Posted on 08/27/2006 1:18:19 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
Since the media has planned an orgy of finger pointed for the anniversary of Katrina, let's make sure they get a finger in the eye they so richly deserve for their performance. Here's a few I recall, and I'm sure there are more:
Photo captions had white survivors foraging for supplies, while black people were captioned as looting. Helicopters were being fired at, which led to a stand down till it became clear that it was untrue. All those lives lost during that interval are due to media neglagence and the blood of those victims is on the media's hands. Please feel free to forward the results to local or national talk radio so their sorry reporting is not white washed. The media told us of a little girl who had been rapoed and then her throat slit in the Superdome.
I recall hearing how they went DAYS with NO FOOD OR WATER, yet pictures of the superdome showed it completely filled with coolers, empty soda cans, water bottles, and food wrappers.
one thing the media omitted was the answer to the question the rest of America was screaming at their TVs:
"why don't those people just walk out of NO if it's such a hellhole at the Superdome!?"
And also this:
Penn's ill-fated mercy mission came after Canadian diva Dion, famed for her theme song from the watery epic Titanic, became extremely upset as she spoke of the plight of the survivors who had to wait for up to five days to be rescued.
"I open the television, there's people still there, waiting to be rescued, and for me it's not acceptable," she said on CNN television's Larry King Live yesterday.
"I know there's reasons for it. I'm sorry to say I'm being rude, but I don't want to hear those reasons," she said of the delayed relief effort that has prompted virulent criticism of the US government
(/ Dion temper tantrum)
Hey, man...let's be fair. It's been 5 years and New York can't even fix that "hole in the ground".
Well they sure made a mistake there eh!
I feel bad for the folks in NO, but there were LOTS of other people affected by the hurricane who did not live in Louisiana!
The difference between "Us" and "them" is, "they" have had the Federal Gov. give them everything to them. (welfare) We on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi have a different mindset. We help our selves, and if we get help , we are thankful for it, if we don't, we just make do with what we have.
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