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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Shuckins on September 04, 2005, 08:29:41 AM
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...who couldn't find their butt with both hands. The same kudos to the idiot senators who've been spouting off. It's easy to tell they're idiots because their mouths are moving.
One fact that has become painfully obvious to anyone with an open mind during this crisis is that many of the reporters that have been flown in to cover it have ABSOLUTELY NO COMMON SENSE about how the real world operates AT ALL!
What's your favorite example of compassionate reporter idiocy?
Mine was aired this morning on the Weather Channel. A senator accompanying George Stephanapoulous on a helicopter tour of the city was complaining about there being only ONE crame attempting to repair a breach in the levee and that that was TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE! Camera pans to view of levee out the copter window, showing scene of single crane atop a flooded levee, steep slopes on both sides of crane, water pouring through the breach. The question pops into my mind, "Well, where could you possibly PUT another crane, you dolt! In ten feet of water on the side of the levee? Makes sense if the diesel engine would run under water, and the operator didn't mind wearing scuba gear.
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ANything that Geraldo reports on. I can't STAND that guy.
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Amen to THAT, brother!
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I would probably freak out with all the reporters walking aboots like ducks in clean clothes, with a car loaded with fuel, water and food for them.. and making money out of the desperate people.
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Originally posted by Fishu
I would probably freak out with all the reporters walking aboots like ducks in clean clothes, with a car loaded with fuel, water and food for them.. and making money out of the desperate people.
The opposite end of that spectrem is that they bring light upon dark shadows of desperate people, which tends to draw more money and volunteer work to the area.
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I would have mixed feelings in that situation Fishu.
If reporters were filming around were I was, I would also see it as a way to get attention to my location so i could get help. Some are prolly happy to see the news crews if they have been isolated.
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The reporters were probably lucky they didn't have a mob of people kill them for food and water...
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Originally posted by soda72
The reporters were probably lucky they didn't have a mob of people kill them for food and water...
would have been a mercy killing.
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You're saying you'd rather not have a free press?
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i'd rather pay for it if could get some choice in programming.
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Perfect response to an obvious straw man. :aok
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I've said this about the local and state governments and I think its true of the reporters. They did not convey, or understand the seriousness of the situation. Compare the reporting monday through wednesday with thursday.. Reminds me of the first civil war battle (The Battle of 1st Manassas) where civilians went out to watch the battle and have a picnic..
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Wondering just how much of a problem food and wter really was.
Water I can see.
But how much food was readily available. In peoples homes as well as in the grocery stores,resturants,convieniance stores ETC.
Yes some of it would have been bad from the flooding. meats breads and other things that come packaged in a way the flood water would have ruined it. But think about your local grocery store and how many things there are there that would be uneffected by water. Canned goods,unopened cerial, and any number of things packaged in airtight packages.
Even water. there is bottled water in stores,Bottled juice, and while not the ideal rehydrator, Soda.
Im thinking even with all the devistation. there was probably enough food to sustain those there for at least a week.
The people who got into trouble. are the ones that left their homes area and walked miles to these areas like that highway overpass Im thinking.
When all is said and done I wouldnt be surprised to find out that outside of the ones trapped in their attics, the ones that didnt make the walk. Have suffered the least amount of fatalities due to starvation or the most likely cause, dehydration.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
ANything that Geraldo reports on. I can't STAND that guy.
Hehe! Yea, I loved the superficial drama queen act when he was interviewing the POed PD chief. The chief saying no buses had showed up as of yet and Noseboy going into the power to the people act and telling his anchorman " Screw the governor, screw the feds. You are the man that can get it done. Your the one. Do it man. Get thoses buses in here" Then the anchorman spouting on it "We will have those buses rolling." Bozo and Ronnie Mcdonald in action. :)
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Whats a strawman? I thought it was one of these!
(http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/tanaka2/Scarecrow-m.jpg)
;) :lol
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Originally posted by Shuckins
A senator accompanying George Stephanapoulous on a helicopter tour of the city was complaining about there being only ONE crame attempting to repair a breach in the levee and that that was TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE! Camera pans to view of levee out the copter window, showing scene of single crane atop a flooded levee, steep slopes on both sides of crane, water pouring through the breach. The question pops into my mind, "Well, where could you possibly PUT another crane, you dolt!
I saw the same segment and thought the same thing as the camera panned out. There was room for just one crane on the bit of land on top the levee. Then the camera panned out some more and what did I see...a navigable waterway with a couple of barges on it with a clear path to a large body of water that I assume was Lake Pontchartrain. Then I remembered that dredging barges have cranes...hmmm.
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I just watched a live report from N.O.
The anchorman asked the reporter to describe the standing water in the area.
The reporter went on to say that the water was filthy, contaminated with sewage and chemicals and how it more than likely contained every disease known to man.
He was stading knee deep in the water while reporting with dry pavement behind him. :)
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Originally posted by Jackal1
I just watched a live report from N.O.
The anchorman asked the reporter to describe the standing water in the area.
The reporter went on to say that the water was filthy, contaminated with sewage and chemicals and how it more than likely contained every disease known to man.
He was stading knee deep in the water while reporting with dry pavement behind him. :)
He should get a kick in the nuts for possibly wasting the time of docs in the near future and then some sort of "award".
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Originally posted by Skydancer
Whats a strawman? I thought it was one of these!
(http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/pix/tanaka2/Scarecrow-m.jpg)
;) :lol
That's a Scarecrow. Where in hell did you learn amellican engrish?
