New Promo For This Week Features GOP Candidates And Obama, All In Agreement
George Stephanopoulos is returning to ABC’s This Week this weekend, right in the middle of election madness. RELATED: George Stephanopoulos To Return As Host Of This Week Stephanopoulos, who is coming back to host the Sunday morning show as former host Christiane Amanpour balances the role of global affairs anchor with a new show on...
Ron Paul Angrily Rebuts Jake Tapper Over Question About 9/11 Conspiracies
Ron Paul rebuffed ABC News's Jake Tapper on Sunday's This Week, when he had brought up a quote by former senior campaign aide Eric Dondero, saying the Republican presidential candidate had engaged in 9/11 conspiracy theories. "About the conspiracy of Bush -- of Bush knowing about this?" Paul responded incredulously. "No, no,...
Christiane Amanpour Signs Off From ABC’s This Week
On Sunday, This Week host Christiane Amanpour bid her audience farewell during her final broadcast as anchor, and wished George Stephanopoulos the best of luck when he takes over for her in the coming year. "It’s been an enormous privilege to anchor this prestigious program," Amanpour said.
George Stephanopoulos To Return As Host Of This Week
On Tuesday, ABC announced Christiane Amanpour would no longer be hosting This Week -- she would stay on as a global affairs anchor, while returning to CNN to host a show on CNN International. While Amanpour seemed overjoyed ("This role is groundbreaking, bold and very different," Amanpour said. "I am thrilled and honored"), ABC now...
George Stephanopoulos To Return To This Week January 8
Longtime host George Stephanopoulos is set to return to ABC's This Week early next year with the news that current host Christiane Amanpour is set to return to CNN for a weekday show, and remaining with ABC for specials.
This Week Panel: Newt Gingrich On Immigration Is The Latest GOP ‘Scandal Of Sanity’
With Newt Gingrich nabbing a major endorsement in New Hampshire this morning, the panel on This Week assessed his strengths and chances of making it through to the nomination with a record like his. While agreeing that he was, among other things, "undisciplined," they noted his comments on immigration could be a...
This Week‘s Christiane Amanpour Fails To Disclose Guest’s Ties To McCain Presidential Campaign
In introducing her "powerhouse roundtable of economic experts" Sunday morning, This Week host Christiane Amanpour omitted a notable portion of Douglas Holtz-Eakin's résumé. Holtz-Eakin's intro included "former director of the Congressional Budget Office," but it might have been helpful to mention that Holtz-Eakin was chief economic adviser to Sen. John McCain's presidential...
Jon Huntsman Rips Rick Perry ‘Treason’ Talk By Citing Texas Gov’s Secession Talk
On Sunday morning, Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman continued his quest to become the Republican Party's presidential nominee on Opposite Day, swinging hard at frontrunner Rick Perry (R-TX) and the rest of the GOP field. In an interview with This Week fill-in Jake Tapper, Huntsman derided his fellow candidates' lack of leadership, opposition...
MSNBC Analyst Steve Rattner Confronted On ABC For Comparing Tea Party To Terrorists
ABC's This Week continued it's now consistent pattern of featuring the most entertaining roundtable debate of all the Sunday morning shows. This morning Steve Rattner, a regular contributor to MSNBC's Morning Joe and former advisor in President Obama's Treasury Department was rightfully taken to task by George Will for suggesting Tea Party...
George Will: S&P’s Reputation Is So Bad, Their Opinion ‘Isn’t Entitled To Any Respect’
As S&P downgrades United States debt for the first time ever, many Republicans and Democrats are pointing blame at each other for having caused the unprecedented occurrence. Yet conservative commentator George Will thinks that S&P has so little credibility that their assessment told us nothing new and that it's rating perspective should have...
Wait, What? Grover Norquist Thinks Sen. Scott Brown Looks Great In A Bathing Suit?
President of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist may have just revealed another way to win his support that might be less politically painful than having to sign his taxpayer protection pledge. All you have to do is look great in a bathing suit! During his appearance on ABC's This Week, Norquist suggested...
