Its all over the Internet. ABC is licking their wounds tonight.
Thursday, September 15th, 2005
Hell Yes!
I will comment on the actual speech later, but did anyone else see the interviews with the people watching the President’s speech from the Astrodome on ABC? They were live and took place immediately following the speech. I was bracing myself for a bunch of Bush-bashing and skepticism that the President meant anything he said. Instead I found myself cheering “hell yes.”
If anyone has a link to video or the transcript, please forward it to me or post in the comments section.
All of those interviewed at the Astrodome were black. They were all evacuees from New Orleans. When the first person was asked if she believed the President she said “yes.” She said that what the President said lifted her up and gave her hope. When the reporter questioned her about the slow response of the federal government, she said they did a good job once they got there and that she blamed the local and state officials, who had not done their jobs. She said they were the ones there when the storm hit and they did not do what they needed to do. Then she got on a rant about the buses that were not used. She later said she blamed Mayor Nagin personally.
The others interviewed also spoke very favorably about the President. I don’t remember the specifics, but I was flabbergasted that the responses were so positive. My best guess as to the reason is that these people responded as they did is that they have not been able to watch the cable news coverage.
Also on ABC, Aaron Broussard said that the President said what the people in the region needed to hear – hope. He said they did not need a blame game, they needed hope. Boy, if only the media understood that.
State Sen. Cleo Fields was interviewed and did not bash the President. He actually spoke pretty kindly of him. He faulted the government on all levels. I think that all the money the Louisiana politicians see coming their way is making them think much more favorably of the President.
I am now going to switch channels to find out if ABC’s response is similar to the others.
UPDATE: Ian Schwartz did not get video of the ABC interviews, but he found this Free Republic post about them for me. He also has video of the President’s speech.
-- Lorie Byrd
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Oooooooohhhhhhhhhhh Yeeeaaaaahhhhh!!!
(Yes I stoled that from the sick freak Glenn.)