Posted on 09/02/2015 8:29:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
Ten years have elapsed since one of the most amazing cases of Republican-bashing media bias in the television era began. The media elites laugh when preachers say immorality causes God to send hurricanes, but they suggested with straight faces that Hurricane Katrina was a death sentence President George W. Bush and his cronies brought to the less fortunate.
In the early spin, race-baiting rapper Kanye West and "objective" anchors like Brian Williams were in rhetorical sync: George Bush didn't care about black people. On "The Daily Show," Williams told Jon Stewart "everyone" knew Bush would have done better if white people were endangered: "Everyone watching the coverage all week, that kind of reached its peak last weekend, kept saying the same refrain: 'How is this happening in the United States?' And the other refrain was, 'Had this been Nantucket, had this been Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, how many choppers would have --'"
Williams couldn't finish. The liberal audience drowned him in applause.
A year later, Williams was pressing Bush about being a bigot, harboring a "social or race or class aspect" in the federal response, then inviting in radical professor Michael Eric Dyson to denounce the Bush family as "clueless patricians."
It didn't matter how many tens of thousands were saved by federal, state and local first responders in helicopters and boats. The never-ending political commercial called the "news" was in heavy rotation. It wasn't considered the least bit impolite or inaccurate for hard-left blogs like the Daily Kos to proclaim New Orleans the scene of a mass murder: "We let the Republicans kill a major U.S. city. We let them laugh about it and walk away."
On his NBC primetime special a year after Katrina in 2006, Williams treated New Orleans as the most dangerous town on Earth, complete with weird boasts like: "I carried a case of Vienna sausage ... as collateral in case we had a smash-and-grab carjacking. I was going to offer it to someone in exchange for my life." Williams claimed he was so starving for food that "I remember seeing a box of Slim Jims and thinking, 'That's better than any restaurant meal right now. That's the greatest thing I've ever seen.'"
Bunk.
The section of the French Quarter from which Williams was reporting suffered minimal flooding, and in some parts, no flooding. There were no bodies floating. The city's former health director has declared that no one in the city was treated for dysentery, even a month after the flooding. (Besides, how does one "accidentally" drink floodwaters, as he claims?) The manager of the Ritz-Carlton (where he stayed) actually won an award for keeping the place safe from roving gangs with a cadre of police.
Most damning of all: Williams wrote a daily blog on NBC.com during this time. Nowhere did he report floating bodies, dysentery or gangs.
The credibility of this man is shot -- and now that MSNBC is about to take him on, its credibility is shot as well.
W didn’t fight back once, is my recollection.
Didn’t say a word to defend himself or his party. Thought it was beneath him, so the Democrat/MSM went to town. The Democrats got control of Congress in the next election, used their power to tip the economy into a deep recession, and we got Obama as a result.
What fools the Bushes are. The think that if they pretend American politics is a garden party in Kennebunkport, it will become one.
In before the Looter-Guy post....
You know Trump would fight back. i want a president with a spine.
NEW ORLEANS — Four New Orleans police officers have been cleared of allegations that they looted a Wal-Mart store after Hurricane Katrina, but each was suspended 10 days for not stopping civilians from ransacking the store, the Police Department said.
The probe stemmed from an MSNBC report that showed the officers filling a shopping cart with shoes, clothes and other items. When a reporter asked the officers what they were doing, one responded, "Looking for looters" and turned her back.
Assistant Police Chief Marlon Defillo, commander of the Public Integrity Bureau, said the officers seen on the video were recently cleared of looting because they had received permission from superiors to take necessities for themselves and other officers.
The Police Department later informed Wal-Mart management, after the store had been secured, that its officers had taken some needed items, he said.
Suspended for 'neglect of duty'
The four officers, Olivia Fontenot, Vera Polite, Debra Prosper and Kenyatta Phillips, were suspended for 10 days without pay for “neglect of duty” because “people can be observed illegally inside the store with property in their possession and you took no police action to prevent or stop the looting,” according to their disciplinary letters.
Fontenot received an additional three-day penalty for her “discourteous” response to the MSNBC correspondent, her disciplinary letter states.
“It was determined that all four officers had received permission from their commanders to get clothing for fellow officers who were soaking wet,” Superintendent Warren Riley said through a spokesperson Friday. “They did not steal anything.”
Defillo said the officers were all assigned to the badly flooded 3rd Police District. ..."
Two looting investigations involving police remain under investigation by federal authorities, Defillo said.
One involves the theft of about 200 vehicles from Sewell Cadillac Chevrolet and allegations that 3rd District commanders were involved in some of the thefts. The other involves a complaint from a hotel owner that a group of officers from the now-disbanded Community Policing squad kept a large stash of goods in one of the rooms.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/11920811/ns/us_news-katrina_the_long_road_back/t/new-orleans-police-officers-cleared-looting/#.VecZJ30YGSp
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Cops caught on video looting during Katrina...
