Posted on 09/16/2005 4:04:55 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
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RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites. Here's President Bush last night from New Orleans. BUSH: I also offer this pledge of the American people: Throughout the area hit by the hurricane, we will do what it takes. We will stay as long as it takes to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives. And all who question the future of the Crescent City need to know: There is no way to imagine America without New Orleans, and this great city will rise again. RUSH: So let's go now to the Astrodome in Houston, where lying in wait -- or is it laying in wait? Whatever. They were sitting there. ABC News, Ted Koppel with a special early edition of Nightline with reporter Dean Reynolds. And they had lined up a sort of town hall meeting of guests, evacuees from New Orleans, who were taken outside the air-conditioned comfort of the Astrodome, made to sit outside in the heat and humidity and the insects of Houston, Texas, while watching this speech. ABC just knew that these people they interviewed were going to rip Bush to shreds. Well, let's go to the tape. The reporter, Dean Reynolds, says, "I'd like to get the reaction of Connie London. She spent several horrible hours at the Superdome. You heard the president say repeatedly that you are not alone, that the country stands beside you. Do you believe him?" LONDON: Yeah, I believe him because here in Texas they have truly been good to us. REYNOLDS: Did you get a sense of hope that you could return to your home one day in New Orleans? LONDON: Yes, I did. I did. REYNOLDS: Did you harbor any anger toward the president because of the slow federal response?
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RUSH: And this did not change during the whole show. You hear how the reporter, Dean Reynolds, was sweating himself, doing his best to extract from these evacuees from New Orleans -- once again, made to leave the air-conditioned comfort of the Astrodome to go outside in the heat, humidity and insects of Houston, sit there and watch the speech, and they just knew these people were going to come out and tar and feather Bush, and when they didn't, Dean Reynolds kept probing and kept asking and kept hinting and kept imploring them to rip into Bush, the media living in the moment, and it did not happen. By the way, I'll have to check this out, but I got an e-mail from a subscriber at Rush 24/7 today who said that he found a story back in the '90s from I think it was either the Lafayette newspaper in Louisiana, or the Baton Rouge newspaper, that Mary Landrieu had succeeded in getting something like 150 buses put together in 14 hours to take voters to the polls in New Orleans. But back to the audiotape. From ABC's early edition of Nightline, outside the air-conditioned comfort of the Astrodome, where New Orleans evacuees were made to sit and watch the speech amidst the heat and the humidity and the insects of Houston. Dean Reynolds goes to another guest. "Now, Mary, you were rescued from your house, which was basically submerged in your neighborhood. Did you hear something in the president's words that you can gleen some hope from?"
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REYNOLDS: And Cecilia, did you feel that the president was sincere tonight? CECILIA: Yes, he was. RUSH: Yes, he was. Finally desperate, ABC News Dean Reynolds goes back to evacuee No. 1 here. He said, "Mary, what is the one mistake that could have prevented -- that would have made your lives better? Is it simply getting all of you out much sooner? What was the one mistake? MARY: I'm going to tell you the truth. I had the opportunity to get out, but I didn't believe it. So I stayed there til it was too late.
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KOPPEL: Dean Reynolds, thank you very much. If the national response is reflected by that small group of people in the parking lot of the Astrodome, the president has made some major progress tonight.
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"More Americans STILL get their news from my ass than from any other source."
Oh, honey! You are soooo right on! Welcome to the real world (as though you haven't been there all along!)
Wow. Amazing clip.
Benny Hinn said "I am a little mad...that these people have gone for days with no help. If not for the Body of Christ, where would they be? No one is sending them any help."
female evacuee: "You all are the first, the first ones in here giving us Wal-Mart cards. There ain't no FEMA, FEMA ain't giving us Wal-Mart cards. The government done nothing."
Hinn: "I guess it makes you want to yell and scream, doesn't it?"
evacuee: "We already done that."
Will Benny Hinn be the next to proclaim: 'George Bush doesn't care about black people'?
This a fantastic. Dems in meltdown. This interview should get out to the world.
"I fault the Mayor of our city personally I really do."
This lady gets it.
The liberal idiots are so out of touch.
I wonder if they even get the irony of their situation? When they can't choreograph the news, for some odd reason it turns out altogether different than what they would have produced themselves. Delicious is a word that comes to mind.
Sounds like these ladies may be candidates for honorary Texas citizens.
FGS
The personification of "knitted brow syndrome"? Koppel hasn't changed much since I last saw him.
They were BRAGGING about getting together those buses at the last minute in order to get out a few thousand more voters in the poor black district to vote for mousy landrieu because she was in a tight race.
They got the buses in mere hours.
And was driven thru the neighborhoods with a megaphone and music playing, yelling to folks to get out and vote, free beans and rice and the whole schmeer.
Sick.
But gee, ol mousy landrieu just didn't have enough personal investment in the outcome to get those buses together for folks facing a CAT 4 hurricane.
Liberals are so sick. In every way.
It is alternating photos of Dean Reynolds asking questions, and a couple of black ladies with answers that drive him into the ground like a cheap tent stake... I guarante a ROFLOL experience when you read it!
I saw this live last night on ABC and I was dying laughing. I knew what ABC was up to and I thought they might succeed. Those fine Americans had nothing but good things to say about Texas and President's speech and blamed their local and state governments for doing nothing to help them.
It was a joy to behold. ABC's Koppel and Renolds looked like they had been kicked in the groin. heehee!
Thanks for the ping.
Want to be famous? Do a conservative "SNL" -- tons of easy fresh material.
Marvelous. The media has failed to get the victims to fall for the nonsense - now if the words of this lady and others will reach the ears of the sheeple that have fallen for it.
I am afraid it won't last. The Dem machine will make sure some black leaders get these strays back on the reservation.
fantastic! instead of blaming the President, she took personal responsibility! this is great!
You have got to love it.
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