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."

Comments

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I didn't meant to slam your country in any way. It's just Bush and his slimy cohort-- well, surely he's finished now, even if it might not feel like that. The rest of the world has seen him spring to *no action* and is judging him right now on television and in print, justifiably, as a failure. America is a great place and it has the potential and the drive to pull itself back together, and I'm sure it will.

[karose.livejournal.com]

I disagree. I think amnesia will settle in again and Bush will carry on as he has, and our anger will fall on deaf ears just as before. This is a pit we're getting sucked into and I've no idea what to do for it but just get the hell out while I can. Someone please fucking nuke us. It'll be a mercy killing.

...I'm being too harsh, though. No, I hold my fellow countryman in high esteem, since the average civilian is doing more than our great fearless leaders are. But we're still trapped, and the apathy is just waiting to sink back in.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

God, hang in there. I don't know what to say and it's not much, but you have *all* my sympathies. I'm thinking of you, if that helps or not. Lx