[Mount Athos]

The title of this article is incorrect.
I don't like it when liberals pull this kind of thing, so what is a conservative publication doing this for?

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. 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.

[t2buckeye]

Very true BUT she cites as "sources" unidentified military personnel. Somehow, though ONE person may have said it, it certainly would not be the feelings of most military that people going without food and water for a relatively short period of time would be worse off than persons who have been beheaded.

These people are SO outraged by what happened in New Orleans, but somehow simply "yawn" and move on when we see Iraqi children blown up by terrorists, people beheaded on camera, or mass graves filled with Saddam's citizens.

[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'.

[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.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

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

[muawiyah]

Soledad failed to provide any names or other sources for her statements ~ presumably she was making it up on the spot.

This is the Dan Rather school of journalism BTW. You can never trust these people.