Campbell Brown Breaks Down Over Death Of Haitian Child

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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Campbell Brown Breaks Down Over Death Of Haitian Child
By Nicole Belle Saturday Jan 16, 2010 12:00pm

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/campbell-brown-breaks-down-over-death

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.

[Faygo Kid]

1. Very moving. And Rush lights another cigar.

Tragic story. Anyone with the least modicum of humanity has got to be moved by such stories.

Not the walking pilodinal cyst.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. I had a similar thought...I can't even pretend to understand that mindset.

I acknowledge the broad conservative concept of not helping in situations like this...and acknowledging the existence of the concept has nothing to do with "understanding it" or "agreeing with it."

Conservatives simply look at a situation like this and figure "not my dance."

George W. Bush probably figured the "fellers back at the office" like "Brownie" could handle that Katrina thing, and there was no need for him to get involved.

We've seen it a hundred times if we've seen it once.

But the situation in Haiti...just like Katrina...is an equal opportunity disaster. It will destroy a building, a vehicle, an adult...or an 11-year-old girl whose last words are "Mother, don't let me die."

How do you witness that...how do you see the look in that girl's eyes as the rescuers free her...and then go on the radio to your audience (estimated to be anywhere from 14 to 30 million listeners according to a March 7, 2009 Washington Post article @ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/06/AR2009030603435.html) and say the things he's said?

He goes to a Hawaiian hospital with chest pains and the freepers hold candlelight vigils and prayer circles for him.

I don't get it...and to be honest with you, I don;t think I want to, either. I'd rather keep it at a distance, as the sick, inhuman, vile thing it is.

:patriot:

[Faygo Kid]

11. Well said.

Yeah, the Freepers hold prayer vigils for that vile, contemptible hater but he is incapable of feeling anything for a little girl who dies tragically. What a world we live in.

[butterfly77]

34. When he went to Hawaii..

that was a stunt,I believe he did it purposely,with his big,fat,sorry,ass..

[MicaelS]

35. It's very simple to understand.....

Conservatism / Libertarianism distills to a very simple mindset:

"As long as I have mine, then fuck everyone else."

[Mithreal]

38. You're On Your Own (yoyo) and sociopathic personality

with the addition of self reinforcing conservative world view.

I know amateur psychology but that is my take too.

[elocs]

41. Ironic. That was my same thought about that. I've used the YOYO tag for freepers for a long time

because that is one of the points that sums up their philosophy along with "as long as I have mine".

[MicaelS]

47. Interesting.....

First time I've heard the term "yoyo", but it sure is an apt description. Thanks.

[elocs]

48. In our DU Google search box I typed elocs+yoyo and got some DU posts I made from August.

YOYO seemed to me to encompass the Republican philosophy. And god forbid if anyone gets what the YOYOs believe they don't deserve, but it's great when they get it though.

[Mithreal]

54. I know I saw it first here and I may have you to thank. YOYO vs. WITT

Thank you very much. It has come in very handy when speaking to people I meet, not on DU, and it helps me promote We're In This Together (WITT). Whoever invented the idea, deserves great thanks.

:toast:

[elocs]

62. I'm sure someone had used it before to describe Republicans,

but I got it from a line in the Dire Straits' song "Money for Nothing": "Look at them yoyos, that's the way you do it, you play the guitar on the MTV..."

[bobbolink]

63. That's being voiced right here on DU, right now.

Its finally time to recognize its societal, and NOT limited to conservatives.

Show me one case where homeless people were actually thought of in the current dialogue going on at DU. (Besides what I've posted, that is...show me ONE where we have been thought of. Its only about those of you who are able to plan ahead and prepare.)

[Mithreal]

66. A lot of progressives hold some conservative views.

"Capture the Recession" "Tent City in Seattle, WA" taken by SeattleGirl's daughter.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6269898&mesg_id=6278263

I know it can feel like we are not caring.

I worked at a homeless shelter for a year and a half and when I push my legislators they seem oblivious and uncaring as well but I won't stop.

[bobbolink]

67. Thank you.... I did not see that thread, and have bookmarked it.

"when I push my legislators they seem oblivious and uncaring as well but I won't stop."

Thank you for not stoppping!

NOW... the reason why they won't hear you is because we don't have the support of people who say they care... like people right here on DU. We are forgotten, we are ignored, and the politicians KNOW there is no gain for them to fight for us. So, we lose, over and over and over.