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Do the major networks not hire anyone with a bass voice?
Even the male reporters speak as if they'd just been kicked in the nads.
A full weak of high-falsetto is tough to listen to.
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Geraldo ruined fox news imo. I saw the guy once during this katrina coverage and it last about 15 seconds before I changed the channel. Thye need to get rid of that dork...send to msnbc or someplace no one watches.
That other guy from fox....shep Lol! what a dork,
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See Rule #7
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Originally posted by Jackal1
Hehe! Yea, I loved the superficial drama queen act when he was interviewing the POed PD chief. The chief saying no buses had showed up as of yet and Noseboy going into the power to the people act and telling his anchorman " Screw the governor, screw the feds. You are the man that can get it done. Your the one. Do it man. Get thoses buses in here" Then the anchorman spouting on it "We will have those buses rolling." Bozo and Ronnie Mcdonald in action. :)
Caught that as I was flipping through the channels.
The one he was saying could get it done?
Bill Oriley.
Guy cracks me up
sometimes I think he thinks he is god himself.
type of guy where one moment you can agree with him wholeheartedly one min. then the next wish you could reach your arm through the screen and grab him by his throat and sqeeze the seeds out of his adams apple
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Geraldo god what is Fox doing?Not only him but Oliver North and they had Mark "Der" Fuherman on there too.Any news source that gives either of these scumbags creditability is in deep trouble.I still watch it,but now I see why people call it Faux news:huh
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Originally posted by Yeager
Geraldo ruined fox news imo. I saw the guy once during this katrina coverage and it last about 15 seconds before I changed the channel. Thye need to get rid of that dork...send to msnbc or someplace no one watches.
That other guy from fox....shep Lol! what a dork,
Little while ago I saw a clip of Gerald River helping Im guessing a national guardsman with a patient in a whille chair getting him down the stairs of a home.
few moments later you see another national guardsman enter the picture along side. As soon as they reache the bottom of the stairs the other guardsman who seemingly was doing nothing took over in Geralds place. Like the Guardsmen needed Geralds help.
LOL Can anyone say "Staged photo OP"
"Ok you stand aside I want the cameras getting me helping get this wheelchair down the stairs then you can take it from there ok?
Ok Cameras ready?
Roll em"
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Originally posted by Hangtime
See Rule #7
LOL Shep looks sounds and acts like I guy that used to work under me. Cant look at him without wanting to hit him with a brick.
the only one I hate worse then Shep is the dork on Fox & friends Brian Kilmeade.
Reminds me of that little spoiled snotty wise arse kid and everyone used to beat the crap out of in school
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So far, I have only been able to find info on two verified accounts of a gunman shooting at a medical helicopter. And both of these instances happened at the same hospital within a two hour timespan.
And yet ever other question that the Fox News Channel idiots were asking whomever it was they were talking to was about all of the "sniper" incidents happening throughout the city. This went on for two days. Between that and Shep and Geraldo I just could not take it anymore.
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Originally posted by Nilsen
He should get a kick in the nuts for possibly wasting the time of docs in the near future and then some sort of "award".
I dunno, even bacteria have some level of respect, sure they'll float down the gutter on a ****, but will they ever find it in themselves to lower their standards to reporters? I think not.
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Fox is actually being somewhat un Fox like, and Shep un Shep like, so far, IMO. BTW, there's a mugshot of shep at that celeb mugshot site where he got in an altercation over his reserved parking space.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/dsmithmug1.html
Geraldo is... Geraldo. He is a constant in the universe, and has been since he "Ran with the bulls" and opened Capone's safe. I am the one in the RED BANDANNA! :)
Charon
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Been watching CNN, Fox, MSNBC.
With the exeption of Gerald River.
They have all been covering this pretty much the same way.
I dont see much of a difference between the three CNN and Fox in particular. With CNN becomming more Foxlike by the day.
Fox doesnt lean any more right then CNN does left.
MSNBC is probably the most balanced of the three.
And even as I speak MSNBC is reporting Gunmen firing on rescuers.
And in the last week Ive seen all 3 report on gumen firing on helocopters
Gerald River is a showman. Thats what he does. Shep is trying to be.
but if you watch the station at all and look behind the "showmen" you will see Thats what he does also.
But reporter, for reporter. I mean real reporters. I dont see much of a difference between the 3 if any at all
they all play to their audiance. All are at times full of crap.
A fox News idiot isnt any different then a CNN idiot which isnt any different then a CNBC idiot.
To say one is better then the other is like saying one flavor of ice cream is better then another.
Its all a matter of taste and who's line of BS you prefer to hear
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I haven't been watching any in the last couple days.
Just been transcribing the feeds, or filtering the transcription up (check wiki.nola-intel.org )
you get the actual calls (believable or not) for people under fire, and the response (some CG helos fly a long way for a single, unverified report). And you see what non-sensationalist folks with much better surveillance equipment say about things like refinery damage (yes, in some parts, oil is flowing around houses).
any you hear all the air traffic calls for news helos going in and out of the NO TFR.
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Just a thought but if you have satellite try the BBC if all these American networks get you so riled in their coverage why not try the view from outside the US.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4214232.stm
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Bwaaaaaaaaahhaaaaaaaaaaa!
Paer towels/Windex. Didn`t even see it coming. lmao
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If the US Coast Guard had reporters, they'dve thrown their mics away, gotten in a helo, and saved about a THOUSAND lives.
US Coast Guard rocks!!!
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We know they do, it says so in nearly every thread! ;) :lol
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Coast Guard rules! :aok