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Shep Smith takes on roll of Emergency Management
Fox New | 9/2/05 | Fox News -Oriley

Posted on 09/02/2005 5:53:17 PM PDT by konaice

Just watched Shepard Smith having and absolute tantrum on Fox News The O'Reilly Factor, complaining that reliefe did not come to the specific spot he was standing.

Petulant, Arogent, Demanding, and bitter. He's totally lost it.

What a whiner.


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OT: Dari looks great on the air right now; Gerta looks like a 12-stepper.


161 posted on 09/02/2005 7:52:49 PM PDT by solitas (So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
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To: serpentineshel
I think flagging down a police officer and demanding that he take a 5 day old baby, her mother and her family to shelter, food and water is really helping. We kind of saw him do that. On camera.

grandstanding:
Main Entry: 3grandstand
Function: intransitive verb
: to play or act so as to impress onlookers
- grand·stand·er noun

162 posted on 09/02/2005 7:58:05 PM PDT by solitas (So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
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To: Poser; konaice
Both he and Whoraldo are right. The emergency response has been pitiful.

That's absolute nonsense. The correct term to use to describe it would be "inadequate"; it's accurate, precise and omits the agenda-charged hyperbole. The emergency response has been massive, even though flawed and insufficient. The problem is that the scope of this disaster has been even more massive.

163 posted on 09/02/2005 8:04:14 PM PDT by tarheelswamprat (This tagline space for rent - cheap!)
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To: solitas

OR it could be he'd like people to see just how dire the situation is.


164 posted on 09/02/2005 8:04:30 PM PDT by serpentineshel
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To: konaice

The Big Questions for me are,
Why is he still at Fox?
Doesn't Rita have any influence with her bosses?
Why isn't anyone stepping on Shep's chain?


165 posted on 09/02/2005 8:06:07 PM PDT by GretchenM (Hooked on porn and hating it? Visit http://www.theophostic.com .)
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To: serpentineshel
OR it could be he'd like people to see just how dire the situation is.

Your words:
I think flagging down a police officer and demanding that he take a 5 day old baby, her mother and her family to shelter, food and water is really helping. We kind of saw him do that. On camera.

"Hey cop - I demand you take this baby (& etc.) to shelter; and also see how dire their situation is (or, "...so people can see how dire their situation is")"?

Oh , yeah - "We kind of saw him do that." ???

I could rationally imagine that the cop had a pretty big to-do list of his own and it didn't include conversing with something that should have been on the Golgafrinchan B-ark.

(plainly: I'm sure the cop was already committed to doing something and didn't need to be 'used' by some news-trinket)

166 posted on 09/02/2005 8:30:50 PM PDT by solitas (So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
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To: GretchenM

Neck; not chain.


167 posted on 09/02/2005 8:31:37 PM PDT by solitas (So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
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To: konaice

Could he be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?


168 posted on 09/02/2005 8:32:51 PM PDT by zeaal (SPREAD TRUTH!)
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To: uncitizen
For Shep it has been 6 days.

To clarify, It has not been 6 days since people have needed assistance in New Orleans.

169 posted on 09/02/2005 8:33:49 PM PDT by msnimje (TAKE CNN OFF YOUR REMOTE - THEY ARE THE ENEMY OF THE US)
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To: serpentineshel
I think flagging down a police officer and demanding that he take a 5 day old baby, her mother and her family to shelter, food and water is really helping. We kind of saw him do that. On camera.

Perfect example, if he did it once, why not do it all day, every day for the past three days? I surely would if I had his position and access to the media.

170 posted on 09/02/2005 8:35:17 PM PDT by msnimje (TAKE CNN OFF YOUR REMOTE - THEY ARE THE ENEMY OF THE US)
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To: serpentineshel

Like many more positions than we should admit to, anyone reporting from NO is damned if they do; damned if they don't. If they leave, they are cowards, no integrity...just a pretty face and hair, no sense of humanity involved. If they stay and report, they are playing to the masses. If they flag down a passing cop, they are grandstanding, if they let the cop pass by, they are wasting the resources of a satellite truck. It is a no win situation. Oh, yeah...and try not to get shot.


171 posted on 09/02/2005 8:37:08 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (I used to take the highroad, but the altitude gave me nose bleeds....)
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To: hypocrite

"It was mentioned on Smiths show that I-10 west is flooded."

Buses, trucks, cars and Military vehicles are coming in from somewhere and those are using I-10 to get to New Orleans.

I believe that able bodied adults could at least walk out along those road that these vehicles are using to get in.

Waiting in New Orleans is stupid, it is not going to be fixed any time soon and it will be without power for a long time.

Get everyone out.


172 posted on 09/02/2005 8:39:25 PM PDT by usmcobra
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To: solitas

Actually he did it earlier in the day with some of his crew. Not live. Then they showed it later in the day.

And yes, I'm sure the cop was busy. Shep and the cameraman have been showing the cops patrolling back and forth for the past couple of days in their cars. One cop in each car, just driving by. Checking on things.

When people flag them down to ask them questions, they don't have any answers to give them, and they also don't take anyone in their cars with them...just like Shep. Want to jump on the criticism band wagon of them?


173 posted on 09/02/2005 8:40:21 PM PDT by serpentineshel
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To: TomGuy

I think I would be absolutely bonkers also were I there seeing this in person.


174 posted on 09/02/2005 8:40:57 PM PDT by ladyinred (Leftist=Anti American!)
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To: konaice

I disagree.

I still respect him highly.

He's saying that things under his pervue are hideous beyond excuse and need immediate attention by SOMEBODY.

I don't blame him. I'd be screaming, too.


175 posted on 09/02/2005 8:44:03 PM PDT by Quix (GOD IS LOVE and full of mercy HE IS ALSO JUST & fiercely HOLY. Cultures choosing death shall have it)
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To: Quix

That's what I think too. I guess it's easy for people to sit in the luxury of their homes and believe that these journalists should be either saving all of those people one by one or coming up with monumental solutions to these monumental problems when really their jobs are to tell the American people what's going on...In this case, Shepard Smith can't help but be frustrated and emotionally involved in the suffering he is seeing and I, for one, don't blame him. There's nothing he can personally do about it except TELL US!!

Some people just don't get it.

I'm off!


176 posted on 09/02/2005 8:49:07 PM PDT by serpentineshel
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To: usmcobra

My local paper printed a map showing parts of I-10 west flooded, and the entrance/evacuation route for the downtown area as Highway 90 around the south part of the city, entering at the bridge next to the convention center.

But by all means believe what you want.


177 posted on 09/02/2005 8:49:53 PM PDT by hypocrite
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To: uncitizen

my point wasn't so much what Shep was wearing, but that he had options the others on the bridge didn't .. so he wasn't being "arrogant... demanding..." etc for himself but for those who were seriously suffering. I can't fault that.


178 posted on 09/02/2005 8:50:17 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: SolarisRocks
And how do they protect themselves from looters during their walk out?

Shep says there's hundreds and hundreds sitting there.

How many looters do you suppose are lying in wait on I10?

Certainly not enough to stop Shep's crew when he drove in there every day.

Every heard of safety in numbers?

179 posted on 09/02/2005 8:55:36 PM PDT by konaice
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To: serpentineshel
Want to jump on the criticism band wagon of them?

No, I'm sure they're doing what they're told to do, and they only have what information they've been given. And I'm sure they're working; because all the Dunkie-D's and Krispy Kremes are incapacitated.

180 posted on 09/02/2005 8:58:07 PM PDT by solitas (So what if I support an OS that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.4.2)
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