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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Secretary of State Clinton's trip to Haiti by Greta Van Sustern

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Here are some notes and thoughts about Secretary of State Clinton's trip to Haiti since I was there and saw it. What I observed may answer some of your questions:

Early Saturday morning Secretary of State Clinton flew from Andrews Air Force Base to Puerto Rico where the US Coast Guard base in Puerto Rico is part of our nation's emergency response to the crisis in Haiti. The Coast Guard base in Puerto Rico is flying C-130's from Puerto Rico to Haiti. The C130's are carrying supplies into Haiti and picking up passengers in Haiti to bring them back to Puerto Rico (eg evacuation of Americans who have been living in Haiti.)

Upon arrival in Puerto Rico, Secretary of State Clinton "hitched" a ride on a C130 to Haiti that was carrying supplies. The C 130 is a military plane which is anything but luxurious - the seats are uncomfortable, and it is incredibly loud (like the military, the Secretary wore earplugs on the flight.) She could have flown on the Secretary of State plane -- but she did not want to take up space on the tarmac from supply flights and thus elected to go on a plane (C130) that was already scheduled to fly into Haiti.

Members of the media flew ONE WAY with Secretary of State Clinton -- paying the government for seats, of course, as we always do. When making the arrangements to go to Haiti, however, the State Department informed us in the media that we could ONLY have a seat ONE WAY. We would have to figure out how to get out of Haiti ourselves.


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Monday, June 15, 2009

Greta Van Susteren: Full Transcript of Letterman’s Apology


June 15, 2009 10:27 PM EDT

David Letterman: “All right, here – I’ve been thinking about this situation with Governor Palin and her family now for about a week – it was a week ago tonight, and maybe you know about it, maybe you don’t know about it. But there was a joke that I told, and I thought I was telling it about the older daughter being at Yankee Stadium. And it was kind of a coarse joke. There’s no getting around it, but I never thought it was anybody other than the older daughter, and before the show, I checked to make sure in fact that she is of legal age, 18. Yeah."

"But the joke really, in and of itself, can’t be defended. The next day, people are outraged. They’re angry at me because they said, ‘How could you make a lousy joke like that about the 14-year-old girl who was at the ball game?’ And I had, honestly, no idea that the 14-year-old girl, I had no idea that anybody was at the ball game except the Governor and I was told at the time she was there with Rudy Giuliani … And I really should have made the joke about Rudy…” (audience applauds)

“But I didn’t, and now people are getting angry and they’re saying, ‘Well, how can you say something like that about a 14-year-old girl, and does that make you feel good to make those horrible jokes about a kid who’s completely innocent, minding her own business,’ and, turns out, she was at the ball game. I had no idea she was there. So she’s now at the ball game and people think that I made the joke about her. And, but still, I’m wondering, ‘Well, what can I do to help people understand that I would never make a joke like this?’ I’ve never made jokes like this as long as we’ve been on the air, 30 long years, and you can’t really be doing jokes like that. And I understand, of course, why people are upset. I would be upset myself.

“And then I was watching the Jim Lehrer ‘Newshour’ – this commentator, the columnist Mark Shields, was talking about how I had made this indefensible joke about the 14-year-old girl, and I thought, ‘Oh, boy, now I’m beginning to understand what the problem is here. It’s the perception rather than the intent.’ It doesn’t make any difference what my intent was, it’s the perception. And, as they say about jokes, if you have to explain the joke, it’s not a very good joke. And I’m certainly – ” (audience applause) “– thank you. Well, my responsibility – I take full blame for that. I told a bad joke. I told a joke that was beyond flawed, and my intent is completely meaningless compared to the perception. And since it was a joke I told, I feel that I need to do the right thing here and apologize for having told that joke. It’s not your fault that it was misunderstood, it’s my fault. That it was misunderstood.” (audience applauds)

“Thank you. So I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the Governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke. I’m sorry about it and I’ll try to do better in the future. Thank you very much.” (audience applause)


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Did you know this? in most jurisdictions someone (Letterman) accusing an unmarried person (Willow Palin, age 14) of being unchaste (knocked up by A-Rod) is libel per se?

That means that the mere statement is presumed to cause damage to the person...in other words, utter the unchaste words and you better open your wallet since it is libel per se. Claiming now it was a joke is not a defense...plus, in this case, I bet the joke was vetted by several layers of writers at CBS which means CBS could have problems.


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