CNN 2012-07-17

 I’m Anderson Cooper. Welcome to Podcast. We confronted a woman who runs a charity that tugs¹ at your heartstrings, but the question is where is the money go? We keeping them honest. 

 

We begin tonight, Keeping them Honest with a woman who has been making money by tugging² at your heartstrings and playing to your patriotism³. Her name is Terri Crisp. She runs a charity that claims to reunited military dogs with personnel they served with overseas. What could be more heartwarming and patriotic⁴ than that, right. Well, she said the program is called Baghdad pups and her charity, SPCA international were all about helping⁵ the troops.

 

SPCA international is, you know, certainly gonna do everything we can to continue to support the military. Hopefully the wars will come to an end, so we won’t be doing anything as dramatic as this. But you know, we’ve become real attached to the fact that military personnel love their animals and we want to do everything we can to keep them together. 

 

Well, sounds great, it’s a noble thing to you, right? If, in fact that is what Terri Crisp was doing. Instead, Keeping them Honest tonight, CNN’s Drew Griffin  discovered that only a slim fraction of that the 26 million dollars that woman raised would even possibly have gone towards  rescuing dogs. And as you see, a charity watchdog group has serious doubt about how even that slim fraction was spent? As they put it, a number just don’t seem to add up. The appeal though, reuniting dogs and troops is powerful just as it was six and half years ago after hurricane Katrina, when Terri Crisp was running an operations call Noah’s Wish, and appeal then was to help reunite pets and survivors⁶ 

 

Well, here is Terri Crisp from S/ California. She joins me tonight, Terri, good to see you. 

Good to see you Anderson too. 

And You brought an animal with you. 

Yes, this is Tabasco. He is one of survivors of Hurricane Katrina, he was found on a washing machine in a house that flooded, and he and his sister, his mother and another dog all survived.  

 

Turns out though, I didn’t know it at the time, there were serious questions too about Noah’s wish and a legal settlement with the state of California. We’re been reporting on this for weeks now as part of a continuing investigation⁷ into the people asking you for money into charities, and what they do with the money they raise. One thing we have not been able to do is confront Terri Crisp, that is until tonight. Here is Drew Griffin. 

 

It’s the televised appeal on CNN’s HLN. Our salute⁸ to the troops today is actually live on in this studio today. That’s many of you found outrageous⁹. Sitting right beside Nugget is Terri with the SPCA and Ivy¹⁰ is down under my feet. March of 2011, Terri Crisp with SPCA international was telling our viewers Ivy and Nugget, just look at that face, were two bomb sniffing¹¹ dogs that had worked for a US contractor¹² in Iraq and had been essentially¹³ abandoned by the company. She rescued them and was trying to find them homes. Along for the visit was an unwedding retired¹⁴ military dog handler. HLN anchor Robin¹⁵ Meade understandably couldn’t believe the story. 

 

So how is it that they fall through the cracks and get stranded¹⁶ there, that’s unthinkable to me. 

 

It is unthinkable and that’s why SPCA international is making sure that these dogs don’t get forgotten.  And they get brought home.

 

It turns out Ivy and Nugget were not abandoned, they were donated, taking from their adoptive homes in Iraq, a military contractor tell CNN , after Terri Crisp asked for them. The military contractor, Reed Security told CNN, they had no idea Chris would use Ivy and Nugget as fund raising tool in the United States. 

 

For weeks, CNN has been trying to track down Chris, first we were told by her spokesperson, she was unavailable. This week we drove to Terri Crisp rural home, down this dirty road in the foothill of California Sierra Nevada and found Chris driving straight toward us.

 

Miss Chris, it’s Drew Griffin with CNN, we’d sure like to talk to you. Terri Crisp, dog in hand,  got out of her car, walked right up to our camera and acted like she was about to answer our questions. 

 

This is not the place to do an interview.

What is the place to do an interview because we’ve been trying to get an interview with you for a long long time. Specifically to ask you about the operation Baghdad pups. 

 

Yes, umm….Stephanie Scott, our director of communications, has she communicate with you directly? 

Yeah, I understand that, but can you tell us why you came on CNN and basically lied to our viewers about Ivy and Nugget. 

