Need some good cardio exercise? Stand in front of FOX News like I did last night. I was jumpin’, whoopin’, hollerin’. HOLY MOLEY! I tell you, there is hope for ALL of us (except Bill O’Reilly — just pour some water on him and he’s a goner).
Shepard Smith and Geraldo Rivera were livid about the situation in NO as they appeared on H&C. When Hannity tried his usual spin job and said “let’s get this in perspective,” Smith chopped him off at the knees and started yelling at him saying, “This is perspective!” It was shocking. — Crooks & Liars, with VIDEO
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Geraldo who I’m no fan of was crying, holding a little child up to demonstrate the extremely inhumane conditions these people are forced to live under. Forced is the right word because they are locked in the dome by our government and can’t leave. Troops are guarding the bridge.
This goes beyond political lines and it’s as sad a situation as I’ve seen. Let’s see all the happy politicians slap themselves on their backs after viewing this segment.
Digby has more: This was some amazing TV. Kudos to Shep Smith and Geraldo for not letting O’Reilly and Hannity spin their GOP “resolve” apologia bullshit. I’m fairly shocked….read on
Talk Left: I’ve never seen anything as harrowing as Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera and Shepard Smith on Hannity and Colmes. While Aaron Brown on CNN said we have “turned the corner” on CNN, it’s clearly not the truth….read on
— Crooks & Liars, with VIDEO
We’ve witnessed the radicalization of much of the mainstrem media this week. One can only imagine the horrors these people are witnessing for them to so dramatically cast aside the rules that normally bind them. Suddenly FOX News and CNN are begining to resemble Al Jazeera (and I intend that as a complement). When reporters at FOX behave like this you have to believe that Bush & Company are in some real deep shit.
agreed, almost fell off my chair!
Hey, Jer. Do you still need some MOJO to regain your TU status?
COME ON! Let’s give it to him! :):) Share the love …
I just called the White House to ask that the people in the Superdome be allowed to leave. The woman at the other end of the line said that all the people in the Superdome had been evacuated last night. I hope that’s true. Can anyone confirm that?
I think you mean to say the convention center …
that’s the group of 30,000 people Geraldo was screaming and crying about last night.
And that’s the same group that Mike Brown was not even aware of until, what, Wed. or Thurs?
According to CNN there are 2000+ people still waiting at the Superdome waiting to be evacuated. These people will not be evacuated until tomorrow. I have no clue whether these people are being provided food/water.
I’m stunned. Hannity got his ass handed to him by Shep and Geraldo. Good for them. I’m hoping that last night Geraldo found the soul he sold when he went to work for Fox.
Watching this last night..on Fox..(of all stations!) left me breathlessly wondering is maybe..just maybe, there is reason for “some” hope after all, for honest media coverage. Geraldo and Shepard were heros.
I could not believe it. I’ve seen some amazing – good amazing – reports from TV journalists in the field over this. I was pretty stunned when Paula Zahn went off on that idiot FEMA chief. I chuckled over Jack Cafferty’s increasingly nasty digs at the Bush Administration. But I have never, ever seen a reporter like Shepherd Smith go off the way he did.
I’m not a religious person, but god bless the press. They’ve really come through. Can you imagine how much worse things would be if they weren’t able to report on this? Or maybe things wouldn’t be that much worse, most of us would simply never hear about it.
People can’t deny what they are seeing here.
I posted this quote to a comment on the front page. But it fits as a reply to your comment also:
(From Annie Lamott at TPMCafe):
The reporters are making it possible for us to witness the truth. Without them, we would be as ignorant of the events in the Gulf Coast as we are of the events in Iraq. I bet Bush wishes he could control the access to the this crisis as easily as he controls the access to the war.
Did anyone else catch Geraldo’s appearance on O’Reilly?
Geraldo was interviewing a police captain at the convention center. Both reporter (I’ll get Geraldo that title for the week) and policeman were clearly overwhelmed by conditions. Geraldo was alternating between near tears and near tantrum.
Meanwhile, back in the studio, O’Reilly watched in clear boredom. He kept saying this like “calm down” and “so, you need some buses.” As if they were idiots for not taking care of it themselves. Then Bill finally just cut them off and went to another feed as if it hadn’t happened.
Of course, Bill managed to get in a few lines about how “thugs” were causing the problems.