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We’re not saying that we expect this kind of behavior out of reporters in the field, far from it, hence the title to this post.
But we’ll be damned if we’re not full of admiration for this Georgian reporter finishing her report. After being shot by a sniper.
Did we mention she’s a girl?
Putin, you might want to pack up your road show and go home, because if this is how Georgian women act under fire… Just saying, is all.
UPDATE: Elsewhere, Russian soldier shows up, draws pistol and shoots at Y-Net reporter’s feet, then makes off with his and his colleagues’ car and personal belongings.
Any day now, they’ll take to shooting at something other than girls and other unarmed reporters and then we’ll really be in trouble.
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Big kudos to her professionalism under fire.
The icing on the cake would have been for her to work in a comment on the “snipers” poor marksmanship and yellow belly.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:08 PMUsing
Bravo to the young reporter. I am overwhelmed by her composure and the way she described her injury in such a dispassionate way. You’d think it happened to someone else. I hope this video makes its way to the MSM, but I doubt it. She’d put them all to shame. Thank the Lord that her gunshot wound was superficial, but I can’t imagine how terrifying that must’ve been for her, especially as the team could not see who it was who was shooting at them.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:11 PMUsing
I don’t think the term ‘tough cookie’ even begins to cover this one.
Not only did she keep her cool, but she finished the coverage.
Brave, brave woman.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:37 PMUsing
Try to imagine Babs, Katie or Cokie reacting to the same situation! :em95: :em01: :em99:
To the woman reporter:
August 14th, 2008 at 4:52 PMThats what I call grace under pressure! :em04: :em04: :em69: :em69:
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In similar situation I hid under the humvee with only the muzzle of my rifle showing,
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August 14th, 2008 at 5:26 PMUsing
Wow, forget Bab’s or Katie; I’m not sure that I’d have that composure after being shot.
Does bring home the fact that Russia is the second most dangerous place in the world to be a journalist.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:33 PMUsing
You’all forgot she’s HOTTTTT.
Now if she can cook, gut an elk and has a Bass boat….I’m hers forever.
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August 14th, 2008 at 5:34 PMUsing
‘Still speaking in complete, coherent sentences,, wow. :em04:
‘Most arything I had to say would’a been bleeped out.
August 14th, 2008 at 5:35 PMUsing
(Hint: have a look at her mother and that boat first,, then pounce)
August 14th, 2008 at 5:36 PMUsing
WOW…just WOW!!! :em04:
August 14th, 2008 at 5:39 PMUsing
I’m not trying to discount her calm reaction to the situation, as she obviously was shot somehow, but wasn’t the damage a bit minor for the kind of weapon a sniper would be using?
August 14th, 2008 at 6:55 PMUsing
Takes a lickin and keeps on tickin. What a horse’s ass…shoots the chick in the crowd of men.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:03 PMUsing
I took a long look at it while pausing, and it looked a lot like it just scraped her forearm. In other words: Lucky her, lousy shot.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:05 PMUsing
Babs, Katie and/or Cokie wouldn’t be within 50 miles of sniper fire.
They would be having hysterics over the amount of foam in their lattes.
Grace under pressure.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:07 PMUsing
Light, shouldn’t that be cook a bass, strip the boat and be a member of the Elks? :em41: :em03:
August 14th, 2008 at 7:13 PMUsing
And if the hit had been a foot and a half higher and to the right? She’s damn lucky the sniper was a farking lousy shot.
August 14th, 2008 at 7:45 PMUsing
WTF? Tried to view the video, and all I get is a blank screen with
August 14th, 2008 at 7:54 PM“sorry, this video is no longer available”– did Youtube pull it,
or what? Got the same result both on the Rottie page, and on the
YouTube site.
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Gutsy gal-almost as gutsy as that fox reporter who resuced a Marine
August 14th, 2008 at 7:55 PMUsing
i thought only american and israeli soldiers abused the press?!??! where did i get THAT idea?!?!
August 14th, 2008 at 8:12 PMUsing
One of the letters to the editors in our local fishwrap really pissed me off the other day…
This blithering moron remarked that the world was similarly silent when Israel ‘ravaged’ Lebanon.
Real nice…comparing the conduct of Israelis defending their country (albeit in the half-assed way Olmert allowed, when he was busy worrying about international outcry) to the signature brutality of Russia crushing a non-aggressor as a means of reasserting it’s regional hegemony.
Israel takes the most pain to prevent harm to non-combatants, to the point that they know it will cost lives in each engagement. Israeli kids give their rations to old hungry Arabs as the treat their wounds.
Russia, in complete contrast, either encourages or simply cannot stop the type of old-fashioned European ethnic hatred that results in them looting and sacking civilian areas, raping women, and generally laying waste in a manner reminiscent of Jingus Khan.
Yeah…the two are exactly alike.
August 14th, 2008 at 8:23 PMUsing
That lady has more sack then 99.9% of the journalists covering Afghanistan and Iraq. :em04:
August 14th, 2008 at 9:06 PMUsing
maybe we could introduce her to Chris Jackson, the cameraman crunchie wrote about in the august, 4 Unsung Glory. maybe breed journalist like we used to have.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:20 PMUsing
Wow… Just…wow. That girl must need a truck to carry her stones….
