Girl, 12, Tells the Truth about Georgia, Fox News Interrupts With Commercial Break

[klebean]

Source: digitaljournal.com

Fox News’s Shepard Smith interviewed 12-year-old Amanda Kokoeva and her aunt Laura Teedeeva-Koriwiski from San Francisco, who just returned from S. Ossetia in Georgia. Amanda was visiting her relatives in S. Ossetia, when Georgia dropped bombs and killed many S. Ossetians.

Amanda was sitting in a café when the bombing started. She called her uncle to rescue them from the café but had to stay in the basement until the bombings were over. And then before continuing with her story, she told Smith that it was Georgian bombings they were running from not Russian bombings. She thanked the Russian troops for helping them out. But Smith seemed to steer her away from the point.

Her aunt also said the same thing; she told Smith that it was Mr. Saakashvili who started this war and was the real aggressor and killed more than 2,000 of S. Ossetians in one day. At that point, Shepard Smith told them that they are going to take a commercial break in four seconds.

Amanda’s aunt replied: "Yes I know, I know you don't want to hear that..."

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/258648/Girl_12_Tells_the_Truth_about_Georgia_Fox_News_Interrupts_With_Commercial_Break

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Shepard cuts them off again and closes the segment w/a statement on the "grey areas" in war...

[IndianaGreen]

1. Just as many Americans believe that Iraq was involved in 9-11

we will find an equal number of these low info voters convinced that Russia attacked poor little Georgia without provocation, and that Obama is a Muslim.

Until the workers take over and control the communications sector, we will continue to be fed this crap, not just by Faux, but by all the other corporate media outfits.

[harmonicon]

7. you mean like the War of Norther Aggression fought in the US in the mid 19th century?

Give me a break. Who cares who "started" it. Does the Georgian government not have a right to borders and establishing their own laws? If the US state of Georgia decided to try to break away from the US (not unprecedented), I imagine that the US government would lay the smack down hard. Under those circumstances, would it be ok for Russian tanks to roll into New York, or Columbus, OH? Whatever their reasoning, the Russians illegally invaded another country, and that shit shouldn't fly.

Sure, Bush has fucked up a lot of shit in the US and his whole government should be deposed, but I don't think it would be right for the Belgians to just decide one day that it was their business to round us up and start bombing shit, just because Bush has been responsible for the deaths of thousands of our civilians.

[TheFarseer]

2. There was a guy from that area calling into

a talk show I was listening to the other night. He said it was "well know" by the people in the area that the Georgians kill people in those two provinces that were being fought over. I didn't catch alot of the call because I got distracted. Was there some ethnic cleansing going on?

[ingac70]

5. That's why Russian peacekeepers had been there since '92...

Georgians have ethnically cleansed those break away areas in the past, more than once.

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[L. Coyote]

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[Schema Thing]

4. Actually Fox performed admirably here. I shouldn't have to defend them

AS if commercial breaks aren't scheduled.

The host went out of his way to give the Aunt all the remaining time after the break.

[ingac70]

6. He talked over her when he realized...

she was continuing to badmouth Pres. Borat of Georgia.

[SOS]

11. Perhaps because Murdoch detests Saakashvili?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/weekinreview/18levy.html

[Karenina]

15. The plot thickens...

:crazy:

[dave123williams]

9. Republicans...they really are nothing without a ginned up threat.

[truedelphi]

10. Isn't there some type of re-education camp where we can send this twelve year old off to?

And her aunt with her!

Next the two of them will be saying that Germany attacked Poland first!!

[Igel]

12. Ah.

A 12-year-old's hearsay is accepted as truth because it's disliked by an ideological opponent.

Not because it's true. Not because it's relevant. Not because it's complete.

But it serves our narrow purposes.

Neo-critical thinking in full flower.

The proper response would have been something closer to the truth. But that would have gotten into a catfight and shown the Ossetians involved to be hateful, and the girl to be ignorant and trained in hate. Even the Ossetians on the ground before the Russians circulated the "2k dead" number had far lower estimates. As do non-Russian media sources on the ground now. But the Russians are truly "peace-makers", Bringers of Light.

(ptooie.)

Fox's response was diplomatic. We usually rather like the idea of diplomacy.

[WriteDown]

14. Glad someone agrees...

I was curious why so many latched onto this 12 year olds story as gospel. If you ask a 4 year in Saudi Arabia about Jews, you will get some interesting answers as well. The thing that bothers me the most is the planning and strategy that went into the Russian invasion. That says to me that this has been in the works for some time. I think no side is completely clean, but Putin is about as dirty as they come.

[totodeinhere]

13. This is a very complex problem. Both sides, the Georgians and the Russians,

have not conducted themselves in an honorable manner. There has been killings and looting on both sides. But what is clear is that regardless of who fired the first shot, Russia is not helping matters by occupying about one third of the whole country.