Okay, I just got back from getting a hair cut and the grocery store.
And I SWEAR I never brought it up....I swear!
But people are FURIOUS with the press. Just furious; laughing at them being so melodramatic; they were acting out things they had seen on TV -- things reporters asked --mocking them -- it was really funny!
Finally, I asked a bunch of them who they blamed -- and to a person, they said the governor and mayor.
So I asked about Bush -- and they all said -- he did what he's suppose to do, send in what the governor wants.
I mean, this is NC -- they know when FEMA is suppose to show up!
I felt like I had landed on a sea of sanity. They were positively SNEERING about the press.
I won't even get into what they said about the "victims" and Jesse Jackson, et al..
And they don't even POST HERE! :-)
It was Bush's and FEMA's fault for expecting the governor and mayor to be competent. :)
How refreshing for a change!
I wish Free Republic was a news channel on TV. Every time I try to watch the MSM in a disaster, I get so PO'd. I still think the MSM should have to wear shock collars while reporting, and the viewers should all get the activation devices.
"...and of course, the fault is all Bush'ssssaaaaHH!!!!" (BZZZZ)
"...and how do you feel about your house being under water and your family dyinggggggaaaahhhhHHHH!!!" (BZZZZ)
I believe you. I live in WA state, so called "Blue" state, and the Gov and Mayor are getting hit here. Americans aren't stupid.
The press made absolute FOOLS of themselves this past week. And I include Shep and Geraldo in that. Most Americans have to fend for themselves, most are not on welfare, and most when they see fellow Americans in trouble make sure they get help. They don't sit around looking to fire people, impeach the President, or foam at the mouth at press conferences.
Most Americans were sending money, contacting friends and families affected, even taking trucks and going down to help. Most are donating supplies on limited budgets and taking them into their own homes.
They aren't impressed by grandstanding finger pointing politicians. They aren't impressed by elites worrying about their "image". They aren't impressed by Congress calling for Commissions. they aren't impressed by race baiters like Jesse or overly coddled celeb rappers like West. They could see the images of MISS and Alabama operating just fine, and the citizens of NO embarrasing us to the world and they were furious with those people. But they didn't sit around casting blame, we're helping the people of NO anyway!
They saw the Gov crying, Mary threatening violence and the Mayor cursing.
I wager the hatred of these people just skyrocketed even further after all this. I want a poll of the press done by Gallop. I wager they get hit hard.
That's refreshing to hear. I sit near 3 cubicles full of bubble-headed Democrats and I'm sick to death of hearing them blame the Feds for everything from hurricanes to athelete's foot.
It got bad enough the other day that I pretty much told them to shut up and get back to work, and I'm not even their boss.
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We gotta start giving the American people a little more credit.
As Rush just said, people don't think of this politically, they think of it AS A HURRICANE. Blaming Bush for it is just plain silly to anyone with a modicum of common sense.
The MSM really overplayed it this time, and the left is going to sink farther and farther into the mire because of it......
Lord love you for that on the ground report! Will be getting my hair cut tomorrow!