Alleged "reporter" for CNN in UK "afraid" to travel to US

"I have a British accent, so you must believe me"

 CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, self-styled queen of international journalism, just dropped a stinkbomb so unhinged it could make Kim Jong-un blush. 

The 67-year-old British-Iranian reporter, who’s dodged bullets in war zones like the Gulf and Bosnia, says she geared up for a trip to the U.S. like she was infiltrating North Korea.  The land of the free, home of the brave? More like Pyongyang with better Wi-Fi, apparently.

“I have to tell you, when I went to Harvard to give this speech, and it was just a few days ago last week, I must say, I was afraid,” Amanpour whined on her podcast “The Ex Files,” where she trades hot takes with her ex-husband, former State Department suit James Rubin. 

Afraid of what? The horrors of Harvard Yard? A rogue TSA pat-down? No, she was quaking in her boots about stepping foot in Trump’s America, wait, Biden’s America. 

“I’m a foreigner, I don’t have a green card, I’m not an American citizen, I’m fairly prominent, and I literally prepared to go to America as if I was going to North Korea,” the withering violet said, probably clutching her pearls for dramatic effect. She's ditching her iPhone and iPad for a burner phone. “I took a burner phone, Jamie, imagine that,” she told Rubin, a man who left her for some reason. 

She sounded like she was auditioning for a Jason Bourne flick. The phone had nothing but a few numbers: her assistant, her ex, her kid, and a CNN lawyer. Because nothing screams “I’m ready for Guantanamo” like a Nokia with four contacts.

CNN’s finest compares a U.S. trip to sneaking into North Korea: “I took a burner phone. Imagine that!” Cue the spy music. pic.twitter.com/ash7S47rjG
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman)

Amanpour’s been around war zones, dictatorships, you name it. But apparently, a quick hop to Cambridge, Massachusetts, had her sweating like she was crossing the DMZ. “I was really afraid,” she lied, citing rumors of British citizens getting grilled at the border for “hours and hours and hours.”

 She even consulted CNN’s security team, probably expecting a SWAT escort. 

Spoiler alert: She waltzed through customs without a hitch. “So, huge sigh of relief I breathed,” she admitted, before pivoting to her real point: “But wow, can you imagine if I’m afraid, what do others think?” Others, presumably, being the huddled masses who don’t have CNN’s legal department on speed dial. 

This isn’t Amanpour’s first time when she released unhinged hyperbole. Back in 2020, she made a lazy comparison of Trump’s presidency to Nazi Germany. I bet she claims she made that one up all by herself.

On her CNN show, just days after the 2020 election, she kicked things off with this gem: “This week, 82 years ago, Kristallnacht happened.” You know, the 1938 Nazi pogrom where Jews were attacked, their homes and businesses trashed, and synagogues burned. No biggie, just another Tuesday for Amanpour to link to Trump, and coming from an obvious anti-Semite, she probably shouldn't have gone the way of the Nazis because it hurts her cause.

“It was the Nazis’ 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 on fact, knowledge, history and truth,” she bloviated. “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.”

Yeah, sure, how'd that work out for the Biden bull throwers?

Jewish groups weren’t exactly thrilled, with one telling her to “stop using the horrors of the Holocaust to justify an agenda.” But does the anti-Semitic woman care? Nah. She’s too busy packing burner phones for her next “dangerous” mission to the land of Starbucks and free speech.

This is ⁦⁦@camanpour on⁩ ⁦@CNN⁩ comparing Trump’s tenure to Nazi Germany. How the hell is this sort of prejudice tolerated on mainstream media? Third rate rubbish. pic.twitter.com/EG9eB9vQWo
— Ben Habib (@benhabib6) November 12, 2020

So here we are, folks. Christiane Amanpour, globetrotting "journalist" who stared down warlords, is out here acting like a trip to the U.S. requires a covert op. 

Next time, maybe she’ll just Zoom in from London and save the burner phone for the real dictators.

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Israel PM Naftali Bennett calls out Christiane Amanpour for lying

Failing CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour interviewed Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett about his country's policies used to control violent rioting on the Temple Mount and "settlements" [aka Jewish communities] in Judea and Samaria. 

PM Bennett pulled no punches to her obvious bias as she pushed the narrative that the reason for the terror meted out by the Palestinians was due to the stalled peace talks and that both sides are to blame for the cycle of violence, and asked what's he going to do about it.

“I object to the notion of ‘both sides.’ No,” PM Bennett replied. “When they don’t attack us, we have no issues with them. But when they do attack us, I have to fight back and hit them [in] their terror bases, and that’s what any leader would do, and that’s what I’m doing.”

There is no real moral equivalency between Israel and the Palestinians. Israel does all it can to minimize innocent casualties when they retaliate; the Palestinians do all they can to maximize casualties when they target schools, hospitals and dwellings. That's just a fact.

Amanpour went to Twitter to post this:

There’s a constant cycle of bloodshed between Israelis and Palestinians. Can @IsraeliPM @naftalibennett spend political capital to finally end that? He says, “I object to the notion of ‘both sides’… When they do attack us, I have to fight back & hit them at their terror bases.” pic.twitter.com/0bTPKTbUPC

— Christiane Amanpour (@amanpour)

After Amanpour, whose father is Iranian and Bosnian, insinuated that violence carried out by “Jewish settlers” is a major national security concern on par with Palestinian terror, quoting Bennett and an IDF general’s previous remarks on the issue, the premier interrupted her.

“What you’ve been projecting is blatantly false,” Bennett said. “It’s a lie, simply a lie.”

“No, sir, you cannot say that to me. You cannot tell me I’m lying,” replied Amanpour, who appeared taken aback by his factual statement. Of course he can call her a liar--she's a damned liar and stretches the truth to accommodate her agenda. This is a woman who compared Donald Trump to Kristallnacht and the Nazis, and never even mentioned that little part of it being about the killing of Jews.

“I can,” Bennett said. “You’re misrepresenting the facts… I said a tiny minority, and I object [to] the symmetry that you’re trying to create here.”

While violence or vandalism from settlers is unacceptable, it also pales in comparison to deadly Palestinian terror, Bennett said.

“Who’s getting murdered? We’re seeing Palestinians murder Israelis. We’re not seeing Israelis murdering Palestinians, and that’s why there’s no symmetry here…

“I also object, these are not occupied territories, they’re territories in dispute, and we have claims to our own places, as well as them,” he added.

“I get it,” the Israeli leader continued. “No one’s going anywhere. We have to figure out how to live together. That’s my job. To provide security for Israelis, dignity for Palestinians. I’m working on that very hard, and we’re succeeding.

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“The problem is that the Palestinian leadership is totally corrupt, incompetent, so we have to do the job because there’s no one to work with on the other side, and… indeed, we’re adding jobs, better jobs, but at the end of the day, my utmost responsibility is to provide security to the Israeli people.”

Sad to say but Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is right and, while there is bias in all reporters, Christiane Amanpour is too biased to be believable.

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