A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....09-29-05....In Two Storms, Same Media Morons Seen

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[dutchess]

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In Two Storms, Same Media Morons Seen
by JohnHuang2

Associated Press writer Stephen Ohlemacher, in a piece entitled, "Rita's Victims Wealthier Than Katrina's," notes that "Hurricane Rita smashed into a region that is wealthier, more mobile and much less densely populated than the one devastated by Hurricane Katrina." How does a hurricane with the hots for soaking the rich know where to find the rich? The Eye -- center of the storm. Gives them eagle-sharp vision. That's how hurricanes with racist impulses like Katrina could find New Orleans. No wonder white Mississippi made out so well with Katrina!

Applying his piercing logic, Ohlemacher adds that Rita's victims "are less likely to live in poverty, more likely to own a car," less "likely to be a member of a minority group," more likely to be Republican, less likely to have voted for Kerry, more likely to own stock, less likely to love Michael Moore flicks (OK, I added the last four).

With news that the death toll from Rita was very low and damage to oil refineries much less-than-expected, libbies have had little to cheer about. I guess that's what all these 'RITA DEVASTATES RICH BASTION OF PORT ARTHUR!' headlines are for. They make liberals feel better.

Especially since we now learn that those sensational media rumors in the aftermath of Katrina -- "200 EVACUEES MURDERED BY MICHAEL BROWN AND FEMA AT SUPERDOME!" . . . "WOMEN AND CHILDREN RAPED BY ROVING GANGS OF HALLIBURTON EXECUTIVES AT CONVENTION CENTER!" -- have now been discredited. Yes, even the rumor that Lake Pontchartrain sharks trained by the Carlyle Group and alligators from Jebby's backyard were prowling through black neighborhoods. And gay neighborhoods.

As part of his valorous effort to 'restore' law and order in New Orleans right after Katrina, Ray Nagin went on the "Oprah" show. The clown told the TV audience of evacuees "in that frickin' Superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people."

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One rumor claimed that a dead infant had been dumped in a trash can. It was the only bit of positive news for pro-abort libbies. When you're a loser, you take good news where you can find it.

Now the press says it's stunned that wild and unfounded rumors they "reported" from people on the street turn out to be wildly unfounded. It took the media only almost a month to figure it out.

The Los Angeles Times admits that the Los Angeles Times innocently adopted much the same hyperbolic tone as the rest of the MSM, reporting "that National Guard troops 'took positions on rooftops, scanning for snipers and armed mobs as seething crowds of refugees milled below, desperate to flee. Gunfire crackled in the distance." If only Bush supported gun control.

But! Proving there's still something in the water at the Associated Press, AP writer Tom Raum writes that, "whatever the reasons, the residents of heavily Republican Texas seemed to get better treatment from government during Hurricane Rita" than the poor black victims of Katrina in Lousiana. How preposterous. He knows both hurricanes were racist.

Louisiana voted for Bush over Kerry, 57%-42%, but that was probably Diebold. Mayor Nagin and Oprah tried to evacuate New Orleans, but George Bush turned his Bull Connor fire hose on blacks trying to leave. That's how New Orleans got flooded. Crappy levees and crooked Big Easy politicians thieving infrastructure money had nothing to do with it, man. Racial healer Charlie Rangel told a town hall meeting last week that "George Bush is our Bull Connor!" After 5 years of "racist" Bush in office, poverty is lower than after 5 years of black leader Bill Clinton in office, so Rangle had to fabricate his cock and Bull Connor story.

New Orleans failed to use its school buses, but libbies say that was probably George Bush, too. After all, the mayor said there weren't any drivers. They were likely kidnapped by Rove and sold into Halliburton's global slave trade. Probably busy hastily digging mass graves in Iraq to bury the 10,000 corpses from the Superdome. Anyway, George Bush probably hid the bus keys. Hid 'em in the same drawer he keeps that hurricane-ending Kyoto treaty.

Raum notes that "New Orleans before Katrina was heavily populated by poor blacks who voted Democratic" and that "the issue of race is likely to linger in the aftermath of the two big storms." So far this hurricane season, we've had 17 named storms (10 is the average), 9 hurricanes (6 is the season average) and 5 major hurricanes (3 is the average) -- racism is alive and well! When a purely meteorological phenomena like a hurricane forms in the Atlantic, you know racial tensions are high.

