Video of Female Arab Anchor Shutting Down Rude Male Guest Amazes Western Viewers

posted on: Mar 15, 2015

When a Lebanese television host, Rima Karaki, abruptly ended a live interview with an old friend of Al Qaeda’s leader, Ayman al-Zahwahri, two weeks ago — cutting off his microphone when he told her to “be silent” and let him continue — her station, Al Jadeed, was so pleased with her performance that it proudly posted the clip on YouTube, where it earned praise from dozens of her fans.

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Ms. Karaki’s no-nonsense style — she scolded the guest, the Egyptian sheikh Hani al-Sibai, for disrespecting her after pulling the plug — was already familiar to regular viewers. In an interview with the Lebanese magazine Fit’n Style a week earlier, she had acknowledged that some critics of her style “accuse me of being ‘disrespectful,’ ” for addressing her guests by their first names and for frankly sharing her opinions during interviews. To those critics, she had an answer that would not sound out of place from an American cable news host: “Some say that I am not objective; I call it honesty.”

Source: www.nytimes.com