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CNN's Soledad O'Brien gets the verbal smackdown from a NOLA resident
Ramblings' Journal ^ | 9.8.05

Posted on 09/08/2005 1:00:32 PM PDT by mhking

Edited on 09/08/2005 1:41:39 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

CNN's Soledad O'Brien given the verbal smackdown by NOLA resident

American Morning co-host Soledad O'Brien has had this holier-than-thou on-air attitude throughout the entire crisis following Hurricane Katrina. The past few mornings, she has been broadcasting from New Orleans to show the magnitude of the disaster.

Well...this morning, a New Orleans resident whose house is high and dry came on the CNN morning program and...let's just say that Soledad got the smackdown.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: cnn; katrina; kayak
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To: mhking
You may commence touching, Mrs. O'Brien.


21 posted on 09/08/2005 1:14:03 PM PDT by andyk (Go Matt Kenseth!)
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To: mhking

"They never offered them transportation out of the city."

And then the CNN liberal hack switched the subject to asking her about showers?

How obvious.


22 posted on 09/08/2005 1:15:06 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: Rummyfan

Don't fool with THIS lady. Karen for mayor!


23 posted on 09/08/2005 1:15:09 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: mhking

DON'T DRINK THE COFFEE!!!! Unless the water has been boiled first.


24 posted on 09/08/2005 1:16:31 PM PDT by rintense
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To: mhking
LABARRE: They did not offer these people a way out to begin with. They offered them a ride to Superdome. They never offered them transportation out of the city.

The best line out of the whole interview. She wasn't referring to FEMA, either.

25 posted on 09/08/2005 1:17:07 PM PDT by zipper (Freedom Isn't Free)
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To: mhking

Soledad - nothing more than a Katie Couric clone.


26 posted on 09/08/2005 1:17:32 PM PDT by Humvee (Beliefs are more powerful than facts - Paulus Atreides)
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To: mhking

I've seen several reporters make the "mistake" of getting hold of a good old-fashioned Southerner. Usually, they let go pretty quickly.


And, by the way, I will continue to ignore what little journalistic talents O'Brien has by concentrating all of my attention on her chest.


27 posted on 09/08/2005 1:17:59 PM PDT by itzmygun ( www.donaldlancow.com)
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To: fanfan

ping


28 posted on 09/08/2005 1:18:39 PM PDT by snidely whiplash III
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To: mhking
That's gonna leave a mark...

Beautiful catch. WHAP on Soledad.

29 posted on 09/08/2005 1:22:44 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: roses of sharon
LABARRE: They did not offer these people a way out to begin with. They offered them a ride to Superdome. They never offered them transportation out of the city.

S. O'BRIEN: Do you have a working shower?

Exactly. How astute of Soledad to observe that LaBarre was not going to conform to the official view of CNN that the whole thing is Bush's/FEMA's fault-- and quickly abandon the obvious line of newsworthy questions that Labarre's remark invited.

30 posted on 09/08/2005 1:23:19 PM PDT by zipper (Freedom Isn't Free)
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To: andyk
You may commence touching, Mrs. O'Brien.

LOL My thoughts exactly!
31 posted on 09/08/2005 1:23:28 PM PDT by RetroSexual
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To: mhking
Thanks for posting. . .as for . . .

LABARRE: Don't touch me. . . .what did THAT mean. Someone overly anxious to move LaBarre from camera range or what?

32 posted on 09/08/2005 1:24:45 PM PDT by cricket (.Just say NO U.N.)
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To: mhking
Soledad's presence in New Orleans, over a week after Katrina hit, is just so damn phony. She's an anchor, stuck to the studio. It's so obvious that she and her bosses thought she should go there to prove she's a big-time journalist so later on they can use the footage of her being there in future CNN promotions. "Look at me, I went to New Orleans ..."

So transparent. Gag.

33 posted on 09/08/2005 1:26:21 PM PDT by JellyJam (Headline of the year: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
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To: mhking

amazing..... maybe Katie, er I mean Soledad, learned something from the smack-down..... but I doubt it.

fwiw, I knew Soledad O'Brien more than 15 years ago when she was an undergrad.... never thought much of her intellect or that she would amount to much.... imagine my shock when she started showing up on CNN.... but then I guess we can say it doesn't take any kind of intellect to make it with CNN (in fact, intelligence would be a great hindrance) and we can also say she hasn't amounted to much..... :^)


34 posted on 09/08/2005 1:27:54 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: Americanwolf
is that the CNN Transcript?

Yep (scroll down just past halfway for the relevant segment).

35 posted on 09/08/2005 1:28:07 PM PDT by steveegg ($3.00 a gallon is the price you pay for ANWR! Start drilling or stop whining! - HT Falcon4.0)
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To: mhking
LABARRE: OK. I'll fix you a cup of coffee.

Do us all a favor, Delia, and make CNN's coffee with floodwater.

36 posted on 09/08/2005 1:28:51 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: pepperhead
LABARRE: We have plenty. We stocked up, you know?
LOL

Wait, doesn't she mean, "We looted, of course. We had no choice--it was for survival"?

37 posted on 09/08/2005 1:29:29 PM PDT by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: itzmygun

How utterly crass of you....look at her eyes first, then act bashful and look down...that way, she won't know what you are looking at!!!! (I'm old and learned that many years ago, but I don't remember why I just thought of it!!)


38 posted on 09/08/2005 1:29:33 PM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: Volunteer

FYI


39 posted on 09/08/2005 1:29:38 PM PDT by Nov3 ("This is the best election night in history." --DNC chair Terry McAuliffe Nov. 2,2004 8p.m.)
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To: zipper

Typical of lib reporters to quickly change the subject when any truly significant comes up.... why would Katie, er Soledad, want to pursue the obvious line of mendacious incompetence by city and state officials when it would only prove embarrassing to the Demagogic Party???


40 posted on 09/08/2005 1:30:06 PM PDT by Enchante
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