You need to talk to Stephanie. 

I think you need to talk to your viewers and explain to us what operation Baghdad pups are all about, because it appears to be just a fund raising effort for your lifestyle and Quadriga Art, quite frankly¹⁷. 

Well, like I said again, you just need to contact Stephanie, all our interviews are coordinated¹⁸ through her. We have offered her to do that with you. 

You’ve been on our air Ma’am. You’ve told our viewers that Ivy and Nugget were abandoned military contract dogs which we’ve confirmed that they were not, basically lying to our viewers and I know you got an outpouring of support and most likely, money after that appearance. I mean our viewers feel like they, and so do we, CNN feels that we were lied to, do you have any explanation on how that happened. 

Okay, this, like I said, it is not the time and place. We’re happy to talk to you. Everything has to be coordinated through our director of communications.

1 tugs   

n.猛拉( tug的名词复数 )；猛拖；拖船v.用力拉，使劲拉，猛扯( tug的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• The raucous sirens of the tugs came in from the river. 河上传来拖轮发出的沙哑的汽笛声。 来自辞典例句
• As I near the North Tower, the wind tugs at my role. 当我接近北塔的时候，风牵动着我的平衡杆。 来自辞典例句

2 tugging   

n.牵引感v.用力拉，使劲拉，猛扯( tug的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Tom was tugging at a button-hole and looking sheepish. 汤姆捏住一个钮扣眼使劲地拉，样子显得很害羞。 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险
• She kicked him, tugging his thick hair. 她一边踢他，一边扯着他那浓密的头发。 来自辞典例句

3 patriotism   

n.爱国精神，爱国心，爱国主义

参考例句：

• His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
• They obtained money under the false pretenses of patriotism.他们以虚伪的爱国主义为借口获得金钱。

4 patriotic   

adj.爱国的，有爱国心的

参考例句：

• His speech was full of patriotic sentiments.他的演说充满了爱国之情。
• The old man is a patriotic overseas Chinese.这位老人是一位爱国华侨。

5 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

6 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

7 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

8 salute   

vi.行礼，致意，问候，放礼炮；vt.向…致意，迎接，赞扬；n.招呼，敬礼，礼炮

参考例句：

• Merchant ships salute each other by dipping the flag.商船互相点旗致敬。
• The Japanese women salute the people with formal bows in welcome.这些日本妇女以正式的鞠躬向人们施礼以示欢迎。

9 outrageous   

adj.无理的，令人不能容忍的

参考例句：

• Her outrageous behaviour at the party offended everyone.她在聚会上的无礼行为触怒了每一个人。
• Charges for local telephone calls are particularly outrageous.本地电话资费贵得出奇。

10 ivy   

n.常青藤，常春藤

参考例句：

• Her wedding bouquet consisted of roses and ivy.她的婚礼花篮包括玫瑰和长春藤。
• The wall is covered all over with ivy.墙上爬满了常春藤。

11 sniffing   

n.探查法v.以鼻吸气，嗅，闻( sniff的现在分词 )；抽鼻子（尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气）；抱怨，不以为然地说

参考例句：

• We all had colds and couldn't stop sniffing and sneezing. 我们都感冒了，一个劲地抽鼻子，打喷嚏。
• They all had colds and were sniffing and sneezing. 他们都伤风了，呼呼喘气而且打喷嚏。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

12 contractor   

n.订约人，承包人，收缩肌

参考例句：

• The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
• The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样，有几分要看地势而定。

13 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

14 retired   

adj.隐退的，退休的，退役的

参考例句：

• The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
• Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。

15 robin   

n.知更鸟，红襟鸟

参考例句：

• The robin is the messenger of spring.知更鸟是报春的使者。
• We knew spring was coming as we had seen a robin.我们看见了一只知更鸟，知道春天要到了。

16 stranded   

a.搁浅的，进退两难的

参考例句：

• He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
• I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。

17 frankly   

adv.坦白地，直率地；坦率地说

参考例句：

• To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说，我一点也不赞成这个主意。
• Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说，我不反对改革。

18 coordinated   

adj.协调的

参考例句：

• The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
• The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法