04-08-2008, 03:34 PM | #1 |
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Classic Amanpour
I don't know why I'm posting this ... it's not as though Christiane Amanpour's anti-American animus is some secret, but this is truly obscene.
She visits a torture prison of Pol Pot's, learning in the process about how male prisoners "were whipped raw, their fingernails were yanked out, they were hogtied to wooden bars. Prison guards mutilated women's genitals, ripped off their nipples with pliers. And worst of all, babies were ripped from their mothers' arms and slaughtered." Oh, and waterboarding. Thus, Pol Pot = America. "Reporting from Washingt ... er, Cambodia, this is Christiane Amanpour." http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapc...ref=newssearch
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04-08-2008, 03:39 PM | #2 |
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Thank God for people like Amanpour who is not afraid to call evil what it is.
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04-08-2008, 04:21 PM | #3 |
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I don't think America is evil, no. So shoot me ... er, I mean, rip out my fingernails.
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or is it more like comparing apples to potatoes ... after all in French it's called une pomme de terre !
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04-08-2008, 06:46 PM | #5 |
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Please Mike, Amanpour is a liberal hack. She has a very bias view of what is or isn't evil. Let her talk, but don't praise her like she is some kind of God send.
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I always wondered about that. Some French guy first sees a potato and all he can think of is Apple from the Earth? I assume it was a metaphor?
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04-08-2008, 08:24 PM | #9 |
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That's a debate we can have, Frank. The point is, there's no way America is in any way similar to Pol Pot's regime, yet that is exactly the parallel Amanpour wants you to draw.
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And he's right, regardless of your position on the use of waterboarding on terrorists.
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