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Robert Pryor| 1.15.10 @ 10:11AM
I will always support Fox News against the whiny left, but I really think Sean Hannity is a douchebag.
bluecollarbytes| 1.15.10 @ 10:27AM
Haven't kept up on Haiti through TV, but I notice FoxNews' Bill Hemmer this morning "reporting" from the airport.
As soon as he makes appropriate wardrobe selections, I expect Jerry Rivers to report on himself., His feelings, His discontent with human suffering., His crucial role in 'making a difference on the ground'.
But then, we're all still under the serious threat of Obamanation, and Foxnews would be as derelict as all other news cable outlets if they stopped covering THAT in order to put out Haiti 24/7.
Brenda| 1.15.10 @ 11:23AM
I am not concerned with Haiti as much as the POTUS is. I was more concerned with FT HOOD than the POTUS was. The families LEFT after a MURDERING RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORIST gunned down soldiers.
Haiti gets millions if not billions annually to build up their infrastructure, feed the hungry, and make CHANGES. So why are the buildings still soft cement? Why are the people so desolate and malnurished? WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?? Oh wait-- drug lords. I am not saying even ONE Haitian deserves this horrible situation. But the HAITIAN GOVERNMENT should have been there ASAP for the PEOPLE.
Liberal Reader| 1.15.10 @ 12:02PM
Brenda --
Ft. Hood was an awful tragedy. I'm not sure why you think your compassion is so little you have to choose between what happened there and a natural disaster that has affected millions of human beings and may have killed as many as one hundred thousand. Perhaps you should rethink your values. You sound like a sarcastic, angry, stupid person. Don't you want something more for yourself? By the way, clearly you know nothing of Haiti or its history.
SoCon| 1.15.10 @ 9:42PM
You're such a nitwitted, knee-jerk liberal.
Brenda's right: The earthquake wouldn't have killed so many Haitians if the billions of dollars we've given them over the years had been used to build decent homes and infra-structure instead of lining the pockets of corrupt, thieving despots.
She DIDN'T say the Haitians deserved this disaster; she was just frustrated that prodigious amounts of American aid have not made their lives easier.
Why does stating the obvious make Brenda an 'angry, stupid person'?
It's your stupid, morally bankrupt liberalism that causes so much human suffering. You and your ilk are a pox on humanity.
A-Hole.
AllenG| 1.15.10 @ 11:33AM
I quit watching Fox for Haiti coverage (blogs and websites are better anyway) when they mentioned in a report (paraphrasing) "The earthquake damaged poor and affluent buildings alike."
That statement made me so mad! What, the earthquake could have just damaged the dwellings of the poor, or only the palaces of the rich, but it chose to be egalitarian and destroy them both? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? This is NOT about affluence and poverty, it's about an entire city (and much of a nation) knocked down to its foundations and needing our help.
Liberal Reader| 1.15.10 @ 11:59AM
Allen --
Sounds like you missed the point. People expect disasters will affect the poor more terribly than the wealthy. In Haiti, the destruction is widespread. What little government exists is falling apart, making relief efforts very difficult. (Perhaps you should stick with watching some more news stories.)
Liberal Reader| 1.15.10 @ 11:56AM
The coverage has been "scant," according to this story, not "lousy." In other words, Fox just isn't devoting as much time as CNN.
This is their right. However, it's something to think about when you're deciding which news organization to watch.
Remember: news is NOT supposed to be entertaining. If you enjoy getting all riled up watching Beck or Malkin, that's fine. But you need to supplement that nonsense with hard news elsewhere.
I don't recommend CNN anymore, although I once would have. On television, the only choice is Lehrer's News Hour. Radio has some options. Then read the Times and the Journal.
SoCon| 1.15.10 @ 9:46PM
Go to hell, you insufferable b@stard.
james wilson| 1.15.10 @ 12:22PM
Haiti has been on the same closed tape loop for two hundred years, unchanged and unchangable. You all cry yourselves a river until you can move onto the next thing.
Becky| 1.15.10 @ 12:51PM
James is onto something. An even sadder story is the despotic history of this country and the perpetual degredation of its population by its leaders. After the clean up of this disaster is done, what next? Will CNN send Andersen Cooper there to report on the man made disaster their government is?
Liberal Reader| 1.16.10 @ 9:57AM
Truly the outpouring of Christian compassion for the people of Haiti by the good decent conservative Americans here at the American Spectator is humbling and awe inspiring.
It's like walking into a warm, green room full of rattle snakes and wasps. If this is how decent God fearing Americans respond to human suffering, give me atheist Marxism any day.
SoCon| 1.16.10 @ 1:30PM
You're full of crap. As usual. Conservatives actually DO something to help the suffering rather than just running our mouths and flapping our lips like liberal morons such as you. Christians are the ones who truly know how to love, and we don't need Big Marxist Government to do the hard work FOR us.
Yeah, we can see what the marxist atheists in China, Russia, Cuba and Venezuela are doing for the poor Haitians--almost nothing! Slimy marxist troll, go back under your rock.
Bill Berry| 1.19.10 @ 6:18AM
Does not what has happened in Haiti define compassionate conservatism and is who and what we are whether extreme liberalism, liberal, moderate, conservative and libertarian; is it not our humanity which is how we define ourselves as Americans? I live in Alabama and what scares me to death is when the very people who go to church on Wednesday and again on Saturday/Sunday in the same breath say, "There just a bunch of niggers and niggers are monkeys; what's 250,000 less of them? It dares us to ask the question what if New Orleans was more whiter would the help have come sooner? Over and over and over there is a common theme; "Government is bad." But what does it say to we as citizens of the United States if we absolve ourselves of our Christian responsibilities and more importantly not just of our Christian responsibilities, our responsibility to all faiths and denominations. We as a country; together have to help our brethren to our south. Like Louisiana/Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina; like New York City after the Twin Towers fell to a terrorist attack; this is what we do and do well. The world looks to us and we have to do this. Our responsibilities are not simply drawn between coast lines and state lines or the color of the skin and their lines.