PBS: Trump in 'International Cabal' Who 'Support Idea of Dictatorship'

June 16th, 2023 5:14 PM

On Tuesday’s Amanpour & Co., host Christiane Amanpour was joined by Yale professor Timothy Snyder, whom she described as “an award-winning historian and bestselling author, focusing on the dangers of authoritarianism.” Both host and guest went on an extended rant on the hypothetical threats of political violence ginned up by Trump supporters, or as Amanpour breathlessly put it, “…

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Amanpour Pushes Coons to Deride Republicans on Environmental Policy

June 9th, 2023 10:40 PM

Smokey haze from the Canadian wildfires continued to cover the East Coast of the United States on Friday, and PBS’s Amanpour and Company used the air pollution to portray Republicans as opposed to a healthy environment. Ironically, Amanpour’s guest, Democratic Senator Chris Coons (DE) spent his air time promoting a bipartisan bill for a carbon border tax.

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PBS Asks Abrams How She Can Be a Novelist While Saving Democracy

May 31st, 2023 2:01 PM

About a week after a Columbia commencement address where she warned journalism graduates not to equate objectivity with neutrality, but with facts and truth, PBS Amanpour and Company host Christiane Amanpour aired a previously recorded interview with election denier Stacey Abrams on Tuesday how she is able to put so much energy saving “the democratic process.”

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PBS's Testy Talk With NR's Lowry: ‘I Get to Be the Interviewer Here'

May 27th, 2023 8:19 PM

Tuesday’s edition of Amanpour & Co. featured an unusually testy interview, conducted by journalist Walter Isaacson, with Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review. It’s rare that conservatives appear on Amanpour on taxpayer-funded PBS, and the resulting clash between liberal and conservative journalist threw off a few polite sparks about DeSantis vs. Disney.

PBS: Amanpour, 2 Guests See Racism in Gun Buys, ‘Right Not to Be Shot'

May 22nd, 2023 12:49 PM

Amanpour & Co. host Christiane Amanpour cheered on two liberal guests pushing restrictive gun control measures in the United States, suggesting the existence of a phantom constitutional right “not to be shot” while bemoaning the actual 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. On Friday, the sophisticated international journalist, who favors arming Ukraine to the hilt, was…

PBS's Amanpour Agrees with Democrat: GOP Competing for 'Most Extreme'

May 20th, 2023 10:11 PM

Amanpour & Co. host Christiane Amanpour, fresh from arrogantly criticizing her network CNN for hosting a Donald Trump town hall and urging student journalists to “speak truth to power,” didn’t exactly renew confidence in the news media to challenge the powerful with her choice of guest to discuss the looming debt-ceiling deadline: Patrick Gaspard, president of the left-wing Center…

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Amanpour Rips Her Own Network's Trump Town Hall In Commencement Speech

May 18th, 2023 1:27 PM

The internal dissent at CNN over the town hall with Donald Trump erupted into public view on Wednesday as Christiane Amanpour accepted the Columbia Journalism Award during the school’s commencement ceremonies. During her speech, Amanapour also encouraged the graduates to put neutrality aside in the pursuit of liberal ideas, or in her words “truth.”

PBS Hails Climate Grannies Finding Human Rights Issue in Female Sweat

May 12th, 2023 4:36 PM

Amanpour & Co., which airs on tax-supported PBS, was enthusiastically on board with the latest trendy Euro-radicalism: “Climate grannies” in Switzerland, attempting to game the European Court of Human Rights to rule that women suffer inordinately under global-warming-caused heat waves, in part because women…sweat less than men. Host Christiane Amanpour took the silly stunt…

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PBS’s Amanpour Hails GOP Abortion Hero Vs. ‘Draconian’ South Carolina

May 5th, 2023 7:05 PM

On Monday’s edition of Amanpour & Co., which airs on tax-funded PBS, South Carolina GOP state senator Penry Gustafson got a rare dose of laudable media attention for a Republican lawmaker, for helping turn back proposed legislation South Carolina that would have banned abortion from the moment of conception.

PBS's Book-Ban Hysteria: ‘LGBTQ, Black...Indigenous Stories’ Silenced

May 5th, 2023 5:30 PM

PBS (and CNN) host Christiane Amanpour set up the interview with the president of the notoriously liberal American Library Association with the claim "Book banning reaches new heights. Hari Sreenivasan talks to the president of the American Library Association about how LGBTQ, black, and indigenous stories are being silenced."

PBS Hates New Twitter! Old Twitter Exec Says Musk Is 'Vandalizing' It

April 24th, 2023 12:16 PM

A double panic attack took place on Friday’s edition of the talk show Amanpour & Co, which co-airs on CNN and PBS, over Twitter chief Elon Musk no longer handing out account verifications (i.e. “blue checks”) to liberal journalists willy-nilly, but instead giving them to anyone willing to pay the fee. Musk’s move apparently threatens an onslaught of “disinformation.” Musk also “punished”…

Amanpour Gushes With Katie Porter, Sounding Threat to ‘Women's Rights'

April 13th, 2023 11:15 AM

Amanpour & Co. host Christiane Amanpour interviewed California Rep. Katie Porter, who is running for retiring Dianne Feinstein’s U.S. Senate seat in California and currently plugging a memoir with a hokey title, "I Swear Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan.” Amanpour made no mention of Porter’s “toxic workplace,” including what NewsBusters Curtis Houck described as…

Amanpour on PBS After Nashville: Gun Rights ‘Bizarre…A Cult Indeed’

April 3rd, 2023 10:19 AM

Tax-funded PBS features the Amanpour & Co interview show, and the Tuesday edition featured a self-righteous gun-control rant by host Christiane Amanpour keyed to the murders at a Christian school in Nashville: "A bit of a cult...."  Amanpour once again called for her own bizarre version of “sensible gun control,” which looks a lot like the gun confiscation that occurred in…

PBS’s Amanpour: Pro-Life Autocrats and the ‘Anti-Trans Hate Machine'

March 26th, 2023 10:19 PM

Thursday’s edition of Amanpour & Co., which appears on PBS, went wild in defense of radical transgenderism, comparing American anti-trans bills to truly insidious legislation in dictatorships. Host Christiane Amanpour set the table with an ignorant international comparison of supposed female/LGBTQ repression, before letting the show guest talk about the "anti-trans hate machine"…