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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Did you garner that adjective "scum sucker " from the DU site ????
Bumo!!! You are right on! Shep needs to GO!
Chaos at the convention center
Posted: 10:02 a.m. ET
CNN's Jim Spellman in New Orleans, Louisiana
I don't think I really have the vocabulary for this situation.
We just heard a couple of gunshots go off. There's a building smoldering a block away. People are picking through whatever is left in the stores right now. They are walking the streets because they have nowhere else to go.
Right now, I'm a few blocks away from the New Orleans Convention Center area. We drove through there earlier, and it was unbelievable. Thousands and thousands and thousands of people spent the night sleeping on the street, on the sidewalk, on the median.
The convention center is a place that people were told to go to because it would be safe. In fact, it is a scene of anarchy.
There is absolutely nobody in control. There is no National Guard, no police, no information to be had.
The convention center is next to the Mississippi River. Many people who are sleeping there feel that a boat is going to come and get them. Or they think a bus is going to come. But no buses have come. No boats have come. They think water is going come. No water has come. And they have no food.
As we drove by, people screamed out to us -- "Do you have water? Do you have food? Do you have any information for us?"
We had none of those.
Probably the most disturbing thing is that people at the convention center are starting to pass away and there is simply nothing to do with their bodies. There is nowhere to put them. There is no one who can do anything with them. This is making everybody very, very upset.
I think Shep is probably one of the few reporters with any balls. Unlike his MSNBC counterparts, he isn't afraid to go into the projects to show things as they really.
How about the truth?
The police officer can say that....he's "got no information about where to send anybody" or "I haven't been instructed where anybody is supposed to go" or for Shep to call the mayor...
But to just walk away?
I know the attitude of which you are speaking, but if it must be done, it must be done... SOMETHING must be done, and fast. It is not only bad for the people there, but is making us look fairly incompetent. THE PEOPLE who the government works for are begging for help at this point. Perhaps it's just because I just finished watching, FOX, but it's so desperate down there...
Frustrating! OK, I'm gonna go take a deep breath!
/sarc
Numerous people have said the cops aren't doing a damn thing.
I love Shep! He's ma homey!........
True
Amen Brother. I seriously do not think that the rest of the US realizes how horrifying it is down here on the gulf coast. Shep reaching a boiling point yesterday. It is completely understandable.
Someone close to me believes Shep is gay....not that there is anything wrong with it....
Me neither. The immediate situation is tragic and will only worsen, and what are we showing to the terrorists? running around like chickens w/o heads, while our most vulnerable citizens are dying on television, and we can't fully evacuate just 10's of thousands left behind, nor help them, days after the disaster? It's hard to believe this is America, frankly.
Wait---I thought starvation and dehydration was euphoric?
Jesus H Christ, why doesn't SOMEBODY move that dead guy. REally, ya dont have to bury him, but get him out of the way. Can it really be THAT bad? Whats wrong with those people?
absolutely tragic down there....horrific.
Yeah, I saw that too -- true desperation and medically, dehydration.
I've finally signed up to Free Republic just now in order to say: I admire Shep's coverage of the situation and respect his professional and personal integrity in showing things as they are, stating clearly what the situation is, and still doing what he can to actually help.
He is doing honest reporting - not editorializing or twisting the situation to support a particular agenda, the way the MSM would. Honest reporting does not hide the personal connection of the reporter to the subject, it gives the viewers the objective situation and a personal response to it.
>>Why can't military helicopters fly food/water to those people?<<
That's MY question. If the responders allow these people to die of starvation/dehydration/disease, etc...
WHAT THE ---????
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