Posted on 09/16/2005 5:20:34 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
Sorry, I posted this earlier. See thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1485585/posts
It sounds like many of the displaced people have benefited by not listening to the MSM news slant, much to ABC's chagrin.
Hey don't be sorry, I apologize to you. However Brent won't mind the double post as it shows we are reading.
Surprised ABC aired this piece.....
Ted Koppel looked shocked after the interview. He grudgingly said the President's speech was effective if that's the way many people reacted. Then he went to George Stephanopolous and returned quickly to Bush-bashing.
In a nutshell.
:-) It's a great piece
The commies at abc couldn't believe that the "victims from NO" did not have a bad word to say about President Bush, just the opposite, they all believe him and trust in his words. One woman admitted that she could have gotten out, but CHOSE to stay. They blamed the mayor and governor, not the President for the lack of buses going into the neighborhoods to help evacuate the people. These people know that the mayor had access to the school buses and did not use them. The lefty reporterette almost pleaded with these people to say something, anything bad about the President, but to no avail.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, screwed again, abc.
I love the 'captured grammar' ... definitely inner-city folk who did not get a lot of 'schoolin' in their youth.
It's good to see that some of the victims are not buying into the MSM BS that everything is Bush's fault. They were there, they know the real story. When the storm hit, local and state officials were woefully incompetent, period.
I am so glad that this information is getting out there. Not all of the evacuees are of the same mindset. I was discussing this with the wife of someone very high in my husband's command. For some, Katrina may be the door to an opportunity to change their lives to the positive.
Hmmm. If this attitude is widespread among the evacuees from N.O., not only may Louisiana loose a lot of hitherto reliably demonRAT voters, but wherever they end up settling, they may not be so reliably tied to the party of the left anymore.
But Bush's words failed to sway Houstonian Clara Guidry, 49. Her daughter, Kesha Jones, 27, a New Orleans-area hospital worker, had to flee Katrina with her boyfriend's family. The couple and seven others slept in Guidry's one-bedroom apartment several days before returning to southeast Louisiana Saturday.
Guidry said she does not believe the president did all he could to help residents stranded in the city for days after the storm and she suggested Thursday night's speech was more damage control than impassioned commitment.
"He talks well, but I don't think he'll be able to do what he's claiming to do," she said. "But I am glad he admitted that he had a part in what happened there."
At the Reliant Center shelter, New Orleans evacuee Yolanda Johnson endured poor reception on her tiny television as well as frequent interruptions from loudspeaker announcements and children playing nearby as she watched the speech. Afterward, she said she was disappointed.
"I really thought he was going to say something beneficial, something for us to look forward to,'' said Johnson, 39. "It's the same thing we've been reading in the paper. Every politician makes promises and the promises are never kept."
New Orleans residents gathered at Mhakea LaMotte's Clear Lake home cheered when the president pledged to rebuild their city and affirmed its historic importance.
"Now let's just see if he holds up to his word," said Liande Wainie, 47, a legal courier from east New Orleans.
Joel Ortego, living with his wife, Tara, in an west Houston hotel, laughed sarcastically when the president said some of the rebuilding funds would be given to local authorities.
"Better be careful in Louisiana," Ortego said, referring to the city's reputation for eccentric politicians and less-than-honest governance.
His friend, Susan Capel, of New Orleans, agreed.
"There's no guarantee that the money is going to get where it needs to go," she said.
Though the group looked at the television with skepticism throughout Bush's speech, they couldn't help but get caught up with the presidents' words as he conjured up images of jazz bands playing through a rebuild Crescent City.
"He's absolutely right," Tara Ortego said. "That city will never die."
(Pretty good cross section of public opinion. I don't sense a "raw anger" being expressed against Bush; however, that some in the MSM and on the Hill would like the victims of Katrina to publicly portray.)
The best bit of unintentionally outstanding journalism ever.
Send that link to everyone you know. The truth will out.
Absolutely stunning.
After somewhat fair and reasonable questions to the evacuees did not elicit the desired responses, the left-wing media maggot started in with the usual LEADING questions. Even THEY did not work.
I enjoyed that immensely.
I bet those people won't be let back into New Orleans (and vote against the mayor)!
I saw the interviews last night real time.
While it was happening, I kept thinking to myself: "ABC is not liking this one bit".
It felt like his questions were leading them to bash Bush. None of them bit though. You see, these are the folks on the ground. The one's hardest hit. You can try and sugar coat it and put whatever slant you want, but they know that local and state government failed them first. The federal government has come in to pick up the pieces.
Having lived through Hurricane Andrew and its aftermath, I can tell you that the only thing we felt when we saw the helicopters, tanks, and army convoys come down was a sense of relief. A belief that everything was going to be OK and that the calvary had come in. No resentments for the US government at all. It was a natural disaster. People did the best they could to survive. We were just glad someone was willing to be there to help us pick up the pieces.
agreed
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