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Shephard Smith "Grandstanding" in New Orleans, showing dead bodies on Fox News.
Fox News Channel ^ | 090105 | Shep Smith

Posted on 09/01/2005 12:09:47 PM PDT by W04Man

Shep showed a dead body along the freeway. How low can you go to grandstand? Things are bad in N.O., but he didn't have to show it.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: closetcase; foxnews; hurricane; katrina; neworleans
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To: MineralMan
I saw an ocean full of dead bodies after the tsunami... what's the big deal showing ONE corpse from LA?
21 posted on 09/01/2005 12:14:48 PM PDT by Texas_Conservative2
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To: W04Man
Shep showed a dead body along the freeway. How low can you go to grandstand? Things are bad in N.O., but he didn't have to show it.

If this is what it takes to get someone off their butt, then this is what it takes. Sorry it offends you, but something needs to be done.

22 posted on 09/01/2005 12:14:48 PM PDT by narby (There are Bloggers, and then there are Freepers.)
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To: W04Man

It's the news. Sometimes I think people need a dose of REAL reality, gruesome though it may seem.

I hasten to add, however, that I am no fan of Shep.


23 posted on 09/01/2005 12:15:05 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: W04Man

Its about time someone started showing the truth of the situation. If you had been watching the footage shot over the last few days you would have spotted several bodies that the reporters just ignored. I watches choppers lifting people off roofs with obviously dead people laying on adjacent roofs and not a single word about it.

The truth has to be told, and as long as they are long range shots and no faces shown it NEEDS to be seen.

Get off Shep's back and stop whining. You want to whine, try complaining about the political corrrectness brigade that doesn't want to mention bodies at all and won't even mention looters.


24 posted on 09/01/2005 12:15:08 PM PDT by konaice
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To: W04Man

Perhaps the government will do something now. I don't care that some say it is against the law for the military to get involved because that is a BS excuse. The government ignores immigration laws every day, why can't they do the same thing in this case?


25 posted on 09/01/2005 12:15:28 PM PDT by SolarisRocks
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To: W04Man

How would you like the body of your family member to be shown on national TV?


26 posted on 09/01/2005 12:15:34 PM PDT by Truthsayer20
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To: W04Man

Well, considering the last time he asked someone what they were doing there, he got the F-bomb in reply, he probably figured this one was safe.


27 posted on 09/01/2005 12:15:43 PM PDT by theDentist (The Dems have put all their eggs in one basket-case: Howard "Belltower" Dean.)
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To: MineralMan

I think Shep does a great job... it is terribly difficult to keep it going without a script hour after hour in a communication vacuum. Dead bodies? Terrible. But this is reality. We accuse other networks of spin and coverup but this IS the truth, no?


28 posted on 09/01/2005 12:15:46 PM PDT by turbocat
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To: W04Man
I prefer more reality in my news, the destruction should be shown unsanitized to wake the country up: get people to help out, or perhaps pay closer attention to warnings next time. And maybe, just maybe, the Left will STFU.

Same for war and terrorism, show it all and let the public see who we're up against.

29 posted on 09/01/2005 12:15:57 PM PDT by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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To: W04Man

If there's corpses...then that's what's there is...there's too many people not wanting to believe the horror down there...I doubt Shep/Fox is doing this for any grandstanding reasons....


30 posted on 09/01/2005 12:16:08 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: W04Man
Shep is a liberal. Fox could fire Shep and Giraldo.
31 posted on 09/01/2005 12:16:10 PM PDT by bmwcyle (We broke Pink's code and found a terrorist message.)
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To: W04Man

Let's just whitewash the news. It will make you feel better.


32 posted on 09/01/2005 12:16:58 PM PDT by Rebelbase ("Run Hillary Run" bumper stickers. Liberals place on rear bumper, conservatives put on front bumper)
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To: W04Man
Shep Smith is the biggest jacka** on FOX. He thinks if he sees something wrong the rescue operation should halt and run to his location and answer questions. I swear someone is going to tell him to "F" off on air. I was listening to his report when someone did tell him "none of your ****ing business" on Sunday.
33 posted on 09/01/2005 12:17:06 PM PDT by BallyBill (MSNBC: the MST3K of cable news.)
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To: W04Man
I disagree... the purpose of the News is to report the News..
not to censor the distasteful...

Reality is reality, the same mindset prevents the MSM from showing the 9/11 victims jumping to their deaths.

The bodies in the streets are a direct result of a negligent and incompetent local and state government.

And maybe the NOPD as well.
34 posted on 09/01/2005 12:17:14 PM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: Paradox
Why does everyone hate Shepherd Smith so much?

He seems ok to me.

36 posted on 09/01/2005 12:17:25 PM PDT by wotan
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To: Pondman88

Well, reporting from an overpass w/hundreds of stranded, and some now dying! refugees, w/officials within eyeshot, but inexplicably ignoring them, just may do that to a person, IMO.

In human terms, it's known as frustration and desperation.


37 posted on 09/01/2005 12:17:25 PM PDT by PhillyGal
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To: W04Man

They were showing bodies on CBS last night as well.

Unavoidable if there are really that many bodies.


38 posted on 09/01/2005 12:17:36 PM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: seacapn

How do you mean? If the city is indeed strewn with corpses, the reality of the situation needs to be shown.

I agree. This is a real wakeup call for all of us in terms of dissaster. It CAN happen in our country. It's not just some far-away third-world location that has corpses laying in the street. This dissaster may bring about some pretty far-reaching changes in terms of preparedness in every state in the nation. Shameful situation in N.O.


40 posted on 09/01/2005 12:18:04 PM PDT by hardworking
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