Posted on 09/01/2005 4:23:09 PM PDT by Poundstone
Anybody watching Anderson Cooper now? He's losing it publicly, blasting Sen. Landrieu, saying she doesn't understand the pain of the New Orleans survivors. He seems traumatized by having witnessed a couple of dead bodies in the streets. Cooper seems like he's descending into madness.
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Cooper's ranting again on Larry King.
Just wait until the first reports of cholera or typhoid.
Shep also slipped up yesterday or the day before (I can't remember) and said that his crew had given people on the bridge he's on some water. The situation did look pathetic. A child looked unconscious, possibly due to heat stroke. But I seriously had to question why the almighty Shep didn't call in an S.O.S. for Fox News to airlift some food and water for the dozens of folks on the bridge themselves instead of moaning and bitching about the horrible situation. He's bitching is really getting on my nerves... Can you say... AGENDA?
Wolf Blitzer and that knucke-dragging Jack Cafferty were talking the race angle this afternoon, implying that the response was slow because most of those left in New Orleans were black.
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And yet not a peep out of Hollywood imperialist left with all their combined billions, not one finger lifted, No private coordinated efforts from the liberal glitteratti, No Micheal Moore, no Cindy Sheehan, nothing from Ted Kennedy, Hillary, all the heavy hitting Democrats. Will Concert promoter Geldof throw another Save The World concert for hurricane Katrina stranded? They sit in their plush residences watching it all unfold like it were a Wes Craven filmfest at Sundance. BTW, where's Robert Redford?
The Landrieus were all lost in the storm? No? The Landrieu family fortune was lost? No? Was she on one of the buses to the Astrodome?? No? OK, I give. What was everything she lost? Just what was it that she lost that can be compared to her voter base there in NO?
From foxnews.com:
Some posters on this thread are incredibly nasty. Maybe things are going badly in their own lives.
I think people have to remember that anyone with any "git-up-and-go" got up and left Saturday. Most of the folks I've seen interviewed are clearly among those who really dont have the capacity to understand what has happened to them.
That said, I caught Shep tonight weeping about people sitting on the overpass, "day after day after day after day" as if this has been going on for weeks. This is really a few days old at this point right?
And yes, I have spent time in my life hot, cold, hungry and outdoors for a couple of nights at a time. I've eaten gross things, and I've spent a few days draining it out, if you know what I mean.
I've nver been in a hurricane, buy jeez....
Thanks Dude!
Yah, I agree.
ROTFL! Good one. Thanks for the laugh. It was much needed.
You're absolutely right. It can and will get worse.
I've wondered about that myself. There must be other "issues" in the lives of people like that.
Have no fear. Jesse Jack@ss has arrived!
Let the grandstanding and the exploitation of the suffering begin.
she was thanking people, not "handing out kudos." If you want to see someone handing out spurious, smarmy kudos about "incredible reporting, " etc., just watch Aaron Brown tonight or any night.
What we are seeing in N.O. is the result of a society that says "you're okay, I'm okay", i.e. human beings are basically good. NOT. We are seeing in a very graphic way that people are not basically good. The only thing that makes them good is the blood of Jesus Christ. Look at the people being interviewed on TV. You know instantly which ones are Christians. And, that young man who was plucked from a roof and afterward spent the entire night rescuing people with an air mattress. He had a cross around his neck. He wasn't out looting. He was saving people. By their fruits you will know them.
There was a time when there was a view something like "the buck stops here." That concept does not exist at the federal level.
No one is blaming the Administration for a hurricane.
They are blaming this Administration for the incompetent response to a foreseeable natural disater.
If a house at the edge of town catches on fire due to lightning, you don't blame the fire department for the fire.
If the firemen on duty take two days to respond and the entire town burns down, you might consider the firemen negligent in their duty.
Is there a single thing in the entire history of the universe that is not about illegal immigration?
I'm no Coop fan, but it is completely understandable that some people experiencing a tragedy or stressful environment up close and personnel, even as observers, will become involved in the story.
Reporters in Iraq pick up guns when the soldiers with whom they are embedded fall. It happens.
I'd like to think there are better places to spend our energy - of course I say this as I am typing a response and contributing to the discussion - so take my 2 cents for all its worth.
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