New Orleans myths: The numbers tell a different story

The American Thinker ^ | September 6th, 2005 | Richard Baehr

[BenLurkin]

What 'slow response'?

[Tolik]

Very Informative!

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[tfecw]

Bump for a more in-depth reading later.

[LWalk18]

Thanks for posting this. It's a long article, but I hope people take a look because it has a lot of good points and more importantly, facts to back them up.

[GrandEagle]

for the slow response in New Orleans this week
I'm not sure that the starting premise is correct.

GE

[R. Scott]

To bad our "esteemed" news media will ignore this.

[Echo Talon]

Are you fudgin' the numbers, Cookin' the books? :D hehe

[Mike Darancette]

there were at least 6 murders, and 12 rapes among the enclosed evacuees

How does this compare to similar period of time in NO before Katrina?

[redgolum]

Good article.

I just pray that this whole incident teaches the government a bit about disaster response, and the citizen a lot on being self reliant.

[lotsaguns]

Lisa Ling (formerly of "The View") was on Oprah's show today. One of the FIRST things out of her mouth was (paraphrasing here, but only a little) "I wonder, if this had happened to a community of afflurent white people, would it have taken *so* long for help to arrive for them?"

All disgust aside, it isn't too hard to tell that Lisa is Limosine Lib from Manhattan, is it?

[caisson71]

The heavily editorialized "news" by all stations is a tragedy in itself. It is another disgraceful example that nothing is off limits when it comes to bias in the media. I do not exempt FOX NEWS from this "dog pack" mentality either.

[Jeff Head]

GREAT article and spot on.

Here's my Lessons learned form the Katrina disaster and tragedy

[Muzzle_em]

I predict that when the water recedes, we will see a whole lot of cars in the flooded neighborhood where nobody owns a car because they are too poor. While there will be dead bodies, I don't expect tens of thousands. I do expect 1,000 - 1,500, which should NEVER happen in this country when we have the resources LIKE SCHOOL BUSES AND CITY BUSES to get people out in time.

[Hushpuppie]

Ping

[LongElegantLegs]

bttt

[tfecw]

"Lisa Ling (formerly of "The View") was on Oprah's show today"


Damn, back in Highschool she was on "Channel One" a new program they made us watch after during second period. Good to see she grew up and did nothing with her life.

[GOP_1900AD]

I blame Nagin. He failed to lead. End of discussion.

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

New Orleans was fortunate in that the levees held for the time they did. Imagine the human loss if they had been breached on Monday morning.

[freekitty]

Maybe Russert should be the one fired.