Just look at the post today, reminding everyone that their survival is up to them. NOBODY IS ACTUALLY EVEN BEGINNING TO THINK OF THOSE WHO CANNOT "PREPARE"!!!! That is why I have been trying to get across for years now.... think outside your own "box" and realize that not everyone is like you. Until "progressives" learn to think about us at times like this, NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE.

Yet, all I and others get for our efforts at awareness is constant putdowns and sneers.

I appreciate your volunteerism... I'm sure you have helped people. HOWEVER, there are people who need to be constantly reminded that shelters are NOT the answer. CHARITY is not the answer--JUSTICE is the only thing that will truly change our lives for the better, and we aren't even CLOSE to getting that understanding to people who won't hear us.

When we have a president who doesn't mention us, when we have "progressive" talk show hosts who only talk about "the middle class", when we aren't even considered in "preparedness" talk.... what hope do we have?

Yet, I'm constantly berated for being "angry". Damned right!

We try to speak softly, and are ignored.

Just like the Civil Rights struggle. When being proper and dignified was ignored, the uproar started. Then, suddenly, the quiet and dignified people were accorded some respect. But that was only AFTER the uproar.

So, if people don't want my anger, don't want my uproar, then LISTEN.

[Autonomy]

2. Why are the people waiting for news crews

to dig their children out of the rubble?

[eleny]

6. Probably because they're too injured, too exhausted or too dead

I don't believe that they're "waiting" for news crews to do it.

[Autonomy]

7. The Haitians in the footage

did not seem too injured, too exhausted, or at all dead.

[eleny]

16. I don't trust your observation

I've had the tv tuned in to either CNN or MSNBC. And it doesn't appear that way to me from what I've seen.

[Autonomy]

21. They're right there. In the video.

LOL. Can you imagine a scenario where you would wait 68 hours for someone else to rescue your child, or your niece, or a neighbors child, while she layed under rubble for 68 hours?

Something does not make sense about this story. And, no, I am not the story.

[eleny]

24. Something doesn't make sense to you and you alone here

But take the last word if you wish.

[Autonomy]

26. It's not the first time I've been the only one to notice something

or at least mention it, and it won't be the last. Because you don't know me, you don't realize I can't be emotionally cajoled, or dissuaded by castigation. It's also not the first or last time for that, either.

[JAbuchan08]

37. Maybe you're the only one to notice because it's all in your head

Congratulations on your commitment to douchebaggery. I'm sure it will serve you well. I have a feeling that if you keep it up you'll find yourself on so many ignore lists that your essentially talking to yourself. Why look at that! I've only read a few of your posts and you're already on mine...

[Autonomy]

43. My ignore list is empty. Ignore lists are for cowards

who cannot stand to hear, or think about, what doesn't give them little goose pimples of excitement across their bodies. My cool rationality, douche baggery has some of you sentimental saps have been calling it, does not give you warm fuzzies, and it's meant not to.

[Mithreal]

55. .

I did have 3 or 4 people temporarily on ignore because despite my philosophy I could not stand them. However, I took them off after a few weeks and am very pleased to have done so. Two of them even said some really cool things that I would have missed, had to alter how I thought about them, other 1 or 2 TS'ed. I like to think I focus on ideas not personalities but sometimes I am weak.

Ouch, you did say a callous thing or two though and keep going and going and going. Take a breather please.

[billionbucks]

39. To Autonomy

Your comments are just disturbing.

[Autonomy]

44. To billionbucks

You're overly sensitive.

[Gormy Cuss]

68. Where's the evidence that they waited for help?

How can one surmise that from the limited information in the video? Bear in mind there's no indication in the video on how long they had been hearing the child's cries. It may have just happened, nearly three days after the quake. Do you have any idea what it's like to go with little or no food for days, little if any sleep, and too little water? There's an obvious decline in your cognitive ability if only one of those conditions extends for two days even without the trauma of a natural disaster as the precipitating event. Add it all up and I doubt that most of the adults are able to think clearly at the moment.

Does THAT make sense to you?

[eShirl]

8. Rush, is that you?

unbelieveable

[Autonomy]

22. Unbelievable, yes

I can't believe those people were not working until their dying breath to save that little girl long before 68 hours. There's something 'off' about this story.

