BLAME BUSH ALERT!!! Leftist editorialist tries to connect GWB to the Chicago nightclub tragedy.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | Feb. 23, 2003

[Missouri]

Jittery nation spurred Chicago tragedy as much as pepper spray Leonard Pitts Copyright the Miami Herald 02/22/2003 10:48 AM

[Missouri]

I had a feeling someone would blame Bush for this, too.

[freedumb2003]

>>And last Monday's stampede? A signpost. A metaphor for life in a nervous nation<<

A metaphor? What is this idiot smoking? I could say the same for a traffic accident. The guy in the left lane panicked and swerved into the next lane and caused a collision. Clearly a metaphor for a jittery nation.

They should talke this jerk's crayons away and never let him write again. But they won't. Some damfools will probably even send in letters AGREEING with him.

[Doc Savage]

Glad to find out Bush was responsible......for a minute there I thought it was just a situation in which semi-literate, doped-up cretins in an illegal ONE DOOR hellhole trampled each other to death because they were stupid!!

[Mark Felton]

And, quite literally, we are scared to death.

This author is a coward, as well as anti-American. These are some of the most vile traits in a citizen.

To say Bush is responsible for people being afraid of terrorist attacks is to blame Bush for the behaviour of the terrorists. This can only be construed as conscious, deliberate and orchestrated America-hating. (it is "orchestrated" because the editors have chosen to print this)

[beaversmom]

Oh you've got to be kidding. I guess GWB invented terrorism too. These people are only getting loonier and loonier--I can only see it hurting their "cause" in the end.

[section9]

I emailed Leonard Pitts.

Pitts is one of those liberal black columnists that believes that every Republican wears a hood.

Basically, I told him that the fact that the Nation is jittery doesn't releave the obligation of these "Close Friends of Jesse" from running a safe nightclub.

I also told him that I was awaiting his column that accused George and Laura of burning crosses at the ranch with lumber supplied by David Duke.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[beaversmom]

Of course they use the predominately black club incident to blame him for. I wonder what they would have said if the club in Rhode Island had been mostly black. Probably something to the affect, "if we weren't having all this testosterone induced war talk, bands wouldn't be trying to emulate the sounds of bombs on stage". It's getting really ridiculous.

[Search4Truth]

"I don't mean to discount the fact that dozens of people were injured and that 21 of them died."

But I do mean to use those unfortunate deaths as political cannon fodder.

[Wil H]

Yeah, and George Bush should have stopped those damn fireworks in Rhode Island too, it's all his fault for not being aware....

[HoustonPatriot]

It never fails. They blame Bush for the oil shortage, the Iraq problem, and now for the nightclub fire. What's next, blame Bush for t the Messiah's crucifixion? Or maybe say Bush caused man to fall in the Garden.
These guys are idiots.

[roj]

No, that was Al Gore.

[mathluv]

Don't forget that the owner of the Chicago club is a friend of Jesse Jackson. Of course the Republican President is to blame!

[Missouri]

Here in St. Louis, we have a "FREak speech" (or free speech) radio station, WGNU 920 am. One elderly Black lady called in and stated that "the police should not have broken up the fight in the nightclub by hitting people with their nightsticks". Thank God the talk show host (Bill Borst) is a Conservative and set her straight about the facts of this tragedy.
First off, I'm of European desent.I hate to bring race into this but mis-information in the Black community here widespread. People of all races need to show personal responsibility.
For Pitts to bring GWB into this tragdy is just irresponsible and shows his contempt for conservatives.

[jackbill]

Not suprisingly, the Baltimore Sun picked up this column this morning.

Now we can expect some idiot to blame President Bush for the disaster at the club in Rhode Island. The band playing there was "Great White" and everyone knows that most of the people who voted for Bush were White.

[cerberus]

This is disgusting and disappointing.

Pitts wrote a magnificent piece after 9-11 that was widely applauded. I even emailed him at the time and got a nice response. Lately he has been harping incessantly at Bush and now this.

A good mind gone to pot.

[Missouri]

Next, Bush will be blamed for the Lindbergh kidnapping.

[Pharmboy]

Blaming the Reverend Jackson would make much more sense; in fact, a case could now be made that the Rev JJ has caused more black deaths with this tragedy than the KKK has in the past 30 years!

[A_Niceguy_in_CA]

When the city ordered the niteclub shut down for saftey violations, it was Jesse Jackson who demanded a deal with the city to keep the club open for his friends despite the violations. Almost qualifies JJ as an accessory to the 21 charges of criminal manslaugther?