Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV

Various ^ | 2 September 2005 | Various

[AmericanVictory]

When the media is not throwing them softballs, these professional race baiters can really reveal their stupidity and arrogance. They only have one dead horse to beat, and, in this crisis, they have not the slightest clue as to any live horse.

[AmericanVictory]

Exactly my thought; the interview with him truly highlighted the obsolescence of the whole schtick of him and his fellow race baiters. This crisis is illustrating how we truly don't need to hear any more from him and his kind.

[AmericanVictory]

Is there any rationale at all for giving these poverty pimps and race baiters air time in the present crisis?

[AmericanVictory]

Don't you know the white liberal gospel: black people must have a Lying-fraud-in-chief whom we can look to as their "spokesman?" It saves us the trouble of actually listening to them and learning truly what they're trying to say.

[AmericanVictory]

The results in New Orleans today, in this crisis, are the direct product of a black political machine that has risen to power in the city and proved utterly unable to manage it, to prevent its decline and to plan for and cope with crisis. It has all been graft and corruption replacing graft and corruption (See A.J. Liebling "The Earl of Louisiana"), only now the sport has gone out of it and it is far more racist (only in the reverse direction) than it has ever been. It is only the charm, unique culture and the strength of NO as the most vital port connecting the river system to the sea that has prevented it from becoming Detroit south.

[AmericanVictory]

Gosh, I wonder how Holland came to be before they knew how to do all that expensive stuff. And those polders are so productive. It's a good thing for them they didn't know about environmentalism and its dogma or they wouldn't have half their country.

[Patriot from Philly]

I think Anderson, Geraldo, and Shep are all trying to out drama each other. The problem is the hype is so bad and we could use some real good factual reporting.

The best reporting right now is from the Weather Channel.

CNN was excellent the first few days but has since gone full hog to editorialize, hype, and blame Bush.

Jean Mansur on Monday night was the best reporting. She showed professionalism and emotion at the same time. None of the silly hype and setup pieces.

[AmericanVictory]

Nagin won on a promise to fight the endemic corruption, which really is almost impossible for someone who has not lived there to grasp in its ubiquity, but he seems to have spent all his thinking and energy on fighting the corruption and none on actually leading the city and planning for the future.

[AmericanVictory]

Hope that's true, been trying to reach some NO friends who fled to Hattiesburg yesterday but couldn't get the phone at the house where they'd gone to answer; think it was because portable phones there requiring power. Will try again later today.

[AmericanVictory]

I think that if you think the liberal, race-baiting, government is the be all and end all Dem machine politics that gave us the "Great" society disaster and cities like present day Detroit can create anything like a bright future for the devestated Gulf South you're nuts. Wealth is not created by that approach, poverty is.

[Alia]

Thanks! ....great advice. I had a lot of things planned for today, and instead, I've been here reading all day and watching reports on TV...not good. Tomorrow's another day.....gettin' outta here. Have a good one!

You too! Stay strong!

[Alia]

lol. Yes, you are right -- I would have evac'd BEFORE Katrina Hit. No different from what I would tell my teen-aged children when they were going to be home alone for a bit of time -- If someone enters this home, you grab the cell and SPLIT immediately -- there is nothing I own or possess more valuable than YOU.

[Alia]

Yours is a lovely post, Siobhan. Anyone who has been devasted by fire, earthquake, etc., having survived is glad to have survived; but are always surprised by what made it through the catastrophe. And those things have often giving great introspective meaning to the survivors.

[Alia]

No. I just asked why they were celebrating at this time. After the people have been evacuated is the time to look for landmarks.

Have you ever wished you were a congressman, a newscaster, and editorialist so you could tell lots of people what they should think?

[Coldwater Creek]

You know! I had not thought of these people alike to the depression era "Okies", but you are exactly right. At that point in time they did not have the Fed's as a safety net.

In the early forties, my father was a farmer, the war was on and we were litterly starving to death. He had to go elsewhere to find a way to support us.

[Coldwater Creek]

Whoever said that the media was rational??????

[E.G.C.]

BTT!!!!!!

[beyond the sea]

I think Anderson, Geraldo, and Shep are all trying to out drama each other. The problem is the hype is so bad and we could use some real good factual reporting.

They all were very emotional, but I really think most of that was really coming from their hearts. I don't think any of them had seen anything quite like this before.

You want reporting.........stay HERE at FR!

FR is the greatest NEWS and INSIGHT site in the world. If you study here about three hours a day, no one will slide anything by you.

:-)

Go Eagles (and Steelers)......did you know that the two teams together used to be called the "Steagles"?

[Patriot from Philly]

that whole Fox episode staged.

That's exactly what I thought. You can no longer trust the media. They are a disgrace, Hype, agenda,

[Uncle Ike]

"that whole Fox episode staged"

In the midst of all this (well-deserved) media criticism, I want to point out that there was one reporter on FOX that deserves props.

Phil Keating gave factual reports, with the hyped-up emotionalism kept to a minimum. He stayed on duty 24/7 in the early days, and dusk-to-dawn afterwards, while the prima-donnas were sleeping in outside the city.

For a "B-team" reporter, he did a fantastic job, especially in comparison to the "Headliners".

Otherwise -- see my new tagline.