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To: Kaslin

How much of Katrina was truly a failure at the federal level, and how much was a media/liberal creation of a narrative, that Bush was to blame??

Bush declared a federal disaster even before Katrina hit.

The fact that local officials are the key people in charge when a disaster hits was lost in the media/liberal narrative that Bush was uncaring and inept and all that.

I couldn’t believe the left could politicize a hurricane when Katrina hit. Yet they did.

Maybe part of what we’re seeing is that the left saw that they couldn’t successfully politicize this hurricane, so they chose not to make that effort.


4 posted on 09/02/2017 10:09:55 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Katrina was truly .... a media/liberal creation of a narrative, that Bush was to blame??
Fake news.
That disaster also hit a tender spot, mostly dimocrat if you know.


13 posted on 09/02/2017 10:31:52 AM PDT by Recompennation
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To: Dilbert San Diego
The misreporting, blatant lying and hyper-partisanship of the press during Katrina stands out as the moment when the MSM went over the wall. It was bad before. There has been no semblance of even-handedness since. The key mistakes in New Orleans before and during Katrina were entirely the doing of Gov. Blanco and Mayor Nagin. The press simply lied about it.
16 posted on 09/02/2017 10:43:09 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: Dilbert San Diego; All

The NO disaster was a fuster due to the Mayor and Governor failing to call for evacuate after Bush told them to. The “chocolate city” Mayor ended up in jail for stealing and freezing cash. Remember that?


18 posted on 09/02/2017 10:45:52 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego; All

The NO disaster was a fuster due to the Mayor Nagin and Governor Landrieu failing to call for evacuate after Bush told them to. The “chocolate city” Mayor ended up in jail for stealing and freezing cash. Remember that?


19 posted on 09/02/2017 10:46:26 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Katrina was an abject failure at every single level.


33 posted on 09/02/2017 11:37:26 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (Why defend the EU?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The best part of Katrina is that it flushed out (pun intended) the fact that there was a large GHOST payroll in that city. People getting paychecks that didn’t exist-—or didn’t actually do any work—or were working under more than one name with the knowledge of the politicians.

Far more people should have gone to jail. IMO.


40 posted on 09/02/2017 12:49:21 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I couldn’t believe the left could politicize a hurricane when Katrina hit.....Harry Reid phoned Blanco numerous times telling her not to talk to Bush. That’s why she bawled on the phone. She was caught between a rock and a hard place. Nagin went AWOL.


49 posted on 09/02/2017 2:17:53 PM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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