I wonder who let this happen.
Posted on 09/02/2005 9:58:35 PM PDT by kddid
(CNSNews.com) - In an open letter to President Bush posted on his Web site, liberal filmmaker and anti-war activist Michael Moore suggests that a delay in rescuing stranded residents of New Orleans was based on race and class.
"It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands has no transportation to get out of town," Moore wrote. "C'mon, they're black! ... Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days?"
The letter, dripping with sarcasm, accuses Bush of not doing enough in the immediate wake of the storm to begin recovery efforts. "On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home," Moore writes, "I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster."
Bush cut his five-week vacation short after reports of the hurricane's damage began to come in. He returned to Washington, D.C. to discuss recovery efforts with members of his cabinet.
Moore writes that the war in Iraq has claimed too many supplies and men who could otherwise be helping the recovery efforts in the Gulf areas affected by the storm. "It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted," he wrote.
Moore asks if Bush has "any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters."
The number of National Guard soldiers heading toward the disaster area is increasing daily, with more than 50,000 part-time guardsmen and active-duty soldiers already there and many more on the way.
Echoing the accusation of German environment minister Juergen Trittin, Moore suggests that global warming is to blame for the hurricane. He said Bush ignored "pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable."
Moore acknowledged that "there will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you." He suggested that Bush not respond to his critics.
Let him rant.
It benefits us all (Democrats and Republicans alike) to see what this guy is made of.
There is absolutely nothing that this group will not politicize, or blame on Pres. Bush...past, present, future. They don't sincerely care though or they'd be DOING something to help...other than simply writing & sayinig more of the same hateful, predictable comments we've heard for 5 years now.
Hey, Mikey, get out of that fat-farm-for-the-rich and get yourself a wheelbarrow of Big Macs - you know you want to...
My response to this nonsense is here.
I wonder who let this happen.
"Let him rant. It benefits us all (Democrats and Republicans alike) to see what this guy is made of."
I agree. Every time the looney-tunes leftists and their cohorts in the media lie about President Bush it discredits them. They are on their way to oblivion.
F*ck You Michael Moore.
Hey Mikey, they didn't have any food in New Orleans...BECAUSE YOU ATE IT ALL.
Remember, even Katie Couric thinks he's a bit of a jerk.
Those poor black people could have had transportation out of New Orleans if the black Democrat Mayor of New Orleans had bothered to use his hundreds of city-owned buses parked in neat rows to evacuate New Orleans' black, poor population.
(Take the time to count the city-owned buses in this single photo of an isolated area of a New Orleans city-owned parking lot. Multiply that by the number of poor, black people that could have been evacuated to safety even on a one-way trip.)
Experts have been predicting for years that New Orleans would be flooded by a slow-moving Category 3 huricane or anything greater. Katrina was predicted as a Category 5.
But....NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
The liberals such as the Mayor of New Orleans and Michael Mooer would much rather see hundreds or thousands of poor black people drowned in flood waters just so they can blame Gearge Bush for it afterwards.
AP - Thu Sep 1, 4:15 PM ET An aerial view of flooded school buses in a lot, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005, in New Orleans, LA. The flood is a result of Hurricane Katrina that passed through the area last Monday.(AP Photo/Phil Coale)
He is right, I see only predominately "WHITE" faces going in to rescue and help the predominately Black victims.
When did Moore say that he, Code Pink, Sheehan and Soros will be in NO to help the victims of the hurricane? I'm sure their donation is in the millions and they are going to personally distribute the money and demand "talk" to the people one on one.
When will we see Moore's fat a$$ down there?
Never.
There are a lot of hungry people down there and Moore's fat a$$ could feed 20% of the stranded hurrican victims........If you throw in the rest of his body, you get up into the 60% range.
lol yes
Damn it...I am sick of listening to people talk about race when people are still out there dying, for the love of God, can anyone tell me what I can do to respond to these bastards!
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Check out this clip from the red cross telethon. You ain't going to believe it.
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