The Dems are going to mount a lights out, no-holds-barred effort to blame this on racism.
Great find. Thanks for posting.
This needs to stay at the top.
I hope that RedState has sent this to all the MSM.
This is an excellent piece by Ben Stein on this subject.
Get Off His Back
By Ben Stein
Published 9/2/2005 11:59:59 PM
A few truths, for those who have ears and eyes and care to know the truth:
1.) The hurricane that hit New Orleans and Mississippi and Alabama was an astonishing tragedy. The suffering and loss of life and peace of mind of the residents of those areas is acutely horrifying.
2.) George Bush did not cause the hurricane. Hurricanes have been happening for eons. George Bush did not create them or unleash this one.
3.) George Bush did not make this one worse than others. There have been far worse hurricanes than this before George Bush was born.
4.) There is no overwhelming evidence that global warming exists as a man-made phenomenon. There is no clear-cut evidence that global warming even exists. There is no clear evidence that if it does exist it makes hurricanes more powerful or makes them aim at cities with large numbers of poor people. If global warming is a real phenomenon, which it may well be, it started long before George Bush was inaugurated, and would not have been affected at all by the Kyoto treaty, considering that Kyoto does not cover the world's worst polluters -- China, India, and Brazil. In a word, George Bush had zero to do with causing this hurricane. To speculate otherwise is belief in sorcery.
6.) George Bush had nothing to do with the hurricane contingency plans for New Orleans. Those are drawn up by New Orleans and Louisiana. In any event, the plans were perfectly good: mandatory evacuation. It is in no way at all George Bush's fault that about 20 percent of New Orleans neglected to follow the plan. It is not his fault that many persons in New Orleans were too confused to realize how dangerous the hurricane would be. They were certainly warned. It's not George Bush's fault that there were sick people and old people and people without cars in New Orleans. His job description does not include making sure every adult in America has a car, is in good health, has good sense, and is mobile.
7.) George Bush did not cause gangsters to shoot at rescue helicopters taking people from rooftops, did not make gang bangers rape young girls in the Superdome, did not make looters steal hundreds of weapons, in short make New Orleans into a living hell.
8.) George Bush is the least racist President in mind and soul there has ever been and this is shown in his appointments over and over. To say otherwise is scandalously untrue.
9.) George Bush is rushing every bit of help he can to New Orleans and Mississippi and Alabama as soon as he can. He is not a magician. It takes time to organize huge convoys of food and now they are starting to arrive. That they get in at all considering the lawlessness of the city is a miracle of bravery and organization.
10.) There is not the slightest evidence at all that the war in Iraq has diminished the response of the government to the emergency. To say otherwise is pure slander.
11.) If the energy the news media puts into blaming Bush for an Act of God worsened by stupendous incompetence by the New Orleans city authorities and the malevolence of the criminals of the city were directed to helping the morale of the nation, we would all be a lot better off.
12.) New Orleans is a great city with many great people. It will recover and be greater than ever. Sticking pins into an effigy of George Bush that does not resemble him in the slightest will not speed the process by one day.
13.) The entire episode is a dramatic lesson in the breathtaking callousness of government officials at the ground level. Imagine if Hillary Clinton had gotten her way and they were in charge of your health care.
God bless all of those dear people who are suffering so much, and God bless those helping them, starting with George Bush.
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Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He also writes "Ben Stein's Diary" in every issue of The American Spectator.
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Thanks for the post. Problem is the damn L/MSM cannot play fair, they have for years shown how deeply evil they truely are. The masses now think the blame must be placed on the POTUS, FEMA, and Military. The L/MSM cannot show how that sorry excuse for a mayor is at the bottom of the problem.
Nagin might make a good race/poverty pimp but he can't hack being mayor.
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The only reason the 9/11 Commission happened when it did was to be as close to the 2004 election as possible so GW could be damaged. All the finger-pointing about Katrina is happening now to save time.
Rehema Ellis, NBC
Report on the disaster and race 6:30 National News 9/3/05
"causing the country to take a closer look and see what really matters."
and showed another clip of
Conya Whathisface saying Bush hates blacks.
This is nothing more than blaming Bush, yet again, but this time it's for what the NEW IS REPORTING.
anyone out there know how many police & fire personnel in NO? They seemed very thin for a major city...they have to have at least 10,000 - 15,000 personnel where were they?
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It was NOT racism.
It was incompetence.
The Mayor and especially the Governor were criminally stupid.
And by drilling, by mock exercises, the whole learns what the written plans miss, they learn what resources and stagings are needed. By that mechanism a REAL plan is developed, with much of it in people's heads as it must be in order to work.
This New Orleans plan sounds like the worst kind of planning -- written by consultants and low-level functionaries, printed up and forgotten.
Liberals would beg to differ. It's this liberal platform that has created a generation of government dependent people.
I am not going to depend on the government, my boss, or any authorities to tell me when to leave a city or evacuate a building.
I may not always make the right decision, but I will make my own.
However, let's face it. Not many people could have ever imagined the massive destruction and devastation that was wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Yes, the government officials plan and prepare and practice for such disasters, but it's all on paper. Not real life. Not real tragedy.
In the final analysis it's up to us, We the People, to take action to protect ourselves and families to the best of our ability. We also must demand from officials a more efficient, streamlined, and aggressive response to future disasters.
There's just too many darn layers of government red tape and inefficient bureaucracies, rules and regs to get her wheels moving. I know that the Bush Administration has recognized this after 9-11 and is very cognizant of the fact that still more needs to be done to bring it about.
In the meantime, God Bless our beleaguered citizens impacted by this great disaster, my thoughts and prayers are with you and to our awesome heroes working night and day under extreme hazardous circumstances my hat's off to you in a big proud salute.
God Bless America. May a new, bold, bright and shining future soon arrive soon for all.