News · moment 12 of 21
The CNN Reporter and the Furious Flood Survivor
from Joel Osteen's Ark · #60
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4 minNews
They play and react to viral footage of a hurricane survivor named Danielle berating a CNN reporter for shoving a microphone in her face after she waited 36+ hours to be rescued, with jokes about racial disparities in rescue response times.
- 39:00Tim quips that police response time is still under 36 hours, so technically they were fast.
- 39:18Police went to white areas first during the disaster, illustrating institutional racism in emergency response.
- 39:35Tim criticizes Ben Shapiro for claiming institutional racism doesn't exist while ignoring obvious examples.
- 40:06Tim impersonates cops explaining they need six feet of water depth to reach poor neighborhoods by boat.
- 40:31Tim notes police prioritized evacuating the Bush family and wealthy areas like Preston Hollow over flooded neighborhoods.
- 41:18The flood survivor breaks down: five days with no food, no water, nobody came to help.
- 41:40Survivor confronts the CNN reporter for interviewing her during her worst moment instead of helping her children.
- 42:02Tim mockingly asks where the father is, noting it would be funny to ask that during a crisis interview.
- 42:13Tim questions why they're not supposed to find humor in an absurd disaster relief situation.
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