As for images of all those white volunteers serving black evacuees in shelters, churches and synagogues -- Photoshop. It was the Congressional Black Caucus serving all those meals.

It never occurs to these idiot "reporters" that the more effective government response to Rita may have something to do with (a) Texas having a functional government, (b) a governor who doesn't need 24 hours to think about the hurricane, (c) an effective police force and (d) local officials who are on the ball. It means better preparation for dealing with natural disasters like floods, forest fires, hurricanes, tornadoes or another Kerry presidential run.

While the moron press and Louisiana's government think downed power lines, uprooted trees, wrecked homes and flooded streets are caused by racism, Texas officials believe a more likely explanation is that a hurricane came through.

When it's not busy race-baiting, the press is busy trying to split Republicans. In Jackson Square, Bush proposed a "Gulf Opportunity Zone -- presumably, a tax-free status to encourage investment . . . Worker Recovery Accounts of up to $5,000 for job training, education and childcare. He proposed a Urban Homesteading Act on federal lands," (Michael Barone, 9/19/05). Really Marxist stuff. Post-disaster reconstruction won't be cheap, but if you think that's expensive, imagine what it would cost to fix that other disaster area, Helen Thomas's face. Puts it all in perspective.

Going forward, expect the MSM to eagerly not apply any lessons from their botched Katrina coverage. Which is why I want an independent commission to investigate the MSM. America needs another commission. It's a recipe for finding out the truth. We need a full-scale probe of the MSM's response to Katrina. Liberals love commissions. I'm sure they'll love this one. We need a thorough review to find out the obvious. To make it as independent and nonpartisan as possible, just like the 9/11 Commission, I want Michael Brown to chair this Commission. It's only fair. What do you say, libbies?

Anyway, that's...

My two cents

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[dutchess]

First March for Justice, Oct 31, 1998, was my FR tipping point. My life has not been the same since!

I actually convinced my nonpolitical hubby to take me there for our 23rd anniversary. Was pretty shy back then and hung out in the "wings" BUT did shake JimR's hand, have a picture of me with MattDrudge and Lucianne. It was an awesome experience. And yes...this place has CHANGED lots of lives AND I BELIEVE...politics and the media as we know it!!!! Who would have thought!

[DollyCali]

You sound like my brother Duane. He says he doesn't like & wont eat anything that looks like a potscrubber.. (brocolli, cauliflower )

I dont like asparagus, mushrooms, okra..terrible vegetarian huh?

[dutchess]

I dont like asparagus, mushrooms, okra..terrible vegetarian huh?

Oh...yum mushrooms of every kind...figured you would like the portobella veggie burger. Agree with you on okra. I LOVE gumbo WITHOUT okra. Now do you do fish or seafood????? I hate to say...I LOVE BEEF!!!!

[DollyCali]

no, I don't eat any flesh. I used to be a filet/tenderloin (beef) enthusiast & most pork.. My fav pizza was pork intense.

Mushrooms.. well it is partly an allergy situation & partly the result of a college class YEARS ago. I do a lot with soy/bean burgers. Most women would benefit w/heavy doses of soy.

Golly, waiting for the Dose (from snugs).. should be some great pix of the roberts swearing in. She is usually pretty early in posting thread. hope there is no problem w/her parents.

Still haven't made the cauliflower.. do have a headache. no doubt need food. the one banana a few hours ago isn't cutting it.

I did take doggies out for a romp in woods.

[DollyCali]

BTW, how is your dad doing?

[Taxman]

"Who would have thought!" I think we all hoped that the FReedom ride we embarked on back then would lead us to where we are today -- the LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist Bastards are the ones on the outside looking in!

Now, all we have to do is keepem there!

And, hold our folks feet to the fire!

[LadyX]

Dear John Letter #1,473

So much hoopla attributed to rascally Repubbies!!
Decided to do a little investigatin' acting as Maggie Malone, Sometime Reporter for Miss Billie's FR's Finest Press On.

