Campbell Brown Breaks Down Over Death Of Haitian Child
Sadly, this little girl's story is one of tens of thousands in Haiti right now, each one heartbreaking and grossly unfair:
An 11-year-old girl rescued from the rubble of her home Thursday in an hours-long effort has died, her family said Friday.
The girl -- one of scores trapped beneath buildings that collapsed in Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude quake -- was rushed to a first aid station Thursday evening where doctors told her family they were not equipped to deal with her injuries. Her right leg had been pinned by a large piece of metal for two days.
She died before her relatives could drive her to a more sophisticated hospital outside Port-au-Prince.
Her last words, her uncle said, were, "Mother, don't let me die." She was buried Friday in her mother's hometown, her uncle said.
If only more talking heads in this country could move past their own limited binary thought of politics to recognize that there is no Left/Right, no Democratic/Rebublican paradigm to this story. There is only humanity and more importantly, human suffering, to which we, as fellow humans, are obligated to respond. You can donate to Haitian Relief via Red Cross or Doctors Without Borders.
I have donated to Doctors Without Borders.
The situation is deserving of more which I will do as I am able.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
borders---The ratio is much better than the Red Cross! We need more people-MSM- out of the area and more workers in....The nets are flooding the airwaves and the airport with chartered jets and cameras in town!
Credit Card Companies taking a Hit off Haiti...As the tragedy in Haiti unfolds, Americans are generously donating millions of dollars to aid organizations.
But when Americans donate to charity with their credit cards, the credit card companies get rich. In some cases they keep 3% of the donation as a "transaction fee," even though that's far more than it costs them to process the donation.
It's outrageous and wrong—and it needs to stop.
Credit Card Companies get rich off Tragedy? They realy take up to 3% on donations. I find this hard to believe, but if true it's despicable.
I was about to donate through a solicitation made to me by my Discover Card. I will check out what they charge for this, I am optimistic that I'll find they charge nothing or very little. We'll see.
"But when Americans donate to charity with their credit cards, the credit card companies get rich."
Actually, as of January 15th, the big four - Visa, AmerEx, MasterCard, and Discover - waived their 3% transaction fees with regard to donations made for Haitian relief from January 12 through the end of February. The cards vary with respect to which charitable donations are covered through this waiver.
VISA: 11 charities
MASTERCARD: 5 charities
AMERICAN EXPRESS: 65 USAID-apprvd charities + Doctors w/o Borders
DISCOVERY CARD: only Red Cross contributions
Check the online sites of your credit card to find exactly what charities you can contribute to (before March) without 3% being skimmed off the top.
But just let's donate.
I wonder if either dumbasses Rush or the so called Reverend Pat will mock Campbells appearance? I wouldn't put it past either of these heartless SOB's.
... make light of it. If not Limbaugh or Beck, then Hannity, Doocy, Kilmeade, Carlson, Ingraham or any of the FOX pig sty.
They've already crossed the line, so there's no reason to dial it back.
Ingraham is one of the WORST...
Two weeks ago she was BITCHING about using public money to pay for medications to treat bi-polar symptoms of a certain teenager in the news. She went on to describe how these medications caused him to gain weight (which is very common... I've witnessed this among my Special Ed. students here in Austin) THEN she went into a total tirade on government support for this "FAT KID" and his over-eating and his waddling to class and how his parents should get better jobs to support their fat kid's eating habits. She was disgusting. No humanity there.
No problem. They still dis CNN for allegedly being a part of the SCLM and it's not like they'd have any ethical scruples about failure to disclose the reality of Brown's husband's resume.
They don't like being confused with the facts any more than their dimwitted disciples do.
Overall the American people are fair and decent. I hope that this ongoing heartwrenching tragedy in Haiti is a turning point for the hate speech of Robertson and that fat junkie.
They are darksided and evil.
... the left feels compassion without question. The right feels fear without question.
Campbell ain't no leftist ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mloB8XYJFTE&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WUbC_RcJGI
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
It's refreshing to see Brown overcome with emotion over the death of this Haitian girl. Now she can go home, kiss her own kids and give some thought to the Iraqi kids her husband helped kill or maim for nothing.
... and makes you no better than Limbaugh.
/concern troll
How so, little fella? Rush and his ilk have to lie. What I said was perfectly true, done and dusted.
... Brown's emotions were insincere and hypocritical due to the actions of her husband.
That's EXACTLY like Limbaugh, who does not recognize compassion, but must attribute it and ascribe it to the Great Obama Conspiracy.
Coop, that was nasty and uncalled for. You don't know what she thinks. Her husband's actions and her emotions have nothing to do with each other.
Again, just when did I say they did? Again, the legitimacy of her tears doesn't alter the illegitimacy of her husband's actions. Just which part of that is giving you trouble?
