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Finally! Dion Weighs in on Hurricane Katrina
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« on: September 07, 2005, 07:32:13 PM »
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It's good to see CNN is committed to the kind of journalism they exhibited last week:

Dion Slams US Authorities Over Katrina Response

 Canadian singer Celine Dion has launched a scathing attack on US President George W. Bush's Iraq policy, while criticizing his country's slow response to the southern states devastated by last week's Hurricane Katrina. Dion, who has donated $1 million to victims of the storm, grew visibly emotional as she told of her frustration watching tens of thousands of survivors wait days for aid on CNN's Larry King Live show on Saturday. The hitmaker fumed, "I open (sic) the television, there's people still there, waiting to be rescued, and for me it's not acceptable. I know there's reasons for it, I'm sorry to say, I'm being rude, but I don't want to hear those reasons." Dion criticized authorities for arresting looters in New Orleans, Louisiana, saying they should make rescuing the stranded victims a priority. She said, "Oh, they're stealing 20 pair of jeans or they're stealing television sets. Who cares? They're not going to go too far with it. Maybe those people are so poor, some of the people who do that they're so poor they've never touched anything in their lives. Let them touch those things for once." Dion referred to Bush's controversial war in Iraq, saying, "How come it's so easy to send planes in another country to kill everyone in a second, to destroy lives? We need to be there right now to rescue the rest of the people."

It's fun to say these quotes out loud with a terrible French accent.

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« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2005, 06:29:15 PM »
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Since I TiVo "Oprah" every day, I was watching part of her hurricane special the other night, and it was a bunch of celebs visiting the devastated areas...Julia "Big Mouth" Roberts, Matthew "Doobs" McCaughneehay, etc., etc., and for some reason seeing these celebs swooping in to "feel the pain" seemed so phony to me.

I guess sometimes you have to use bright shiny objects to get attention.

The best has to be Sean Penn on a boat with 10 other people including a camera crew to document his heroics trying to save people. I guess he was getting heckled by the locals:

"How you gonna rescue anyone with all them people in there?"

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