Dear Robert,

Here in Starbucks with Kallah (Read: Boss) by my side, I laughed aloud at the whole Amanpour subservience thing/misrepresentation/canard! There is one thing Jewish men know and that is who wears the pants in the family or, as the case may be, the long skirt!

Thanks for the chuckle!

Alan

In the dismal documentary "The Unnunning of Karen" (which merits swedging), there is a section in which Karen Armstrong, while gripping her copy of "The Protocols of Christiane Amanpour," unburdens herself of her anti-Semitic views. It is a form of iatronudia, save that Armstrong's illness not pretend, and Amanpour is not a doctor.

Not to get too religious but..

All the iatro words come from lashon HaKodesh (the Holy Tongue- Hebrew)

If a physician leaves a scalpel in your stomach then he says the pain is "iatrogenic" - caused by the treatment.

Pediatrics is the treatment of children.

"IATRO" means to treat or improve. The "IA" replaces the Y in hebrew - from Y-T-R - "more".

Sister Maria-Theresa Juavez faked her chest pains when Dr. Marcus Welby was on the convent grounds. It is clear that she suffered from iatronudia, but nevertheless, the senior sisters had to unnun her -- even moreso because Maria-Theresa had pledged to swedge the emergency medical visit.

Pearl- I loved your sentence. It sounds like a pitch for a new TV series.

Can I just answer the question about if Amanpour is ignorant or a liar?

She knows perfectly well what she is doing. There is no way to explain the ability to show Jews in the worst light, followed by the Christians and then praise for the Muslims (who are just misunderstood).

While a monkey typing a thousand years couldn't come up with Shakespeare, I think the chances are similar that Amanpour could not do any worse by chance than that poor simian.

It's deliberate. Which fits with her enablers, the folks at CNN. She's just one of the gang of apologists for murderers and jihadi terrorists.

I caught Nic Robertson pitching his interview with Meshal of Hamas, from Syria (another fine soul, ordering murders from the relative safety of his bedroom, much like all the terrorist "leaders"). Ol' Nic was jumping up and down for joy and saying how "we" had to pay attention to Meshal.

Feh. Ok, it wasn't 6 hours of Christine's propaganda, but my stomach is weak, and I can't take even 30 seconds of Nic.

But again, that's CNN. Cheerleader for Hamas and murderers, hater of Israel.

I do wonder, if Israel ever gets the guts to force Meshal out of Syria, by threatening the eye doctor there, if Meshal will swedge and not pay his bills on the way out of Syria.

You mentioned that Phyllis Chesler did a fine round up on the protocols of Christiane Amanpour.

Below, please find her concluding segment.

CHRISTIAN CRUSADERS ALSO WANT A CALIPHATE: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CHRISTIANE

BY : PHYLLIS CHESLER

In her three part series, Amanpour is far more combative and confrontational with both Jewish and Christian religious leaders than she is with Muslim leaders. She is warmer, softer, more "at home," with even the most extreme of Islamist leaders, perhaps even more respectful, than she is with their allegedly Jewish or Christian counterparts.

Amanpour completely fails to make the distinction between Islamists who teach hatred of infidels and women and who blow infidel and Muslim civilians up (as well as honor-murder their own women); Israelis who are under perpetual terrorist siege and who are trying to defend themselves against Islamist attacks; and conservative Christians who are trying to mobilize votes, change laws, or win hearts and minds with words, not bombs (although she certainly has lots of footage of the bloody bombings at abortion clinics--bombings I personally abhor and mourn--as do many Christians).

Amanpour wants us to like Muslims--even the most extremist among them. They are human, prick them will they not bleed? But she does not want us to like Christians or Jews, especially those who are Zionists.

Amanpour does not seem to show the same respect towards conservative Christians who wish to dress modestly, remain chaste until marriage, and avoid a secular culture of rampant pornography and rape as she shows their far more extremist counterparts in the Islamist world or than she shows, at great length, one well-spoken Muslim-American woman who decides to "cover."

In one instance, Amanpour accuses Ron Luce, a Christian leader of teenagers, as being like the Taliban. He actually answers Amanpour in a rather charming, disarming way. She will not be moved. Amanpour herself takes no stand on what Luce says about an American secular and popular culture which allows virgin teenager America to be raped on the sidewalk as we pass by without stopping or caring.

Perhaps Amanpour can't forgive these "radical" Christians their support for Israel, their "Zionism." She presents Pastor John Hagee (together with the late Jerry Fallwell) as Doctor Strangeloves. Hagee, by the way, sees Iran as a threat to America and Israel. As he speaks of his Christian love of Zion, Amanpour cuts to a presumed Israeli air attack againt innocent civilians, replete with weeping, civilian Arab women.

Amanpour again returns to former President Jimmy Carter--this time to have him tell us that he had to break with evangelical Baptists over their sexist position on women in the church. Carter who believes that Israel is an "apartheid" state and whose library has been hugely funded by the Saudis is the new feminist in town.

Amanpour has a definite political agenda--no less so than the Christian conservatives whom she attacks for daring to conduct "stealth politics, under the radar" when they engage in Christian voter drives. Amanpour wants to put a Democrat in the White House. She wants someone there who will move against the so-called Israel Lobby and who will finally stop funding Israel. She wants our next Commander in Chief to engage in nicey-nice diplomacy with Iran. She wants Americans to stop fearing that every Muslim might be a terrorist and to start accepting a parallel Islamic/Islamist universe right here on our own soil.

