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'This Week' Ratings Plummet With Christiane Amanpour As Host
NewsBusters ^ | 09/27/2010 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 09/27/2010 7:08:33 AM PDT by SanFranDan

The Christiane Amanpour as "This Week" host experiment so far is a huge failure for ABC as ratings have plummeted since she took over the Sunday political talk show.

Last Sunday's program attracted 29 percent less viewers than the same day last year.

Making matters worse for ABC executives is the fact that Amanpour's numbers are far worse than interim host Jake Tapper's who did most of the anchoring after George Stephanopoulos left for "Good Morning America."

As Steve Krakauer reported Monday, the decision to bring Amanpour over from CNN is so far not looking like a good one:

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amanpour; manindrag; warslut
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To: SanFranDan

She’s nothing but an Islamist bomb thrower. The bombs are words and poisoned, slanted narrative, but are bombs nonetheless. She is a global terrorist.


41 posted on 09/27/2010 7:54:22 AM PDT by Gaffer ("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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To: chickadee
Amanpour and “pretty” have never existed in the same sentence.

She has average looks, but her brain is still Liberal Mush.

42 posted on 09/27/2010 7:54:22 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (My Rights are God given, not Obama approved...)
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To: SanFranDan
RE :”ROFL. “I hate the way she pronounces ‘Afghanistan’, her Iranian/English background sounds like Thurstan Howell the third on Gilligan’s Island.

It's sounds like ‘Af-gone-istan’ when she says it. Maybe this is just the way she was raised but it certainly sounds elite, something we dont need more of with Obama in the WH.

More annoying is David Gregory NBC asking Republicans over and over how they will ‘pay’ to keep taxes on the rich from going up. It is annoying simply because he never asks the bankrupting Democrat party anything like that.

43 posted on 09/27/2010 7:55:55 AM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: chickadee
as Amanpour’s condescending, self-righteous and patronizing manner has always been difficult to take

...she practically oozes with foreign, anti-American snobbery - a really bad choice considering the current political winds.

44 posted on 09/27/2010 7:56:53 AM PDT by ghost of nixon
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To: SanFranDan

The only reason why they picked Amanpour is because she’s an America-hating leftist.


45 posted on 09/27/2010 8:01:26 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Annoying liberals is my goal. I will not be silenced.)
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To: SanFranDan

She’s awful. I’ve done like another mentioned on this thread—just watch the roundtable discussions of the Sunday morning news programs. The feeling I got from the start was ABC was foisting a “citizen of the world” host on us, to go along with our “citizen of the world” prez.


46 posted on 09/27/2010 8:17:28 AM PDT by Fu-fu2
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To: abb

Aw come on, Abb

We all know this is nothing more than a temporary setback

Snarky here can bring the All Barack Channel back from the grave

Really ...

47 posted on 09/27/2010 8:18:12 AM PDT by Zakeet (Like the wise Wee Wee said, "We can't be broke ... we still have checks in the checkbook.")
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To: SanFranDan
RE :”ROFL. “I hate the way she pronounces ‘Afganistan’, her Iranian/English background sounds like Thurstan Howell the third on Gilligan’s Island.

Laura Ingraham is doing a great imitation of her right now. She is ripping her, pretty funny.

48 posted on 09/27/2010 8:25:47 AM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: SanFranDan
One more liberal show goes down the drain... we should be celebrating and dancing in the streets.

Who wants to bet she wins a "prize" - some liberal suck up sham that makes them think the respect and loyalty of their viewer doesn't matter. Fools.

49 posted on 09/27/2010 8:25:50 AM PDT by GOPJ (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2589165/posts)
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To: SanFranDan
One more liberal show goes down the drain... we should be celebrating and dancing in the streets.

Who wants to bet she wins a "prize" - some liberal suck up sham that makes them think the respect and loyalty of their viewer doesn't matter. Fools.

50 posted on 09/27/2010 8:26:03 AM PDT by GOPJ (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2589165/posts)
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To: SanFranDan

Amanpour’s story agenda.

The USA is bad

why the USA is bad

why the rest of the the world is RIGHT to think the usa is bad

etc. etc.


51 posted on 09/27/2010 8:42:35 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: IM2MAD
"AKA Mrs. James Rubin."

Ah, yes, the same Clintonista Jamie Rubin who was Madeleine Albright's chief apologist as her assistant Secretary of State in DC.

Amanpour, also affectionately known as "The Desert War Slut" has been described this way......

"She flies into places more dangerous than WW2."

Oh, yes.

"She flaunts her well-worn flak jacket like Gunga Din. She struts into rooms with the same cocksure certitude that her mere presence elevates a routine interview into a world event.

"This is how journalists become icons to the modern eye. They play one on TV.

"And nobody covering the war in Afghanistan played the part as well as Amanpour."

And, I may add, I think she fancies herself a female Edward R. Murrow, calm, cool and collected....and nicely coiffed under the Muslim headpiece.......in the midst of war, carnage and chaos.

Leni

52 posted on 09/27/2010 8:49:22 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Are any Americans better off than they were 4 trillion dollars ago?)
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To: therightliveswithus

bad choice of words in this case.

(arguments to remove casting couch)


53 posted on 09/27/2010 8:50:57 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: chickadee

“Not surprising as Amanpour’s condescending, self-righteous and patronizing manner has always been difficult to take, and now she isn’t even pretty anymore.”

By George I think you’ve nailed it! Typical holier thank thou Liberal!

Yeah, what happened to her looks? She sure went downhill fast.


54 posted on 09/27/2010 10:11:15 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Professional Politicians are a Threat to the Republic! Remove them on 11-2-10!)
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To: mad_as_he$$

She’s catching up with Thomas in the wrinkle department that’s for sure.


55 posted on 09/27/2010 10:14:47 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Professional Politicians are a Threat to the Republic! Remove them on 11-2-10!)
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To: mad_as_he$$

She’s catching up with Thomas in the wrinkle department that’s for sure.


56 posted on 09/27/2010 10:15:01 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Professional Politicians are a Threat to the Republic! Remove them on 11-2-10!)
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To: SanFranDan

What were her ratings on Al Jazeera?


57 posted on 09/27/2010 10:15:24 AM PDT by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: SanFranDan

Hello, network execs, the American people are up to here with muzzie apologists. Get a clue.


58 posted on 09/27/2010 10:16:30 AM PDT by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their federal funding!)
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To: SanFranDan; abb; Texas Eagle

Great news! Thanks for the post; ping; ROFLOL (#7)!


59 posted on 09/27/2010 10:19:05 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: cvq3842
Apart from her politics, she has some kind of accent that makes it a little hard to listen and understand comfortably

That's what really stands out. I imagine most of those who tuned out did so because she's almost unintelligible and aggravating to listen to.

That, and being a condenscending leftist shrew doesn't help either.


60 posted on 09/27/2010 10:22:50 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Obama, Pelosi and Reid - the Trio of Twits)
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