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‘You’re kidding me, right?’: Amanpour challenges Le Pen on ‘far-right’

CNN's Christiane Amanpour asks Marine Le Pen, from France's National Rally party, about the rise of the far-right in Europe and beyond. #CNN #news

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  1. Amanpour has a right to ask tough questions, and Le Pen (as we saw) has a right to dispute Amanpour’s labels and categorization of Le Pen’s party. This was interesting.

    • Voters voted for various parties which are fascist. Do you support Hungary’s ruling party? What about the Nazis? Or the ayatollahs in Iran? Or the Hindutva crowd in India? Or the Islamist extremists who won in Algeria? Or the MAGA Republicans in the US?

    • Voters only engage in the ritual of voting, they have no actual powers; where power is depends on where you look for it- is it really in the hands of a single person? A group of experts and elites, or do you exert any real power even after you periodically cast you votes? Or is it, that most power around you never came from being asked about your opinion?

    • Yeah? And sometimes the people are flawed, that’s where the politicians, who are supposed to be better than the populace, are expected to set the standard for which govt is ran; if a govt is corrupt and inept the fault lies with the people who elected those officials.

  2. So she said that the bad apples will go to the party committee for possible expulsion, but it will be after the elections (but it probably won’t happen), if it was before, his party would have lost almost 100 seats. Who is she kidding?

    • Would you rather she subverted jurisprudence she has agreed in setting up – so that you could actually claim she had no respect for institutions and rule of law?

      You can’t get it both ways.

    • @@dunecarin I would have preferred that he, Bardella, not she, expelled these delinquents before it was too late. This party is very quick to denounce the delinquency of others (non White I mean) but rather slow regarding its own

    • ​@@vivastrango8980 I don’t think either should react hastily and rash – but let the system do what the system has to do.

      This in both cases!

      I do not doubt the party-members typically do not do this in regards to crime commited by anyone they deem to be “foreign”. There is a tendency to this in every country… but it will mature… and the arguments will become better and more reasonable.

      I am not just saying it – I have seen it – we have this party i Denmark aswell – they gained a huge popularity quickly and rose to achieve 20% of the votes in 2015 i Denmark. This is a lot in a multipartysystem. They nearly became the largest party. Instead of allying around them to avoid this party gaining influence, this is not the tradition in Denmark, so there was pragmatic work with and around them – and they were (and are) part of larger political negotiations and settlements… and the party has matured over the years… and so have the other parties…

      There is still racism – probably maybe a problem no country will ever truely get rid of – it seems a bit like that. But not at all the same blunt and degrading kind… and the debates on a societal level have matured. The politicians who were before either “pro-multicultural” or “pro-nationalism” are now nuanced, and have sober and relevant debates on which may be the better choice in different cases and contexts. Also – they actually disagree on a more foundational political level – rather than the “pro et contra” level…

      But these changes do – and did in Denmark – take some time – because they are very difficult conversations in a society – and when you tell someone they are a fascist their arguments do not become better or more elaborate… I would reccommend that France listen to these… well – what seems to be almost 30% of the voters… and take them into daily consideration and accommodate some of their concerns… because it makes in the long term for at better society … if all citizens have their concerns heard – rather than be told they are evil a vicious and dangerous for democracy… and even that they are akin to nazis. Which they are not, not in any way. Not the 30% – a few perhaps… but i it unlikely it is that many. Most of them are scared – and tired … and tired of non-secular religious people making them feel unsafe…

      They are concerned about what they see as EU-activism – making demands on the French and so on… This was all the same in Denmark i 2015… we also had the terrorattack on the synagogue and this hardened the rethoric – and probably for understable and maybe even good reasons. As you know we are the country of both the muhammed-drawings, and also of the dude who felt compelled to burn qorans in his demonstrations… So we have certainly in Denmark had our share of challenges related to the multicultural approach… and it is something we are working through. But France needs to let these shares of its population also be not only heard but also accommodated and brougt into the political designing and structuring of the future. Because it simply is the democratic way. And because this is how you will se them eventually become mature and be held to account by their voters… This has happened in Denmark, and the debates are now relevant and nuanced, and very very important. But we probably had to go through a period of learning how to voice concerns over multiculturalism, how to descibe what is valuable about enlightenment, about secularism, about our own culture and traditions – and about why it is fair that we want a lot of those upheld.

      I am sure – that if you let it – and trust your strong institutions, and your constitution – then France and other countries in Europe too will find better ways to debate the current and reelvant cultural issues at stake in our societies in an estremely globalized and regionalized world.

      It is a period – the party needs accountability – it will only get this by being part of the active legislature – rather than only being in opposition.

    • But of course. Right-Wingers by the very nature of their politics are liars. The core of Right-Wing/Conservative Politics is the denial of objective reality in favor of some golden past age that never existed and policies that have time and time proven to fail to deliver as promised. So lying is a requisite of who they are.

    • @@simplyfrancois if you think that, then her tricks are working on you. She’s far right through and through, it’s the family tradition. Her father before her for decades.

    • Amanpour is spewing out the same garbage that was leveled at Trump after he had said that he repudiated right-wing extremists and white nationalists 20 times, they asked him to do a 30 times.
      Amanpour used to be a journalist, now she’s a hack.

  3. I actually don’t think there was a live translator here. Amanpour can speak French but delivered in English, Le Pen can speak English but delivered in French.

    • Haha. I didn’t pick up on that one. Hilarious. Although here in France the racism is more anti-arab than anti-black (although they don’t like them either)

    • That’s a bad translation by the translator. The term in French is not translated as black sheep. She is really just saying they are misfits. And in English we say black sheep for someone as an outcast. But I can see how it may disturb someone looking for an angle on the term when used in politics. It’s sad but thanks to social media even that’s racist to say

    • @@user-yf2hl4zl1l In French “black sheep” is “mouton noir” which is literally the same thing. You can hear her say it because the translator isn’t talking at that point. Besides, it has the same meaning in both languages. So it’s actually a perfect translation.

    • @@thiagoribeiro021 I don’t understand what you mean by alphabetized. Black sheep means the same in English and French. It’s the one that stands out from the flock.

  4. At the very least, Le Pen has a right to feel a bit stitched up.

    That’s politics – but who wouldn’t be a little bit sour after getting this close and missing it?

    • Would have been nice if there were som actually tough and relevant questions. Meanwhile this is what you get in the States?

      If this had taken place in Europe – with any European journalist of a major media outlet it would have actually hard questions, related to actual politics. And it might have been an attempt af making her dissociate herself – but mainly to get to the question: “what do you think of those comments, how do you view them” and so on…

      I am extremely dissatisfied with our media in Europe, because they should be better. Less polarising, more presenting dilemmas rather than solutions etc… but you… how on earth can you live with media like that…

      I am amazed at the lack of actual journalistic curiousity … this was more like “I want to proove a point”. If you go into an interview wanting to proove a point, you loose sight of the important dilemmas. Let the viewers/readers reach their own point and instead focus on exposing which ever issues you are curious about. This journalist was not curious or interested in anything… she seemed to be in a debate… it is poor journalism. I am dismayed by a display like that. It was unprofessional.

    • @@dunecarinI totally agree with you. Western journalism as become the mouthpiece of the globalists elites. They’re not really here to report or seek the truth. They’re here to present their truth/narrative. “The great narrative”

    • On point! As soon as some peoples favorite politician gets challenged they all become loud claiming that its unfair, but in fact these critical questions are needed! No politician should be touched with soft gloves.

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