Oprah on Hurricane Katrina

[Jimmcf]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 5:59pm

For me, it put more of a human face of the suffering than any of the news reports. And I started crying like a baby with Nate and the dog, Raffiki...I could not imagine leaving my dog either. I made her give me a hug and kiss through my tears.

[Em-LEE]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 7:53pm

I started crying with Nate and the dog, Raffiki, too. Oprah sometimes bugs me, but I thought she had a great show today. I was also shocked when she went inside the Superdome. I knew it was bad, but I didn't know it was that bad. I ahve NO idea how those people surivived in there for 5 days with the lights out.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 7:58pm

Wait, was it Nate Berkus's dog? Why did he go there? Can you give a brief overview, I wanted to watch but I had to go to class.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 8:02pm

I wasn't aware Oprah's new season had begun. Now she should devote a week to race relations in the United States of America.

And not just because she was snubbed by Hermes in Paris.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 8:06pm

No...it wasn't Nate's dog.
Survivors who were picked up from the flood waters were deposited on an interstate and left there...some for days. Some survivors had managed to put their dogs on rafts and save them. When they were finally ready to take them from the interstate...they were told "sorry...no dogs" You can imagine the devastating effect this would have on someone who just lost everything. Nate managed to arrange housing for some dogs until their owners were able to pick them up...I assume others were just left there to die.
Overall Oprah's show was shattering. People, still alive, brought to the morgue to die there. I couldn't believe it. Living people...brought to the morgue to die. In the United States of America. The after effects of a natural disaster we had days notice was coming. Heads need to roll.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 8:12pm

Oh, that's horrible! Normally, I hate media overkill, but I'm so glad that there are so many people showing everyone in America the terrible stuff like this. Most Americans would believe that we value human (and even canine) life more than this, but apparently that funding was cut as well.

I was wondering if it was Nate's dog because I remember that he was in Thailand during the tsunami and his friend died, so I was just thinking how horrible it would be to have both incidents hurt the same person.

[cudramacat]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 10:42pm

I watched all but the last fifteen minutes of this show b/c I had to be somewhere but I thought it was an amazing show. I cried when they started showing to dogs. I think that everything happening right now is tragic but I have a soft spot for pets. Anyway, I won't be able to watch tomorrow b/c of my class schedule so ya'll please fill me in. Honestly, if I watch too much more, I'm just going to be so depressed anyway. sigh....God bless all those people and pets!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 9/6/05 at 11:03pm

it was a really good show.

[gretchenrose]

Posted: 9/7/05 at 12:22am

The part with Rafiki and Nate was when I started crying too! I also brgan crying AGAIN when Faith Hill sang "Amazing Grace: and everyone at the shelter joined in with her...

[cudramacat]

Posted: 9/7/05 at 7:40am

See, I missed that part of the show, but I bet I would have started crying at "Amazing Grace" as well!

[Auggie27]

Posted: 9/7/05 at 8:12am

What about Ellen's show on the storm? I gather it was a specail pre-season episode, on Labor Day. Yesterday she started off and mentioned the hurricane, but then went on to say "a lot of people need a break from all the coverage, so we're gonna laugh for an hour." She's right, of course, but not having seen her more impassioned take on the subj (assuming that was the tone of her special), I thought it a bit glib and business as usual. Please, Ellen fans, don't start screaming about how she has a right to entertain us. It's just that New Orleans is Ellen's home town, and maybe I expected more of her season opener.

[KelRel]

Posted: 9/7/05 at 8:13am

I had to work and I completely missed it. I don't think I could have taken it. Its getting so awful to see and hear these stories.

[JustABernieFan]

Posted: 9/7/05 at 10:55pm

I was touched by the animal stories as well. I have a dog myself and I don't ever want to be in that situation.

But, PLEASE let's not forget, people are humans; dogs are animals. Animals can manage on their own.

How about hearing those 5, 7, 9 year olds getting raped?????
*cries*

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 9/9/05 at 11:07am

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-tribtv,0,3694270.htmlstory

Article that I really liked that includes Oprah. Especially the second part of it. Like DGrant said before, it is good to see humanity in journalism again.