Amanpour Rues Lack of Appreciation for Obama’s ‘Amazing’ Achievements

NewsBusters ^ | 09/27/2010 | Brent Baker

[SanFranDan]

Interviewing David Axelrod on Sunday’s This Week, Christiane Amanpour asked him to explain why “people don't appreciate some of the amazing legislative agenda” that President Barack Obama has “accomplished,” then with Senator Mitch McConnell she denigrated Republican Senate candidates who are Tea Party favorites:

“Are you not afraid that their somewhat, one would say, some might say bizarre statements, their sort of fringe quality might actually turn people off?” She also condescendingly demanded of McConnell:

“What is Christine O'Donnell's qualification for actually governing? What is Sharron Angle's actual qualification for governing?”

In a third segment, she cued up Jordan’s Queen Rania to confirm “Islamophobia” mars America: “You've seen the reaction and the fallout from the Islamic center, but it goes broader than that. Do you see a sort of a dangerous Islamophobia in the United States?”

While she repeatedly pushed Axelrod about why Democrats were delaying a vote on extending the Bush tax cuts for “the middle class,” with McConnell she tried to discredit extending the tax rates for everyone, childishly describing how “there's also this huge thing that the people of the United States are worried about, and that is the deficit, and keeping the tax cuts will add trillions to that.”

[MrB]

He won the Nobel under the category of

“not reflecting a lot of light while being president of the United States”

[Ann Archy]

And she’s married to the JEWISH Jamie Rubin!!

[Nosterrex]

She is another useful idiot spewing propaganda.

[bmwcyle]

The woman is as dumb as a stump.

[ops33]

Christiane Amanpour or Obama (or both, in time)?

[crosshairs]

Who cares what she thinks. She thought her good friend J.F.K.JR was a capable pilot too.

[CT]

Rush just said this fool Iranian or whatever she is has taken the ABC This Week audience (key demographic) to a seven year low. Ya think some of that precipitous drop since August 2010 might be the result of idiotic questions that fly squarely in the face of reality? Gee, Axe, let me Axe you, BHO is such a great president, why doesn't he get more credit from non-elites like us for doing such a great job? LOL.

Oh oh. Next week we will talk to the great hope for peace in the middle east. Ahmedinnerjacket.

[jrushing]

Kinda looks like the twin WTC towers on fire to me.

[dennisw]

Grrrr.... this foreign born creep. Whose bright idea was it to hire her and showcase her? Limbaugh said today that ratings are down with Amanpour. I don’t like anti-American immigrants. In fact I hate them. If you legally immigrated and love America then you are OK in my book