Shepard Smith coming up on Letterman now....

[Catchawave]

Dave opened with a few good jabs at BushCo.

[dweller]

1. lol

you posted while i was writing the same.

let's see how this goes.
dp

#2 on the top ten lists. :thumbsup:

[MNDEM2004]

2. Hope Shep tells it like it is.

[Imagevision]

3. this should be interesting...!

[Jim Sagle]

4. I wonder if he's jumping to CBS? (Maybe this is an audition.)

Or maybe he's just shilling for Fox. :(

[SlowDownFast]

5. updates for teeveeless folks, please...

thnks

[Corgigal]

7. back to blaming NO

for not using the buses. Same stupidity..so far.

[blonndee]

9. Well, he didn't say WHO, but it was implied. nt

[blonndee]

6. uh oh...looks like he might be sucking Fox you-know-what again...

[saracat]

8. So I guess I won't bother watching ? If he is backsliding, I don't

want to see it!

[yourout]

10. Amazing how fast the MSM back pedals when threatened.

If the MSM and the Dems grew a pair we could bankrupt Bushco but alas I think we are screwed.

[blonndee]

12. Maybe not...Keith kicked ass and Brian Williams seems pissed too. nt

[dweller]

11. he's not assigning blame

that the time will come for it (and we may be at the time now) but recovering the bodies and those still living first

says Mississippi took a harder beating than La - whole towns flattened

some of NO will be restored

he's pissed mostly that help did not show up after the levee broke - the calvary didn't come

will not guess the death toll

for weeks and months, they'll be going thru the attics

he is still pissed! everytime he says the word 'death' he gets a look on his face, like he is seeing it again.

my take is he is haunted by the scenes he witnessed.
dp

[Catchawave]

20. Good summary!

Was hoping he'd be a little more miffed with the situation, but he's telling factual info...1 in 6 don't have cars and couldn't leave the city...buses should've been provided.

[dweller]

23. i believe he is totally changed by it all

and will talk more as time goes by, and knows more...

'don't ever let this happen again' he just said.

dp

[Catchawave]

25. Glad he said he's going back to MS to get the

news to the people. "We need to get the news to the people."

[dweller]

36. going back to cover the story of Katrina?

or returning home for a break? I missed why.

also, after watching that interview: I have never lain eyes on Shep Smith before tonite that i recall, never watching Faux, and am only aware of his stories reported here recently. So at the beginning of the interview, when he came out, i looked at him and thought he looked like a newsguy here on our local nbc - he had the smile, looks etc of most newsmen, etc.

But from that point on, as he began talking about what he had seen, and knew, the look on his face ... that would not work on faux, or any station. There was a serious painful look on his face as he related what he has seen. No matter how Dave L tried to get him to point a finger, or define some unknown, he (Shep) kept returning to the job of recovering the dead ...and that look on his face ... inward at something he could see only ... man

that is one person is some deep psychological pain, imo.

i would bet there is a serious conversion going on inside him.

my 2 cents
dp

[blonndee]

38. I think so too...Thursday night you should have seen him. He was

genuinely desperate and totally unafraid of the big F.

[blonndee]

13. That f**ker totally lied!!! He LIED!

He said #3 on the top 10 list of threats to the country compiled by the fed govt was a hurricane...BULLSHIT! I saw that elsewhere today and it was #10!!

[jab105]

14. No...I think it was #3...I thought that getting hit by a missle...

was #10...which was why Bush's Missle Defense shield was so misguided...

[blonndee]

17. WT hell list did I see then?!? Somebody was pointing out that

all the other risks involved "manmade" type disasters. Am I finally so overloaded on TV coverage I've lost my mind?

[Bozita]

32. I saw that too

Level 5 hurricane was #10.

[blonndee]

37. Thanks...glad I'm not totally losing it. But actually, Shep saying #3

COULD be better for the public mind...if they realized what a threat it was, why not more prep? Not that we THINKING people need to be told that by Shepherd, but I suspect Dave has a pretty large RW young male audience.

[nonconformist]

15. Uh, no. He's correct. It is #3. nt

[ChowChowChow]

16. He is lying and spinning like a good RoverBot!

What an idiot!!!
But what did we expect...Rove got to them!

[dweller]

18. no, he's right

1- terrorist attack
2-magnitude 10 earthquake on West Coast
3- mag 4-5 hurricane in NOLA

dp

[blonndee]

21. Oh, maybe the list I saw was different types of terrorist attacks,

because it did list different types of chemicals, that sort of thing.

[JHB]

40. Yeah, it was a 2001 FEMA list (pre-9/11) that put the top three...

...as the NYC terrorist attack, San Fran or LA Quake, or NO hurricane. But I'm sure there's more than one list around.

[blonndee]

41. "But I'm sure there's more than one list around."

HA HA...I'm sure there are!

I hope one of them is a list of criminal indictments.

Seriously, thanks for the info!

[elehhhhna]

19. ya sure it wasn't number, oh, i dunno...

666?

[mshasta]

22. lol

good one!!!!:evilgrin:

[Lindacooks]

43. The list he quoted was right, but the point is hurricanes were

that high, #3, and Bush DID NOTHING.

[blonndee]

24. Okay I guess that wasn't bad. At least it will keep the focus on the

PEOPLE. And forgive me for the mistaken "he lied" post. I swear I saw a different list today though.

[AbbeyRoad]

26. He said the Red Cross wasn't allowed in because of security concerns

I thought it was because they didn't want to encourage people to stay in the city.


Sorry, blonndee. I meant to reply to the original post, and replied to your post in error.

[Catchawave]

28. I heard about that list....

not the same as the Top Three Emergencies: NYC terrorist attack, SF earthquake, NO hurricane.

Yeah, he did okay, stayed centrist and concentrated on the PEOPLE :)

[nonconformist]

27. I think he did really well.

If anything, Letterman (oddly) was goading him into blaming local officials and Shep wasn't taking the bait.

[Swamp Rat]

29. This guy works for FOX?

He seemed human to me, unlike the others. :D

[mshasta]

30. they live ...

we died...

[MNDEM2004]

31. Maybe Shep will jump ship.

I am sure one of the other networks would hire him in a minute.

[joanne]

34. I thought Shep was great

[JI7]

39. you should have seen him before the hurricane

while Geraldo's emotional report was touching, it wasn't surprising coming from Geraldo as he is often like that and has a past of defending the Dem side.

but Shep's response was surprising as he was (and hopefully it remainds in the past)media whore. i was expecting him to whore for Bush. i especially liked when he responded to Sean Hannity's "lets get some perspective" in a calm but clearly angry tone that "THIS IS PERSPECTIVE".

but then again this could just show who really has humanity and weed out the right wingers who you may disagree with on just about everything but still have that decentness about them.

[fujiyama]

33. I think I heard him clearly say at one point

that the federal government failed.

Overall it was very sobering. He looks like he been affected by this as have most reporters who were there on the ground.

[gatorboy]

35. Shep even proved the point that it was the feds fault

He said it wasn't the hurricane but the cracking of the levee. The problem was that the actual hurricane didn't turn out as bad as some had thought so people started coming back in and going back to their homes. It's when the levees broke that all hell broke loose.

The money went elsewhere.

[chalky]

42. And for that alone I will forgive the man his past whoring for FAUX.

Thank God someone finally said it...It wasn't the hurricane. It was the floodwalls.