"Get off your @ss Pilgrim!"
Posted on 09/05/2005 8:48:54 PM PDT by veronica
Lieutenant General Russel Honore lived up to his 'John Wayne dude' nickname, blasting complaints that red tape or poor security were snarling relief efforts as "B.S."
The fiery general, in charge of the military component of the mission, lost his rag during a press conference after President George W. Bush's visit to rescue coordinators here.
"That's B.S. It's B.S.," Honore raged.
"I can tell you that is B.S. We have got 300 helicopters and some of the finest EMS workers in the world down there.
"There is no red tape ... there are isolated incidents that people take to paint a broad brush."
Honore also lashed out at questions from journalists at the Baton Rouge emergency operations center concerning the security situation in New Orleans.
"You need to get on the streets of New Orleans, you can't sit back here and say what you hear from someone else.
"It is secure, we walk around without any issues. Why the hell are you trying to make that the issue, if you can help, get there and help," he said, saying that people were being scared away by reports of violence.
When one reporter argued that there still reports of bureaucracy and unrest stalling relief efforts in some outlying parishes of New Orleans, Honore fumed: "I don't care if it is Hancock County, Mississippi -- we are not going to have that kind of issue."
The comments that sparked Honore's verbal blast were apparently made by US Representative Bobby Jindal, who represents a New Orleans district.
"The bureaucracy needs to do more than one thing at a time. It's appropriate to save people with helicopters, but it can't be done to the exclusion of everything else," Jindal was quoted by Time magazine as saying.
Honore did not discount that Jindal may be basing his complaints on "isolated" incidents, and said he would follow up with him.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin dubbed Honore 'one John Wayne dude' in admiration for his efforts when he showed up in the city last week.
"He came off the doggone chopper, and he started cussing and people started moving," Nagin said in a radio interview on Thursday.
Jindal must be drinking some of the same "funny stuff" that Nagin has been drinking.
Evertbody knows the reporting about Katrina has been BS except for the xxx-sucking US media.
Jindal can kiss any National-level political ambitions, good-bye.
All LA politicians are blaiming the fed Gov't. Jindal looked like an idiot on Brit Hume's show when he said everyone shared the blame, yet proceeded to only fault FEMA.
LA - 45% underwater, 45% under indictment. Quoting Steyn, who was quoting someone else.
"Get off your @ss Pilgrim!"
And on the list of 1-10, which number should be saving lives?
Hopefully Louisiana politics is about to get an enema.
Did you see this video?
Well, we know that Nagin likes the cussing, it is the only thing that he seems to have a modicum of talent for. But what I really believe is meant by his comment is a sense of jealousy. Deep down Nagin knows that if he had half of the testicular fortitude that Honre has, he would not have made such an ass out of himself.
The press conference? Yes once the good general cut loose the press became very quiet. I think he may have shot the next one to make a smart-assed remark. This guy has his 4th star in the bag.
Robert Duvall in " Apocolypse Now"
That would be item #4. Item #1 is to save the political class of Louisiana; item #2 is to insure that the flow of graft is not interrupted because of something small like a catastrophic natural disaster. At #3 is to set a photo-op for any Hollywood type who wants to come and make an ass out of himself Sean Penn . Then you come to #4 which is to save people.
That would be item #4. Item #1 is to save the political class of Louisiana; item #2 is to insure that the flow of graft is not interrupted because of something small like a catastrophic natural disaster. At #3 is to set a photo-op for any Hollywood type who wants to come and make an ass out of himself Sean Penn . Then you come to #4 which is to save people.
Somebody on the live thread said that they had known him before and he was TAME on TV.
Somebody else said it looked like he could have pulled out his pistol, shot the reporter, and said, "Take that, you Commie bastard!"
That is the ONLY reason that explains why every single one of them, D's and R's, were on TV blaming Bush before the winds died down. To a person, they all say the same thing, almost word for word.
And they ALL cry.
FGS, there is NO crying in hurricanes.
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