Christiane Amanpour: We're not comparing.

This morning cnn.com has a link to a Q & A with Amanpour and she blows it with the first question. Oddly, question #1, from Jack Wilson of Cannes, France is the closest thing to to a non-soft ball question that got published. Here's the question and Amanpour's answer:

Jack Wilson of Cannes, France: How can you even begin to compare Islamic extremists with Christians or Jews? How can you even put them in the same sentence?

Amanpour: We're not comparing. We're showing that each faith has their committed and fervent believers, and we're showing how each of those are active in the political sphere in today's world.

"We're not comparing" Her first three words in the Q & A are a total lie.

The segment on Christians explores BattleCry in some depth, digging at the roots of an organization that fights against some of the cruder elements of popular culture and urges teenagers to be chaste. In noting how girls at some BattleCry events are encouraged to wear long dresses, Amanpour asks the group's leader how it is different from the Taliban.

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The rest of the questions are worthless and no one calls Amanpour out on anything in the series. I can imagine the cnn editors did some serious weeding and took out anything that could expose Amanpour's reporting. Here's a sample of what the editors chose:

Susan Moore of Clayton, Georgia: ... Did you come away eased and heartened, or with the feeling that this is an insolvable, permanent human condition?

Amanpour: I don't believe it's an insolvable, permanent human condition. But I do think that we are in an age of religious politics or political religiosity, and it could last for some time. This is not to say that good politics, good policy and good diplomacy can't soften the edges of some of the extremism we see.

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