CNN lied to terror victims: now apologizes

More than a month after Christiane Amanpour, a so called journalist from the Compromised News Network, wrongly claimed that Lucy Dee and her two daughters were killed "in a shoot-out," she finally apologized for suggesting that the women were armed during their murder.

“On April 10, I referred to the murders of an Israeli family: Lucy, Maia and Rina Dee, the wife and daughters of Rabbi Leo Dee. I misspoke [aka lied] and said they were killed in a ‘shoot-out’ instead of a shooting,” Amanpour explained in her on-air apology on May 22.

“I have written to Rabbi Leo Dee to apologize and make sure that he knows that we apologize for any further pain that may have caused him.”

However, Amanpour's apology did not mention that the women were victims of a terror attack, nor did it identify or discuss the attackers or their motives.

Last month, the pro-Israel group HonestReporting shared a video clip on Twitter of Amanpour talking about the incident on TV. Lucy Dee and her daughters Maia and Rina were brutally shot at close range in their car by terrorists in an attack that had no provocation. But this is what terrorists do--like the Oct. 7 attack last year when Hamas and other cowards came into Israel and mercilessly killed, tortured, raped and burned to death over 1,200 unarmed Jewish men, women, children and babies. 

🚨On May 11, HonestReporting called out @CNN @Amanpour for misrepresenting the murders of Lucy, Maia, & Rina Dee. Join Rabbi Leo Dee in calling for a public acknowledgment of their mistake. Sign our petition here: https://t.co/4viV813MgH

— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting)

When Amanpour described the attack, she claimed that the mother and daughters were “killed in a shoot-out,” implying that the British-Israeli women were armed and defending themselves in an exchange of fire with the terrorists. Even if that was the case, which it was not, remember who instigated the slaughter of the innocent family.

“A shoot-out is two sides firing at each other,” HonestReporting posted as a caption to the clip. “A mother and her two daughters were shot at close range by Palestinian terrorists.”

Addressing Amanpour, they wrote that “you owe a grieving family an apology.”

Rabbi Leo Dee, the widower and father of the victims, was outraged by Amanpour’s characterization of the murders.

“This is the perfect example of ‘terror journalism’ where you have a moral equivalence between the terrorist and victim,” Dee said in a media statement.

“This type of journalism perpetuates the conflict in the Middle East. The real cycle of violence is a comment like this followed by a terrorist atrocity and then more of the same.”

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Rabbi rejects Christiane Amanpour's insincere apology over Palestinian terrorists killing of his family

CNN's British-Iranian employee, Christiane Amanpour, is anything but a journalist, but she plays one on TV. 

When it comes to Israel, and by extension, Jews, she is anything but objective. But she is also not very objective when it comes to Christian groups as well for having equated the incredibly rare religiously-inspired violence cases by Christians and Jews with radical Islam's global, often openly supported mass killing. 

She claimed that American presidents called Israeli settlements "illegal" but it was only one president, Jimmy Carter, and he was not a fan of the Jews or Israel. 

Amanpour even went so far as to misrepresent Ronald Reagan's view of Israel and the settlements. He clearly said "They are not illegal." (NY Times Feb. 3,1981), she claimed he said the opposite.

The fake news "reporter" claimed that "Jewish settlements have inflamed much of the Arab world." The truth is, the Arab world was pissed off at Israel's existence long before a single settlement existed. Arabs have tried repeatedly to destroy the Jewish State, but lost every time. 

But her latest revelation of how she really feels about Israel and the Jews came when she outright lied.

On April 7, Lucy Dee, 48, and her daughters, Rina, 20, and Maia, 16, were traveling along the Jordan Valley, as they were on their way for a Passover visit when they were shot to death near the West Bank settlement of Hamra. The girls died at the scene and the mother died in the hospital several days later. The husban, Rabbi Leo Dee, was riding in a car up ahead and was not physically injured.

[L to R]  Lucy, Maia, Rina

On April 10, Amanpour spoke of the incident during an interview with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh while asking a question about escalating violence.

“We have a young 15-year-old Palestinian boy who’s been shot and killed by security — Israeli security forces,” she said, referring to the young terrorist who shot and killed them. “We also have the mother of two sisters, Israeli-British sisters. They were killed in a shootout, and now the mother has died of her injuries.”

We "also have" -- spoken as if the terrorist who was killed was the tragedy and the Dee women an afterthought. 

After the network caught flak from its meager viewership, Amanpour apologized to the Dee family for lying about the attack being a "shootout," because real shootouts require bullets flying in both directions. The women were unarmed and defenseless while the 15-year-old "Palestine boy" was doing all the shooting. 

It was never a "shootout." It was a slaughter.

So on Monday Amanpour admitted that she "misspoke" and apologized to Rabbi Leo Dee, after the network learned that he would be suing them for $1.3 billion, with the help of Lawyer and Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz.

She reluctantly sent a written apology to Rabbi Dee but he immediately rejected it, telling Israeli media i24 News that it wasn’t “worth the paper it was printed on.” He said that her comment is typical of CNN  “where they try to make a comparison between the victim and the terrorist” and that “when you make a statement in front of 100 million people on primetime television and then you apologize in an email to a single person, it has one one hundredth of a million of the impact.”

Of course, claiming that 100 million people watch CNN is a gross exaggeration, but the point was well made.

On Sunday, during an event hosted by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Dee said he was considering filing a $1.3 billion lawsuit against CNN. During the interview with i24, Dee said “there’s only one thing that would atone for this particular sin is that they change their attitude towards Israel.”

Well, he considered it and is apparently going forward with the suit. If CNN looks to settle, I hope he doesn't go along with it.

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Terrorist sympathizer and CNN host claims unarmed Israeli family killed in a "shootout"

When you hear the word "shootout" you think of two sides firing at each other with weapons. Bullets fly in both directions and there's usually a sense of an equal chance of victory to both sides. But when a fake news, anti-Zionist, Jew-hating "reporter" calls the execution of a Jewish family in Israel a "shootout," fake news has reached a new and more disgusting level.

Last week the Compromised News Network's Christiane Amanpour claimed that members of the British-Israeli Dee family were "killed in a shootout." HonestReporting, a media watchdog organization, showed video of Amanpour making the claim about mother Lucy Dee and her daughters Maya and Rina.

The media watchdog noted, “A shootout is two sides firing at each other. A mother and her two daughters were shot at close range by Palestinian terrorists.”

But people like Amanpour don't see terrorist acts as terror, they see it as freedom fighters that fight for their cause.

Terrorist in training

The Jerusalem Post reported that the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta intends to send a letter of complaint to the Crappy News Nitwits. It's doubtful that they'll apologize or do anything about their so called reporter, but to do nothing would be a crime. The outlet also said that the Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed they are working on the letter.

The murders of the Dee mother and daughters occurred over the Passover holiday as they drove through the Jordan Valley and terrorists fired multiple rounds at their car, shooting them over 20 times. 

Tell us, Amanpour, how the hell is that considered to be a shootout?

The family patriarch, Rabbi Leo Dee, told HonestReporting that he demands an apology, The Jerusalem Post reported.

“This is the perfect example of ‘terror journalism,’ where you have moral equivalence between the terrorist and victim,” Rabbi Dee told The Post. “This type of journalism perpetuates the conflict in the Middle East,” he added. “The real cycle of violence is a comment like this followed by a terrorist atrocity and then more of the same.”

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