  Rsa Member Username: Rsa Post Number: 1215 Registered: 10-2003 |
Tour passenger Kaye Moeller, a retired teacher from Bluefield Hills, Mich., who took the disaster tour earlier this summer, said the flood-damaged areas reminded her of downtown Detroit. But New Orleans "didn't look quite as bad because people had taken care of the property. So it looked like people might be moving back in," she said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20 163356/ (from today) some neighborhoods i could see, but downtown? that i find a little hard to believe. | ||
El_jimbo Member Username: El_jimbo Post Number: 275 Registered: 12-2006 |
Kaye Moeller = one of the people who are proud of the fact they haven't set foot within the city limits of Detroit in 20 years. | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 1343 Registered: 04-2006 |
Where the hell is Bluefield Hills? | ||
Scs100 Member Username: Scs100 Post Number: 1375 Registered: 12-2006 |
Your guess is as good as mine. Google didn't turn anything up. | ||
Urbanoutdoors Member Username: Urbanoutdoors Post Number: 507 Registered: 11-2005 |
to bad there is no bluefield hills in michigan. Not to be picky but I am presuming Bloomfield hills. | ||
Rsa Member Username: Rsa Post Number: 1216 Registered: 10-2003 |
lol. i presumed that as well UO. i guess i read thru it pretty fast. | ||
Scs100 Member Username: Scs100 Post Number: 1376 Registered: 12-2006 |
Too bad it's not located in the UP... | ||
Downtown_dave Member Username: Downtown_dave Post Number: 159 Registered: 07-2005 |
Bluehair Hills? | ||
Jt1 Member Username: Jt1 Post Number: 9787 Registered: 10-2003 |
My bet says Ms. Moeller is one of the many foolish people in Michigan that think if Detroit went away all of the crime, poverty and homeless of the state would just disappear. | ||
Downtown_dave Member Username: Downtown_dave Post Number: 160 Registered: 07-2005 |
Kinda like Bluefield Hills? | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 1344 Registered: 04-2006 |
If Detroit looks worse than post-Katrina New Orleans then maybe Michigan can fill the gap in its economy by running tours through the city. | ||
Rb336 Member Username: Rb336 Post Number: 1151 Registered: 02-2007 |
Anyone know which AP hack wrote that crap? | ||
Waz Member Username: Waz Post Number: 152 Registered: 11-2006 |
I like the last line of the article: quote: Replace "New Orleans" with "Detroit" and tell Kaye-Mo to down that with her Geritol. | ||
Trainman Member Username: Trainman Post Number: 497 Registered: 04-2006 |
New Orleans and Detroit are the two cities that lost the most people in 2005. Both cities have much history and many strengths. We need to have smart people run our governments to help attract investments. | ||
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin Post Number: 4667 Registered: 10-2003 |
Train...does NO need Smart service too? I think you need to go to the Big Easy and talk to them down there... | ||
Track75 Member Username: Track75 Post Number: 2572 Registered: 10-2003 |
Meanwhile, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is doing his part to sabotage his city: quote:http://www.iht.com/articles/ap /2007/08/10/america/NA-GEN-US- New-Orleans-Crime.php | ||
Karl Member Username: Karl Post Number: 9243 Registered: 09-2005 |
Can you imagine the prez of GM, Ford, Chrysler or Toyota saying that recalls and poor quality "keep the _____ brand out there." The stockholders would have him/her fired by the end of the week. | ||
Mikeg Member Username: Mikeg Post Number: 1063 Registered: 12-2005 |
quote: Given the gross, phonetic error made by the author in defining Kaye Moeller's hometown, the quote (above) attributed to her in the article is likely to be the only accurate part of Ms. Moeller's actual, stated opinion. Read it carefully and before you castigate Ms. Moeller again, note that she was not "quoted" as saying either "Detroit" or "New Orleans". My guess is that she probably made a highly qualified comparison between NO and Detroit, but it probably ended up being a long and convoluted statement. In order to come up with something shorter, more readable and "interesting" for the article, the author probably excerpted just that portion of her lengthy statement for the quote (leaving out all of the limiting and restricting portions of Ms. Moeller's statement) and then added their own words to turn the quote into an opinion. It is anybody's guess as to whether what we are reading is a true and fair editing job of Ms. Moeller's stated opinion or if it is something that got "lost in the translation". However, any time you read words within quote marks that cannot stand alone to make a definitive statement (as above), you can be pretty sure that the author had done a selective editing job and the person quoted was left shaking their head and thinking, "that's not what I meant or said!". | ||
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul Post Number: 1398 Registered: 10-2006 |
True, good point. Technically, she isn't quoted as saying anything about Detroit. |
