In your continuing coverage of teevee anchors who work on shows you don’t watch, here’s some news on the foreign correspondent with the bangs and the weird accent! Christiane Amanpour, “the thinking man’s Scud Stud,” will replace George Stephanopoulos as the host of ABC’s “This Week.”
So that makes two (2) ladies recently slated to host weekend politics shows, huzzah! Plus Christian Amanpour was really the best thing about the first Gulf War, excepting Three Kings.
Anyway, here’s some hot vid of her arguing with beady-eyed torture freak Mark Thiessen.
ABC snags foreign reporter Amanpour from CNN to host ‘This Week’ [Washington Post]
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Make Sarah Palin debate her. I would pay to see that.
It’ll be fine as long as they keep the roundtable with Will and Kristal spewing their latest very serious talking points; and make sure to continue having either McCain or Lieberman on every other week.
Is this some kind of trick to make me actually watch that wretched show? Or has the lovely Christine been a douchebag in disguise all along.
I love “Three Kings.” George Clooney. rrrrrrowrrrrr.
At my old job we called her the “War Whore”. Anytime anything bad happened in the Middle East, she was reporting it live. I think she staged all of it. We may get world peace now if she’s here… Or the studio for “This Week” will be ground zero.
The clip showing that smug mouth-breather trying to justify torturing prisoners is why I stopped watching teevee other than the what is linked to from my Wonkette.
This is Rudy Giulliani’s onion — the one good deed that will be extended to him as he roasts in hell.
When Stephanopoulos unblinkingly accepted Rudy’s statement that no terrorist incidents occurred under Bush, George’s was toast.
Thanks for the gumball, Rudy. It doesn’t change anything, and like Grushenka’s sinner, it’s not nearly enough, but thanks.
What? No Blingee? Cuz she’s looking pretty gangsta in that pic.
Someone put breasts and a wig on Ralph Fiennes in The English Patient? Cool.
Promotions based on personal accomplishments? What a novel idea. I figured everybody got somewhere because they were someone’s kid, like Jonah Goldbrick.
[re=533741]StonyPillow[/re]: I always thought that was George’s problem: he was (is) too close to the people he is supposed to cover. Doesn’t want to offend, so never really challenges stupid ideas like that of Rudy’s. I think (hope) Christiane will be a little more objective; she certainly isn’t afraid to challenge.
At least she will know the difference between Nepal and Tibet (I think)
Bye, George. You’re a fucking loser and nobody will miss you.
I am for Christiane Amanpour if she could do voice overs for Lara Logan.
[re=533747]gjdodger[/re]: Come on now, Luke Russert certainly earned his place at NBC through merit.
[re=533749]proudgrampa[/re]: Stephanopoulos has proven that he probably is better suited for the vapid, hard news free world of the morning shows.
“So that makes two (2) ladies recently slated to host weekend politics shows, huzzah!”
Wrong! Candy’s a man, baby! They even ran a special doc on her transition to a “woman” last weekend.
Timely, that announcement is. 7 years ago today we began the “liberation” of Iraq and all the attendant glories that bullshit reaped. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!11
Goddamn that Mark Thiessen is an irritating douchebag. Why didn’t Christiane just punch him in the balls? She’s much more of a man than he is.
I literally cannot see Thiessen without getting angry now. I just want to waterboard him 183 times, then I’ll feel better.
Nothing wins an argument like nerd laughing about enhanced interrogation. Keep fucking that drowned chikkin Mark.
Just seeing the immoral, depraved, speechwriter-torture apologist Thiessen is enough to get my day off to a bad start. His sick attempts to justify this are revolting.
Needs moar Murphy Brown
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Hey, Thiessen, you know what else “works?” Reprisals. If your jihadi knows that a bunch of Navy Seals are going to line up everyone in his home village and shoot them, he’s less likely to carry out an attack. That’s why the French Resistance did almost no sabotage until the couple of days before D-Day. I mean, c’mon, if you’re going to be an evil fuck, why stop at torture?
Walking to class the other day, I heard two girls describing how some guy looked. One of them described him as a, “shovel-faced potato head.” For the life of me, I couldn’t picture what that would look like.
Now I know. It would look exactly like that smarmy spokesman for evil.
I take it that George Stephanopoulos got that job hosting the Price is Right. Good fit.
This is surely a sign that the adults are taking over. It’s like watching the first daffodils of the season start blooming.
[re=533776]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: No, but he’s doing the next best thing — some morning show that features new fashion trends and occasional newsy bits, which is right up his alley. The Price Is Right should remain Drew Carey’s domain, since it keeps him busy enough not to try comedy again.
