Posted on 09/02/2005 12:24:56 PM PDT by churchillbuff
Edited on 09/02/2005 12:56:45 PM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
Rachel Maddow as sub host for Al Franken, was interviewing Julia Reed, a well-known writer who lives in New Orleans. Reed said she was "ashamed" to have the mayor and governor she has. Both of them blew it big time. The mayor, she claimed, was on radio Monday night downplaying the situation, and saying that people breaking into pharmacies was not a big deal. She said New Orleans is unsafe most of the time -- cops can't stop the gangs -- so officials should have known a hurricane would create big-time lawlessness
She said homes on St. Charles Ave are now occupied by people who didn't own them. "Desperate people" replied Maddow -- No, "lawbreakers," said Reed.
A later caller complained that Reed sounded like a Rush Limbaugh
Folks here seem to view this in knee jerk partisan turns. Isn't it just possible that the mayor, governor, AND president muffed it all at the same time?
Folks here seem to view this in knee jerk partisan turns. Isn't it just possible that the mayor, governor, AND president muffed it all at the same time?
LOL! Literally. :)
Rumors. They were sitting on a I-10 overpass with their hands cinched together with plastic handcuffs.
Yep. There's all those shuttle buses lined up nicely waiting to be used.
Morial was Mayor before Nagin. He is now President of the Urban League, I think.
Julia Reed gets it...unfortunately too few in the media get it.
The Jackson Symphony League’s SpringLuncheon will be Thursday, April 29,2004, at the Country Club of Jackson. Chairman Leslie Dixon and her committee haveplanned an exceptional event, the highlight of which will be special guest speaker Julia Reed. Ms. Reed was born in Greenville, Mississippi and since 1987 has been senior writer at “VOGUE” magazine where her profile subjects have ranged from George Bush, Bill Clinton, and CondoleezaRice to Robert DeNiro, Barbara Walters, and Barbra Streisand. She is also a contributing editor at “Newsweek” and acontributor to “The New York Times Magazine” where shewrites the food column. She is a regular guest on CNBC’s “The News with Brian Williams” and MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews”. She divides her time between Manhattan and NewOrleans. Random House has just published Ms. Reed’s first book, Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena, a bevy of wise, witty, and often hilarious essays about the Southern way of life. The Wall Street Journal says, “Ms. Reed writes about Southern food, fashion, women and crime with enormous wit and charm and a vigilant eye for detail.” Ms. Reed’s book will be available at the luncheon where she will sign copies.
I'm sure Ms. Reed will be invited back on next week for an update...ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
>>>You're kidding. How can they possibly attribute anything good that's happened to this guy?>>>
Are you kidding? This jerk has gotten ON THE RADIO and using four letter words blasted the President. This guy is their new God.
The world really is going crazy.
No, no.......you're right.
Is the title already changed? If so, it should be changed back......it's "our" Julia Reed.
Yeah, too bad nobody heard it. ;)
OK, well then you weren't correct to call her a Republican consultant.
Ok, then let the moderator know. I don't have time.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1475817/posts?page=49#49
I think Julia Reed SHOULD be in the title; a lot of people here know who she is.
To steal something another freeper said, the gates of Moonbatopolis have been flung wide open.
Fine. Tell the moderator that you gave me a bum steer when you said she was a GOP consultant --- when I heard that, I figured she wasn't the writer Julia Reed.
You're truly amazing....
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