FAILING UPWARD – AT 7:37 P.M. ET:  From The Politico:

Still searching for a permanent host for “This Week,” ABC News is in talks with Christiane Amanpour, the CNN foreign correspondent known more for globe-trotting reporting than talking politics within the Beltway.

Amanpour, through a CNN spokesperson, declined to comment, but sources with knowledge of the hiring process say she’s now in the mix of internal and external candidates ABC is considering to replace George Stephanopoulos, who left for “Good Morning America” in December.

Since Stephanopoulos’s departure, the network has kept the Sunday show seat warm with a steady stream of ABC correspondents: Jake Tapper, Terry Moran, Barbara Walters, Jonathan Karl and Elizabeth Vargas.

COMMENT:  Well, CNN is really tanking, so maybe jumping ship wouldn't be a bad idea.  Amanpour is appropriately left wing, almost a requirement these days in the MSM.  On election day, 2008, she wrote about how she pedaled around New York just soaking up the feeling that a new, bright era was about to begin.

I've never thought she was particularly incisive, and I don't think she has the street sense to do an inside-the-beltway show.

March 5, 2010