Posted on 09/02/2005 8:44:35 PM PDT by nwrep
Shepard Smith eyewitness report on O'Reilly: Mayor Ray Nagin intervened today to help tourists (many foreigners) staying at the upscale W hotel downtown escape New Orleans ahead of many of the people in the Superdomw. Tourists were shipped in buses to the Superdome and other connecting buses took them to safety.
Black Mayor Ray Nagin favors "W" tourists. Imagine that headline after all the racist garbage thrown at the President.
They would gladly vote him in again and all the Democrats because the whole disaster was the President's fault. Their mayor and their supposed leaders told them so.
yep..i sure hope they are grateful...they should be
nola does feed at the tourism trough
I remember on Saturday night before Katrina hit, it was reported that the Mayor had gotten his family out of NO on a charter jet. People were grumbling about it, and that was before the you-know-what really hit the fan.
This is already a worldwide incident. It is a terrible black eye for America around the world. Some people may not care a fart about that. But I'll tell you, the international image has suffered immensely. I get many difficult to answer questions now from a lot of people overseas. Bad. America has a responsibility to treat it's guests well, too, and try to get them back home, if they ever want guests again...
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No way - he's just guaranteed himself a bright future in Dim politics. They're probably going to start coming out tomorrow to defend him, by accusing anyone who criticizes him of being a racist. Thery really don't have any choice. He'll play that card to the fullest and rack up 90+ percent of the vote the next time there's an election in that corner of the world.
Everyone should have been evacuated. Tourists should not have been left to fend for themselves in getting out. They can not be expected to know what to do in a hurricane. Considering NO is a major tourist destination there should have been contingency plans to evacuate tourists. I think a few chartered 777's would work. I'd cancel all the normal flights and just have charter flights to major hub airports like DFW, IAH, and ATL. That way they could catch flights to anywhere from those hubs. Return flights from those airports could be used to fly in additional high value emergency supplies so they could be prepositioned and ready to go to deal with the aftermath of the storm.
"next election" ???
Election for a big fish bowl? Probably more like a 'gator mud hole by then.
Those Buses probibly still run.
Jabbar Gibson(18) took one from that lot, loaded it up with people(70) and drove all the way to the astro dome.
Personally I think Bush looked Nagin straight in the eye and told him to get his own "but" in gear.
only then did Nagin finally do something.
It was stupid and wrong but he did do something finally.
Up until a day or so ago, I had been reading that Biloxi and a lot of Mississippi had been "flattened" by Katrina. Ain't heard crap about Mississippi lately. I guess there aren't any African-Americans living there and President Bush isn't in charge of Biloxi like he is New Orleans.
He's been a disgrace to any "journalism professional" (as if there's such a thing anymore)...broken rule after rule.
He's injected himself into the story - big no-no.
He's tried to make himself the story - flunkout no-no.
I swear, word of this will spread like WILDFIRE across the globe, and particularly places like Japan, Korea, Singapore, etc. etc. etc. And it will be AMERICA that gets the black eye, not New Orleans or even Louisiana...
Nagin will be hung out to dry after this. Dems in Louisiana don't trust him because he is viewed as a Republican stealth candidate (he was a Republican and only switched parties to get elected in NO), and because he endorsed Jindal.
Not any more. The thugs and the mutants that the "Duke of New Orleans" allowed to run wild just saw to that, even if they rebuild it.
Oh, give it a rest. I'm tires of hearing about the Reverend Shep.
That petulant little twerp thinks whereever he is is the most important spot on earth. Without a clue about all the other dire need people are in he decided that those people on the freeway over pass that he DROVE TO 4 DAYS IN A ROW are the most threatened of all. If he DROVE in, they could walk out.
We lived on Grand Cayman for several years. When a hurricane was approaching the policy was evacuate the tourists first.
Then the expats and Caymanians could leave if there was time.
I don't really see anything wrong in moving tourists out first, especially in a town that had relied on its tourists for its revenue. In fact, I'm surprised they didn't get them out of town sooner or make them evacuate before the storm.
There are no more constituents. He's a mayor of nothing. He's as out of work as the other 850,000 people in the area.
(...but I do have a feeling he'll continue to draw a municipal salary)
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