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CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour apologizes for comparing the Trump administration to brutal Kristallnacht crackdown by Nazis on Jewish people in Germany in 1938
UK Daily Mail ^ | November 17, 2020 | Marlene Lethang

Posted on 11/17/2020 5:44:12 AM PST by C19fan

CNN’s chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour has issued an apology following outrage from Israel after she compared the Trump administration to the Nazi’s Kristallnacht attack on Jewish people.

She compared Trump to Kristallnacht during a segment on her CNN International show Amanpour, which airs in the US as well as Europe, Asia and the Middle East, on the 82nd anniversary of the deadly event described as a prelude to the Holocaust.

In the segment she said Kristallnacht 'was the Nazis' warning shot across the bow of our human civilization that led to genocide and, in that tower of burning books, it led to an attack on fact, knowledge, history and proof.'

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People like Amanpour trivialize the crimes of the Nazis when they throw around ignorant comparisons like this.

1 posted on 11/17/2020 5:44:12 AM PST by C19fan
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Her apology was along the lines of “I apologize if you were offended.”


2 posted on 11/17/2020 5:45:02 AM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Why. Is. She. Still. Employed?


3 posted on 11/17/2020 5:45:32 AM PST by Billyv ( Ephesians 6:11 for we battle not against flesh and blood...Pray for our leaders and nation )
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What do you expect? She can’t understand normal thinking.


4 posted on 11/17/2020 5:45:49 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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“Why. Is. She. Still. Employed?”

Because everyone in the media agrees with her.


5 posted on 11/17/2020 5:46:23 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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Why. Is. She. Still. Employed?

Oh, wait! DS never mind .......


6 posted on 11/17/2020 5:46:31 AM PST by Billyv ( Ephesians 6:11 for we battle not against flesh and blood...Pray for our leaders and nation )
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She does not mean it and apology not accepted.


7 posted on 11/17/2020 5:46:41 AM PST by cp124 (Time for a new America.)
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CNN: Hey! Not until Jan. 20 dammit!
Amanpour: Sorry.


8 posted on 11/17/2020 5:47:19 AM PST by servo1969
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Unacceptable

She said it and she meant it. no matter how ridiculous

She apologizes only because she’s forced to not because she really means it

Go back to where you came from your undeserving to be an American


9 posted on 11/17/2020 5:48:32 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat ( TAG PedoJoe w/ DEFUND the POLICE OPEN BORDERS CORRUPTION DUNKIN/7-11)
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Well huuuuuh it’s on purpose deliberatly and she doesn’t care trivializing Nazis’ crimes ( let alone the way bigger , on a larger scale i mean , communist crimes ) .
And she is not the only one !
But i doubt she really regrets those words


10 posted on 11/17/2020 5:50:03 AM PST by Ulysse (P)
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She was sorry for the slur... against the Nazis.


11 posted on 11/17/2020 5:50:09 AM PST by ArtDodger
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Christiane Amanpour
It was the Nazi's warning shot across the bow of our human civilization that led to genocide against a whole identity and in that tower of burning books, it led to an attack of fact, knowledge, history, and truth. After four years of a modern-day assault on those same values by Donald Trump, the Biden-Harris team pledges a return to norms, including the truth.

Let out experts show you how Ms Amanpour is actually correct.

12 posted on 11/17/2020 5:51:17 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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I wish people would stop with the “I demand an apology” stuff. She said it and she meant it, a fake apology changes nothing. A sincere apology is not something to be demanded, they are offered.


13 posted on 11/17/2020 5:51:27 AM PST by teevolt
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“I am sorry if you think my comparison of the Trump administration to the heroic actions of National Socialist Germany in fighting the worldwide Zionist conspiracy by killing the Jew dogs was offensive. The use of gas was uncalled for. I personally believe that as Holy Quran says, all their throats should have been slit. They were Jews, sons of pigs and apes, anyway. Please don’t think I dislike those filthy Jews as that is really a mischaracterization of what I said, which was taken out of context anyway. So sorry.”


14 posted on 11/17/2020 5:53:45 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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Amanpour issued her apology from her apartment, next to her favorite painting, an abstract of the Twin Trade Towers burning.

"I made a terrible mistake, I meant to say 'Joos!', not Nazis. I'm so sorry for my slip of the tongue."

15 posted on 11/17/2020 5:53:49 AM PST by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who ref7use them news, and by fools who can not govern. " Chesterton)
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Are there any Nazis still alive that she apologized to?


16 posted on 11/17/2020 5:57:13 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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There will never be forgiveness for all CNN and everyone who works for them has done. Make a point to remember that.


17 posted on 11/17/2020 5:58:32 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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She had a golden opportunity to make a much more apt comparison of Kristallnacht to the Antifa/BLM riots. Wonder why she didn’t take it? /s


18 posted on 11/17/2020 5:59:38 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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There WAS a Kristallnacht in America. Only, it lasted WAY more than a single night, going on for almost the half a year before the elections, more in some cities than in others, and it was organized, not by Team Trump, but the forces arrayed to delegitimize the whole Trump administration.

Both the militant Islamist jihadists and the neo-Nazis that have infested the politics of the United States have not done nearly the damage to property and economics that has been wreaked upon America by the ANTIFA and BLM thugs being financed by some shadowy billionaire types and urged on by rabidly anti-American intellectuals.

The COVID-19 Wuhan virus was just a convenient cover.


19 posted on 11/17/2020 6:01:58 AM PST by alloysteel ("The Best Is Yet to Come "- theme of 2020 RNC)
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To: C19fan


20 posted on 11/17/2020 6:02:12 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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