show us and remind us of the peril that we face…
As you’ve seen tonight, that is how it goes with authoritarians around the world, like Sisi, like Erdogan, like Putin, like the Ayatollahs, like Duterte in the Philippines, and all of those people…. First, the media is accused of inciting, then sympathizing, then associating, and then suddenly they find themselves accused of being full-fledged terrorists and subversives, and then they end up in handcuffs, in cages, in kangaroo courts, in prisons, and then who knows what?”
Sounds good to me.
“Don’t stand for being called or labeled ‘lying’ or ‘crooked’ or ‘failing.’ We have to stand up together, because divided we will fall.”
Let’s see…………CNN has been caught in many lies about Trump in order to advance Clinton and currently to cover the fact they are in 3rd place among 3 cable news channels and has thinned out their numbers through layoffs. So, it’s ok to be crooked and failing, just don’t let anyone point that out.
“We have to accept that we have had our lunch handed to us by the very same social media that we have so slavishly been devoted to. The winning candidate did a very savvy end run around us and used it to go straight to the people. Combined with the most incredible development ever, which is the tsunami of fake news, AKA lies.”
In other words, Trump made sure people didn’t let the liberal mainstream press to define him. He went straight to the people. That doomed their candidate.
“So I feel that right now we face an existential crisis. A real threat to the very relevance and usefulness of our profession. Now, more than ever, I genuinely believe that we need to recommit to real reporting across a real nation and a real world in which journalism and democracy are in mortal peril.
That will never happen since they can’t win with the truth.