Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Top Ten Reasons Bill Hemmer Bolted To Fox
Reason Number 10:
Soledad O'Brien: Superdome evacuees worse off than Nicholas Berg.
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.
Soledad O'Brien: Superdome evacuees worse off than Nicholas Berg.
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.
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O'Brien did not say that the hurricane victims were worse off than the people beheaded. She said that military veterans on the scene told her they were more upset at seeing thousands of American citizens suffering without food, water, medical supplies or toilet facilities for days on end (in their own country) than they had been by watching the beheading video.
It's an understandable human reaction to respond more strongly to witnessing firsthand the suffering of huge crowds of fellow citizens than to watch the video of an execution in a war zone. I can see why people on the scene would feel that way.
-Dr Hermes
It's an understandable human reaction to respond more strongly to witnessing firsthand the suffering of huge crowds of fellow citizens than to watch the video of an execution in a war zone. I can see why people on the scene would feel that way.
-Dr Hermes
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: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 6:48:00 PM
: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 6:48:00 PM
"O'Brien did not say that the hurricane victims were worse off than the people beheaded."
Wrong.
She said:
"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".
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Wrong.
She said:
"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".
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