"Newswoman"?
What is NewsMax? A comic book?
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.
Pretty ugly face. I judge people many ways, including by their looks. UGLY!!
Facts speak for themselves, but it's better to point them out like this.
I remember hearing that CNN wasn't an "American" news service during both Iraqi wars. So why have their news readers gotten all hysterical about this?
It's plainly not an exageration that they are to stupid to know the difference between light and sound.
Hysteria and emotion are the latest gimmicks to try to increase veiwership. The ones that can fake real emotion the best will go far.
Born: September 19,1966 in Saint James, NY. Christened Maria de la Soledad O'Brien.
Her parents are a biracial couple. They met at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and married in 1959 when an interracial marriage was still illegal in some places.
"You know, my dad is Australian, but his parents are Irish, hence the surname 'O'Brien'. In fact, everyone keeps asking me "great last name - but what's with the first name?"
Her first name follows a Spanish tradition of naming a child for Our Lady of Solitude.
Her father, Edward, is a mechanical engineering professor and was originally from Toowoomba, Australia. Her mother, Estella, is black of Cuban heritage. She emigrated to the U.S. in the 1950's and teaches Spanish in New York City. Soledad was raised in Smithtown, a small North Shore town on Long Island, New York. She attended Smithtown High School East.
She has three sisters and two brothers - the fifth child of the six. They are a Harvard family. Maria, (1961), a law professor, went to Harvard undergrad. Cecilia, (1962), an attorney, is Harvard Law. Tony, (1963), heads a documents company, is Harvard and Harvard Law; Estela, (1964), an eye surgeon, is Harvard. And the baby, Orestes, (1968), an anesthesiologist, is Harvard Med. Soledad attended Harvard and Radcliffe College, studying English and American Studies and taking a lot of science courses including summer classes at the State University of NY at Stonybrook "with the crazed notion of becoming a doctor." And (like Bill Gates) left when she was 21 (before graduation) for a job as a newsroom assistant.
"There's not an O'Brien Library at Harvard, but with all our tuitions, there should be," she said.
"It was not our parents' dream that we go to Harvard. It doesn't seem odd that we all went there. We were all excellent students in high school. We worked hard, and we were very competitive."
Soledad began her career in radio doing a medical talk show "Second Opinion" and "Health Week in Review" at KISS-FM in Boston in 1989, and then worked as an associate producer and news writer for Eyewitness News "First Edition" at WBZ-TV in Boston.
From 1991 to 1993, she worked for NBC News in New York, where she produced stories exclusively for Chief Health and Science Correspondent Robert Bazell for "NBC Nightly News" and "Today."
In 1993, she joined NBC's KRON television in San Francisco covering local news. She also co-hosted the Discovery Channel's "The Know Zone" (along with popular SF disc jockey Don Bleu) for two seasons while she was there. That show gave her a chance to cover a number of technology issues. Her boss there became the General Manager at Ziff-Davis and she lobbied hard for the anchor spot on a new technology show on fledgling MSNBC.
She received an Emmy award as anchor for The Know Zone in 1995. It was her first national show and she hosted for two seasons on The Discovery Channel.
“It wasn’t strictly a science and technology show for kids, but it kind of had a kid bent to it,” the Emmy-winner says. “We covered science in a conversational tone and tried to find unusual ways to explain things.”
She married Brad Raymond, an investment banker, in 1995. They live with their two daughters and twin sons in New York.
In July 1996, MSNBC was launched. One of its initial offerings was the show The Site, hosted by Soledad. This hour-long program devoted to the technological revolution brought Soledad national fame.
“I had a PC when that job came up, but I made it clear in my interview that I was not a technologist,” she says. “I didn’t do spread sheets.
“Andy Lack [NBC News president] made it clear they wanted The Site geared so someone’s mom would know what we were talking about.”
http://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/Soledad/soledad96site.htm
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I have heard from my "unnamed sources" of Soledad O'Brien's college friends that she slept her way through school with every male and female professor and never attended classes.
That's my story and you can't question my 1st Amendment rights as a "journalist"
She is stuck on stupid.
I hear beheading is so serene...so peaceful...much like death by starvation and dehydration. Can you feel the zen, how beautiful it must all be?
The libs ARE overwrought.
this fish sounds like she's so far gone that she just might be running the news dep't at CNN before long.
My science is rusty but isnt the speed of light the fastest you can go?? Its like on 911 they said that the first plane was possible a GPS problem.
Yeah and partial birth abortion is also painless too. But take away someones free needles and condoms and make them get work and the GOP becomes the great Satan according to just about any lib.
Actually she was raised by hair brained self-congradulatory leftists. She was named after the site of a sanguinary California prison riot, celebrated as the harbinger of a social revolution by the deluded and impressionable left. The fact that she's considered "mainstream" says a lot about the self described mainstream media.
Just another presstitute burper IMHO......
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"Newswoman"?
What is NewsMax? A comic book?
In English, Soledad means "Not a single functioning synapse"
LOL!
Love the tag, BTW.
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