Yes, our ethnically super-trendy, British-accented war correspondent really wants exactly this. And she wants us to see that such right-wing Christians are no different than Islamists, including Bin Laden, who want a world Caliphate. (We are all the same, all cultures are equal, remove the mote from your own eye before you judge anyone else, etc.)

To accomplish her goal, Amanpour presents Christian conservatives as truly scary, as mounting a Crusader-like Army against liberal secular America--but not necessarily a violent war against terrorist Islamism. Amanpour exploits America's hottest domestic issues (abortion and gay marriage) in order to accomplish her own foreign policy aims.

By the end of her third and final segment we are meant to fear and loathe the Christian conservative right far more than we are meant to fear or loathe Amanpour's Ahmadinejad whom --incredibly--she never accuses of funding Hezbollah's terrorist work abroad. What she mainly shows us in Iran are Shi'a Muslims at prayer, engaged in theatrical-religious rituals. We do not see them funding and masterminding Hezbollah as it takes down civilian (and Christian) Lebanon, lays siege to Israel, blows up the Jewish Community Center in Argentina. She shows us the child-martyrs (one estimate has 850,000 dying in the Iran-Iraq war) as themselves true believers as opposed to victims of sadistic adult handlers.

Her third segment is one long running advertisement for a Democratic candidate for the next Presidency. She is electioneering as hard as she accuses the Christians of doing.

Article originally published at www.phyllis-chesler.com

So, Christiana Amanpour is interviewing Ahmadinejad when she deicides to pull a iatronudia. Ahmadinejad tells her he is not a doctor, but a dictator, so she swedeges and goes on to interview Karen Armstrong who was ununned for her crazy belief in pointy high heeled boots.

Here is the sad tale of a woman who was ununned. Jane had numerous issues. She was a bit of a hypochondriac so she had frequent bouts of iatronudia. She liked to think of herself as being frugal, but that is a nice way of saying that she is cheap as she had numerous tricks that she would use to swedge her way right out of the doctor's office.

Robert,
The roots of Christiane Amanpour's poison do indeed come from the post-modern leftist worldview that she embraces. Thanks for injecting a human face and some humor into what would have otherwise been a completely depressing affair.

Regarding that "In orthodox Judaism, wives are subservient" thing, we have to distinguish between the two propaganda tools, "the big lie" and "the half-truth." Certainly there are Orthodox Jews who believe, and whose family dynamics reflect the belief, that tradition dictates that the wife be subservient to the husband. This attitude is not uncommon among Sefardic Jews, i.e., those of Middle Eastern origin. But the number is relatively small, even among the Orthodox, and, I would guess, as small as or smaller than the corresponding percentage among Fundamentalist Christians and Moslems. So I would peg her statement more as a misleading half(or some other tiny fraction)-truth rather than an utter lie. Theoretically, she may have gotten the wrong impression by asking the wrong person, and was too lazy, or too excited by the opportunity to denigrate Orthodox Judaism, to talk to a second guy.

A single sentence, right?

"As reported in The Protocols of Christiane Amanpour, a prominent sister was unnunned after she swedged on the doctor 'treating' her iatronudia."

Your comment on the myth of orthodox Jewish male dominance made me laugh. I've heard very similar remarks from my coreligionists over the similar myth of Mormon male dominance.

Robert, precisely the reason I didn't watch her "propaganda". She is a liar. She hates anything truly free. She is indeed a female. A tinfoil hatted leftist loon who hates this country. She is the type of lefty, like Edwards, that knows going in she is going to swedge her way through her career.

Maurice I agree totally.

What upsets me so terribly is that a very large percentage of Jews will not stand up and counter people like this, because they also are like her in their beliefs. So sad!!!

I had to say this: When is a nun not a nun? When she is unnun.

And the converse is true: When is a nun not unnun? When she is a nun.

"Citing exposure to The Protocols of Christiane Amanpour, Sister Melancholy argued against censure and possible unnun in response to her recent act of iatronudia with complicating act of swedge."

Not sure I'm entirely happy with this, but seeing as it's my first effort at one of your challenges, I'll go with it anyway.

Sister Christiane's open lust for her doctor resulted in her being nunnuned, drove her to iatronudia, and caused her to swedge when the good doctor did not respond.

Sorry, I misspelled. That should have been "unnuned."

Or should the past tense be "unnunned"?

I'm convinced that Amanpour is the mouth piece for the United Nation's Alliance of Civilizations initiative. God's Warriors series appeared to echo exactly the same junk coming out of the Alliance's reports. Karen Armstrong, a member of the High Level Group of the Alliance of Civilizations was present throughout the entire series.

According to the AoC final Report of November 2006: "...it is our view tha the Israeli-Palestinian issue has taken on a symbolic value that colors cross-cultural and political relations among adherents of all three major monotheistic faiths well beyond its limited geographic scope."

Of course, to High Level Group fully comprehends the situation and intends to provide us with and impose that truth on the adherents of the three monotheistic religions. See http://tinyurl.com/wk43d

Rich Peterson, Medford WI