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docwebsterGive 'em hell, Jack:
An obviously angry Jack Cafferty on CNN:
I'm 62, I remember the riots in Watts, I remember the earthquake in San Francisco, I remember a lot of things--I have never, ever seen anything as badly bungled and poorly handled as this situation in New Orleans. Where the hell is the water for these people? Why can't sandwiches be dropped to those people in that Superdome down there? This is Thursday! This is Thursday! This storm happened five days ago. It's a disgrace, and don't think the world isn't watching. This is the government the taxpayers are paying for and it's fallen right flat on its face, in the way its handled this thing.
(The rest of Tom Tomorrow's post at that link is every bit as good)
Convention Center Update:
CNN:
It's hard to describe. It's something I never could conceive of ever seeing in a major city like New Orleans. It is hard to believe. This is New Orleans Louisiana we ware talking about. We spent the last few hours at the convention center where There are thousands of people just laying in the street. They have nowhere to go. These are mothers. We saw mothers. We talked to mothers holding babies. Some of these babies are 3, 4, 5, months old living in these horrible conditions. Putrid food on the ground. Sewage, their feet sitting in sewage. We saw feces on the ground. These people are being forced to live like animals. When you look at some of these mothers your heart just breaks. We're not talking about a few families or a few hundred families. Thousands of people are gathered around the convention center.
Scott McClellan:
That's why we have a massive effort underway to continue getting food and water and ice to those who are in need. There are ways for them to get that help.
THEN WHERE THE HELL IS IT, YOU BALD-PATED JACKASS?
An obviously angry Jack Cafferty on CNN:
I'm 62, I remember the riots in Watts, I remember the earthquake in San Francisco, I remember a lot of things--I have never, ever seen anything as badly bungled and poorly handled as this situation in New Orleans. Where the hell is the water for these people? Why can't sandwiches be dropped to those people in that Superdome down there? This is Thursday! This is Thursday! This storm happened five days ago. It's a disgrace, and don't think the world isn't watching. This is the government the taxpayers are paying for and it's fallen right flat on its face, in the way its handled this thing.
(The rest of Tom Tomorrow's post at that link is every bit as good)
Convention Center Update:
CNN:
It's hard to describe. It's something I never could conceive of ever seeing in a major city like New Orleans. It is hard to believe. This is New Orleans Louisiana we ware talking about. We spent the last few hours at the convention center where There are thousands of people just laying in the street. They have nowhere to go. These are mothers. We saw mothers. We talked to mothers holding babies. Some of these babies are 3, 4, 5, months old living in these horrible conditions. Putrid food on the ground. Sewage, their feet sitting in sewage. We saw feces on the ground. These people are being forced to live like animals. When you look at some of these mothers your heart just breaks. We're not talking about a few families or a few hundred families. Thousands of people are gathered around the convention center.
Scott McClellan:
That's why we have a massive effort underway to continue getting food and water and ice to those who are in need. There are ways for them to get that help.
THEN WHERE THE HELL IS IT, YOU BALD-PATED JACKASS?
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Date: 2005-09-01 06:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-01 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-01 10:07 pm (UTC)This is really no excuse (I was wondering, when helicopters were hauling kids and sick people off roofs, why they weren't dropping cases of water down in the baskets to swap for the kids?) for so many people not getting water, toddlers who are limp and unresponsive, though alive, from dehydration. But it's a little bit of reason.
Its.. In .. Iraq...
Date: 2005-09-01 06:57 pm (UTC)Since most of the national budget is in iraq....
The govenrment aid that was sent will take 6 days to get there.
I have it on a very dependable sorce that the governement is trying to abandon the situation without looking like it is, becasue the government can not afford to help but can not admit it.
loved this quote from Tom Tomorrow (unfortunately)
Date: 2005-09-01 07:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-01 09:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-02 09:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-02 11:08 am (UTC)I. *flails* It's all I can do not to try and find an organisation and go down there *myself*. Once again, the burden of helping the country falls to the people, while the President spends three days in hiding, probably to find a scapegoat, before emerging from his reality-sheltered cocoon to speak to the unwashed and grieving masses.