Then Hall segues to NBC's Pentagon correspondent Jim Mikalewski describing a "spectacular" blast in Afghanistan.
The word spectaculer connotes something positively thrilling. A sensational event. I suggest MSNBC and other journalists who employ "spectacular" in conjunction with events like terrorist bombings, natural disasters,fatal house fires, whatever, confine their babble to 4th of July fireworks.
Labadee is Royal Caribbean's resort. Lost in the babble: Royal Caribbean's $1 mil donation to help stricken Haitians; the cargo hold full of supplies; and the number of Haitians the resort employs.
MSNBC and other TV networks should review the decades of abject poverty, neglect, abuse, assassinations, corruption, voodoo terror foisted on the Haitians by their own government with the tacit approval of the rest of the civilized world.
Thirty-two years ago I went on a Caribbean cruise. The Holland American ship anchored off Haiti and ferried in unsuspecting passengers. We were accosted almost immediately after setting foot on the Port-au-Prince dock by vulture Haitians trolling for money, jewelry, anything. It was so bad (purposely) that we had to hire what amounted to a local kid bouncer to fend off the badgering pick-pocketing moving gnats. Seriously. No wonder Royal Caribbean built a resort miles away from the swarm of humanity.
Back on the ship, the undaunted Haitians paddled in rickety boats to hawk their monkey pod carvings and other junk while President-For-Life Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier dwelled in obscene royal family luxury with his Paris designer addict wife Michele until he was forced to flee in 1986. Nothing's really changed since.
Somebody please tell me why it took this tragedy to spark worldwide outrage and action...
"black anchoress"? keep it classy, why don't you.
ReplyDeleteMika is white and she just as stupid. they all stupid at MSNBC. it don't matter what color or sex. David Schuster he stupid. Ed, he big time stupid and ugly too. try Fox where the white anchoresses are stupid but easier to look at.
ReplyDeleteI returned from a cruise to the Caribbean on Sunday. if you want to be accosted by the locals as in Haiti try St. Vincent, Grenada, St. Lucia and Nassau. Or go to the Mediterranean and fend of the Turks and Greeks. Haiti isn't a whole lot different than other countries that feast on tourists.
ReplyDeleteOn my first cruise (okay..it was Carnival so what's to be expected?) we were accosted on Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, and St. Maarten. We didn't dare get off the ship at Hispaniola, and this was nearly 20 years ago.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Mediterranean, same thing.
The big difference?
I don't remember the media tsunami, hue and cry or humanitarian/financial aid pouring into Italy or Turkey during the aftermath of their horrible, deadly earthquakes. And guess what--both of those countries are U.S. allies in volatile regions.
The Haitian relief effort is so blatantly political the appeals should come with anti-nausea medication. Hey, there's a tie-in with a pharmaceutical firm--it's not too late Obama...
If you want to see tourists accosted by local kids just visit any Mexican town on the U.S. border.
ReplyDeleteWhy did it take this tragedy to spark worldwide outrage and action?
ReplyDeleteBecause it comes with great video.
And don't worry--the action will only cover the quake, not the rest of the problems you noted. And the outrage will be gone by the Oscars.
saw a report todaythat said the United States has since 1992 sent 2.7 BILLION dollars in aid to Haiti.that is a hell of a lot of money that obviously went in somebodys pocket and down a rat hole. don't think the poor people of Haiti saw much of it.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I'm sorry, but WHY THE FUCK would an cruise ship stop in Haiti. What a fucking hell hole. I don't care if the resort is walled off. What a shitty, shitty place.
ReplyDeleteHeard that Hillary was working from the Clinton's multimillion $$ villa just across the line in the Dominican Republic. Maybe she and other of the wealthy could open those villas to some refugees?
ReplyDeleteI returned from a cruise to the Caribbean on Sunday. if you want to be accosted by the locals as in Haiti try St. Vincent, Grenada, St. Lucia and Nassau. Or go to the Mediterranean and fend of the Turks and Greeks. Haiti isn't a whole lot different than other countries that feast on tourists.
ReplyDelete"black anchoress"? keep it classy, why don't you.
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