Evacuees surprise ABC with Bush praise

WND ^ | September 16, 2005

[Kaslin]

WuzzaDem.com has a hilarious spoof about it

Dean Reynolds here for ABC News, here outside the Astrodome, where I'll be getting reaction to the President's speech from some of the evacuees who are still here.

[Kaslin]

Click on the link in the WND article to view the video. I wished I had seen it myself, but I don't watch ABC

[infidel29]

Hey, ABC...

[Patriot from Philly]

I have very limited experience with the media but I can tell you they set things up:

I was at Union Station on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving several years ago and encountered a news team. Now Amtrack runs many trains on that day and the train station did not have any of those crowds before Thanksgiving crowds they like so much.

They stuck this microphone in my face and started to ask me about all the problems with security and were they being security-conscious. They just wanted a controversial sound bite. I must have been pretty boring because I don't think I was on tv.

Those crowds in Iraq that are so excited when the cameras are on, what do you think they do when the cameras are off.

After this ABC incident, they just won't do live interviews again, too hard to control.

[AFreeBird]

Gee, I waded into the cesspool waters over at DU, and it was the funniest thing: No mention what-so-ever of this speech , or the reaction to it that ABC got.

Uhh... who'd have thunk it?

[boomop1]

I despise the media.

[Kaslin]

You're not surprised are you?

[PatriotGirl827]

Well, if they do mention it, they will say those poor folks who were interviewed have been given mind control drugs by Karl Rove, or some such nonsense.

[jiggyboy]

Heh heh...I'm picturing the interviewer's face getting redder and redder from the bottom up, then he just starts vibrating in place like Yosemite Sam, he's so frustrated.

[Right Wing Assault]

It's fairly obvious Rove must have had these people drugged just like he did to Saddam when they caught him. Whatever that drug is, they should sneak some of it to the Dems in Congress. Heh, heh!

[AFreeBird]

Be series, will you. I didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday you know.

[infidel29]

After this ABC incident, they just won't do live interviews again, too hard to control.

I can see it now, from now on ABC live "man on the street" interviews will look like bad 70s "Godzilla" movies. As the folks on camera speak, ABC will overdub their own "reactions" to the questions. No one will notice when the person on TV seems to be talking when they've already completed their answer to the question.

[Right Wing Assault]

I despise the media.

Well, right now I DON'T despise Dean Reynolds since he did such a great job of making President Bush look good. It was even better that he had the NO people praising him. Hilarious. Why in the world did they run that on ABC? Are they forgetting what their mission is? IBF! (It's Bush's Fault!)

[AckyQuack]

One evacuee said, "They've been allocated federal funds to fix the levee system, and it never got done. I fault the mayor of our city personally. I really do."

Bravo - Where is the lynching?

[RegulatorCountry]

"It's fairly obvious Rove must have had these people drugged just like he did to Saddam when they caught him"

Implants. I'm thinking implants. Yeah, that's it... implants. And psychotronic waves.

[LostInBayport]

ABC Radio found a couple evacuees to bash Bush this morning. I was listening to WBZ (1030) in Boston, and they played an brief ABC radio piece wherein the reporter interviewed two evacuees (who had been stranded on the interstate after Katrina) about the President's speech. They said it was too little, too late, insincere, blah blah blah.

And when pressed for examples of their complaints, one of the two women lashed out against state troopers who had just driven around the interstate and offered them no instruction or help. Yes, you read that right....STATE TROOPERS.

But of course, it's still Bush's fault in their eyes, and apparently in the eyes of ABC Radio, who described the piece as 'dissatisfaction with the President'. All message but NO substance to back it up.

[quantim]

Rush made sure 20 million heard this today!

[vox humana]

I watched Reynolds conduct those interviews. The transcript does NOT give you a feel for the TONE of his questions. He was trying VERY hard to get the people to say something BAD about Bush. His voice was dripping with sarcasm. As soon as someone said something good, he immediately moved on to another person. In case you were wondering about demographics, all of the people were black.

[goldstategop]

ABC failed to do pre-interviews to get the responses they wanted. I'm just stunned they actually interviewed folks live. No wonder they didn't get the anti-Bush views they were hoping to broadcast out to the country.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[voletti]

*LOL*

Rove's got to be giving "mind-control drugs" to get black people to sopmething nice about the prez, eh?

Bloody hilarious!