Little tricky getting approval from Karl Rover, but we Freepers have our ways (had to enlist the aid of Darksheare to accomplish this), and I actually was able to get a few words from President Bush!

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"Mr. President, Sir, a Free Republic Pajamahadeen Member here, asking for any comment you'd like to make about these outrageous charges that you purposely aimed those two weapons of mass destruction to wipe out the poor New Oileans folks, and "covered up your crime" with a slight swipe at the right edge of Texas?"

"It also is claimed you singlehandedly saved most of your beloved Texas at the last minute by singing like Glenn Campbell the lyrics to Galveston..."

Galveston oh Galveston
I still hear your seawinds blowing
I still see her dark eyes glowing
she was 21 and I love Galveston

Galveston oh Galveston
I still hear your seawaves crashing
while I watch the cannon's flashing
I clean my gun and dream of Galveston

I still see her standing by the water
standing there looking out to sea
and is she waiting there for me
on the beach where we used to run

Galveston oh Galveston
I am so afraid of dying
before I dry the tears she's crying
before I watch your seabirds flying in the sun
at Galveston at Galveston.

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"You thus are credited with saving Galveston and Houston and incalculable losses."

"Well, Miss Malone of Free Repulic, the press of course
made a somewhat "overblown" report..:))"

"Now this is strictly off the cuff,
but I strongly suspect the storms are something
of a reverse sexist thing!"

"I observed that Jeb had Charley devastate much of
South Florida and we got through it
without a lot of whining and blaming of me."
"Do you think that possibly Katrina and Rita found
a section in the Liberals' Playbook and aimed themselves
at the Gulf section of the country
and crippled a lot of the oil locations
in order to bring me down and blame me?"

"Think that over, Miss Malone,
and draw your own conclusions.
"Have to walk Barney now, if you'll please excuse me."

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Think I gathered at least fifty cent's worth JH,
dutchess and Miss Billie!

[humblegunner]

"Would you look at this!
I need ol' Karl to meet this lady!"

[MEG33]

Great layout and pledge, dutchess...Another winner ,John!

[MEG33]

LOL!

[MEG33]

LOL!

[MEG33]

Great..Thanks for sharing..
GO NAVY!

[LadyX]

[Shhhh, gunner!
They'll think I paid you to post that for your Other Other Mother!]

[MEG33]

LOL..Thanks, LadyX!

[LadyX]

Hi, MEG!
So glad you were away from the fury of Rita, and have are having a bit of a respite in your own house.
It is mindboggling to realize how many thousands of persons are suffering as a result of not only these two storms, but all the ones that hit the Gulf and Atlantic coasts/states in the past several years.

In whole sections of Florida, for example, there are many persons still without habitable homes, waiting for insurance/government money, and/or enough construction workers to perform the repairs/rebuilding.

I doubt they see Mayor Nagin's New Orleans as "more special" than the rest of the country, and "due" total renovation.
Are we expected to replace his slum sections with houses worth $100,000?

What a pathetic mess has been created there by the Old Guard there, guarding their treaure chests, and he and Governor Blanco "demanding" help from the rest of the nation...
All gall is not in Gaul, methinks.

[ohioWfan]

Me too, dutchess! If y'all set up a time, I'll do my best to make it wherever it is.

Columbus is a good spot, Tuesday is usually my freest day except for posting the DOSE.

Hey........the TRIBE just won again! I'm trying not to get too excited about this...........but they're looking GOOD.

[DollyCali]

Well, I am going to say goodnight (or try at least) & get some shut eye. God speed to you all and may His angels keep you safe & give you wonderful rest.

[dutchess]

Great Dear John Letter Lovely Lady! Glad you were able to get here!!!! ((((maggie)))))

[dutchess]

Hi Meg... thanks for the kudos. I think this is one of John's best.... LOL as the LEFT CONTINUES to implode LOL!

[dutchess]

Hey...great to see you Sorry to say I've put off "shooting" for awhile...only because of time...BUT... after 1 1/2 years on and off of flying lessons just solo'd last weekened
Awesome experience....figure if I can be in a plane alone 500 feet above ground I can shoot a gun. That's the next step!!!! :o)