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On PBS, Amanpour Slams 'Strange' DeSantis Overturning LGBTQ 'Norms'

January 28th, 2023 11:00 PM

Public broadcasting has once again smeared potential Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, this time as a dangerous spreader of anti-LGBTQ intolerance, on Thursday evening’s Amanpour & Co. show on PBS. Host Christiane Amanpour conducted an 18-minute interview with author Andrew Solomon on the supposed backlash against LGBTQ rights in the United States, with…

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Did PBS Edit Out Amanpour Saying GOP Is 'Weaponizing...Governance'?

January 12th, 2023 10:17 PM

In the Monday edition of Amanpour & Co on PBS, host Christiane Amanpour spoke with guest Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) about Brazil, refugees, the Dreamers, and the House Speaker vote. Amanpour let Ramirez’s personal story as a first-generation immigrant stand in for actual journalism, while both host and guest compared the political chaos in Brazil to the Capitol riots of…

PBS Shrieks: All 20 McCarthy Vote Holdouts Were 'Election Deniers’

January 10th, 2023 5:19 PM

The Friday night edition of Amanpour & Co. on PBS, hosted by Bianna Golodryga, aired with House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy’s elevation to Speaker still uncertain. Golodryga dubiously claimed that of the 20 holdouts denying McCarthy the House Speakership, “all 20 holdouts were all election deniers.”

PBS Pits McCarthy, ‘Hard-Line’ Right:‘Trump Is These People’s Demigod'

January 5th, 2023 5:19 PM

On the Tuesday edition of Amanpour & Co on PBS, host Christiane Amanpour interviewed former moderate Republican Rep. Will Hurd, who served three terms in office but didn’t seek reelection in 2020. Amanpour led off with the fight for Speaker of the House and with unsympathetic labeling of the “hard-line” opponents of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).

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Adieu to 2022: Here’s the Ten Most-Read NewsBusters Blogs of the Year

December 31st, 2022 11:50 AM

With only a few hardened leftists stuck on COVID-19, 2022 represented a year in which more Americans moved on and, thankfully for the team at NewsBusters, the liberal media continued to provide us plenty of content. For our top ten most-read blogs of the year, the topics included Biden’s mental state, the free state of Florida, Hollywood elitism, and Ukraine. For this year, the News Analysis…

Column: Dana Milbank's Uncivil War on GOP 'Destructionists'

August 12th, 2022 6:12 AM

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was sounding the alarm in multiple national TV and radio interviews. The rage-filled tone of pro-Trump commentary after the FBI raid on Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago was going to lead to violence, possibly catastrophic violence, like the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995, which killed 168 Americans.

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DEFUND PBS: Amanpour Offers WEAK Apology for Comparing Trump to Hitler

November 17th, 2020 4:54 PM

Four days after comparing President Trump refusing to concede the election to Hitler and the Holocaust, CNN International and PBS host Christiane Amanpour offered a mealy-mouthed non-apology on Monday’s show, telling viewers that she “shouldn’t have juxtaposed the two thoughts” and that she “regret[s] any pain that my statement may have caused.”

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NYT '1619' Journalist: Immoral to Call Destroying Property 'Violence'

June 2nd, 2020 4:03 PM

The New York Times Magazine’s ahistorical “1619 Project” author has been all over media outlets this week commenting on the riots and protests over the death of George Floyd. On Tuesday, she made some disturbing arguments justifying violence, to PBS’s Christiane Amanpour and on CBS News Live. Amanpour actually responded as if she agreed with the NYT journalist condoning…

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CNN/PBS Anchor Marvels at Pelosi Ripping the SOTU: 'One for the Ages!'

February 18th, 2020 8:23 PM
CNN and PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour interviewed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Munich, which aired on PBS on Monday night. Amanpour showed a photo of Pelosi ripping up Trump's State of the Union speech on the front of The New York Times and gushed "This really was one for the ages!" 
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CNN International: Boris Johnson Could Cause U.K. to Break Up

July 26th, 2019 6:42 PM
On Thursday, CNN International and PBS aired a segment in which Christiane Amanpour and her guests fear mongered about the collapse of the United Kingdom at the hands of Prime Minister Boris Johnson as well as the end of “a really great renaissance” in Britain.
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Amanpour Rips 'Sinister' 'Far Right' Italian Deputy Prime Minister

June 18th, 2019 2:43 PM
On Friday, CNN International (and by simulcast, PBS) host Christiane Amanpour interviewed Matteo Salvini, the deputy prime minister of Italy, whom she found repulsively Trump-like. For trying to limit immigration -- and even imply that it was preferable to admit more Christian migrants than Muslims -- he was apparently casting "the dark shadow of fascism" on Italy.

FLOTUS Blasts ‘Small-Minded’ Anna Wintour For Vogue’s Lefty Bias

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April 16th, 2019 3:46 PM
Former model and cover girl turned First Lady Melania Trump hit back at Vogue after its editor-in-chief made her preference for Democrats clear to CNN.

NYT Takes Feminist Angle on Amanpour's PBS Show, Ignores Lefty Slant

September 10th, 2018 6:25 PM
New York Times reporter John Koblin hailed, in feminist terms, liberal CNN International journalist Christiane Amanpour taking over the old Charlie Rose slot on PBS with Amanpour & Company : “No Longer Dark, Clubby, Or Led by a Man." Koblin said that despite Amanpour's failure as a host of ABC's "This Week," she "remains a believer in her own idea of what American audiences want." But do…