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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I saw a woman interviewed tonight.
She was complaining that the first 2 days all they had was "army" meals (mre's) and she couldn't eat them. They weren't hot.
Then other food but no hot meals.
Oh, and she complained they kept pushing water on them.
Now that's gratitude.
I do believe you have misunderstood my post. We were talking about the Shep Smith bashing, and how if we were in his shoes, we would be showing some emotion considering the scenes we were witnessing with our own eyes. We were not discussing the citizens who are facing this tragedy.
As for those citizens, not reporters, who are in this horrifying situation, I agree that perhaps there are things they could be doing to increase their chances of survival without government help. Unfortunately, I also realize that because these are what I call "city folks" and also poor people, they do not possess the same sort of knowledge that we do as to how they could better their chances of survival.
I live in bush Alaska, so I have a different perspective. I know, due to our lifestyle, that we have the knowledge needed in order to survive in most situations. Others do not have the ability to do that and I understand that.
I have also posted comments on other threads that we need to support and thank those "responders" who are trying to deal with what they are facing in the best way they know how. What I do not appreciate are those who continually criticize those who are trying their darndest to help these people. They are people just like you and me, only with more experience, and I believe these "rescuers" are doing everything within their power to aid these people.
I think you and I agree that people need to pull up their boot straps and do what they can to survive without depending on our government agencies.
A most excellent post.
What we're seeing is a tiny fraction of poeople making the disaster aid harder for the very people who are trying to help them; I mean, when people made their emergency plans, did they factor in the possibility of having to practically shoot their way in?
What we are NOT seeing enough of are the heroic efforts that every day people are making and living with right this very minute.
Those are the people we should be hearing about.
The hurricane was still in the states of Mississippi and Louisiana on Tuesday; then the flooding happened; they are lucky they have as much as they have now, IMO.
As for the reporters, if they cannot keep their emotions OR THEIR AGENDA out of their reporting, they need to go home.
I caught it, Landreau looked like your typical pol, much more concerned with making herself look good than anything else.
I feel for Cooper, he's seen a lot in the last few days.
Oh I saw her and wondered if they had to search for a whiner or was she just one of many. Complaining that her meals weren't hot. God help us. To help them.
I just watched this also and was wondering MSNBC has got the big bucks - if they can get a reporter in there - seems like they could get meds, water, food in there. But they with the rest of the media just want a story. And not picking on him - Fox could have dropped shipped Shep the same where he was yesterday.
Guess the DNC talking points are not getting through to the lib reporters. What will they do without them?? Apparently, meltdown. Losers.
My daddy wasn't a lefty, God rest his soul, but man oh man did he hate Bush.
My toenails would curl when he started in on him. I kept my mouth shut like a good daughter and let him rant.
Did she ever answer th question posed to her: When are you going to New Orleans? She just sideswiped th question in the interview I saw. Very telling.
With less than 8,000 occupants, the doors to the Astrodome have been closed to any more folks.
Poor Anderson. For the most part, I'm skeptical about sexual preference being inborn, but in his case...the kid was Gloria Vanderbilt's son. It was almost inevitable.
"That the reporting from Iraq is relentlessly Chicken Little -- the sky is falling, just like Katrina."
LOL!
Is it ever any other way with them? ;o)
I loved it early on, when he asked a NO guy in line for the Superdome why he decided not to flee. "None of your F'n business!"
Zing! Live TV.
I loath that little hyperactive tabloid-twit turd Smith.
72 hours without water can kill... less than that if your are sick, elderly, or otherwise vulnerable. Not having water is a pretty serious "inconvenience."
Emmy
Poster (KateatRFM) is referencing those - albeit certainly 'not all' - who were housed in the Superdome; who had at a minimum, water and food and were dry.
Seems what was initially and painfully lacking here; was a viable disaster plan; from the get go; that facilitated a breakdown of civility. . .
There can be a 'chicken/egg' debate here; but 'RFM's' larger point, was that it took less than three days.
No doubt, there are lessons to be learned here. . .
And my biggest point is that when you hear men over 50, already in the safest place that could be provided for him, whining like toddlers "I need a bed, I need a bath..." instead of trying to look after the women and children the best way they know how, AS PEOPLE DID IN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR YEARS, then you know just how far this country has fallen. Can you imagine CNN in a concentration camp?
Of course there may be people taking charge and trying to organize their neighbours and we are not seeing it. But people in lifeboats don't have helicopters dropping food and water to them, and somehow they pull together. Can you imagine CNN at the Titanic sinking, letting people scream into the microphone that the President isn't providing them maid service and the morning papers? I MEAN REALLY.
There is water available. I would be willing to bet that there are people hoarding it. Where are the preachers who ought to be persauding the people to share with their neighbours? Don't tell ME that a crowd of Black people that big doesn't have a single preacher that stayed behind. Not to mention a Black Matriarch.
I'm listening to the Mayor do his Cindy Sheehan imitation and the longer this goes on, the more Black he sounds. Things are being done, people are being evacuated, other places are welcoming refugees, and all we hear is toddlers screaming. If I were a Black person I would be ashamed to see my people behaving like a bunch of lousy toddlers.
In defense of the reporters.
I don't know if you have ever seen destruction first hand but it is totally different than seeing it on TV.
The last time I saw anything similar was the aftermath of a tornado that came through N. Raleigh in the mid '80s.
The TV images were bad but I took a ride to the site and was shocked at the destruction.
And I saw no human suffering.
Believe me , TV doesn't even begin to portray reality.
Everyone is comparing this to the Tsunami...first of all, the hardest hit people in that region did NOT get basic necessaties in four days. Yes, the tourists staying at the beach did. But when it was over, it was over..it was not an ongoing disaster as this is. But the poorest people..those in the outlying regions did NOT get help right away. Similarly, we are seeing the people here who are not getting help.
That said...what was the PLAN for NO. I know they had to have an evacuation plan...supposedly it would have taken 3 days to do it. The Mayor of NO KNEW this was coming, yet waited until only a day ....and then did nothing to really get these people out. And he's pointing fingers???? And now, it doesn't seem like there is a plan to get basics to people at the convention center. Are these people STILL without food and water?
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