[re=533828]SayItWithWookies[/re]: And at in this circle of life, for anything to live, something must die, for a flower to bloom, another must wither… and so it goes with CNN, which has now lost the only staff member with any professional journalistic credibility whatsoever to “the networks”, whose time with the news was supposed to be so over.
“I am not a terrorist.”
I beg to differ.
[re=533846]Mad Brahms[/re]: CNN will always have the immortal Campbell Brown to save us from The Bull!
[re=533761]grendel[/re]: Waterboarding is too good for that asshat. I say drown him by sticking his head in a bucket filled with Piranha fish. Carry that image around in your head and your day will get better.
I’d hit that.
[re=533846]Mad Brahms[/re]: Stupid misplaced pronoun, ruining my beautifully snarky poetry. Pay no attention to the “at” behind the mirror.
[re=533776]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: I think they should just switch him in and out with Ryan Seacrest. See if anyone even notices!
[re=533859]Mad Brahms[/re]: Gyah, and now I write “pronoun” when I mean preposition. I am made of more fail than Palin’s wig today.
[re=533857]Cape Clod[/re]: I don’t know; Piranha-Boarding sounds like something you’d see on ESPN 8 (The Ocho!)
As I remember Amanpour was one of the few journalists that raised hell about the genocide in Bosnia. She did more than anyone else to alert the world of the horrors going on over there. For that she wins my respect. Plus, I’d like to see someon catch that douche Thiessen and waterboard him if it’s not torture. I think that would go over very well on pay per view.
62 years of heterosexuality would vanish if she just winked at me. I have been gay for her for years. But what about her daily show for International CNN?
This Week is such a crap show–how will she be in the same room with Her Noonington? Cokie Roberts? The boys? Gag–worst panel in the world.
If things get boring, however, she and that Dionne guy can get it on and really keep me riveted to the screen.
[re=533760]V572625694[/re]: [re=533763]Mr Blifil[/re]: Srsly, what is with these sadists giggling when they talk about torture? Bush did it, too. Maybe they’re enjoying the little wood it gives them.
I thought the ABC host had to be someone Clinton fucked.
Palin: “…for the troops, in Eye-RACK”
Amanpour: “That’s Ih-RAAHHK, you twat. It’s pronounced Ih-RAAHK.”
Palin: “That’s what I said, Eye-RACK”
Amanpour reached under desk and retrieves a water balloon. “Allow me to correct you on that…. There now. Will that help remember that the correct pronounciation is “Ih-RAAHK?”
Palin: “Golly gosh, is that how they waterboard terrists in Eye-RACK?”
Amanpour drags large, heavy piece of teak from beneath deck, slams Palin unconscious with it.
“No. This is how it’s done.”
I’d like to get a tape of her debating Sylvia Poggioli of NPR. Moderated by Ann Curry.
I almost put my fist through my monitor watching that. Hell will be too good for a “human being” like Marc Thiessen.
[re=533763]Mr Blifil[/re]: Do you ever get the feeling that a lot of these wingnuts (ahem, Rove) were pasty, pudgy nerds in high school that made it their life’s mission to ascend to a point where they could do the same bullying to someone else? (brown people)
[re=533877]DustBowlBlues[/re]: I am hoping that Christiane will have another panel or some other format. George Will’s retirement cannot come too soon.
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CA is pretty good, as far as newsmedia humans go nowadays, but she didn’t get to the core of the matter. And that is not whether waterboarding is morally wrong, but that waterboarding is IN THEISSEN’S EYES morally wrong. That’s why he hides behind the Geneva Convention when it comes to US troops but plays with semantics to place Browns into a waterboardable category.
Still, Jon Stewart is probably the only other American who has held Theissen’s feet to the fire. Haha, he probably wet his pants and cried torture after that interview.
This will explain the hiring of Erik Erikson as he’ll be her replacement. Look for his first big story next week after he parachutes into Yemen to do a story about what Ayn Rand would say about the religious persecution of Yemenite women.
[re=533880]WadISay[/re]: That’s why you never see Lil Donny Rumsfeld anymore. He’s in an undisclosed location with Viagra IV’s hooked up to replenish his fluids he expels from vigorously masturbating to the Abu Ghraib photos.
[re=533899]GeneralLerong[/re]: I think you have the opening of a damn fine one act play here.
I still say that’s Bill Wyman.
She’ll be fine. I wonder how quickly she’ll get bored though. Her sitting around talking to Harry Reid about vote counting in the Senate reminds me of Krusty the Clown’s early shows of him talking with George Meany of he AFL-CIO.
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