August 14th, 2008 at 11:00 PMUsing
Outrage from the Lame-stream Media over Russia’s Looting, killing the lil’ white people, and violations of Geneva Conventions in 5..4…3…2. *chirp*.
Oh wait… that’s right they only get outraged at the US for putting panties on Jihad Johnnies noggin…when fellow Commies…..star in “Commies gone wild” videos well THAT’s just A-Okay!!
*sigh*
August 14th, 2008 at 11:43 PMUsing
More like one heck of a bra.
That girl has guts, I’m glad they’re still inside her where they belong.
Looks like the shooter was taking a side profile shot, her arms were up holding the mic and gesturing, so a couple inches over and he’d have put a round lengthwise through her chest. or stomach. As far as small ordinance goes, those new 5.45×39 cartridges are a a little on the puny side. Might have been one of those.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:12 AMUsing
I think ya’ll have missed why she still kept up the report. She _loves_ her country. Which we see among ourselves (LC’s) and notice the lack thereof in those cowardly fucks that represent the majority of MSM reporters in our country. She is, in essence, an Ernie Pyle for her country, and we have damn few of them today in this one.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:04 AMUsing
Sorry to sound like a smartass knowitall …… but this is what I have been screaming from second one - while most of the world - including our esteemed Emperor - still believed the Georgians brought this on themselves. As it happned THEY DID NOT - and I am pleased to see that all eyes with a brain behind are now wide open. No hard feelings on my part Emperor :em04:
The Russians staged this in the crudest way possible. THEY are the ones murdering civilians, THEY are the ones plundering, burning down peoples homes. THEY are the ones behaving like the scum of the earth, taking potshots at women, children and old folks. “Well - the Georgians killed 2000 innocent civilians so we had to go in an protect them” - Bwahahaha - can you please SHOW us 2000 corpses? No you cant, because it did not happen!!!!
Phheww - with all that steam out of my system, all I have to say… that girl carried herself really well. Probably with more guts and dignity than I would in the same situation…. :em69:
August 15th, 2008 at 11:43 AMUsing
No hard feelings here either, and I’m certainly not going to rob you of an “I told you so” moment. I do so love those myself
However, I feel that I do have to point out a few facts here, lest anybody think I’ve turned into John Flip-Flop Kerry, because nothing could be further from the truth.
My reporting last week was based on the facts on the ground then. That’s what I do. This is not to say that I didn’t have my misgivings about what could happen or what this whole thing could turn out to be all about, because I did. Putin is KGB and I know a fair amount about those bastards and how they tick, so I wasn’t at all oblivious to what he might be up to. I’m sad to see that my misgivings and doubts were correct, by the way.
But at the time, that is to say last week when Russia hadn’t moved into Georgia proper and hadn’t declared that they wouldn’t as much as think about withdrawing unless Saakashvili who, like him or not, I’m not too damn fond of him myself, is the democratically elected leader of Georgia, there was absolutely no actual hard evidence to suggest that Russia was doing anything other than responding to a provocation. And it really chafed my arse to see all the knee-jerk “the Russians are doing it, so it must be EVIL and WRONG” coverage in the Western media, facts be damned, ignored or both.
It pisses me off when it’s done to US, and it pisses me off when it’s done to somebody else too.
And I don’t really care about the “they couldn’t possibly have gotten all of this in gear in such a short time” bullshit either. Russia is not the U.S. They don’t necessarily need to crawl before the UN for 18 months and fill in metric tonnes of paperwork, asking permission from 968 national and international entities to get their hardware rolling like we do, and they did have the previous unpleasantness in Chechnya to think of too, so it would be perfectly logical for them to have a sizable Rapid Response Force on Ready 5 in the region at all times. I’m not saying that’s what was going on, I’m just saying that it’s a perfectly logical possibility, no matter what Ralph Peters says. Of course, subsequent events have shown that that probably wasn’t all that there was to it, but to say, within hours of the initial Russian response, that there was only one possible explanation isn’t fact, it’s not even close to something that might have been called rational analysis where I come from.
NOW, as the situation has developed, some of the possible explanations have become markedly less plausible and I find myself largely in agreement with those initial suggestions, but that’s based on what we know NOW. If the facts change, your analysis should too. But until they do, jumping to conclusions isn’t going to make one look good no matter how much one is vindicated later. You have to keep all possible explanations in mind until you can eliminate them, one by one, by emerging facts on the ground.
Finally, I’m still not convinced that Georgia had nothing to do with this whole bloody mess starting in the first place. I’m absolutely convinced that Putin overreacted and went WAY beyond what any nation would be justified in doing as a response but, like the situation in Kosovo and elsewhere, I’m not convinced that the Georgian government were unblemished choir boys in all of this. If it can be proven that Georgia didn’t bury Tskhinvali in rubble on Friday and didn’t go nuts invading South Ossetia, then I’ll change my opinion. It’s quite possible that it’s Russian propaganda, as a matter of fact I wouldn’t be in the least surprised to find out that it is at this point, given the lies that Putin has been throwing around like candy so far, but until it’s proven it ain’t “fact.”
August 15th, 2008 at 4:51 PMUsing