[PhilipFreneau]

Like I said, Hell Froze Over.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

WOW. NBC no less. I am not impressed but hey its one small step.

[AGreatPer]

Thanks Drudge (NOT) for acknowledging that you got that info from FreeRepublic.

Thanks NBC (NOT) that the origional information was from FreeRepublic.

Yes, they could have got this info on their own, but they didn't. It took FreeRepublic.com to tell the world.

Thank you to the Freeper that initially did it. If anyone could identify that Freeper it would be appreciated.

Yaaaaaaaa, FR did it again and now it is becoming national news.

[Names Ash Housewares]

"Like I said, Hell Froze Over."

This explains my feet feeling cold!

Those buses are impossible to ignore. They are all over the internet. Another storm is coming, and its not a hurricane.

[dfwgator]

Now if the Detroit Lions win the SuperBowl, I'll really know the world is about to come to an end.

[CDB]

Not even the LSM (formerly, the MSM) can ignore the truth for very long.

Again, as felloe FReeper, OldFriend, said:

A BLUE DRESS MOMENT!!!

[God luvs America]

you better run outside quick and catch some of those $100 bills falling from the sky before your neighbors grab 'em all!

[RTINSC]

Below is the first post I have seen about the buses on DemocratUnderground forum...


"I gotta say one thing....I just don't understand why those school busses......weren't used to evacuate the poor. It's not something that we are talking about here, at least not as far as I've seen. The Bush/FEMA/military response to this disaster has been righteously slammed....but, what about those busses? Or city transit busses? I don't know, WAS an effort made, at the local level to evacuate the poor who had no other transportation?"

[Ditter]

LOL I love it!

[Tribune7]

I always thought Lisa Meyers had character.

[Yardstick]

"Today the mayor would not comment [on the flooded school buses]," reported NBC's Lisa Myers.

Telling.

(did the part in the brackets really refer specifically to the buses?)

[mtbopfuyn]

Naw, I don't believe it.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Bush prevented the buses from moving so Halliburton could commandeer them and take them out of the city to keep poor black children out of school so when they grew up their only option would be to join the Army and get killed in Iraq.

[Travis McGee]

It worked!

I hope that sooner or later the MSM discovers that New Orleans did have a written emergency plan to cover the evacuation of the poor, but that the idiot mayor of New Orleans ignored it, and allowed the evacuation buses to be ruined by the flood, forgotten.

The city leaders had at least two full days to use these hundreds of buses to evac the poor, exactly as their own emergency management plan called for.

This is the equivalent of the media blaming the Titanic disaster on the slow arrival of the rescue ships, while totally ignoring the Titanic's lifeboat issue.

Here's the southeast Louisiana evac plan supplement, most recently revised in 2000. Go to page 13, read paragraph 5. It states:

5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating.

[Plutarch]

What is the timeline on the school bus photo? Could someone please provide a link to the initial FR post?

[RegulatorCountry]

"One of those missed opportunities is the 200+ flooded school buses."

Did you see the reports over the weekend, that really played up the arrival of "air conditioned busses?"

I think this was a back-door attempt at providing a plausible reason for Nagin to have ignored his own city's evac plan by refusing to use school busses: air conditioning.

Yep, that A/C is cold comfort to the people who died in the meantime, "Mayor" Nagin. You could have gotten these people out early Saturday afternoon, when all the other surrounding parishes issued their evacuation orders. But no.

[Morgan in Denver]

For what it's worth, Brit Hume on FNC's Special Report is nailing both Blanco and Nagin, LA governor and New Orleans mayor. Mara Liaison is back and initially tried to follow the MSM plan on blaming the feds, and thereby Bush, but was shot down by Charles Krauthammer and Fred Barns. Liaison jumped back in to save her credibility by saying nobody was faultless. Barnes said FEMA's only mistake was food and water to the Astro Dome, and Krauthammer explained FEMA was moving to the East of New Orleans since hurricane Katrina was moving that direction. Hume then pinned down the aspect of the fault belonging to first responders, i.e. New Orleans and the LA National Guard, meaning the governor.

Prior to all this, as Liaison was trying to put blame on FEMA the rest of the panel suggested there needs to be a national discussion as to who does what, but that FEMA is restricted as to their role and it is not that of first responders.

All in all, another better report than NBC does.

[The Red Zone]

Blind. Pig. Acorn.

[b4its2late]

[FormerACLUmember]

[crazyhorse691]

Our local news(Fox in Portland) also ran a small piece last night about the buses and the virgin emergency plan. I dang near spilled my beer. Balanced local news, in Portland? Be proud Freepers. Scooped the MSM by a week.