c-span wj - lara logan speech at emmy awards

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edit title since it's over. and to add the fact that she won for Best Continuing News Story.

c-span2 will play at 10pm edt the News ans Documentarty Emmy Awards.
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brian is going to show lara logan (cbs iraq reporter) at emmy awards for her reporting. i don't know what she said, but brian wants his guest to comment on it.

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1. transcript

emmy award acceptance speech

closed captioned transcript:


>> We wanted you to know that
this war does not belong to us.
It belongs to the marines that
fought for 3 1/2 years in ramadi
to hold one strip of road and
never went anywhere.
And if you were to take a map of
iraq before the battle for
baghdad began, more american
blood is soaked into the earth
around ramadi than any other
place in the kun kri.
And when we went to cover this
story, just jess and I, he
wasn't actually working for "cbs
evening news."
He was working for "60 minutes."
And nobody knew what we were
going to do.
Nobody assigned us.
Nobody sent us.
In fact, after about 2 1/2 weeks
of radio silence, I was in a
fair amount of trouble when I
finally called in.
But I believed in covering this
story because day after day we
would sit in baghdad and get
press releases about the deaths
of american marines and soldiers
in ramadi and have no way to
shoah they were living through.
And a lot is known about how
this war is covered, and in a
short news piece, you never get
to say everything.
But I want to leave you with one
image of what our time in ramadi
was like.
When we were there, the whole
city was awash with sewage.
There was nothing left of the
infrastructure.
We waded through sewage every
day, sometimes literally up to
our waists.
We had no water to wash or food
to eat, and those are the
conditions in which the marines
are working every single day.
It was so dangerous that the
army refused to supply them
downtown.
So, most of them lived on what
they had sent over from home.
From their families and from
their friends.
And jeff and I were in the
kitchen one day with the marines
one day and we were talking.
One of them threw away a few
pieces of moldy bread.
Another kid got up from the
table and picked it out of the
trash and said, "don't do that,
man.
We can still eat this."
And that is not something that
most of the united states of
america understands about how
the U.S. Military sometimes has
to fight this war.
So, when I came back from ramadi
to edit these pieces in new
york, I just looked around me
like I was on an alien planet
because there's no way you can
ever explain what it's really
like for the guys who are
fighting it, no matter what you
think about the war, the
suffering on all sides is really
a terrible thing to see.

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2. You should the change the title of this post to draw more attention so more will read

Like "Heartbreaking Lara Logan speech at Emmy show"

I'm kicking and recc'ing

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3. done