Posted on 09/19/2005 5:25:07 AM PDT by veronica
Instead of "he said, she said," today's column concerns "They said, you said, I said."
"They" are the hardy souls rounded up by ABC News to listen to President Bush's speech to the nation Thursday night. I happened to tape the event and was so astonished by it that I made a transcript. What they said illuminates what you said in response to what I said -- or what you think I said -- last Monday.
Reporter Dean Reynolds found a dozen people -- all African-Americans -- who'd been evacuated from the flooded streets of New Orleans, sat with them outside the Houston Astrodome and interviewed them as soon as the president's speech ended.
Reynolds' first question was to a woman named Connie London: "You heard the president say you are not alone . . . Do you believe him?"
"Yes," she said, "because here in Texas they've been truly good to us."
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
Not only Mississippi. There are many other areas of Louisiana that had damage much worse than New Orleans. For instance, St. Bernard Parish is almost completely destroyed; the people there who were mostly shrimpers and fishermen have nothing left. I also saw a report on TV last on the town of Bogalusa which is a ways north of NO. It's the first time I've heard Bogalusa mentioned; it looked like a war zone.
The racist Bush hater press would have to actually work to cover these small towns and rural areas. Besides, NO gives them a perfect opportunity to bash Bush. Why would they want to report on anything else?
Like liberals in the military --- their inner adult is Missing in Action.
But liberals do not help the poor. They buy votes, but the money does not end up helping the poor, only enslaving them further to their new 21st Century Masters.
Man that is great. Thank you.
And they can also seem to get the busses going also.
People in buses aren't a great issue for dems. Dems need bodies to win this one -- and they're wishing for more. Republicans are looking for ways to save people, dems are looking for advantage...
But liberals do not help the poor. They buy votes, but the money does not end up helping the poor, only enslaving them further to their new 21st Century Masters.
Yes. Another example could be tonight. I might be wrong. Maybe the NFL will be pure-hearted tonight during the ABC/ESPN double-header that is supposed to focus on relief-raising.
I just get the feeling that NFL has urged ABC/ESPN to title it "Recover and Rebuild" because by helping the relief effort, the NFL helps itself (retaining a long-term franchise in NOLA).
I'm not saying the NFL is devoid of altruism. Altruistic streaks runs thru the NFL and Democrats alike. The dividing line tonight on ABC/ESPN will be, how much does the NFL focus on rebuilding NOLA? If rebuilding NOLA overshadows other aspects of the hurricane's effects during tonight's coverage, then it provides a clue the NFL is simply helping themselves as much as they help others.
"People who had far more reason than most of us last week to express indiscriminate outrage and vengefulness did not -- even when repeatedly invited to on national television."
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