Posted on 09/07/2005 7:01:16 AM PDT by Millee
Oprah Winfrey on Tuesday devoted the first of two shows to the wake of Hurricane Katrina, saying: "I think ... this country owes these people an apology" – referring to the survivors for their treatment after the disaster struck and to those who were left to die as help failed to arrive.
"This makes me so mad. This should not have happened," said a tearful Winfrey, who wore a gas mask inside New Orleans' now-vacated Superdome, where she was overcome by the stench. "Nothing I saw on television prepared me for what I experienced on the ground," she said on the show, which featured stories from all over the Gulf Coast, including those from New Orleans police superintendent Eddie Compass.
Compass told of children being sexually assaulted in the Superdome and how gang members threatened to take him hostage as he toured the facility. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin actually cut short his interview with Winfrey, so overcome with emotion and anger because, he said, other cities would have received a swifter response from the federal government.
Also on the show, Jamie Foxx, Matthew McConaughey and Faith Hill were shown among those distributing food. While unloading a truck at a Gulfport, Miss., shelter, a survivor asked Hill to sing "Amazing Grace." She did.
"I was sitting at home feeling frustrated and useless, like so many other people, so I came down to personally assess how I could best be of service," Winfrey told The New York Times in a statement.
Wednesday's show will take Winfrey to Mississippi and show relief efforts by Chris Rock, Julia Roberts, Lisa Marie Presley and others.
I don't owe anybody an apoligy. and I am sick and tired of the attacks upon my president by these ingrates.
no more money will I send. let the left take care of these people.
Oprah, what was your point in visiting the evacuated Superdome? Even more shocking the Mayor had time to give you a tour.
You should be ashamed for sensationalizing other peoples misery.
The New Age crowd is now heard from. Anyone else?
Never from me. Ask Nagin and Blanco, Harpo.
That's right, because other city's leaders would have gotten the job done! Not sat around in a state of confusion and then start blaming other for their ineptitude when the truth came to light.
I don't owe anyone an apology either.
Oprah wants us to believe she's never had to use an older outdoor toilet in her life and somehow got trapped when the door lever got stuck.
Don't mess with Oprah, she is a Zulu Queen...her DNA said so!! OK, I added the 'Queen' part.
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Mayor Nagin and Blanco owe us an apology!
Tell Oprah to do like the rest of us, send money and keep her fat mouth shut.
My Dearest Oprah;
Piss OFF!!!
Sincerely,
A. Bustard
Oprah proves that being all wet doesn't mean your in New Orleans.
That stench wasn't coming from the Superdome, Oprah.
Leave it to fricking Oprah to speak for "the nation". I owe NOLA an apology? Yeah, right. What a bunch of feel-good, socialist, nanny-state claptrap.
How about taking a few folks into your home and treating them to some sumptuous meals before YOU make YOUR apologies for getting some publicity out of this tragedy.
No kidding the MSM are trying to save the butt of a mayor that killed 100's of people by his lack of judgement and ability.
Where's that picture of Nagin in the yellow skweel bus coming to the rescue?
So Nagin is saying the Feds should have kept order in the Superdome?
"Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers
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