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

[fenris_wolf0]

Well yes, but you need to consider the source: anything coming from Geraldo Rivera or FOX News is likely to be lies and a complete manipulation of reality.

I'd rather hear facts from a non-Bush partisan network other than FOX (anyone lese would do, really) and any journalist other than Geraldo Rivera: the man has made a career of being an idiot and misinforming the American public again and again.

Not that I would be all that surprised if this report is actually true considering prior unexplainable and unjustifiable decisions the authorities have been taking...

[scribblemoose]

What the fuck?!!

What are they doing?!! Why???

This whole thing just keeps getting worse and worse and worse...

[shati.livejournal.com]

*stares*

Well, fuck.

[karose.livejournal.com]

"Well greed is a bottomless pit
And our freedom's a joke, we're just taking the piss
And the whole world must watch the sad comic display
If you're still free start running away."

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

This is definitely the point at which words fail you.