[CreviceTool]

Since Charles Osgood was on vacation, the usually even-handed CBS Sunday Morning program reverted into full Dan Rather/Mary Mapes mode with several "Blame Bush" segments. This opinion piece by Nancy Giles was over the top and as classless as Ms. Giles.

[EverOnward]

What if these people used the brains God gave them and evacuated when they could have? And helped the elderly and sick get out, too? Waiting around for other people to do your thinking will bite you in the backside every time. Where's self-empowerment here? Geez, bunch of crying, helpless babies. They need training in preparedness, awareness and organization (for starters).

[ladyinred]

If they were white, and just as poor, ( I know, you are shocked that it could be possible) and refused for whatever reason to leave when told to, and then looted and terrorized their fellow citizens, they would still be called racists by the leftists.

[Travis McGee]

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.

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.

[Alouette]

If the majority of the hardest hit victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans were white people, they would not have gone for days without food and water,

How long did the Biloxi people go without necessities? But I guess that's OK since they're just redneck crackers who are used to scrounging off the land. </extremely extreme sarcasm>

[TC Rider]

And why didn't the stores in the disaster areas simply make their goods available to these desperate folks? Surely, they've got insurance.

So why doesn't she just give her home and all her belongings to some of these needy folks, surely, she's got insurance.

FWIW, I'm sure most of the businesses boarded up their windows before evacuation in the hope they could eventually return and resume business.

[Montaignes Cat]

I saw her tirade this morning but didn't know her name. One other thing that hasn't been mentioned here struck me: CBS used video footage to add production value to her remarks. When she spoke of Pres Bush using his visit as a photo op, CBS provided sarcastic footage of him hugging people (implies = he is always insincere when he hugs people), saluting (implies = he is a shameless phony), and of his helicopter in the air (implies = like a dictator he is afraid to land among the good citizens). When she spoke of looting athletic shoes, CBS had footage of a person in knee deep water raising his bare foot (implies = all looters are poor and barefoot, of course, we all know this is true). The total effect of her words and CBS' images was of seamless well-crafted propaganda.

[Jorge]

If the majority of the hardest hit victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans were white people, they would not have gone for days without food and water, forcing many to steal for mere survival.

Go ahead. Feel sorry for yourself because of your race.

And spend your sorry life trying to convincing us that nobody cares about you or your people because your are black.

And then you will just get old and die, and then nobody will REALLY give a crap that you are gone. AND that you wasted your time in self pity and blaming your lot in life on other races.
This is really stupid.

[Reactionary]

Aww, how cute. More race-mongering from the swine at CBS.

Yeah. They were black. And guess what? They were poor. And? They lived in a typical liberal paradise full of drugs, gangs, crime, social disease.

But don't let any of that get in the way of the putrid moralising of Leftists.

[English Nationalist]

What If They Were White

How about "What If They Weren't Trying to Kill Rescue Workers"

[Diva Betsy Ross]

CBS is still not aware how silly they sound, and what little credibility they have.

And Ms Giles wants me to believe that members of my family would stay at home living 9 feet below sea level in the face of an imminent Class 5 hurricane.

In my house we filled the cars with gas Sunday night, and we live in NC.

I feel sorry for the victims (very very sorry) - but there is a degree of personal repsonsibility involved here. In fact, I think the only reason personal responsibility is not being brought up is the race of the majority of the victims. There is bias here, but not in the response.

Diva's Husband

[groanup]

If the majority of the hardest hit victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans were white people, they would not have gone for days without food and water, forcing many to steal for mere survival

And if the majority of the hardest hit victims were white they would not have their sons breaking into Wal-Marts, stealing guns and firing on people who were trying to help. WOULD THEY?

[misharu]

My jaw is permanently afixed to the floor after reading all the DemLib tripe the past week. I thought it could not get any lower until I read this. *shakes head* God help us all.

