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To: PhilipFreneau
No offense, but I have never seen Scarborough - not once. I don't even know what he looks like. And I had never heard of the TP until they started bashing Bush and covering the butt of Nagin. Can you give me something a little more mainstream?

I don't watch Scarborough on a regular basis either, but he does use MSNBC news reporters who are MSM. The TP is the area's biggest paper by circulation and the 35th largest paper in America with 254,897 daily. I can look further, but based on your response, I really don't think you are interested in the facts. Anything that conflicts with your preconceived ideas are automatically suspect.

For the record, none of this amounts to a hill of beans since supplying the Convention Center was a local responsibility in the early days of the response. The MSM made it a big deal, and many bought into their deception.

Perceptions are more important than reality in this case. Legally, you are correct. However, you can be right and still be wrong. The Feds should have stepped in at that point and taken charge. Legalisms and bureaucratic turf wars don't play well in Peoria. When someone is drowning, you throw them a life preserver even if the lifeguard says you can't.

139 posted on 09/08/2005 11:22:12 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

>>>I don't watch Scarborough on a regular basis either, but he does use MSNBC news reporters who are MSM. The TP is the area's biggest paper by circulation and the 35th largest paper in America with 254,897 daily. <<<

Again, even if FEMA was monitoring the MSM, they would have to have been very lucky to catch those reports.

>>>I can look further, but based on your response, I really don't think you are interested in the facts. Anything that conflicts with your preconceived ideas are automatically suspect.<<<

Don't let me stand in the way of your FEMA bashing. If you have more 'mainstream' reports from August 31, 2005, then by all mean post them.

I will repeat the last statement from my last post. "I am still interested in finding out how many MSM reporters (e.g., those who normally report on network and cable nightly news) were actually reporting this on Wednesday, August 31."

>>>Perceptions are more important than reality in this case. Legally, you are correct. However, you can be right and still be wrong. The Feds should have stepped in at that point and taken charge. Legalisms and bureaucratic turf wars don't play well in Peoria. When someone is drowning, you throw them a life preserver even if the lifeguard says you can't.<<<

You are right. If I was running FEMA I would have sent in 300 helicopters to help rescue those in danger of drowning. Wait a minute . . . that is what FEMA did.

Sometimes there just aren't enough helicopters.


142 posted on 09/08/2005 2:05:32 PM PDT by PhilipFreneau ("Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." -- James 4:7)
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To: kabar

What part of "FEMA is not a first responder" don't you understand? How may times to people have to say it before it starts to sink in?

The local government had sole resposibility for the convention center for the first 4 days as per pre-established division of responsiblity.

If you want to change the role of FEMA in the future and turn in into a first responder then debate that, but I am sick of the FEMA bashers setting up a fake standard by pretending it is a first responder and then being shocked, shocked it did not act as a first responder.


154 posted on 09/08/2005 9:58:09 PM PDT by On the Road to Serfdom
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