Shep Smith On Katrina

3:45 pm EST August 24th, 2006 | Politics | 13 Comments

One of the few Foxheads who isn’t a completely mindless Bushbot happens to also tell the truth. Surprising? Not really.

TVGuide.com: You were pretty emotional about this story when you were down there covering it a year ago.
Smith: I felt extremely confused. It was the first time I had ever been in a situation where I’m on the ground and I’m hearing from people on every single level that things are getting better, and they weren’t. That was the frustration — there were untruths being told. I’m not saying people were lying; I think some of them may have been, and I know at the very minimum they were misinformed. Things were getting worse, not better. That was my frustration. To this day I get e-mails from people saying, “You lost it down there!” Well, I didn’t lose it. Those in control lost it. And you can only say it so many times — what you’re hearing is not true.

Emphasis mine.

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13 Responses to “Shep Smith On Katrina”

  1. SaveFarris says:
    August 24, 2006 at 4:19 pm

    I’m sure it didn’t help matters that what Shep (and Anderson & Brian & Soledad & …) were saying on the air wasn’t true either.

  2. Oliver Willis says:
    August 24, 2006 at 4:33 pm

    Well, except it was.

  3. Cyrus The Virus says:
    August 24, 2006 at 4:57 pm

    Did you read the whole article, or just what Brock copied and pasted for you?

    Shep seems to believe that the response was totally unacceptable on all levels, and doesn’t single out any particular branch of government.

    That’s what most people with brains believe. the problem starts with people like you who feel that anytime someone says all three branches of gov’t are to blame, they have to end it by saying “..but Bush fucked up the most”.

  4. midderpidge says:
    August 25, 2006 at 12:21 am

    No Cyrus, Bush fucked up on the national level, that affects everyone. Furthermore, Bush people claim Bush is the National Security guy. He fucked up in the NAtional Security arena there. I doubt the local and state people based their campaigns on security. So BOO HOO. Also, the federal government siphoned much of the state’s national guard resources and personnel traditionally used for hurricane and flood relief away to Iraq.

  5. SaveFarris says:
    August 25, 2006 at 9:01 am

    Well, except it was.

    10,000 dead?
    Toxic Soup?
    Rape-a-pa-looza in the Superdome?
    Shooting down helicopters?

    All true, eh?

  6. Duros62 says:
    August 25, 2006 at 11:39 am

    10,000 dead? No, but a lot.
    Toxic soup? Yes.
    Rape-a-pa-looza? (a horrible thing to say, farris) Who really knows?
    Shooting down helicopters? No, shooting AT helicopters, yes.

    I can’t understand why you feel the need to explain,defend and justify here, farris. It seems you have zero empathy or sympathy for anything that happened there, or for what has happened since. Are you that soulless that you can’t feel anything for the thousands of people affected simply because they say bad things about your president?
    Be honest, man. It’s okay to feel. Terrible tragedy, horrific devastation. Everybody fucked up (there, I said it).

  7. SaveFarris says:
    August 25, 2006 at 11:54 am

    Probably because it happened less than 60 miles from my house, so I’m acutely aware of what ACTUALLY happened.

  8. Duros62 says:
    August 25, 2006 at 2:32 pm

    So proximity equals knowledge of events? Because you were 60 miles from the Superdome you know what ACTUALLY happened inside? Neat.

  9. factcheck says:
    August 25, 2006 at 4:43 pm

    Of course one must remember that for farris the people IN New Orleans are just greedy people that purposely drowned themselves so that they could critisize his president, and despite their presence INSIDE New Orleans, they know nothing of what REALLY happened.

  10. SaveFarris says:
    August 26, 2006 at 8:48 am

    … OR … maybe my proximity to the situation means my life is affected on a daily basis and so I have a vested interest in keeping informed. It’s why Oliver knows more about the upcoming MD Senate election: he’s actually there!

    As for factcheck, “forest for the trees” my friend.

  11. Nimrod Gently says:
    August 26, 2006 at 5:07 pm

    Rape-a-palooza! Lol! It’s funny because IT’S A HORRIFIC TRAGEDY.

  12. factcheck says:
    August 26, 2006 at 7:05 pm

    “. OR … maybe my proximity to the situation means my life is affected on a daily basis and so I have a vested interest in keeping informed.”

    So when Iraqis say conditions were better under Saddam, you believe them, right? After all, their proximity means they are affected on a daily basis!

  13. Nimrod Gently says:
    August 26, 2006 at 8:28 pm

    60 miles is not particularly close.