The irony of her actions in this situation in contrast to her husband's in his is as inescapable as it is undeniable.
If you find that harsh, so be it. That doesn't make it any less so.
Lastly, don't go confusing your reaction with my intentions.
Fair enough?
I did, eh? No, that's what you inferred. To the contrary, I don't doubt the sincerity of Brown's emotions any more than I doubt the reality of her husband's actions.
Brown is married to former Bush Iraq mouthpiece Dan Senor. He was there virtually from day one. He participated in the facilitation of a lie that unnecessarily spilled a lot of Iraqi and American blood. That's historical fact. There's nothing conspiratorial about it.
I don't doubt the sincerity of her emotion here, but I cannot forget her role in the Iraq war... she helped cause an equivalent disaster, but one that was completely preventable.
At least she's shedding tears rather than casting stones from inside a glass house like you.
I am, eh? In what way are they mutually exclusive?
Again, I don't dispute the legitimacy of her tears any more than I dispute the illegitimacy of her husband's actions. Historical fact is historical fact.
....okay?
'We, the People'............rimshot................hahahahahaha!
All you people attacking Coop are full of crap - he did not call anyone insincere in their emotions, he called out the hypocracy and pointed to this as a wake-up call to be not only compassionate but to take action based on that compassion.
This is why Liberals lose out to the cut-throate Republicans - too inert to fight fire with fire. Wake the up and recognize that the enemy is ruthless and without compassion, low in intelligence and values ...and act accordingly.
For example, you don't negotiate with somebody who wants to destroy you - You DEMAND national healthcare for the good of all (including them)and ignore them as the mentally ill criminals they are. Then negotiate from strength, not from weakness and compromise with corporate interests right from the start (the Obama method).
Will we ever learn?
How's that for being too inert, asshole!
'We, the People'............rimshot................hahahahahaha!
hypocrisy finally catches up with them, they bawl. True dat
What are we, teabaggers, for fook sake!
Again, I don't dispute the legitimacy of her tears here any more than I dispute the illegitimacy of her husband's actions.
They're not mutually exclusive. Just which part of that is giving people trouble?
That they don't realize that it is mutually exclusive.
Her husbands actions and her reporting of it (Iraq) without question is the hypocrisy...IMO
I can't argue with you on Iraq but Haiti is another story.
Perhaps the defect which forced the recall of the 2003 model Campbell Brown has been remedied and is no longer an issue with the 2010 model.
when they should have been reporting Iraq in the same light as they did Haiti and shown this misery there too
Why not?
Sure. So do I, but we can only hold their feet to the fire in the present tense.
We can't alter 2001-2007. All we can do is stay on them, hold their feet to the fire now and never let 'em forget that we remember what they didn't do and how they didn't do it during that period of history and smack 'em if they get forgetful.
They're calicantzaros?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Your sarcasm may be warranted, but seems a bit inappropriate when we're discussing how tragic the death of THIS little girl was, in spite of her will to live. So much so, that even the newscaster was moved to tears. Many witnessed her miraculous rescue and many grieved when she died -- as if we knew her personally.
I can't wait for one of your sub-human cretins to say something negative here.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Is this where you say the Clintons are behind this whole thing and that they're doing it just to make Bush look bad for Katrina?
Bush doesn't need anyone's help to look bad.
to allow one woman to grieve for the loss of another womans child?
'We, the People'............rimshot................hahahahahaha!
I don't see the denial.
Hey asshole, people are dying and suffering pain and agony while you try to get political points. You're a dick Coop...and a very small one at that.
Make a contribution and then STFU!!!
I was getting weary of all of the snarking back and forth soiling the thread. I completely share LeftandLeft's sentiments.
Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!
'I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!' Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. 'The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. Oh, Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob, on my knees!'
He was so fluttered and so glowing with his good intentions, that his broken voice would scarcely answer to his call. He had been sobbing violently in his conflict with the Spirit, and his face was wet with tears...
...Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Way ahead of ya, schmuck. Gai tren zich! Evidently I'm still goin' too fast for ya, little fella. Let me slow it down and simplify it for ya.
Reality. History. Irony. Get somebody to 'splain it to ya, Lucy.
Beyond that, tell you troubles to Jesus, little fella. The Coop has gone ashore.
Who are you addressing and what sort of gibberish are you talking?
You are the one using simplistic arguments.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
and tragic.
The scope of death, destruction and sadness in Haiti is overwhelming and unimaginable.
pat robertson's saving a special place in Hell for this little girl.
Okay...hmmm...now who's his boss?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
She died because she made a pact with the devil 200 years ago. If that's how it works, then I can't wait for God to call this asshole home.
