To ABC's Surprise, Katrina Victims Praise Bush and Blame Mayor Nagin

[Richbee]

To ABC's Surprise, Katrina Victims Praise Bush and Blame Nagin

From Brett Baker's Blog:

ABC News producers probably didn't hear what they expected when they sent Dean Reynolds to the Houston Astrodome's parking lot to get reaction to President Bush's speech from black evacuees from New Orleans. Instead of denouncing Bush and blaming him for their plight, they praised Bush and blamed local officials.

ABC's Reynolds asked Connie London:

"Did you harbor any anger toward the President because of the slow federal response?"

She rejected the premise:

"No, none whatsoever, because I feel like our city and our state government should have been there before the federal government was called in.”

She pointed out:

“They had RTA buses, Greyhound buses, school buses, that was just sitting there going under water when they could have been evacuating people."

Not one of the six people interviewed on camera had a bad word for Bush -- despite ABC's Reynolds' best efforts.

Newsbusters

Sigh.

Caught red handed playing gottcha Politics. Caught in their own spin cycle that is.

[brother vinny]

Isn't this interesting? When someone as financially blessed as Kayne West denounces Bush as not caring about black people (even though West made his fortune under a Bush administation), while black people who lost everything they left behind in New Orleans having nothing but praise for him?

As Roscoe used to say, "I love it, I love it!"

(And I bet it chaps ol' Minn's hide-- bonus! )

[The Laughing Man]

The whole "slow federal response" meme is a liberal lie being spread with help from the biased "mainstream" media:

Source

The federal response here was faster than Hugo, faster than Andrew, faster than Iniki, faster than Francine and Jeanne."

For instance, it took five days for National Guard troops to arrive in strength on the scene in Homestead, Fla. after Hurricane Andrew hit in 1992. But after Katrina, there was a significant National Guard presence in the afflicted region in three.

...

Journalists complain that it took a whole week to do this. A former Air Force logistics officer had some words of advice for us in the Fourth Estate on his blog, Moltenthought:

"We do not yet have teleporter or replicator technology like you saw on 'Star Trek' in college between hookah hits and waiting to pick up your worthless communications degree while the grown-ups actually engaged in the recovery effort were studying engineering.

[Richbee]

Isn't this interesting? When someone as financially blessed as Kayne West denounces Bush as not caring about black people (even though West made his fortune under a Bush administation), while black people who lost everything they left behind in New Orleans having nothing but praise for him?

As Roscoe used to say, "I love it, I love it!"

(And I bet it chaps ol' Minn's hide-- bonus! )

Outstanding! Thank you for posting the contrast!

Here's more fuel for the fire:

Heather Mac Donald asks a pointed question regarding the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:

If the government’s failure to get help instantly to Katrina victims reflects American racism, why have the images of thousands of poor, displaced blacks triggered the greatest outpouring of charity in American history?

Heather is a past master in subjecting claims of racial inequity to rational inquiry, as she has in her studies of law enforcement and alleged racial profiling. Her column on the outbreak of nonsense occasioned by Hurricane Katrina deploys relevant facts against the nonsense: "The racism charges won't wash."

See:

The Katrina donations—$788 million-worth—are colorblind.

http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_09_14_05hm.html

[Richbee]

The whole "slow federal response" meme is a liberal lie being spread with help from the biased "mainstream" media:

Katrina is just too big and nasty. Why not hate Katrina?

[Mountain Man]

The whole "slow federal response" meme is a liberal lie being spread with help from the biased "mainstream" media...

That's because they've been promoting the misconception that FEMA is a first-response orginization.

"Promoting the misconception" is a nicer way of saying "spreading bald-faced lies".

[Piebald]

Outstanding! Thank you for posting the contrast!

Here's more fuel for the fire:

Heather Mac Donald asks a pointed question regarding the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina:

If the government’s failure to get help instantly to Katrina victims reflects American racism, why have the images of thousands of poor, displaced blacks triggered the greatest outpouring of charity in American history?

Heather is a past master in subjecting claims of racial inequity to rational inquiry, as she has in her studies of law enforcement and alleged racial profiling. Her column on the outbreak of nonsense occasioned by Hurricane Katrina deploys relevant facts against the nonsense: "The racism charges won't wash."

See:

The Katrina donations—$788 million-worth—are colorblind.

http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_09_14_05hm.html

Those are very good points.

[OneFollowingHim]

Yeah. And what was going on with those 10,000 people death toll estimates? Think the media was trying to blow things out of proportion to make the President look bad? Naw.

[brother vinny]

Dang. This thread should be a Sticky.

[Mountain Man]

Yeah. And what was going on with those 10,000 people death toll estimates? Think the media was trying to blow things out of proportion to make the President look bad? Naw.

Here's a headline you'll never see:

"'We were wrong about 10,000 dead.': Liberals Admit Gross Overreaction"

[The Laughing Man]

Here's a headline you'll never see:

"'We were wrong about 10,000 dead.': Liberals Admit Gross Overreaction"

YOu will also never see the headline, "'We were wrong about George Bush hating black people,' admit liberals."

[The Empty Hours]

Here's a headline you'll never see:

"'We were wrong about 10,000 dead.': Liberals Admit Gross Overreaction"

What is the current estimate?

[SpinyNorman]

**Looks left.

**Looks right.

**Looks up.

**Looks down.

Nope....no sign on Minn posting here.

I wonder why not?

[brother vinny]

**Looks left.

**Looks right.

**Looks up.

**Looks down.

Nope....no sign on Minn posting here.

I wonder why not?

Two words:

Truth allergy.

[JardinPrayer]

Bush hates black people? I must have missed that day...I haven't seen any evidence of that.