Posted on 09/21/2005 8:32:41 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
CNN's "American Morning" host Soledad O'Brien said Tuesday that Hurricane Katrina evacuees housed at the Superdome were worse off than beheading victims in Baghdad.
The normally mild-mannered newswoman offered the overwrought observation while speaking at Redbook Magazine's "Movers and Shakers" awards luncheon in New York.
According to the New York Daily News, O'Brien blurted out:
"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."
Ms. O'Brien didn't identify the veterans who told her that Katrina victims would have been better off being beheaded.
No wonder the damn thing fell apart!
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'.
"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."
Planet Oprah
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.
OH, NO, NOT . . . NEBRASKA!
Surely, Jesse Jackson agrees that the evacuation was a bad thing. Get those po people back where they belong!
Ooooh Miles, what do you think about all this? Oooh Soledad, isn't it tragic these people are being recused?
rescued, recused, whatever.
Wasn't she on Tech TV or something safe like that? She's a danger to the truth.
I'd have to spit in her face if she said that in front of me.
Soledad is Stuck on Stupid.
" 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.
" 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.
I think she looks creepy.....sinister eyes. Just snotty looking. Kind of like Maureen and Molly.....
These people just hate the United States. Period.
The entrance requirements for journalism school, as well as the graduation standards, have obviously been loosened in the last twenty years or so.
But that's how it goes these days. Everyone's profound ruminations are about as reasonable as Geraldo in the middle of a hurricane.
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