[AbeKrieger]

Here's another liberal trying to soften the blow of looting on TV in New Orleans BECAUSE of their race, instead of addressing the criminal behavior of the street thugs... she's always good for such a sickening pablum piece.

[marty60]

I hope some of the bleeding hearts on Looting, illegal immigration, like the sight of anarchy in the strrets. Not pretty is it?

[Logic n' Reason]

*+-i>"We (journalists, ed) look for people, things, quotes that will convey what we want or need to convey.

If this doesn't say it all...nothing does.

Never mind reporting the facts with objectivity...just wait until you can cobble together enough bits and pieces to relate to all the gullible MSM fans "what you want to convey". True or not.

Is it any wonder at all that the MSM has completely lost any credibility.

And...perhaps the real reason you see film after film of blacks looting is because blacks are looting - at least the ones on film at least in that area.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Amazing how this imbeciles try to give us all a lesson in racial politics everytime human scum has a color other than their PC versions in the movies and television shows. Shoot all the looters on sight. When the bodies are counted and blacks figure disproportionately (whatever the hell that means), then the racebaiting b@st@rds like Jackson and Sharpton will come to town and with the full fellating friendship of the media the next hurricane of leftist lies will wreak its havoc.

When the curtain is pulled aside, the folks behind the curtain gets pretty upset. My sincerest hope is that good folks of all colors have the weaponry to send every one of these animals (whatever color they are) to hell.

[martin gibson]

Looting occurs whenever law and order breaks down as a result of disasters natural or manmade....

...just like when OJ was acquitted...

[relictele]

Hmmm...no mention in this 1,000-word excuse for the armed gangs shooting at anything and anybody, INCLUDING people searching for survivors!

[DM1]

"For television reporters, shots of blacks looting are quick, easy and downright expected. "
um well yeah - the city is mostly black so the looters by shear stats will be mostly black. DUH. what does she want affirmative action to insert whites and asians to loot to balance it out or something?

[Kenton]

Perhaps the author could provide us with a few examples of whites going on looting rampages during a natural disaster. I can't think of any. As un-PC as it may be, this DOES seem to be largely a black thing.

Somebody pointed out that whites riot too, as evidenced by the Seattle anti-WTO protests, but that's something altogether different. And I don't remember any massive looting in that one.

I DO remember reports of looting in nearly every "black uprising", no matter what the excuse, going back to the Watts riots.

To the PC People, I'm sorry how it looks.

[Lobbyist]

looters=insurgents

[Straight Vermonter]

The median income for whites is a low $31,971; for blacks it's a subterranean $11,332

Working full time at minimum wage earns $10,712. Its hard to fathom that the AVERAGE black is making only $600 more.

[weaponeer]

We journalists have a collective knee-jerk reaction in certain situations, disasters especially. We look for people, things, quotes that will convey what we want or need to convey. But overuse of this practice leads to cliche and stereotype.

Hmmmmmm. That's a pretty telling admission.

[libs_kma]

Where's Je$$e an RevAl? Shouldn;t they be showing up any minute with the race card?

[par4]

Looting occurs whenever law and order breaks down as a result of disasters natural or manmade...

In Iowa, where tornadoes are a summertime surety

In the first few paragraphs, the author has unintentionally comitted a cradinal sin of writing. Don't contradict your own thesis.

1) Looting occurs as a result of disasters

2)After all, tornadoes are a summertime surity;

Ergo, looting occurs in Iowa in the summertime. Must have missed those reports.

[Wil H]

"It's a city where two-thirds of the population is black, so I'm not surprised to see black people looting."

So why weren't one third of the looters white?

[finnman69]

And now there are reports of looters stealing emergency generators from the helicopter evac rescue station and shots being fired at rescue helicopters.

[libs_kma]

"Yes, stealing for profit and personal gain is wrong. And I hope those who decided to take advantage of a disaster to haul off flat-screen televisions and DVD players find no way to profit from their way to a jail cell for theft."

Fixed it a little bit.

[Prysson]

Just as this idiot editorialist says that they expected to see the pictures of black people looting...so to did I expect some liberal moron to say that the pictures of black looters are proof of america's racism.

[Inwoodian]

"Here, darlin'. Eat this color TV. You don't feel like TV? Well eat this AK47 then."

[BushisTheMan]

It tells me there are Louisiana cockroaches in New Orleans. These people are the most disgusting vile creatures on God's earth. And they are racists...robbing white people mostly. Wonder if the Dems will still stand up for them after their looting and killing and gang wars inside the SuperDome.

I'm disgusted.

Then notice how the people in Mississippi acted? They were calm, sane, and respectful.

[jimbo123]

Lucia Herndon

[USMA '71]

Please don't find me insensitive, but when I read garbage like this: Think about it: Water's at your knees, kids are hungry and thirsty. You'd call 911 if you had a phone and if someone would answer. How could I say that if this were my situation, I wouldn't be one of those people heading out of the Wal-Mart with things that could help my family survive?, I have to wonder how the pioneers made it more than about 25 miles inland when they were discovering the new world???