Christiane Amanpour’s Freak Out: Brexit Means ‘Xenophobia,’ ‘White Identity’

[See NewsBusters for more.] Liberal CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour suffered an epic freak out on Thursday night as it became clear that Britain was asserting its national sovereignty and voting to leave the European Union. The sneering Amanpour repeatedly derided it as an example of “xenophobia” and “white identity” politics. Early in the evening, with the result still in doubt, Amanpour told Anderson Cooper: “A lot of the Leave movements are led by the hard-right, very, very xenophobic, anti-immigrant, very populist, nationalist, white identity politics.”