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News Conference on Hurricane Rita: Lt. Gen. Honore: 'Don't get stuck on stupid, reporter.' (audio)
Radio Blogger ^ | 9.20.05

Posted on 09/20/2005 11:20:01 PM PDT by rvoitier

Impromptu press briefing


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: honore; rita
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This was the kind of leadership sorely lacking in the crucial days of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath.

AUDIO

1 posted on 09/20/2005 11:20:01 PM PDT by rvoitier
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To: rvoitier

There is no way he could ever hold elected office... The PC crowd would demand he be fired! He reminds me of Patton and I loved Patton.


2 posted on 09/20/2005 11:40:54 PM PDT by Humidston (It's Bush's fault)
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To: rvoitier

bttt


3 posted on 09/20/2005 11:58:59 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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Honore: You are stuck on stupid. I'm not going to answer that question. We are going to deal with Rita. This is public information that people are depending on the government to put out. This is the way we've got to do it. So please. I apologize to you, but let's talk about the future. Rita is happening. And right now, we need to get good, clean information out to the people that they can use. And we can have a conversation on the side about the past, in a couple of months.

Touchdown !.
4 posted on 09/21/2005 12:08:38 AM PDT by John Lenin
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To: John Lenin
Honore: You are stuck on stupid.

When this happens to me (frequently) I want to let it dawn on me in private as I contemplate my navel not in full public view or recorded by cameras and microphones.
5 posted on 09/21/2005 1:32:37 AM PDT by carumba
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To: rvoitier
News Conference on Hurricane Rita: Lt. Gen. Honore: 'Don't get stuck on stupid, reporter'.

The general has a way with words.

I have to wonder if the mike missed one word and Lt Gen Honore actually said "Don't get stuck on stupid, stupid reporter".

6 posted on 09/21/2005 2:44:36 AM PDT by TYVets (God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
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To: rvoitier

A clear-thinking general goes up against a bunch of muddled-thinking, agenda-driven and self-serving reporters.


7 posted on 09/21/2005 4:12:57 AM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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To: Loyal Buckeye

"You are acting like this is YOUR problem. You are the MESSENGER."

I love it! Harry Truman/Patton lives! They ought to let nobody else hold press conferences until the emergency is over.


8 posted on 09/21/2005 4:32:33 AM PDT by KateatRFM
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To: rvoitier

Honore / Rice 2008!


9 posted on 09/21/2005 4:34:54 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Islam is merely Nazism without the snappy fashion sense.)
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To: rvoitier

Bravo, John Wayne Dude!


10 posted on 09/21/2005 4:40:22 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (The best things happen just before the thread snaps.)
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Bookmark


11 posted on 09/21/2005 4:40:42 AM PDT by LanPB01
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To: KateatRFM
"You are acting like this is YOUR problem. You are the MESSENGER."

Amen.

There is a media story where they wrote this:

Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, head of the active duty forces responding to Hurricane Katrina, bristled when asked why anyone would expect that things go smoother just three weeks after the last disaster. "That's not your business," he told a reporter. "It didn't work the first time. This isn't the first time. Let's not get stuck on the last storm." Honore told reporters their job was not to question how the last hurricane was handled but to send out official messages.

You can almost see the disdain on their faces. What? We in the media are not King and Queen of the Earth? We are just supposed to relay official messages? This is beneath us!

Some other "Honore'-isms"

1. I can get an epileptic monkey to do your job!

2. Der is gunna be an ass whippin' of Biblical proportions!

3. You go get 'em Tiger! Dat's it Killer! Dank you berry much! (when you do good).

12 posted on 09/21/2005 4:43:43 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: rvoitier

tagline change


13 posted on 09/21/2005 4:44:00 AM PDT by Rebelbase (The Mainstream Media is "Stuck on stupid". (Gen. Honore))
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To: rvoitier

I was watching this when it took place. Does anyone know who the reporter was?


14 posted on 09/21/2005 4:48:45 AM PDT by Spaghetti Man (NJ politics suck (and apparently so do some of the politicians!))
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I don't know the reporter who got "spanked"--there were apparently 2 that got chewed out.

Some other "Honore'-isms:"

4. "You're lookin' at the damn calender, and I'm lookin' at my watch! Over!"

5. What in da HELL is dat! Sounds like sumthin' da ho's do in the French Quarter at Mardi Gras!

15 posted on 09/21/2005 5:22:52 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Rebelbase

Like your new tag line.


16 posted on 09/21/2005 5:26:19 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: rvoitier

Kicking liberal MSM arse BUMP!!


17 posted on 09/21/2005 5:26:33 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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They had this exchange "You are STUCK in STUPID reporter!" on CNN about 4am EST.

The CNN anchor who was reading the news desk turned looked like she was going to be sick. She halted her speech and moved onto the next story.

18 posted on 09/21/2005 5:29:19 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: rvoitier

Reporters ask stupid questions. I think it comes from everyone actually believeing the old saying "there's no such thing as a stupid question". When I was training Army Warrant Officer Candidates many moons ago I told them that that old saying was stupid and yes there were stupid questions and I had better not hear any from them or there would be hell to pay. It made them put their brain in gear before they engaged their mouth. The result was a WO candidate who could and would think for himself. Same should apply to reporters, but then again I know that's asking a lot of some of them.


19 posted on 09/21/2005 5:31:18 AM PDT by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
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To: SkyPilot

LOL! They can't handle the truth, and I love every minute of it.


20 posted on 09/21/2005 5:31:30 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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