CNN'er: Katrina Victims Better Off Beheaded

newsmax.com ^ | Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2005 11:10 p.m. EDT

[InvisibleChurch]

[Triggerhippie]

No wonder the damn thing fell apart!

[TheCrusader]

"The title should say CNNer: veterans claimed Katrina evac worse than Iraq beheadings She didn't say it was her own opinion that the beheadings were worse."

Since this CNN 'reporter' chose to leave the alleged veterans unidentified, she alone is responsible for her comment. Not only that, it is highly unlikely that hardened war veterans would be crying like babies at the mere site of people left homeless by the hurricane. Iraq war veterans have seen far worse, like hundreds of dead people blown to bits in market places, bloody combat and their own brothers being killed and wounded.

Furthermore, no Iraqi war veterans have actually seen the beheadings beyond what we ALL saw on internet videos, so why would they make such a comment?

The whole thing is b.s. and Soledad's comments are her own until she cites the names of the alleged weeping 'military veterans'.

[politicalwit]

"Soledad loosely translates as "solitude". I would imagine her liberal mind and loose emotional state, along with a case of halitosis, counteracts her physical attributes, resulting in no-man-itis."

"It takes a liberal village to fill an empty skull."

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Planet Oprah

[CharlesWayneCT]

I was watching CNN for a while during the plane thing at LAX. After going through several reports where I could hardly understand what they were saying, I turned to my wife and said

"Hello, I'm reporting for CNN, where we can't get any Americans to work for us anymore".

At least she laughed about it.

[savedbygrace]

"It is a sad thing to watch military veterans cry as they tell you the beheadings in Baghdad were less horrific than what they saw as 30,000 people marched from the Superdome through a shopping mall and onto buses to who knows where."

OH, NO, NOT . . . NEBRASKA!

[TomGuy]

She didn't say it was her own opinion that the beheadings were worse. She is saying that veterans claimed it was. Now at face value we should doubt what she is saying and question her sources and truth of her reporting. It sounds ridiculous

Except that that kind of terminology is not much different than Katie Couric's infamous "there are those who say..." or "some say...."

Those are verbal techniques which allow the speaker to editorialize and make it sound as if they are referencing someone else as the originator. The only problem with that technique is that the 'originator', the 'those who say', the 'some say', is never really identified.

Dollars to donuts -- if Soledad were pressed on the issue, she would be unable to deliver the person or persons who she claims made such a statement.

[ClaireSolt]

Surely, Jesse Jackson agrees that the evacuation was a bad thing. Get those po people back where they belong!

[Dilbert56]

Hasn't anyone at CNN caught on that they're turing the hurricanes into a cheap reality show?

Ooooh Miles, what do you think about all this? Oooh Soledad, isn't it tragic these people are being recused?

[Dilbert56]

rescued, recused, whatever.

[kenth]

Wasn't she on Tech TV or something safe like that? She's a danger to the truth.

[John Lenin]

I'd have to spit in her face if she said that in front of me.

[Suzy Quzy]

Soledad is Stuck on Stupid.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Uh huh, anonymous sources et all. Just another MSM airhead.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" Geez, were they thinking those busses were taking them to Auschwitz?"

Apparently.
" This situation, to me, is like some concentration camp," said Ernest Johnson, president of Louisiana's NAACP chapter, decrying the military presence in evacuation centers.

[hsalaw]

" This situation, to me, is like some concentration camp," said Ernest Johnson, president of Louisiana's NAACP chapter, decrying the military presence in evacuation centers.

A lot of these people should consider the old saying: keep quiet and be thought a fool; speak up and prove you're a fool.

[Shortstop7]

I think she looks creepy.....sinister eyes. Just snotty looking. Kind of like Maureen and Molly.....

These people just hate the United States. Period.

[billnaz]

The entrance requirements for journalism school, as well as the graduation standards, have obviously been loosened in the last twenty years or so.

[Reactionary]

It takes real brains to equate getting your head lopped off and being alive in the Superdome.

But that's how it goes these days. Everyone's profound ruminations are about as reasonable as Geraldo in the middle of a hurricane.