'We're not going to shut up': CNN's Christiane Amanpour slams Bannon and Trump's 'totalitarian...

[DonViejo]

‘We’re not going to shut up’: CNN’s Christiane Amanpour slams Bannon and Trump’s ‘totalitarian regime’ tactics

BRAD REED
27 JAN 2017 AT 13:05 ET

Top Trump strategist Steve Bannon told the New York Times and other media outlets to shut up on Thursday, but CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour isn’t having any of it.

While appearing on Anderson Cooper’s show, Amanpour hit back at Bannon and said his attacks on the press were akin to something normally seen in “totalitarian regimes in the past which use this same kind of strategy.”

“If I was going to be funny, I’d say that he’s angling for an order of merit from president Sisi, Putin, Erdogan and all the others,” she said, via Media Matters. “That is how they treat their press. That is what they believe the press should be, a compliant state propaganda unit in the service of the president.”

She then noted that, unlike countries such as Egypt and Russia, the United States has a long history of a free press that is enshrined in our First Amendment. “It is not the tradition of the American press,” she said. “So of course we’re not going to shut up, and why should we?”

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[moondust]

1. K/R

[hamsterjill]

2. She is in a class all by herself.

There's no one as good as she is when it comes to foreign policy discussions, etc. I saw the segment and she fried Jeffrey Lord's ass.

[LittleGirl]

6. although it's not difficult to fry Jeffrey's

ass. the dumb f* lackey. ugh. snicker.

[pansypoo53219]

31. joffrey or maybe juffrey.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

28. Amy Goodman and Robert Fisk are on the same level.

All three are great, and we definitely need them.

[Squinch]

3. Kick

[Cha]

18. She also said this.. and Keith..

Link to tweet

Also Keith Olbermann..

[Fantastic Anarchist]

29. "Be realistic, demand the impossible!" - 1968 Paris Anarchists.

I've always loved that quote since I read about it a few years ago.

[OregonBlue]

4. Not to mention, I predict Plump will lose every single court case where he tries to restrict

press freedoms. He just doesn't realize it yet but just because he or the Neo-Nazi scum Bannon say something doesn't mean it's going to happen. That only happens when you are the CEO. Plumps approval rating is at 36%.

[BSdetect]

5. Their ignorance and gall is appauling

[Hekate]

7. KnR

[Stinky The Clown]

8. I have great respect for her. Always dedicated to truth and always on the right side of issues

I also admire her husband, Jamie Rubin. They are a great Power Couple.

[Cha]

19. She also said this.. and Keith..

Link to tweet

Also Keith Olbermann..

[tenorly]

9. The pen is mightier than any Trumptalitarian.

Especially in the skilled hands of someone like Christiane Amanpour.

[0rganism]

10. "a compliant state propaganda unit"

that's certainly where we're headed
the news media already sees it has to bow down and kiss ass to get access
outstanding question is how long will the news audience tolerate a lack of access in the name of "honest" coverage of our current political "reality"

[slumcamper]

11. ka-BOOM.

[lpbk2713]

12. Afflict the comfortable.

I love her a thousand times over.

[gademocrat7]

13. K&R!

Thank you, Christian Amanpour.

[AllaN01Bear]

14. constitution be dammed eh mr trump

[calimary]

21. Welcome to DU, AllaN01Bear!

Well, this would be two CON "presidents" - two ILLEGITIMATE "presidents" who had to cheat to win - who seem to share the same view of the Constitution. Remember when dubya was quoted as saying "it's just a goddamn piece of paper"?

I guess we've regressed back at least that far, again.

[lastlib]

39. Aa-a-nd--remember Nixon, who TREATED it like one?

Make it THREE--Nixon was SO legitimate that, even with one of the great electoral landslide in US history in his hands, he was forced to resign in disgrace less than two years later, after cheating to win, and trying to mess with the press.

Totalitarianism is in the GOP genome.

[tavalon]

46. I am unsure if Cheetolinni

Knows of this constitutuon of which you soeak.

[DEM4EVR801]

15. BRAVO CHRISTIANE!!!

Fight Back.

These Putin Puppets Need The Moxie We All Possess That Dictators like 45 Hate.

“Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.”
― Muhammad Ali

[Skittles]

16. BANNON IS A NAZI PIECE OF SHIT

FUCK HIM

[AgadorSparticus]

41. +1,000!!!

