[conservatism_IS_compassion]

This is a federal system. There are vestiges of State's rights left in the country - at least when there aren't Clintons in the White House.

The scandal is not that the governor was able to block the movement of people in an emergency situation, the scandal is that Governor Blanco in fact did block the Red Cross from supplying people with food and water. And blankets.

And the really big scandal is that establishment journalism did not then, nor even now does not, ask the Red Cross where the relief supplies were.

The real scandal is that, with the connivance of the FCC, big journalism arrogantly proclaims its own objectivity. To do that is is to argue from the premise of superior virtue. And to do that is to engage in sophistry, which is an ironclad proof of lack of objectivity.

The real scandal is that the journalism establishment is stuffing the fecklessness of the Governor of Louisiana and the Mayor of New Orleans down the memory hole before your very eyes, and fabricating a Republican "scandal" out of whole cloth. The real scandal is that "objective" journalism merged with the Democratic Party during the Vietnam War.

Cindy Sheehan, Rush Limbaugh, and CBS
August 22, 2005 | conservatism_IS_compassion

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping/post and comment(s). BTTT.

[TexasTransplant]

As usual, your thread/post makes more sense than anything else reported.

Days before this tragedy I predicted what the "professional victims" would do and say and my posts were removed, the threads were removed and I was chastised by fellow freepers.
DU did a number on me and I was chastised again.

I correctly predicted (before the levy broke) almost exactly what has happened since. The City, Levy Board and State Government preferred to count their chickens, they were already spending the Federal (FREE MONEY) that they were going to get. The Welfare recipients (7 and 8 continuous Generations! thought they were going to cleanup too, which is why they didn't leave. Doing the right thing, the smart thing means that you take responsibility, these folks know that to accept responsibility means that you don't receive that means you PAY.

The media is complicit and you point it out better than I ever could, I can see it, you know how to say it.

Kudos again for an outstanding post

TT

[E.G.C.]

Media buas bump.

[auboy]

I listened to President Bush during the swearing in ceremony of Karen Hughes this morning. He said how important it was to counter the lies of the terrorists' propaganda machine, and to counter immediately.

IMO, his administration needs to do the exact same thing and counter the lies of domestic terrorists that in large measure make up the Democrat Party and Old Media. And it needs to counter quickly and aggressively. It's way past time to slap these traitors upside the head.