[Berry Cool]

12. They're not. Some people are trying to do it with their bare hands.

I imagine that requires one to rest every once in a while, though. Or realize that it's really beyond the capability of one's bare hands. Sheesh.

I feel I am in no position to judge what people are doing there because I'm not there and I have no idea what it's really like or what I would do in such a situation.

I do think that one would have to have a heart of stone to feel nothing or not care about a tragedy like the loss of this poor girl. But that's what we expect of Rush, isn't it?

[Autonomy]

23. So...

the local people were working to dig the girl out for 3 days, and just by coincidence a camera crew were the ones who happened to be there helping when they finally got to her? That's possible. It would explain some of what is a bit 'off' about this story. But it doesn't seem to explain everything.

[debannbull]

17. why such a presumptuous (& totally insensitive) comment ? n/t

redirect to Autonomy

[Autonomy]

25. There's no presumption

and as for insensitive, I could not give a crap. My bullshit detector sounded while watching this video. I don't get clouded by emotion while watching these videos. So hate me. :P

[Hekate]

28. Wow, aren't you special

[Autonomy]

29. Typing

words.

[Mortos]

30. Did you read or research the story at all

before you activated your "bullshit detector"? The girl was trapped under thousands of pounds of concrete. They tried to dig her out with their bare hands but couldn't free her. Her leg was crushed and pinned by a large steel beam which her family and neighbors tried to cut through with a hand saw. They eventually, and as a last resort, cut her leg off, in place, without medical experience or equipment and she died from a combination of her internal injuries and the field amputation.

Here is a picture of her mother, overcome by grief at the sight of her daughter's grave. Here is a link to the story.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/17/haiti.earthquake.girl.funeral/index.html?hpt=C1

I wonder if you wish you could go back and delete your comments? Did you mean to sound cruel and heartless or do you often make comments with little information using your gut feelings?

My douchebag detector went off when I read your posts.

[Autonomy]

31. Yet journalists pulled her out after 20-23 minutes

Did you even watch the video? Dickhead.

[Mortos]

32. I see what happened

You are referring to the first story which is not the topic of the headline of this post about the 18 month old girl who was freed by an interpretor for an Australian news service. Do you think they might have just happened upon the scene at an opportune time to help finish freeing the baby.

Since the topic of this post is the story about the girl who died making Campbell Brown break down, one assumes that your comments are about that and they came off as very cruel.

[greenbird]

33. THANK you.

[Autonomy]

45. My comments could not be cruel

because it's a sure bet that no directly is reading this thread. I am making it a point to be detached in regard to emotional blackmail, such as is going on in this thread. It's a relatively small point I am making, qualified and somewhat ambiguous. For those who assumed... they're reading from the safety of their homes and got upset at my non-weepy observations. Boo hoo.

I do appreciate your insight, lack of name-calling, and lack of histrionics, though. Thanks.

[Autonomy]

69. Correction

Oops, I meant "no one directly involved (in the rescue of the little girl)" in my above post.

[trumad]

36. Dude---or dudette

you're coming off sounding like the biggest Douche around.

[Autonomy]

42. Word word word asshole word wordity word! n/t

space.

[fascisthunter]

51. are you a sociopath?

[Swede]

52. Yes he is, " I don't get clouded by emotion while watching these videos"

If seeing others suffering and dying doesn't trigger emotions in you,there is no other explanation.

[CAG]

72. I think that was your tin foil hat detector sounding. I'm glad you can

have such vast perspective of the situation thousands of miles away from your couch in front of your TV. Can you also tell me who's going to win the super bowl and if they cover the spread, that'll come in real handy for my trip to Vegas.

[stray cat]

49. Dead parents can't do much? And digging with your hands to clear a ton of concrete doesn't work?

[Heidi]

59. Why don't you rush on down to help them, since you're so quick to judge?

My question is just an intellectually honest as yours, "Autonomy."

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

65. That's that liberal media bias.

They're slanted towards showing video of rescues where film crews are present over showing video where film crews aren't present.

[Lil Missy]

70. Are you practicing to be a jackass? Or, ..

does it come naturally?

[MiniMe]

4. The reporters are tired too

A very touching moment.

[Guilded Lilly]

5. But we must see these things

I've broken down every single time I've listened to the reports, but we can't just turn away.
They break your heart, but you know, they should. It means we all still have hearts.