[cyborg]

This is so sad. The hurricane is barely over and the politicking is sick and everyone is showing their trule colors, including some freepers. Enough to make me avoid the MSM...wait I'm doing that already

[John Lenin]

So tired of this crap. 70% of New Orleans is black, of course the majority of the victims are going to be black also. Just another excuse for the personal failure that is being a third generation welfare recipient.

[Red6]

Jesse Jackson is a buffoon. He's a one man clown show who caters to the disenfranchised offal of society. Look at who shows up and follows him at his rallies.

He’s a loser; those who follow this man are losers. His speeches all say “I’m a victim loser, give me something for free.” His speeches have said the same thing for the last 30 years! He’s a horrible role model. He’s a failed individual who is morally corrupt. Those who look up to him worship failure.

Red6

[lonestar]

Then it hit me: People needed shoes and clothing. Some escaped the floods with just the clothing on their backs

That's why some were stealing microwaves and big screen TV's.

[lonestar]

Editorial---- Not too many years ago, natural disasters were understood to be, well, one of those terrible things that just happened. Not anymore. Today, everything is someone's fault.

Some folks are blaming the flooding in New Orleans on, of all people, President Bush. In the view of a Kuwaiti government official, the "wondrous storm" was a divine payback for America's intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan. To self-styled environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the hurricane happened in part because Bush opposed the Kyoto Protocol and other efforts to fight global warming. Some Democrats blame the president for cutting federal spending on the levee system that is supposed to protect New Orleans.

It's time for a reality check.

If any entity "sent" Katrina to New Orleans, it was not God. A just and loving creator does not kill hundreds of innocents just to smite a few villains. And if God was responsible, He sure took His time. New Orleans has been sandwiched between Lake Ponchartrain to the north and the Gulf of Mexico to the south since 1715 -- below sea level, no less. The miracle is that it kept dodging the bullet from hurricanes and Mississippi River floods, not that it got hit once.

The global warming angle is just as foolish. Hurricanes have been churning into the Gulf Coast before human beings released a cubic foot of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Before last year's surge in hurricanes, America hadn't suffered severe damage from a tropical storm since Hurricane Andrew struck Miami in 1992. The worst storms struck from the 1930s through the 1950s, when Category 3, 4 or 5 hurricanes averaged nine per decade. In the 1960s there were six, in the 1970s four, in the 1980s and 1990s five each and since 2001 there have been three.

Global warming might eventually affect things like hurricanes, but there's a big difference between long-term climate change and short-term weather.

The complaint about federal funding also needs context.

President Bush -- like his Democratic predecessor -- proposed cutbacks in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' budget for flood programs. So last year Congress spent "only" $42.2 million in this effort instead of the $105 million that was requested.

No president or Congress can OK every budget proposal that comes across the transom. Most are high-balled with the expectation that they will be cut. Forty-two million dollars is hardly peanuts, and that doesn't include the hundreds of millions that have been spent in previous decades.

Only in America can some people overlook the Democratic mayor of New Orleans (Ray Nagin), a Democratic U.S. representative from New Orleans (William Jefferson), the Democratic governor of Louisiana (Kathleen Blanco) and one Democratic U.S. senator (Mary Landrieu) to blame a Republican president 1,500 miles away for something that probably would have happened eventually anyway.

To end this blame game once and for all, states should establish priorities for federal aid. They know their local conditions and threats better than any bureaucrat in the Beltway, and they should focus on the most pressing needs. If they don't get enough from the feds, they should devote state or local tax dollars to the issue.

And when tragedies happen, let's not waste time pointing fingers at each other about who should have done what months or years ago. Let's realize that we are going to be nailed every now and then by floods and fires or tornadoes and tropical storms, and let's help the people who are hurting.

Thomas Taschinger --Beaumont Exterprise

[stbdside]

Who's got the pic of the STFU man?

[johnb838]

Booosh hates black people.

[LowOiL]

Humm.. guess that explains the looting before the storm even hit...