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Air America caller from N.O. blasts N.O. mayor and Governor (Caller was Julia Reed)
al franken show ^ | Sep 2 05 | Julia Reed

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


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To: churchillbuff

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?


41 posted on 09/02/2005 12:43:38 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: churchillbuff

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?


42 posted on 09/02/2005 12:43:39 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
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To: fizziwig
I agree, I think we should canonize the mayor....I'll light the fuse...:)

LOL! Literally. :)

43 posted on 09/02/2005 12:43:58 PM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: codercpc

Another:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4585729&mesg_id=4585729


44 posted on 09/02/2005 12:44:12 PM PDT by Eagle of Liberty (Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind - Einstein)
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To: finnman69
I have read actual inmates were released prior to the hurricane as they had not plan to evacuate them.

Rumors. They were sitting on a I-10 overpass with their hands cinched together with plastic handcuffs.

45 posted on 09/02/2005 12:44:36 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Liberalism is a form of insanity)
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To: SeaBiscuit

Yep. There's all those shuttle buses lined up nicely waiting to be used.


46 posted on 09/02/2005 12:45:28 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Liberalism is a form of insanity)
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To: Nam Vet

Morial was Mayor before Nagin. He is now President of the Urban League, I think.


47 posted on 09/02/2005 12:46:01 PM PDT by Republican Red (''Van der Sloot" is Dutch for ''Kennedy.")
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To: churchillbuff

Julia Reed gets it...unfortunately too few in the media get it.


48 posted on 09/02/2005 12:46:22 PM PDT by faithincowboys
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To: uncitizen; ken5050

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.


49 posted on 09/02/2005 12:47:34 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: churchillbuff

I'm sure Ms. Reed will be invited back on next week for an update...ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.


50 posted on 09/02/2005 12:47:44 PM PDT by threeleftsmakearight
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To: VeniVidiVici

>>>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.


51 posted on 09/02/2005 12:47:50 PM PDT by sandbar
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To: churchillbuff

The world really is going crazy.


52 posted on 09/02/2005 12:48:51 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: churchillbuff

No, no.......you're right.

Is the title already changed? If so, it should be changed back......it's "our" Julia Reed.


53 posted on 09/02/2005 12:48:53 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: AliVeritas
Wow, on Air America no less.

Yeah, too bad nobody heard it. ;)

54 posted on 09/02/2005 12:48:54 PM PDT by Uncle Vlad
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To: Howlin

OK, well then you weren't correct to call her a Republican consultant.


55 posted on 09/02/2005 12:49:24 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: Howlin
Is the title already changed? If so, it should be changed back......it's "our" Julia Reed."""

Ok, then let the moderator know. I don't have time.

56 posted on 09/02/2005 12:49:59 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: churchillbuff

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.


57 posted on 09/02/2005 12:50:13 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: lapsus calami; tiredoflaundry

To steal something another freeper said, the gates of Moonbatopolis have been flung wide open.


58 posted on 09/02/2005 12:51:04 PM PDT by retrokitten (www.retrosrants.blogspot.com)
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To: Howlin
I think Julia Reed SHOULD be in the title; a lot of people here know who she is."""

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.

59 posted on 09/02/2005 12:51:12 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: Howlin

You're truly amazing....


60 posted on 09/02/2005 12:51:54 PM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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