NO SHAME

Posted at 6:09 p.m. ET

They just keep coming.   They're collectible.  We warned last night about the kind of journalism to expect today.  We haven't been disappointed.  But this blog by the certifiable nutbag Christiane Amanpour, of CNN, one of the most biased reporters in the trade today, has got to be eligible for some kind of prize.  I hate to use a cliché, but you really can't make this up:

NEW YORK — Finding myself in New York City this U.S. election Day, I saw scenes that reminded me of the first democratic elections I covered in Afghanistan in 2004, or Iraq in 2005.

Scenes that reminded me of the historic election in South Africa in 1994 when a black man, Nelson Mandela, was elected president thus ending generations of white minority rule known as apartheid.

Yes, I checked.  I quoted that accurately.  That's what she wrote - comparing the United States, with more than two centuries of peaceful, democratic elections, to third-world countries. 

Or 1998 in Iran when women and young people turned out en masse to elect the first ever reform president, the moderate cleric Mohammad Khatami.

Moderate?  Did she say moderate?  Well, I guess Albert Speer was moderate compared with Adolph Hitler.  Maybe that's the example she had in mind.

And that’s what I saw this morning in New York City as the polls opened. As I rode my son to school by bike, we passed a public school-turned voting center that made us gasp.

Oh, come on.  Please.  Readers, she did say that.  She had to inform us that she rode her son by bike.  No carbon footprint there.  Just a clean, green bike.  That line has got to be worth an invitation to Al Gore's next birthday party.

Oh, by the way, in New York City you have to ride bikes in the street, never on the sidewalk.  So this brilliant chunk of parenthood was riding her son on her bike, and watching the polling places, rather than the traffic.  Another mother-of-the-year.

Remember, the U.S. is never known for its high voter turnouts.

We do quite a bit better, Christiane, than the dictatorships you seem never to mind.  This "international correspondent" is Iranian, a leftist, and a flack for Arab causes.  She's judging us?

Everywhere you look the mood smacks of history…almost a foregone conclusion. Even New York City’s right-wing leading tabloids, are calling it for Obama.

In fact, only one leading tabloid is right wing, or conservative, as we prefer to say.  That's the New York Post.  The other "right-wing" tabloid she's apparently referencing is the Daily News, which endorsed Obama.  Apparently she never noticed.  Must have been watching the polling places.

Meantime cable and broadcast TV networks can barely contain themselves: Newspaper articles quote news executives all but saying they will be able to call the election as soon as polls close early evening.

Barely contain themselves?  This is the way she describes her "colleagues"?  I guess we've been right about this crowd all along.  Thanks, Christiane, for your honesty about that, if about nothing else. 

And the big finish:

No election has electrified the U.S. like this since 1968. But the whole world wishes it could cast a vote in this one. Whatever happens, this U.S. election will change the world. Stay tuned.

Notice she says 1968.  Apparently, in her self-written history book there was no 1980.  Reagan?  Who was Reagan?  Could he have possibly been as important as Eugene McCarthy? 

I'm always amused when reporters bring up 1968, as a kind of nostalgic act.  It was the year, after all, of the worst journalistic scandal of modern American history - the misreporting of the Tet offensive, which mislead the American people into thinking we were losing, and led to our ultimate tragedy in Vietnam.

This blog exposes Amanpour for exactly who she is.  The sad fact is that there are clones of this woman throughout journalism, which is why we may suffer another tragedy before coming to our senses.

November 4, 2008.