# CNN: Soulless vultures. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 30, 2005, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-soulless-vultures/319258 "2005-08-30T15:05:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-soulless-vultures/319258/101 "2005-09-02T14:46:24Z")
> [@Unregistered Bull](#): > > Maybe so. Helping animals and wasting resources on them when you could be helping beings is just so fundamentally wrong that I couldn’t help myself. I shouldn’t have hijacked the MSPIMS threads since it was a forum dedicate to “mindless, pointless stuff”, and one can’t get more mindless or pointless than helping animals instead of humans in this terrible tradgedy. You’ve been warned before about hijacking threads because you have this cause. I will be discussing your continued posting privileges with the other moderating staff. Do not hijack any more threads. Lynn For the Straight Dope ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-soulless-vultures/319258/102 "2005-09-02T15:17:54Z")
> [@Lynn Bodoni](#): > > You’ve been warned before about hijacking threads because you have this cause. I will be discussing your continued posting privileges with the other moderating staff. Do not hijack any more threads. (Bookmarks thread for future reference when yet another jackass claims that there is no such thing as “hijacking” threads) -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-soulless-vultures/319258/103 "2005-09-02T15:39:18Z")
**Casey1505** : Thanks for posting the Anderson Cooper transcript. I was going to mention the exchange myself. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-soulless-vultures/319258/104 "2005-09-02T15:52:51Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > Here’s the [conversation](http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/01/acd.01.html) I referred to. Reading it doesn’t do it justice. Okay, I’ve got to ask here… What the fuck was up with the thanking? Is this an interview with a reporter in a disaster area or is it a fucking acceptance speech for an Oscar? Here’s a hint, sweetheart. If it’s not time to answer questions about why things are going badly and so little help is getting through, it is also **NOT** time to start thanking the people who made all this possible. I have to ask, is this the same LA Senator who was standing next to the LA Governor on Tuesday? Because either that woman has some serious facial tics, was high on something, or just has no ability to hide her emotions. Every time the governor paused it looked like she was about to jump in and start talking. It was very weird to watch. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Witch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Witch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Witch)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-soulless-vultures/319258/105 "2005-09-02T16:08:24Z")
> [@Merijeek](#): > > Okay, I’ve got to ask here… > > What the fuck was up with the thanking? Is this an interview with a reporter in a disaster area or is it a fucking acceptance speech for an Oscar? > > Here’s a hint, sweetheart. If it’s not time to answer questions about why things are going badly and so little help is getting through, it is also **NOT** time to start thanking the people who made all this possible. > > I have to ask, is this the same LA Senator who was standing next to the LA Governor on Tuesday? Because either that woman has some serious facial tics, was high on something, or just has no ability to hide her emotions. Every time the governor paused it looked like she was about to jump in and start talking. It was very weird to watch. > > -Joe My daughter and I had the same reaction to that chick. She was toally distracting, and totally obnoxious. Bleah. And yes, same senator. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-soulless-vultures/319258/106 "2005-09-02T16:10:37Z")
> [@Witch](#): > > My daughter and I had the same reaction to that chick. She was toally distracting, and totally obnoxious. Bleah. > > And yes, same senator. But kind of cute. For a senator. It was distracting as hell, too. Just because she seemed to be SO eager to say something that I thought for certain that she must have something **VERY** important to say. Nope. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Witch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Witch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Witch)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-soulless-vultures/319258/107 "2005-09-02T16:13:09Z")
Her mouth kept gaping and she looked like a dying guppy. We seriously wanted to slap her 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-soulless-vultures/319258/108 "2005-09-03T13:38:06Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > Not wishing harm on him or anything, but I wonder how fast **UB** ’s opinion of animals would change if he ever had to depend on a rescue dog (or even just the “insignificant” neighborhood mutt) to alert “significant” humans to his presence in a disaster such as this. > > Other than that, it must be a wonderful thing to be in a position to say what gets done and who/what gets saves from the comfort of your workstation. I really doubt that you’d be so judgemental from the floor of the Superdome. Rescue animals are great. Dogs can do alot of noble things, even on their own. BUT: Do you really think that a mutt warned people in NO about the Hurricane? Is that what the meterorologists used? Do you really think that having a large menagerie of different pets with different aggression levels towards people and other animals that are producing solid and liquid waste in an area that can’t even handle the liquids and solids produced by the human refugeees (or even the vast number of human refugees) is good thing? ---
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-soulless-vultures/319258/109 "2005-09-03T13:44:48Z")
> [@Lynn Bodoni](#): > > You’ve been warned before about hijacking threads because you have this cause. I will be discussing your continued posting privileges with the other moderating staff. Do not hijack any more threads. > > Lynn > For the Straight Dope Just FTR, I responded to Casey1505’s post before reading your warning. And my response on this PIT thread was to someone else who brought up the subject. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-soulless-vultures/319258/110 "2005-09-04T03:46:38Z")
Nope. You still don’t get it. The subject I raised was one of personal loss, as experienced by a small child. Your lack of respect for the object lost is completely beside the point, and a rude interjection. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-soulless-vultures/319258.md?page=5)