[Cha]

17. Thank you, Christianne Amanpour.. who also said this..

Link to tweet

Also Keith Olbermann..



Mahalo, Don

[red dog 1]

20. K&R!

I always liked Christiane..now I love her!

[ailsagirl]

23. She is fantastic-- good for her

Let's hear more people voice their dissent

This can't go on

[NastyRiffraff]

24. More like this, please

from our media. Many of them have a lot to answer for because of the unlimited free publicity they gave Dump during the Primaries and the GE. They need to realize they are under serious attack. If we are to have a free press/media, they must speak out, loudly and often.

[jayschool2013]

25. When does White House TV start?

I wouldn't put it past reality star Hair Twitler and his odious minions and advisers to start their own news channel, featuring a reality show starring Duh Furor.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. They'll have a show: "The Apprentice: 'So you want to be the President?"

and bring in a series of dumbass media whores into the oval office and let them sit behind the desk and film it with taxpayer money. They will show "episodes" of "Real People™" going through a "day in the life of the President" - all available for viewing on Whitehouse.gov.

That is how he rolls and Congress and the media will let him do it.

[bdamomma]

36. or From Russia with Love How

to Steal An Election.

[BumRushDaShow]

45. They are not done the theft yet

so they will keep the techniques for the kleptocracy close to the vest for now.

[IronLionZion]

26. America used to stand for freedom

in fact, our very first amendment was for freedom of speech and press

Will they repeal the 1st amendment? They're wanting desperately to repeal the 15th and 19th amendments (voting for minorities and women)

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I'm sure Pence would like to establish a state religion and they all want to prohibit the free exercise of certain other religions too.

Trump and his administration are downright un-American

[BumRushDaShow]

27. The media allowed them to be elected

by being complicit to, and most times happily promoting the 24/7 bullshit being spewed by what are now the GOP's Putin-loving apparatchiks.

I like Christiane Amanpour and she has certainly paid her dues, but it seems they must have assumed that after the primary and general, the newly-elected deplorables would suddenly revert to the usual conservative vs liberal catfights. They are now finding, far too late in the game, that this was a coup and they aided and abetted it. As they are now discovering - they have been summarily discarded by the very ones they helped... all due to their insistence on doing false equivalence reporting.

[MontanaMama]

32. Watched her last night on Anderson Cooper's show.

Her depth and breadth of knowledge of politics, trade and international relations is beyond impressive. It is a comfort to listen to her when she speaks because what she says is REAL. She's not a half whit worthless pundit. She made that Jefferey Lord look like an idiot last night. I mean, he is an idiot but he's usually conversing with bigger idiots so it's less noticeable.

Anyone else seeing the networks trotting out some journalistic juggernauts lately? Christiane is one, I've also seen Brokaw and Rather recently to name a few. I don't watch a lot of network tv but I'm wondering if they sense the unease among viewers and know their dumbass stable of pundits aren't cutting it?

[onetexan]

33. Amanpour is one of the very few on CNN i really loved watching

when i could still stomach CNN. KUDOS to Christiane for having the guts to stand up to the idiot.

[MontanaMama]

34. Yeah...Jeffrery Lord looked like

someone clocked him with a brick when she was done. He didn't know what hit him.

[bdamomma]

37. I think

they should give those who don't live in reality a dose of reality. They don't believe in facts, but want a stupid delusional supreme leader.

I haven't watched TV it seems like no one will shut up Rachel and should I include Lawrence O'Donnell.

[AgadorSparticus]

42. One can only hope the networks are slowly pulling their heads out of their asses!

[bdamomma]

35. Damn straight!!!

This should fuel the press more to stand up these assholes.
Thank you Ms Amanpour.

[alfredo]

40. We're not the only ones that likes her.

England gave her this:

[Beartracks]

38. "Shut up" "I have no valid argument" n/t

[NBachers]

43. Christiane Amanpour has the worldwide experience to know what she's talking about.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

44. Respect!

[angrychair]

47. Let be honest Ms. Amanpour

Being a propaganda unit of the government is in the news media's blood. The press has been just that so many times.

CNN and MSNBC and ABC and all the others were propaganda units for trump before the election, why would now be any different?
Sadly, with very few exceptions, all we have is Trump's propaganda core in the news media.