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CNN's Amanpour Hoped ‘Beyond Hope’ Boston Bombing Suspects Weren't Mideast Muslims
Newsbusters ^ | April 19, 2013 | 11:16 | Tim Graham

Posted on 04/19/2013 12:17:18 PM PDT by drewh

Dave Weigel at Slate reported from an awards dinner Tuesday night for the leftish Arab American Instiute about the crowd's discomfort with the notion that the Boston assailants would turn out to "look like them." (That, I think, would mean Middle Eastern and Muslim, although AAI president James Zogby describes himself as a Maronite Catholic.) They tried not to say it out loud, he said, but then CNN's Christiane Amanpour, there to receive an award, said it for them.

"How many of us feel this burden of association and hope beyond hope that this doesn't turn out to be what it might be?" said Amanpour. "No conclusions yet." Weigel reported she read from a New York Times essay by Haider Javed Warraich, a medical resident in Boston who fretted that he didn't run into the action because as a young Pakistani male with stubble, "I look like Hollywood’s favorite post-Cold-War movie villain."

"There are no conclusions," said Amanpour. "Is it international? Is it domestic? But like all of you—I'm not Pakistani, and I'm not Arab, but I am part Iranian. And I do understand the burden of association. And I know when we know who did this, we will all unite in strong condemnation."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; War on Terror
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61 posted on 04/19/2013 1:17:13 PM PDT by knighthawk (We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
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To: drewh
And I do understand the burden of association.

Oh, really? Then why are you doing your best to associate this atrocity with your political opponents?

62 posted on 04/19/2013 1:18:02 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: newnhdad
Why are they so obsessed with color and race and ethnicity??? It is a derangement.

Cold calculation. Political power via voting blocs. Low info voters must be kept in the dark, and incidents like this draw too much attention to the destructiveness of current government policies.

63 posted on 04/19/2013 1:18:12 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: Kozak

“They’re CAUCASIAN Muslims. “

Well, they are from the Caucasus Mts.


64 posted on 04/19/2013 1:18:47 PM PDT by A'elian' nation
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To: drewh

Media will call them WHITE MUSLIMS


65 posted on 04/19/2013 1:24:41 PM PDT by Lexington Green (Journalists?... or poop-flinging chimps?)
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To: Robert357

> What I want to know is where did these two devils get the money for their high roller lifestyle?

Maybe funds were being funneled to them through the Saudi who is being/has been deported.


66 posted on 04/19/2013 1:25:52 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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>> “How many of us feel this burden of association and hope beyond hope that this doesn’t turn out to be what it might be?” said Amanpour.

This is a fair and legitimate concern. Unfortunately, the war footing “Progressives” have with the rest of America shuts down appreciation for such things.


67 posted on 04/19/2013 1:26:57 PM PDT by Gene Eric (The Palin Doctrine.)
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To: drewh

I hope she is a Buddhist. I would like to see her reincarnated as a cockroach or a termite.


68 posted on 04/19/2013 1:27:41 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Free goodies for all -- Freedom for none.)
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To: billorites

What James Taranto tweeted, “What the hope-they’re-white crowd really wishes for is a reason to treat their domestic political adversaries as enemies of the state.”


Yup. Taranto hits the ball out of the park with that one. Nice post.


69 posted on 04/19/2013 1:28:00 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: billorites
Implied, but not stated, and it needs to be

in order to use the power of the state to punish and exterminate them.

70 posted on 04/19/2013 1:30:01 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: A'elian' nation

On questionnaires that require ‘race’ notations. I refuse to mark Caucasian. I check ‘other’ and print Anglo-Saxon.


71 posted on 04/19/2013 1:34:09 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well Christine is half Iranian or something. What else would we expect.


72 posted on 04/19/2013 1:34:29 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Dallas59

LOL!!!!


73 posted on 04/19/2013 1:38:46 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Dallas59

lol


74 posted on 04/19/2013 1:39:22 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (If guns kill people, how come no one dies at gun shows?)
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To: Dallas59

Wiping tears from my eyes, that’s too funny. Poor guy, Marc Brown, from LA Ch. 7 . Man are those some dimwitted folks working behind the Camera to set him up like that.


75 posted on 04/19/2013 1:46:38 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: drewh

RE: CNN’s Amanpour Hoped ‘Beyond Hope’ Boston Bombing Suspects Weren’t Mideast Muslims

Is she comforted to find out that they were Chechen Jihadists?


76 posted on 04/19/2013 1:58:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: drewh

Aaaaawwwww, poor baby!


77 posted on 04/19/2013 2:12:26 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: drewh
And I know when we know who did this, we will all unite in strong condemnation.

Why wait before condemning? Why not speak out harshly against Muslim terrorism now?

-PJ

78 posted on 04/19/2013 2:19:41 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: MissMagnolia
Tea Party are regular folks

I've been to a number of Tea Party rallies.

I won't bring my kids because 1) I'm afraid of what LIBERAL idiots will do, and 2) I think that politics and children should never, ever mix. When they get old enough, they can decide for themselves if they'd like to come.

However, barring those two things, I'd not think twice having my kids around tea partiers. The ones in my neck of the woods remind me more of a bunch of rowdy churchgoers, more than anything else. Rallies are fun.

True story - one of the ones I went to had a goodly number of cops there. They were all fairly young, and since everyone was well-behaved, they were just standing around girl-watching, as young guys do. ;-) Anyway, I asked them what they thought about all this. One said "This is eeeeeeasy duty". Another winked at me, showed me the Gasden Flag button he had pinned to the inside (not showing) of his gear, and said "Not a word.....".

Good times.

79 posted on 04/19/2013 2:30:25 PM PDT by wbill
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To: Old Sarge
Re: Terrorist = Muslim ????

If I'm in the American West and I hear hoofbeats, I think "horse" not "zebra". I suppose it's possible that it could be a zebra, but I don't look for them exclusively, or refuse to look for horses.

80 posted on 04/19/2013 2:35:09 PM PDT by wbill
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