If you haven't seen today's Oprah, please try to watch it. It's heart-breaking!

[AZBlue]

It really doesn't matter what you think of Oprah Winfrey, Anderson Cooper and/or Lisa Ling. Given the topic - and the date - it's completely irrelevant, so please don't even post that here.

Her show today takes an honest look at New Orleans and how it's really doing. And it's inexcusable. I know it's shown in the afternoon but it's often shown again in the evening - I highly recommend watching or taping it to get a real look at the city today. I've seen several other shows today that cover NOLA, but this is the most realistic - and the saddest. If you can't catch the show, you can still get a lot of info from her site (http://www2.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200708/tows_past_20070829.jhtml?promocode=HP21).

NOLA still needs money, volunteers and tourists! I have two weeks of vacation left this year and I've already contact a group to see if I can use a week of it to help out. I'm posting this to encourage others to do what they can. I know we're all a little strapped now and our economy is falling down around us, but compared to what the citizens of NOLA are still going through, we're still doing very well.

I CAN'T BELIEVE Bush had the nerve to show his face anywhere in that city today! Of all the incredible things he's done, this may be the worst.

Thanks for listening (and watching, if possible)! :hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. She had on a guy who just wrote a book about NOLA, and she refused to let him talk about it

Might even have cut him out of the show entirely because he refused to sign the release form in which he would have agreed not to write about his experience on the show. Pure bullshit, and typical of the walking shitpile that is Oprah. She does a show on Katrina aftermath, and the author she has on, she refuses to let talk about his book about the aftermath of Katrina.

http://www.nola.com/living/t-p/index.ssf?/base/living-8/1188367892232970.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

Sorry, I don't care how tear-jerking a show might be, or how authentic (and authentically heartbreaking) a topic might be. Being hosted by a self-serving garbage pile is enough to make me refuse to watch it. Besides, I'm sure her fake tears flowed freely, and her empty platitudes piled up like New Orleans dead, which would have me throwing shit at the TV in an all-consuming rage at her complete use of the tragedy to serve her own ego needs.

:puke:

[Critters2]

3. She could let some of the NOLA homeless move into one of her

several mansions. Or sell a couple and give the money to people in NOLA.

But she won't.

[AZBlue]

7. Sorry guys, no hijacking the thread.

If you have issues with Oprah, go start your own thread. Thanks.

[Jeanette in FL]

2. It was awesome to watch and listen

I posted too about this show and got no responses.

It was gut wrenching.

The major theme of the show is that there is no leadership in this country and when the next disaster strikes it will be me or you, just like the people in New Orleans.

I thought the show was excellent and it gave a good hard look at where we are as a country.

Thanks for posting.

I can't believe either that Bush had the nerve to show up there.

[Lorien]

4. I saw it. Hard to believe that this is allowed to happen in America

republican "family values" at work. Since the people of that region have nothing, they don't give a damn that there's no way for them to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps". It crosses income, race, age and gender lines. White middle class families are stuck in poisoned FEMA trailers just as black families are, nobody can get decent health care. The USA looks like the worst kind of third world nation in this report. Being the Greatest Nation On Earth means being capable of caring for your citizens, not just blowing people up and allowing your corporations to profit from everyone else's pain.

[ellaydubya]

5. Can you believe that we have done this in the USA???

It made me truly sick. As fellow Americans, how can we allow our own people to be treated this way!?!?!?! We can spend billions to invade a country, destroy it, begin a civil war, and waste billions supposedly rebuilding it (If we can't do it here, how in the hell can we expect it to be done half way around the world?) and we ignore our beloved Gulf Coast. This is so terribly wrong.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

6. Thom Hartman compared Bush's response with LBJ

There was a devastating hurricane that hit New Orleans in the '60s-I think it was Betsy. LBJ was there, on the ground, within a day. He told the governor that red tape would be cut so that aid would come. And LBJ lost Louisiana in the '64 election. He was a politician with flaws, sure, but he also had some shred of human decency, and he helped get the city back on its feet.