CNN’s Amanpour ‘Surprised’ by Lack of ‘Euphoria’ After Obama Speech |
| Published: July 24, 2008, 6:37 pm |
| Tags: 2008 presidential, europe, foreign policy, liberals amp amp democrats, barack obama, christiane amanpour, president bush, wolf blitzer, american morning, the situation room, cnn |
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CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour, reporting on Barack Obama's speech in Berlin on Thursday's The Situation Room, expressed her shock that the European crowd didn't seem to have the same mania for the Democrat that the media has: I did ask some people as they were leaving what they thought. Everybody said good, good. But I was surprised that there wasn't this sort of euphoria afterwards, given how many people had come to listen and how much it had been anticipated. She later stated in the segment that one unnamed political analyst talked about how people [in Europe] want a political redeemer -- I mean, that's very specific language, and he said it's not really based on facts, the -- what they think about Obama, because they don't really know. It's based on expectations. During the segment, which began just after the top of the 5 pm Eastern hour of the CNN program, host Wolf Blitzer asked Amanpour, why do they apparently like him [ Full article ] |
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