Ellen DeGeneres and Hurricane Katrina
Ellen DeGeneres and Hurricane Katrina
#0Ellen DeGeneres and Hurricane Katrina
Posted: 8/31/05 at 12:05amI can't wait until her show starts up again on Sept 6th. She is from New Orleans and I just know that she is going to do something HUGE to help out using her show. Right now I feel kinda helpless.
#1re: Ellen DeGeneres and Hurricane Katrina
Posted: 8/31/05 at 12:11am
It's horrible, obviously. But, I disagree with the civic leaders who are saying "this was our tsunami".
No, sir.
You had several days of warnings that this was GOING TO HAPPEN.
"High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man" - Tears for Fears
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#2re: Ellen DeGeneres and Hurricane Katrina
Posted: 8/31/05 at 12:18am
Which is why they were able to evacuate more people than ever before.
The ONLY thing they mean by their statement is that it's the only thing they can compare it to. Taking the energy to hold them responsible for hyperbole under these conditions is more reprehensible than that.
#3re: Ellen DeGeneres and Hurricane Katrina
Posted: 8/31/05 at 12:23am
hy·per·bo·le
NOUN:
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
My point, exactly DGrant.
"High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man" - Tears for Fears
#4re: Ellen DeGeneres and Hurricane Katrina
Posted: 8/31/05 at 9:36am
At this point I'm not even sure if it is hyperbole. Sadly the devastation of Katrina is much worse then we all thought after the storm passed on Monday. Entire streches of the Gulf Coast are destroyed. Communities (not to mention New Orleans) completely wiped off the map. The loss of life is going to be less because of the advance warning, but the sad truth is we haven't even begun to see how high the death toll is going to rise. This is shaping up to be the worst natural disaster in US history.
What's worse is that the people who seem to suffering the brunt of all this are the effected area's poor. Those who could not afford to leave or had nowhere to go or no way to get there. One of the most devastating photos I've seen is of a woman in New Orleans who lost her husband because he ran out of oxygen before they got rescued. Heartbreaking....
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#5re: Ellen DeGeneres and Hurricane Katrina
Posted: 8/31/05 at 10:23am
Perhaps you'd feel differently if it was your family or friends floating down your street face down.
I am so sick of people and their so-called "political correctness" in screaming and whining about that comment.
Hamlet's father.
#7re: Ellen DeGeneres and Hurricane Katrina
Posted: 8/31/05 at 10:34am
MJR--you know I love you--and I spar with DGrant and CKeaton often--but this time I'm with them completely. This is not the time to criticize the words of those involved with the rescue. I agre with Erik that the statement is not even really hyperbole, which is, by definition, deliberate. There is a difference between saying something for effect and saying something in the passion of the moment.
And thank you RobbO for inserting the Red Cross link here and elsewhere. If you haven't given, give. It's all we can do.
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