« More Austin resources for Katrina refugees | Main | The Battle of New Orleans » Foxes freak outA bit of weirdness on the Fox Network tonight... Geraldo Rivera appeared to be in tears over conditions at the Convention Center in New Orleans, and Shepard Smith just outside the Center was also clearly angry – both mortified at government inaction, and the fact that people in the Convention Center were not permitted to leave. Back at Fox HQ Sean Hannity, clearly uncomfortable with the intensity of emotion in these reports, focused elsewhere. Some time later another reporter was interviewing a black woman who'd just arrived in Houston, and who started dissing GW Bush, at which point the sound and then the image faded. I can imagine it's hard to be Fox covering New Orleans right now... UPDATE: I was checking to see where Fox was with all this, and caught Bill O'Reilly, who had some interesting thoughts. He says the people who are stuck and suffering in New Orleans right now have only themselves to blame, because they chose not to leave. He says the mess in New Orleans is the fault of Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin, who weren't up to it. The guys who really know what they're doing, the Feds, waited a bit too long to step in make it happen. He then explains that the real problem is that too many people depend on government! This from the "no-spin zone." jon posted this at 12:30 AM |
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That is interesting about O'Reilly. I just blogged on this subject. It's not the first time O'Reilly's "let them eat cake" attitude has surfaced. For a working class schmo from Levittown (snicker) he sure doesn't understand at all what it means to be poor.
Posted by: Julie O. | September 3, 2005 3:15 AM
Last night a Lousiana state trooper corrected a blonde Foxcaster--who frankly sounded coked to the gills--maybe she'd had too much espresso. She was interviewing him remotely from Fox News Central and asked him about snipers shooting at rescue helicopters. He said that the gunfire had been sporatic and that no shots had been fired at helicopters the previous night. He said rumors about snipers had been blown out of proportion by certain elements of the news media--without mentioning Fox News by name. That was a nicely subtle touch, I thought.
Posted by: Thomas Armagost | September 3, 2005 7:59 PM
No one bothered to point out to O'Reilly of course that those who didn't leave NO couldn't leave because they had no cars and only people with cars were part of the organized evacuation. There was no mass transit available for it. Many people tried to leave at a later point and were stopped at gunpoint.
Posted by: johnshirley | September 3, 2005 9:57 PM