Posted on 09/04/2005 12:46:06 PM PDT by Williams
Just watched a CNN report that credited 5 NO police with helping to protect a landing strip for three days so evacuees could get out. Extended report NEVER mentioned the National Guard troops who could be seen in the background and who were conducting the evacuation. It was never mentioned that the helicopters, including the one that brought the police in and took them out at the end, were all a National Guard effort.
The 5 police all seemed like excellent, dedicated cops. No problem with that. But this massive evacuation was taking place for three days, and there is no way these few cops were the only protection. But the story was exclusively about the officers. The reporter made an extremely odd comment that these cops could have quit and gone home days ago. The media seems very adept at excusing all the NO cops who just quit at a time when quitting was the most dishonorable thing to do.
One of the police officers made an interesting comment, he said their biggest problem was keeping the men back who tried to rush the helicopters ahead of the women and children. He said "there are a lot of coward men out there."
CNN plainly is trying to perpetuate the myth that only the NO police are the heroes, and they are hiding the massive federal effort as much as possible. It was obvious that in covering 5 cops who protected an unidentified "landing strip" they avoided showing the ID on the helicopters, they never used the words "National Guard" and they didn't interview a single Guardsman - even to ask them about the cops being featured in the story.
I could see these men on the Titanic. "Oh, yeah, honey, er could I borrow one of your .. er .. wigs".
Odd becasue NOPD seems to done pretty poorly.
"Some officers told their superiors they were leaving, police officials said. Others worked for a while and then stopped showing up. Still others, for reasons not always clear, never made it in after the storm."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476872/posts
"They were doing everything to get out of New Orleans," he said. "They didn't have the resources to do the job, or a plan, so they left."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476872/posts
Unrelated comment, but one of the responders (could have been someone from the NOPD) said the men were their biggest problem.
They wouldn't let the officers evacuate the women and children, but ran to the helicopters ahead of everyone. The cops had to pull them off.
It's a proactive defense on the part of CNN. They're trying to get ahead of the story about the dismal performance of the NO police prevalant on the internet before it breaks strong in the MSM (if it ever does). CNN reads FR and conservative blogs and they use the info to shortstop damaging info about the corruption and incompetence of the left.
This puff piece was propaganda. It's that simple.
Please watch your language. I just found the coverage on Fox and CNN to be AWFUL.
What, do you work for CNN or something? LOL.
I would like to see a group picture of the staff at CNN these days
"Coloring the News"....they epitomize it
What did they say about the 1000 who have left the NO PD since this storm started?
They actually caught a guy with a wig and a baby trying to get on one of those buses!
watching CNN yesterday and today was just unreal. their presentation is as if nothing has happened - no one has been rescued, no one has been evacuated.
FNC has been OK, they at least cover the postive things that have been taking place.
I think 800 officers have left...
Reports last night said only 500 were left.
A man who works in N.O. for the same company as my husband, stayed until the last minute to make sure that things were secured as best possible. He had stashed his truck in a safe location and when the final call came to leave, he went to his truck, and found a police officer in the midst of stealing it. He was STEALING it, not comandeering it for police use. The man stopped the theft.
No I DO NOT WORK FOR CNN!
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