Read the whole thing - h/t to Richard and Dean Esmay, as well as two readers - one was Jeanne.
Such shoddy professionalism might be expected from one team or another at some of the more boring Super Bowls. But you would think that when certain journalists get their shot at the big time, they might have brought along a better game.
We don't normally cover this type of thing, but seeing it first hand air live on Hannity & Colmes Sept 2nd, we felt compelled to post this disturbing emotional plea on behalf of these two brave reporters.
Geraldo Rivera and Shepard "Shep" Smith are in the front lines of the New Orleans Super-dome refugee camps, trying to beg the US Government to release the tens of thousands of refugees from hurricane Katrina. Mr Smiths piece mentioned he's seen people with their throats slashed, babies stuffed in coolers, and worse human atrocities.
Or maybe they were just playing the ratings game, after all.
After five days managing near-riots, medical horrors and unspeakable living conditions inside the Superdome, Louisiana National Guard Col. Thomas Beron prepared to hand over the dead to representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Following days of internationally reported killings, rapes and gang violence inside the Dome, the doctor from FEMA - Beron doesn't remember his name - came prepared for a grisly scene: He brought a refrigerated 18-wheeler and three doctors to process bodies.
"I've got a report of 200 bodies in the Dome," Beron recalls the doctor saying.
The real total was six, Beron said. Of those, four died of natural causes, one overdosed and another jumped to his death in an apparent suicide, said Beron