Posted on 08/04/2005 10:46:06 PM PDT by paulat
Danielle Crittenden: Conditions at Camp Crawford “Shocking and Inhumane” Inmates Complain Danielle Crittenden Thu Aug 4,11:17 AM ET
WACO, TX (AP)—Prisoners of Camp Crawford complain of small cells, poor meals, constant surveillance, and disrespectful—even disdainful—treatment from Presidential staff.
“Thirty-three days in this hell-hole feels like thirty-three years,” said a bitter long-time White House correspondent. “You’re away from your family. We’re all billeted into these crappy Waco motels—you know, the kind they hose down with antiseptic every day and you’ve got one lousy blanket which is made of recycled Coke bottles or something. There are huge fights for the cells with fast Internet connections but not many have them. The networks always get those. We didn’t mind the facilities in Santa Barbara or Martha’s Vineyard. Even Kennebunkport was more endurable than this.”
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Journalists also described the routine brutality to which they’re subjected. The most recent case was when Time magazine’s correspondent had to be hospitalized after press pool duty. In answer to a question intended for the president, chief aide Karl Rove held up a copy of the magazine and made sinister flushing noises. The correspondent was treated for shock at the local hospital and released later in the day.
“It’s clear they don’t respect us or our beliefs,” the correspondent said angrily, as he was led back to his cell at the Super 8. “They’re holding us here against our will, and with no charges. Where is Amnesty International?”
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Think of it as a trial run for where you're likely to spend eternity, Mr. Candy-Assed Correspondent.
"... Rove held up a copy of the magazine and made sinister flushing noises. The correspondent was treated for shock at the local hospital and released later in the day."
I hope that's true!! It's lovely!
...we're laughing our a$$$s off at them....
"Oh, the humanity of it all."
...this was a satire piece...but it would be lovely, wouldn't it??!!
Is this a joke by Arianna Sweet darling get up for air you making jack*** of yourself
MAN I got ping Daily Dosers on this LOL!
Yeah...it's satire...but the "boys on the bus" probably really ARE self-pitying...and we're loving it!!!
Of course GWB could have gone to Iraq and taken the white house press corps with him there.
What a vacation spot that would be.
I'm sure Dickie Durbin would compare it to Auschwitz.
...Auschwitz was a LABOR camp. These guys would have to actually WORK.
Texas in August: heaven on earth.
Though, to some, it might seem like hell...
and Hell is Texas in August, after being dipped in jalpeno juice, and rolled in salt.
Summer is Texas' way of telling Yankees to go home and don't come back. That's why I love it here.
why is yahoo news posting a blog article?
They've gotta have some sort of arrangement with Arianna...you know...like she used to have with her husband....
But, seriously...the lines are being blurred. I'm sure they just consider this a funny column and they'll take funny from any source. I don't see Yahoo! News as being up for any Peabodys any time soon....
Maybe the judge should pack up Judith Miller and sentence her to "Camp Crawford" for the next 30 days. I bet she would be singing like a bird in a week.
It's quite hot here in Texas these days.
My thoughts exactly.............as in the days of Moses..............40 years wandering in the desert corresponds with their 40 days scouting it out, yet rebelling against God.
YOu know what yeah have Judith Miller be send down to Crawford she be telling on who gave the info on CIA agent name LOL
GOOD IDEA
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