Posted on 10/23/2001 7:01:18 PM PDT by jerod
I really think our media must get bonus checks from Osama.
Author's subjective characterization of Mr. Williams:
When we spoke Monday evening, Williams was clearly upset about the fact that thousands of Capitol Hill workers were tested and treated for anthrax last week immediately after an anthrax-laced letter addressed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle was detected, but thousands of postal workers were not tested.Compare that to an actual quote of the Mayor:
Williams noted that everyone, including the best health care experts in the country, are clearly learning about this bacteria. "I think to blame the CDC directly may be unfounded because I think the science is changing," he said. "A lot of people are learning new things here."It seems as though Blitzer and Helen Thomas see a racial issue, but not the Mayor.
As I understand the situation, the first Brentwood postal employee to show symptoms went to D.C, General with flu-like symptoms. They did not ask him where he worked. He did not say. They diagnosed flu, and sent him home. He died of anthrax.
Two questions immediately arise. Had the Brentwood worker seen any television or read a newspaper in the last two weeks? If so, he knew that anthrax had been found at the Senate. From doing his work, he knew that all Capitol Hill mail goes through Brentwood. WHY DIDN'T HE SPEAK UP AT THE HOSPITAL?
Second question. The Hospital workers presumably had TVs and read newspapers. WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK IF THE MAN WAS EITHER A CAPITOL HILL OR POSTAL EMPLOYEE, given his symptoms?
If the one worker had been correctly diagnosed, all others would have been tested, and all would have begun treatment immediately. This is not racism; this is stupidity. The worker didn't say what he knew. The Hospital employees didn't ask to find out what they did not know.
The President of the United States is NOT RESPONSIBLE for the actions of individuals who had the information, or could have easily gotten it, and failed to act as intelligent people in that situation would have. Both Wolf Blitzer and Helen Thomas (who covered herself in embarrassment as usual at today's press conference) are trying to turn this into a racial matter.
To the contgrary, it is simply a failure of common sense at the front lines. Such failures can be deadly either on the battlefield or on the home front, in time of war. A few thousand years of human history demonstrate the point. Normally, the mails are not dangerous either to postal employees or recipients of mail. Normally, a wooden statue of a horse is not dangerous.
But this is wartime. Troy was lost for not checking out a wooden horse. Two people have died and others are exposed in D.C. for the same basic reason -- the lack of due diligence in wartime. In short, carelessness can be fatal.
But we cannot expect the American lamestream media to be aware of historical precedents. They've been grossly ignorant in the past. No reason to expect they have gotten any better just because we are at war.
Congressman Billybob
I wonder how long it will take Benjamin Hooks and
Qwesie Infume (can't spell it correctly) and the
other racists at NAACP to blame the deaths of black
postal workers on Bush like they blamed Bush for the
dragging death of James Bird in Texas. Or to pronounce
that xxx represent the "taliban arm of the republican party."
This race bating and the fanning the flames of
race oriented differences should be beneath everyone.
Failure to do so will only hurt the country when we need unity.
I agree, 100%.
Great comment.
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