Christiane Amanpour Scolds Wolf Blitzer: 'You Have To Be Really Careful' About Ukraine Facts

[steve2470]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/03/christiane-amanpour-wolf-blitzer-ukraine_n_4892959.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

Christiane Amanpour and Wolf Blitzer had a tense moment on CNN Monday as the two journalists sparred over how to portray the facts of the political situation in Ukraine.

Blitzer was concluding a segment with Amanpour and the Brookings Institution's Stephen Cohen, who blamed Ukraine violence on a "right-wing nationalist movement."

Blitzer set Amanpour off when he told viewers, "You heard Vitaly Churkin, the Russian ambassador to the U.N. Security Council, saying earlier today that at fault for all of this are what he called fascists and anti-Semites in Ukraine right now ..."

"You know, you've got to be really careful by putting that across as a fact," Amanpour said.

*more at link above including video*

I know DU'ers will get a kick out of seeing Blitzer scolded

[JI7]

1. wonder if they will say she is getting emotional like andrew sullivan and some other guy did

when they were debating syria.

[hrmjustin]

2. Good for her!

[hollysmom]

3. I find her a more credible news source. n/t

[SoapBox]

12. Ditto.

[TwilightGardener]

4. Amanpour is pretty credible, IMO.

[Cha]

5. Thanks steve.. Blitzer could use that advice for his

whole existence on cnn.

[steve2470]

6. i agree and my pleasure nt

[Cha]

7. I want to thank Christiane Amanpour, too!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

8. That was TERRIFIC! I wish cable news people held each other more accountable

More often. What she did was interrupt and NOT allow Wolf and his guest put across as fact the Russian propaganda that this is all about anti-Jewish right wing Neo-Nazis taking over Ukrainian government.

[30cal]

9. I'm no fan of Blitzer but if you paid attention he said he repeated what was said

by Vitaly Churkin

It was a non-moment she seemed to want to argue about with Blitzer.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

10. She was calling out the propoganda, which is so often subtle but obvious to most thinking people.

Weirdo Wolfie didn't like that much, apparently. The way he stated what Churkin said sounded as if Churkin was reporting facts and Wolfie ends right there without ANY kind of challenge to that line by Churkin. Ammanpour was having none of that, lol. The very act by Wolfie of including that line is in itself PROPAGANDA.

[ConservativeDemocrat]

11. Obligitory...

No matter what the situation is, you can count on Blitzer not having a clue.

- C.D. Proud Member of the Reality Based Community

[DallasNE]

13. Hard To Know What To Believe

But here is an alternative on what is really happening. Perhaps Wolf should read it too.

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/mar/01/ukraine-haze-propaganda/

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. Blitzer worked for AIPAC so mention "Nazi" and he gets all kerfuffled.

[progressoid]

15. They give Christiane Amanpour maybe two hours of screen time a week.

But Wolfie gets three hours a day.