What would we EVER do with the MSM?
I would bet my house that if debris had hit an "Anderson Cooper" it would have happened while he was explaining how the hurricanes wouldn't have happened if only we had elected John ("Did you know I served in Vietnam?") Kerry.
Y'all might really enjoy this ~
At dinner last night we met a couple from New Orleans who were evac'ed to Houston because of Katrina and then to Dallas because of Rita. The wife was at work at Charity Hospital when the flooding hit - the husband had tried to get to her but the flooding made it impossible. He went to the Superdome and decided he wanted no part that and decided to try to make it their home. They have two teenage daughters and was worried about them. He ended up in water up to his neck and was pulled to safety by someone in a boat.
His wife was in the group that got rescued by boats, bussed to the airport and flown out to Houston. He got bussed to Houston.
He said they were able to keep in contact with one another via cell phones and all of them, including their daughters plus the wife's elderly mother, were able to finally reunite in Houston. But their home and every thing they owned was completely destroyed....... their home was flooded to the roof top.
The wife had a small handful of family photos in her purse that she always carries to show friends and these few pictures are all she has left. As I looked thru her photos I could lots and lots of family photos in frames on the walls in the background and I could tell that, like me, this woman loved to have pictures of her loved ones all around! My heart just ached for her.
We asked if there was anything we could do to help them and they said they were doing okay, especially since they had all been able to reunite and were all together. The only thing they said really needed was to be able to get down to Reunion Arena here in Dallas to get registered with the Red Cross. So my husband took the husband down there first thing this morning to see if they can get that done.
He just called to say they told the man that no one can help him till Monday. *sigh*
Okay, now that you have that part of the story here is the really enjoyable part - the story of how we encounter these folks from NOLA ~ we were dining in a small semi-private room off the main dining room in a local restaurant (we being my husband, my 95 year old father-in-law, our 94 year old aunt hubby had rescued from Galveston in a 26 hour exodus and my sister-in-law...who tends to be a liberal, but not a foaming at the mouth, rabid one, so tolerable). There were maybe 6 tables in this room total.
In the course of chatting over coffee after dinner someone at our table mentioned had tiresome the news media was and I sort of snapped. I launched into a mini tirade about the MSM which I finished off with a rave about how dishonest the media had been in their coverage New Orleans, just making it up as they went along and how the stupidity of the nagin and the Blanco placed the citizens of LA at risk.
This sort of out burst is a bit out of character for me, but I was I've been steaming about this and I guess I just needed to let it out. When I realized how angry I was and how I had actual raised my voice as I was venting, I immediately felt embarrassed - the room had gone dead quiet - "aw geez", I thought. "Nice going."
As I sheepishly glanced up from our table and looked across the room I saw a man who had turned his chair complete around to look at me as I was speaking. This man was vigorously nodding his head up and down and when he saw that he'd caught my eye he loudly said, "You are soooo right!!! You are absolutely right! We were there and you are soooo right!"
With that the room became like a "family dining room" with one conversation going on amongst everyone there - it was so incredible.