Bless them all.

[1monster]

14. It made me cry too... and then I got out my debit card and donated money I can't really afford...BUT

There's no way that I could afford NOT donating.

I wish it could have been more.

edited to add the url for the Clinton Bush Hati Relief Fund:


http://clintonbushhaitifund.org/

[Guilded Lilly]

15. "large amounts of people...

giving small amounts of money."

It works. It works.
thank you for posting that link.

You can also use your mobile to do a direct $10.00 donation (that is added to your mobile charges from Verizon and I am sure, many others.) No fee and they don't take a penny but pass it all along.
text HAITI 90999 on your cell.

[Historic NY]

19. I just sent some because the Big Dawg asked & little children shouldn't have to suffer...

probably do a few more.

[icee]

9. The horror of it all... Hard to breathe watching it............

ddd

[SeattleGirl]

10. That made me cry

And that's just one story.

:cry:

[O is 44]

13. I cried as well...

such a tragic story.

[scipan]

18. Nice to see some real emotion from the media.

Campbell Brown just became a person to me.

[kayla9170]

20. Sad, sad story and touched that Ms. Brown....

Felt real emotions on TV. I was touched.

As for the STUPID IDIOT question on waiting on the news crews to dig her out.....the Haitians worked all day/night/into the next day to get this child out. It was the NEXT DAY the news crews showed up. If the STUPID IDIOT looked at the video, it was still Haitians that were trying to get her out. The reporter was telling the story....that is his job.

Also, to answer the last question of the STUPID IDIOT, it was good the news crews showed up. They brought a generator. The generator was plugged into a electric saw because their is NO power in Port-au-Prince. The electric saw was what allowed them to loosen the rubble to get her out. DUMB IDIOT.

GOD bless this little girl soul, the news crews with the generator and the brave Haitians that worked with this little girl to get her out so she did not have to die in rubble.

[Libertas1776]

27. Simply, devestatingly tragic...

no words.

[closeupready]

40. She obviously really feels this tragedy deeply.

I didn't know too much about her before, but as someone else said, her tear make her a real person to me. How can you not cry, unless you are a machine.

[flamingdem]

46. Not to be cynical but...

CNN is all about creating drama and it is not helpful to gin up emotions over one person to get viewership.

They win if she dies, more emotion, and positive threads.

The real work is being done by people other than the CNN models.

[Skelly]

50. we all have our parts

"Not to be cynical"....yet you were.
We all have our parts to play. "Real work" is being done by many, including those "models" who are getting the word out to others. In this thread alone, how many people, because of this "model" took out their wallets and donated?
Yes, the media is about viewership and money. I suppose you would have said the same thing about Walter Cronkite when he "broke down" over Pres. Kennedy's death? Or perhaps both Cronkite and Brown were moved by something more than viewership?

[flamingdem]

53. I'm just tired of CNN promoting their anchors

and they go for emotion over fact. However I think it's great that they are helping get donations for Haiti.

[sunnystarr]

57. You're an arrogant A-HOLE! (noc)

[dgibby]

58. You do realize that Dr. Sanjay Gupta manned a field hospital

alone after the Belgian Drs. decided to abandon their patients because it wasn't "safe" for them to stay. If that's promoting their anchors, then this old retired RN is all for it. Those Drs. who left should be horsewhipped for that and lying and saying that the UN ordered them to go.

[Zookeeper]

73. I'm generally pretty skeptical, but the look on Dr. Gupta's face...

while he reported on the deserted make-shift hospital and the realization that he was the only doctor left, was quite convincing. I will always consider him to be a bit of a hero for sticking around all night to fulfill his oath as a doctor.

[JI7]

71. i don't understand , the facts in this story are emotionally hurtful

what exactlyd oyou want them to do. they are reporters so of course attention will be on them.

[progressoid]

56. I wouldn't be able to keep it together during stories like this either.

[Mari333]

60. she should see Afghanistan....

[MrsBrady]

61. I had thought about being a journalist at one point in my life

but I don't think I could have done any newscast, without being under the table crying.

I don't know how they do it at all.

[bobbolink]

64. I'm glad there's some semblance of humanity in her.

I wonder what it would take for her to grieve for the suffering and deaths of people right here in this country?

[Skittles]

74. very hard not to blubber over that story

:cry: