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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: Pondman88

I have NEVER liked Shep, but these last 2 days leave me nearly speechless. He was awful yesterday, and today I've just stayed away from the tv after this a.m.


281 posted on 09/01/2005 1:08:53 PM PDT by meema
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To: nyconse

The fact is that Shep was down there before the storm even hit.


282 posted on 09/01/2005 1:08:57 PM PDT by rog4vmi
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To: Gabz

And to think that I thought FR would be a welcoming spot.


283 posted on 09/01/2005 1:09:24 PM PDT by kmomma
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To: mhking

I almost wish they would go back to Sheehan in Crawford or Greta in Aruba.

Yikes.


284 posted on 09/01/2005 1:09:26 PM PDT by Dashing Dasher (You eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?)
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To: mhking
Shepherd Smith's report was melodramatic and over the top.

Maybe so, Mike, but there's nothing like an evangelist to stir the masses. Shep just might light a fire under the right people and get these folks the help they need.

285 posted on 09/01/2005 1:10:01 PM PDT by acad1228 (Free The West Memphis Three!!!)
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To: nicmarlo
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....

I agree with you to a certain point but I do believe Shep is grandstanding. All the reporters are like that now. They have gone beyond reporting the news to acting like a bunch of gossips. I guarentee you, Shep is loving every minute of this.

286 posted on 09/01/2005 1:10:18 PM PDT by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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To: nyconse
There is no excuse for this...if news guys can get in so can food and water and workers.

Many were there days before the hurricane hit. I know Shep was.

287 posted on 09/01/2005 1:10:31 PM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: BlackRain

I am shocked and horrified to read this. Is this true? I didn't think anyone had died yet.


288 posted on 09/01/2005 1:10:44 PM PDT by nyconse
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To: BurbankKarl

One nice long slow pan of the dead laying about in the streets could be used as B-roll the next time a Cat-4 rolls in---far fewer would decide to try to tough it out on the ground in the path of a hurricane. Kinda like a visual version of asking the recalcitrant for next of kin.


289 posted on 09/01/2005 1:11:23 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg.)
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To: mhking
Shepherd Smith's report was melodramatic and over the top.

Sadly, that is Fox News in a nutshell.

290 posted on 09/01/2005 1:11:46 PM PDT by malakhi
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To: PhillyGal

This is not the way American is supposed to be. I can not believe this. Call congress, call the President. Someone must do something.


291 posted on 09/01/2005 1:12:18 PM PDT by nyconse
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To: kmomma

Well, it is rather hard to be welcoming to someone who accuses another of not knowing what is going on, when the accuser has no idea if the statement is true or not. And even more difficult when the rest of us know the statement is not true.


292 posted on 09/01/2005 1:12:38 PM PDT by Gabz (USSG Warning: portable sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
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To: MineralMan
Another point. Do NOT keep your liquid assets in small, local banks. If you do, and there's a disaster, you will not have access to your funds. Keep your liquid assets in major institutions, where record-keeping is maintained in multiple locations. You'll be able to access your funds, no matter the emergency. If you have to bail, make a first priority your banking records. Those MUST travel with you.

In addition, lots of organizations (I may even have gotten this from the feds) recommend you keep at least $500 in cash on hand at home if it's economically feasible for you to do so. That way you can at least get out of town if the ATMs all go dead.

293 posted on 09/01/2005 1:13:27 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War (Pirro '06 - Save New York!)
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To: go-ken-go
I don't see why food and supplies can't be airdropped down to all those people all over N.O. who are stranded. just drop the food, etc. down to them to keep them alive till they get moved out of there. I don't think that would be so hard to do.

You are right... something seems terribly amiss.

294 posted on 09/01/2005 1:13:31 PM PDT by Tuxedo (This space for rent.)
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To: nicmarlo

We got to see a cop not respond to a journalist. Look, if you think a journalist's reception from law enforcement indicts the cop's probable response to citizens? That is your call. I refuse to make that leap.

BTW, I haven't said a word one way or the other if not all cops are responding to citizens. I'm not there. But in THIS instance that wasn't shown. All I saw was a cop doing a job and Shep demanding he stop and talk to him. Show the cop ignoring citizens pleading for help, then we have another story.


295 posted on 09/01/2005 1:14:12 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: Gabz

When he wishes that he could view Aruba and Cindy SHeehan, other than Shep Smith reporting dead bodies in NOLA, I am supposed to think that he knows what is going on?


296 posted on 09/01/2005 1:14:26 PM PDT by kmomma
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To: LilDarlin

There was actually a story out today that Fats Domino is missing, along with several other music folks (I didn't reconize their names). The Neville family did get out tho.
susie


297 posted on 09/01/2005 1:15:57 PM PDT by brytlea (All you need as ID to vote in FL is your Costco card...)
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To: traderrob6
Brit doesn't usually suffer fools, isn't he in a position to replace him?

Sorry to disagree but Brit was suffering that fool Cindie Sheehan just fine on the news last night. Even showed a "touching" moment between her and that insufferable twit Al Sharpton.

298 posted on 09/01/2005 1:17:04 PM PDT by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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To: usmcobra

Thanks. I certainly don't want to be guilty of armchair quarterbacking.

;-)


299 posted on 09/01/2005 1:17:07 PM PDT by SerpentDove (In the shadow of the Almighty.)
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To: brytlea

They are sitting back and letting people die. This is exactly what they are doing. If news people can get in so can rescuers with food and water. I feel so sorry for these poor people. I am sorry if I was President Bush, I would send in troops....Blanco be damned.


300 posted on 09/01/2005 1:17:40 PM PDT by nyconse
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