PBS/CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour sat down with Talk Easy podcast host Sam Fragoso on Sunday for what was truly a surreal interview. Even though Amanpour is one of the most liberal media figures outside of MS NOW, she insisted that she isn’t biased and that she’s just someone who cares about democracy and human rights from a Catholic perspective.
Fragoso wondered, “So, do you believe there's a moral bent to your work?” After Amanpour affirmed that she does, he continued, “You do? Mark Thompson, the chairman and CEO of CNN, he's also the editor-in-chief of CNN said, quote, ‘Our job is not to be moral arbiters. It is to report what's happening.’ So, is there daylight between his view and yours.”
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Amanpour did her best not to create a public spat with her boss, but she held firm while trying to wrap her sense of morality in Catholicism despite being one of the media’s biggest advocates for abortion:
I don't know. I mean, he said moral arbiters, you ask me if there's a moral quality. So, I was raised a Catholic. It's part of my moral and ethical and personal framework. And the reason why I'm not too embarrassed to say this, although I think it's quite personal, I was just reading a very, very good opinion about the new British prime minister, Andy Burnham, who's also a Catholic, but there's also not a every Sunday Catholic, but he's written about how the notion of what we learn in the Bible and it's not just Catholics. It's Christians, it's Jews, it's Muslims. They all have this idea of social justice, of do unto to others, of reach out to the poor, the most downtrodden, all our parables, all the miracles, all the stories we hear in the Gospels and all the rest of it are about precisely that.
First of all, the parables in the Gospels are about Jesus explaining the nature of God and man’s relationship to Him, not “social justice.”
Nevertheless, Amanpour continued, “So, somehow that must have infiltrated me so that when I was confronted with it as a professional, I acted in a certain way, not thinking about religion or anything like that, but just thinking of the injustice that I was witnessing in not in all instances, but in a lot of the stuff that I that was covering. And I just think that when people tell us we're biased or when people tell us we're liberal or when people tell us this, no, we, I think—let me speak for myself, I don't see it in political terms. I see it in terms of people.”
She also insisted, “And if there's somebody there being killed or raped or attacked or excluded or hated because of their gender, their race, their sexuality, their, whatever it might be, their ethnicity, then I know that that's wrong. Again, I don't think I'm political, but I have a deep respect for human rights.”
Fragoso then wondered, “What do you mean you're not political?”
Amanpour replied, “Because I, if it's being political holding up democracy, then I'm political. If it's political advocating for the truth and honesty, then I'm political. If it's political believing in human rights, I'm political.”
Nobody asked Amanpour to be neutral between the Taliban and women or between Russia and Ukraine or between lowercase D democrats and dictators. The problem is Amanpour’s “Catholic” sense of morality has led her to go to bat for DEI, Hamas propaganda, climate reparations, Bernie Sanders-style socialism, the idea that Trump’s America is analogous to North Korea, men in women’s sports, that Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law is harmful, and polygamy. That’s not just somebody who believes in democracy. That is just another left-wing activist.