Shep Smith was the worst. I can’t stand him after his spew on Katrina.
No the rats got control of Congress because of people like you who wanted to teach the Republicans a lesson by sitting the election out, and what did that bring us? High unemployment and high gas prices and the economy going downwards
And the devastation wasn’t really a result of the hurricane. It was the result of the levees being breached.......and finding out that inferior concrete had been used in the construction, back when the Dems were in complete control of the area. Big Media has been covering up Dem malfeasance for decades. And blaming Republicans is just second nature.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/20/AR2005092001894.html
NEW ORLEANS (CNN) — Four New Orleans police officers have been suspended and one has been reassigned over allegations of looting in the chaos after Hurricane Katrina, acting Police Superintendent Warren Riley said Thursday.
The city’s police department is investigating reports that at least 12 police officers may have gone on a looting spree in the days after the storm hit.
The probe began after police officials reviewed videos from news reports, Riley said, without elaborating.
Meanwhile, Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti Jr. acknowledged his office was investigating “two separate incidents of potential looting by law enforcement” but would not identify the jurisdictions involved.
The officers are alleged to have taken non-essential items like televisions or jewelry or to not have acted against looting. ...”
One incident that Foti’s probe is focusing on took place at Amerihost Inn and Suites just days after the storm hit, said police spokesman Capt. Marlon DeFillo. It was captured on tape by a reporter from WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge and a photographer from WAFF-TV in Huntsville, Alabama.
Officials viewed the TV news video showing an officer reaching for a gun as he blocked media from a door to the 10th floor, where he and seven other police officers were thought to be staying, DeFillo said .(See the video behind the investigation — 3:50)
The hotel’s owner, Osman Khan, told CNN that on the night of August 29, when the city flooded, 70 police officers had moved into his Canal Street hotel. He said that 62 went out to fight looters and thugs on the streets, while eight launched a four-day drinking and looting binge.
“They’d leave [at] nine or 10 at night and come back 4:30 in the morning,” carrying “everything from Adidas shoes to Rolex watches,” Khan said.
The eight officers were drinking almost all of the time, said hotel engineer Perry Emery, and when he came to the men’s 10th floor room to bring towels, he saw “jewelry, generators, fans.”
“One time they came back with a bunch of weapons,” Emery said. He said he had no doubts about what he witnessed: “These were New Orleans police officers — looting.” ...”
Well, since I didn't sit out either the 2006 or 2008 election, your point is invalid.
Please, try again. Explain how the Bush strategy worked out so brilliantly
He obviously hates black refrigerators too!
We all got flooded out by hurricane Floyd in 1998. We rolled our sleeves up and cleaned up. We had cleaned up our cellars, replaced heaters, electrical wiring, water heaters, paneling and other items that were flooded. We swept up the mud and debris and disposed of it. Within a week, we were back to normal here in southeastern Pennsylvania.
Maybe we made a mistake. Maybe we should have sat around and complained that President Clinton didn’t visit the area. Maybe we should have been still bringing it up 10 years later like the people in New Orleans are doing.
It was George Bush’s fault.
/s/
IMHP
Wasn’t it Robert Kennedy jr who claimed President Bush created Katrina?
Yeah he was, but he is from Mississippi so it probably affected him somewhat. I don’t know
Those people in New Orleans don’t know what a Hurricane is.
Their state and city leaders for years misspent money intended to shore up levies around a city below sea level.
Had the levies been maintained properly Katrina would have been a footnote in weather history.
People forget about Hugo, and what it did to the Carolinas.
Hugo cut a swath of destruction from Charleston SC to Greensboro NC. When it arrived in Charlotte, NC, 208 miles from landfall, winds were still higher than Katrina at landfall. It looked like someone had set off a series of nuclear weapons along the I-26/I-77 corridor.
And then there was Andrew in south FL...
New Orleans problems, like all liberal run cities, were self inflicted, but that doesn’t fit the MSM template.
Blamed Katrina on Bush’s “environmental policies and killing policies”.
A revolution was fought to keep us from worshipping the “nobles” among us like the Kennedy’s.
There are many who worship the spots upon which they first saw a Kennedy or any of those other Liberal icons that walk the earth.
It’s absolutely disheartening and disgusting.
IMHO
Always a queen, but his coverage earned him the "drama" badge fershur.
“The credibility of this man is shot — and now that MSNBC is about to take him on, its credibility is shot as well.”
What an absurd sentence, MSNBC has ZERO credibility with or without Brian Williams. Might as well say that a cowpie was ruined by dropping a grain of sand in it.
You must be a fan of Juan Williams
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