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
He has a legitimate point. How can you believe someones compassion when she marries such a piece of shit. It's like James Carvell. He may be brilliant at what he does but you have to question his sincerity when he's married to such a bitch. I could never be involved with a conservative no matter how good she is in bed. She could give tremendous head but...I'm with Coop on this one. It would be like being against every thing Bush is for but he's great to hang out with at a bar. I think that's Coop's point. You could hang out with Jeffry Dahmer because his sense of humor is second to none but he still kept bodies in his basement.
is intended to be a factual statement
you are trying to put waaaay too much into this and you are both wrong.
George Bush,James Carvill, Jeffrey Dahmer, The Clintons.....are you fucking kidding me!
It is one woman that feels grief at the death of a child....a fellow human that has lost her life.
I'm no bleeding heart but I know people in Haiti and some of these comments sound like they come strait out of the teh wingnut manual.
'We, the People'............rimshot................hahahahahaha!
How very sad. Campbell Brown shed her tears over a real tragedy. Glenn Beck sheds phony tears over made-up fantasies.
He sheds tears when his peas touch his mashed potatoes.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
It's apparently been decided that this should be about Dan Senor, instead of the tragedy of this child's death. Fine. I'm prompted to ask, then: which part of Senor's tenure w/ the Bush Admin helped kill or maim kids? He wasn't exactly at the center of policy on the war.
Really? And Eichmann didn't participate in the day-to-day operations of "special treatment" or "transport to the east" either. He just a facilitator of sorts who helped the trains run on time.
What's your point? How'd that defense work for him, sport?
Senor and the senseless, needless death of innocent children are synonymous. The fact that he was PR fella who was merely responsible for "information distribution" and "message discipline" doesn't get him off the hook any more than it did for Goebbels.
The fact that the bush/cheney didn't take it to that degree wasn't for lack of tryin'.
There's no lack of volume discount for war criminals. That goes for Senor, too.
Moreover, it's not an either/or situation. Senor and Brown are married. Just what part of irony continues to elude you?
Let me explain it to ya again. First of all, anyone who gives a damn about the suffering and death of innocent children really ought to wonder what the hell they're doing married to the lyin'-slime, bushleague likes of Dan Senor in the first place.
His resume is his resume. If stating the facts and acknowledging the irony of the situation given the parties involved here is someone's notion of "scoring cheap political points here", they're the one with the problem.
Granted, it's not as big a problem as being married to Dan Senor, but, nevertheless, they really ought to see somebody about that soon.
You just don't get it........
.....you just don't get it.
'We, the People'............rimshot................hahahahahaha!
This thread is about a number of things.
1st and foremost, the disaster and the injured and dying.
In events such as this, the above will always be 1st and foremost.
I read on msn that both the NFL and Sandra Bullock donated $1 million each. That's a great thing. Gotta luv Sandra Bullock.
The other issue is about Campbell Brown.
And her emotional breakdown (of sorts) on air.
Coop raised a good question up there.
Did she have the same emotional response to all the Iraqi's that were killed? All the innocent Iraqi's that were killed. The civilians.
Yes, it was annoying to see this thread get side tracked by going on about her husband. But Coop raised a valid point.
Maybe we should be reminded that her husband was involved in the previous WH admin during the build up and execution of the Iraq debacle.
Yes I thought her emotions were real. I wonder? What/how did she feel about all the dead Iraqi children that the US and it's allies killed. Were they just collateral damage to her? Maybe ( and I do mean maybe) she's sitting at home, appreciating her life and children, and thinking about all the Iraqi children. And the devastation the US and it's allies brought down on them. If she isn't. Maybe she should be.
I will say this tho, it's times like this that can make America a great country. All the aid the US can provide. And does, when the correct admin is in office. Get the wrong one and those folks would be screwed. I'll give ya a hint. misunderestimate.
The tragedy of this event will not be fully understood for months.
The media saturation will fade soon. But the injured and homeless will still be there. The only positive thing that can come from this is all the work for the Haitians.
Eventually they will have to rebuild. They will have tons of work just cleaning up that mess. Then they rebuild from the infrastructure up.
By the looks of it. They'll be busy there for around 10 years. I suspect they'll be upgrading their building codes in the near future.
I heard on the radio that the death toll may surpass 100k.
All the disease from the rotting corpses. All the starvation.
man o man. This won't last forever for Haiti. They're getting help as we speak. I hope they get more help on a much larger more spread out scale.
Because those folks certainly need it.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
I would argue that it's little different from shunning a whole family for the crime of one of them.
The human mind despite being so advance is far to capable of confusing itself. The carnage in Iraq could be blamed on Saddam, not us, but a natural disaster can happen to any of us. There's no place in the US that I know of that is entirely safe from such things.
And we don't know her mind. Perhaps her tears were for the little girl as well as self-realization.
Now if her husband broke down in tears in on camera on the issue I'd give a Bronx cheer.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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