Utterly shocked, again

[louiselux]

Checking americablog this morning and this stopped my heart: Geraldo Rivera and Shepard Smith are reporting that the authorities have locked everyone in the convention center with no escape, and a checkpoint is stopping people from leaving New Orleans.

Oh my god. The video of their Fox news report from inside the Superdome is hosted on crooks and liars - it's harrowing. From what I understand it's also shocking that it's *Geraldo* and on Fox news, too. After the crying and the ranting, the anchor had the gall to say to one of them 'but let's get a perspective on this', to the reply 'this *is* the perspective'.

eta: Guardsmen halt evacuation at Superdome - also leave me pretty much speechless. A funny/terrible quote from someone still in there: "I don't want to go to no Astrodome. I've been domed almost to death."

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[whimsy-chan.livejournal.com]

It's even worse when some self-righteous asshole starts going on about the people who "chose" not to leave NOLA when the call to evacuate went out. Excuse me, but New Orleans has a lot of very poor people living there--I'm sure they wanted to get out, but they simply did not have the means to. And even if they had the money and the mobility to just up and leave, where would they go?