Clooney’s Wife: Fascinating, but not for that reason
Barbara Walters chose Amal Ramzi as one of her ‘most fascinating people’ — ABC decides it’s for marrying George.
I want to punch the writer of this piece in the face right now. Yeah, I know that’s a bit aggressive, but I’m tired of this shit. Here’s how some nameless writer decided to open a short article about Amal Ramzi being named Barbara Walters ‘Most fascinating person of the year.’ [You can read the article here, if you want to hate yourself]
“Amal managed to do the seemingly undoable, locking down a man thought to be one of the world’s most determined bachelors. In fact, Clooney, who had been briefly married in the early 1990’s, told Walters himself in 1995 that “I’m never going to get married again.”
For those keeping score at home, Barbara Walters and ABC decided that Amal Ramzi Clooney is one of the most fascinating people of the year for one sole reason: she married an actor. But not just any actor, GEORGE CLOONEY, FAMOUS BACHELOR. For this reason alone, it seems, she is commended and held up for honor.
But who is Amal Ramzi Clooney? I mean clearly she did something before meeting George Clooney, right? I mean she wasn’t just a homeless vagabond – that star of Return of the Killer Tomatoes!, George Clooney threw some change towards – right?
In a more just and proper world we’d be writing about how actor George Clooney got lucky and snagged one of the most significant and famous women on the planet.
Here’s how a better writer opened an article about Amal:
Amal Ramzi Clooney is a London-based British-Lebanese lawyer, activist, and author. She is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specialising in international law, criminal law, human rights, and extradition. Her clients include Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, in his fight against extradition. She has also represented the former prime minister of Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko. In September 2014, she married American actor George Clooney.
That snippet was from Wikipedia. Please note the difference in the lede. It should also be noted that actor and activist George Clooney would likely have never met Amal if it wasn’t for her work as a human rights lawyer. Not only is the nameless writer and editor that allowed the ABC article to be posted in the first place diminishing why Amal is a ‘fascinating person’ but they’re also missing a major part of the story.
ABC does have a paragraph in the middle of the short article mentioning Amal’s day job which I suppose I should at least give them credit for… but then they decides to end the article with this.
“With her marriage to Clooney, Walters says, Amal joins the ranks of Jackie Onassis, Princess Diana and Kate Middleton — everything she does, says or wears is officially… fascinating.”
Amal Ramzi Clooney has become widely famous because of George Clooney — there’s no doubt about that — but to not lead with her real credits would be like crediting Clooney as ‘an actor from Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over.’ No one would do that. It’s just bad journalism.
Sorry
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Speaking of fascinating-has anybody spotted Carpetbagger Barbie Boy Ohio Dan since the election?
he was at the Walker/
Mallot swearing in.
Bleah
Walker is gonna try and expand Medicaid,so I’ve heard. 🙂
This world could certainly use more human rights lawyers and a whole lot less wingnut pols.
Zach- I read the article. It was the comments which were the most interesting- esp. a couple of repeaters going on and on about how non-fascinating/nobody Ms Amal Ramzi Clooney is to them. Some of that was actually quite funny
Some of the cases she has worked on are quite interesting, she’s a very intelligent well educated woman, with a ton of adventures under her belt. She may or may not be the most fascinating person of the (western world this) year but she is certainly someone I’d love to meet and talk cases she’s worked on with.
I think it is sad we’re still doing this “catching a man makes the woman ” crap but I’m guessing I’ll die before that happens…
Perhaps I misjudged the lady. She brought out a sniveling whine from the resident troll.From his basement burrow to your ears.
Worse than a whine mikey.
“knock some sense into her” is a call for DV- just what we need more of, eh?
Shane Holt- I hope someone on FB reports you.
I think you are a twit troll who has zero critical thinking skills and way too much time to post knee jerk RW responses all over the place. All that is just eye roll territory.
Moving over into yukking it up about DV?
No sirree, buster butt. that is off the chart there.
Pffft!
Feckin Pfffttt!
Oh , and you obnoxious lil twit SH- one of the most important safeguards against tyranny and all that crap RWs are always yapping about is the right to be represented by an attorney. Even asshats like Assange deserve their rights… I suppose even you do too, eh, , hmmm?
Wingnuts outa hire Shane as their recruiting coordinator for women and minorities. He has the attitude and sales pitch down.
yeppers…
Those of us who never watch such programs..save ourselves..so much time for reading..terrific books. The kind with actual pages, spines and end papers..with dog eared notes from years and years ago. Pressed flowers or old news clippings. Yuppers.
What the hell,I’ve been a more determined bachelor than Clooney. I was married once in the 70s and divorced since 1982. Don’t I deserve some accolades or something? Sheesh!
Nice try, Mike!
George chose a decent human being. A human rights lawyer.
Ms. Walters needs to retire, lest she embarrass herself any further.
I think Water’s embarrassment meter got broken years ago.