Posted on 07/06/2015 4:33:48 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra
Lynne Russell thanks the right to keep and bear arms for keeping her and her husband alive during an armed robbery on June 30th. The former CNN anchor and Chuck de Caro, formerly a CNN reporter, were held at gun point in an Albuquerque Motel 6 room by felon Tomorio Walton.
What ensued was a stand-off that left Walton dead and de Caro shot three times. Russell was not injured in the shootout.
Russell told FOX411 that having a gun “absolutely” saved their lives.
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**Motel 6**
Part of the problem.
Good thing she’s former cnn otherwise they’d fire her and never give her husband any work again either.
She had that hot 80s rock video thing going on back in the day.
Is this another Twin Peaks event?
My sentiments exactly. I can remember reading an interview with her not too long ago and in it you could really see that she was not happy with what CNN has become in the last few years compared to the CNN that she and others she worked with in its earlier years. I know that others here will point out that conservatives used to call it the “Clinton News Network” back in the day, but when you have somebody like Lynne criticizing the on air remarks and antics of ones like Anderson Cooper (and others) of today’s CNN, you know there is a good reason for it’s presently very poor ratings.
Heh!
Some here on FR accused her and her husband of being flaming left wing liberals.
A lot of older Marines have gigged me for this, but when I was on Parris Island in 1989, they would bring out the TV, and there was Lynne Russell.
New Mexico is interesting. We were going through there on our way back(?) from Disneyland (for the granddaughter), about a year and a half ago, and as we were loading up the car in the morning, somewhere near Albuquerque, we were approached by four Hispanic young people. They asked for money. Seemed like it could be panhandling, and I get that, and in another situation might have given them something. But somehow that just didn’t seem like the right response here. Instead, I suddenly went defiant, as in “no way, leave us alone!” I didn’t have my gun at that time. I just decided to act as if I could take them all on single-handed (a laughable proposition if you knew me). They looked surprised. The obvious leader of the group got mad and said something about this being their territory. I wasn’t sure what on earth that meant, so I just stared back at him, putting on my “Clint Eastwood” stare-down face (also extremely laughable). They backed off and started walking away. At one point I think they were trying to decide among themselves whether to come back, but I just kept looking at them (cue the Good the Bad & the Ugly theme music). They decided to go somewhere else, and I hurried my family into the vehicle. So, yeah, a memorable stopover in New Mexico. And thank God for an interesting memory as opposed to something possible much worse.
Peace,
SR
LOL! Great story.
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