The truth is a bitch ain't it?
Posted on 05/20/2010 7:35:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
NEW ORLEANS — Mayor Mitch Landrieu has sent a letter to FOX Sports President Ed Goren demanding an apology from broadcaster Chris Myers for his disparaging remarks about the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
On the Dan Patrick Radio Show on Monday, Myers talked about the flood victims in Tennessee pulling together to help themselves, instead of standing on roof tops and blaming the government — an obvious reference to Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005.(continued)
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Always did like Chris Myers.
The truth hurts.
If the shoe fits....
Pound sand, Mitch.
Suck it.
Nashvegas took care of itself. Your people screamed and pouted for a handout from Uncle Sucker. You spent it and the place is still a basket case.
The feds gave you money to protect the city 2 times over. But, you folks pissed it away... twice.
In closing, your sister is gives prostitutes a bad name. She took money to vote for Obamacare. At least hookers do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay.
The truth hurts.
Huh? There was a flood in Nashville?
I’m STILL wading through reports about FEMA housing in Naw’lins, but I’m sure I’ll get to it, at some point.
The truth is a bitch ain't it?
“standing on roof tops and blaming the government — an obvious reference to Katrina”
Isn’t this statement by google news just as inflammatory?
Katrina was a grand convergence of failures - it was a failure government to properly maintain the levies; it was a failure of emergency leadership by Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin; it was a failure of followership by the New Orleans first responders as police abandoned their posts or didn’t show for their watches; it was a failure of citizenship by the folks in the 9th Ward who sat on the roof instead of evacuating when they could. Add all that together and the quality and timeliness of the Federal response is totally irrelevant.
In Tennessee it seems that all of the corresponding players take responsibility for their actions. What a difference an attitude makes!
They were standing on the roofs blaming the government.
2 hurricanes hit the Mexican Mayan Riviera within a few days of each other.
The entire east coast was wiped out. Almost every hotel was dragged into the Atlantic Ocean.
The Governor of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo went to all the major cities (Cancun, Cozumel, Playa del Carmen, etc.) and held town hall meetings. He brought with him shovels, rakes and picks. His message: “we don’t work, we don’t eat.”
No $2,000 debit cards. No free elite hotel stays. For the duration, the people worked for food only — no one was paid beyond what they needed to keep their homes and minimal subsistence.
Final result: 9 months later all the resorts were back and accepting tourists. And they are still kvetching in NOLA many years after the event.
I can’t imagine why the people at NOLA people are not shamed to even shave when compared to the Mexican experience.
I like this picture when it is photoshopped with Obama’s face on it, that’s a classic!
Ha! Perfect.
There have been devastating hurricanes before, but the survivors did not always stand about waiting for the government to bail them out.
LMAO! Bravo!
Take a pill....
If he didn’t specifically mention New Orleans, I don’t see how the mayor can complain.
Biloxi MS nearly got wiped out from Katrina .. yet there wasn’t a peep of concern from the MSM about it, nor a whine of complaint from Biloxi itself .. they rebuilt and went on with their lives. And here is the NOLA mayor still whining some 5 years later ??? GEEZ!
I was in Hurricane Katrina here in Biloxi. Went to Dallas/Ft. Worth several months later to look for work. My first job was as a supervisor at a Dallas workforce center. Part of my job was passing out gasoline credit cards, Wal-Mart and Target gift cards and bus passes to NOLA Katrina “victims” who Uncle Sugar had relocated to D/FW. Kafka couldn’t make up some of this stuff. Most of them were about as interested in looking for work as I was in auditioning for the Vienna Boys Choir.
The Mayor of New Orleans should apologize for the behavior of the NOLA “refugees” in Houston and other cities after Katrina.
Sh!t for brains new mayor.
Gosh is sucks to be stupid, and it sucks to be stupid enough to elect these morons.
Hell that's nuthin. It's been almost 10 years and we haven't rebuilt the World Trade Center in New York. But hey, we got a mosque being built just down the street from it.
PATHETIC!
So I’m thinking not only should we adopt Mexican government policy for storm clean up but from what I’m hearing we should adopt their immigration policies, too. FAR better than ours and Caldero would have to shut his trap about complaing about Arizona which is FAR more lenient than his own laws.
Hahahahahaa .. don't get me started on *THAT* !!! /laughs ... its late and I gotta hit da hay for woiyk in the AM ... and besides, no more Trans-Fat in street cart salty pretzels, but we getting a new mosque at Ground Zero ... don't get me started !!! /laughs
I think some underpasses flooded in Nashville, right?
The morons did not leave because their moronic governor implied they were safe until it was too late for them to leave. They expected uncle government to care for them, a fatal mistake for many.
Lowball estimate is $2 billion damages in Nashville area alone.
So—the mayor is confirming that it was the residents of New Orleans who stood on rooftops and blamed the government—??
That's a Landrieu for ya... (not the sharpest knife in the drawer).
I’m proud of the way Nashville acted, but I don’t think there is really any comparison between the Nashville flood and Katrina.
80% of New Orleans was under water. We had a lot of communities under water, but nothing like that.
90% of Southeast Louisiana was evacuated. We had a few communities evacuated. Louisiana lost 1464 people we lost 20 something.
New Orleans was flooded for several days. Our water was largely gone in 3.
New Orleans city government was dysfunctional after Katrina, our’s wasn’t fazed. Some of that is undoubtedly due to attitude, but much was due to the scope of the disaster. Thankfully, Nashville doesn’t know how it would hold up under a Katrina sized disaster.
And to be fair. We certainly have looked to FEMA to help rebuild. We have questioned whether the risk of flooding was understated. We have questioned whether the Corp of Engineers caused some of the flooding by opening flood gates.
And of course the coward apologized:
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Dear Mayor Landrieu,
Thank you for speaking with me earlier today.
I would very much like to apologize to you and the people of New Orleans for the inappropriate and insensitive remarks I made this past Monday. Clearly, these remarks demonstrated poor judgment and I sincerely regret making them.
I spent six great years living and working in New Orleans. It will always be a special place to me and my family, and I certainly would never want to offend the people of this terrific city.
I wish you and every citizen of New Orleans nothing but my very best and I hope the entire city can forgive me and accept my deepest apology.
Sincerely,
Chris Myers
Welcome to 2010.
genius!
Just after Katrina, some of the "refugees" were relocated to my part of Texas. Most did not stay long, but a few did. Months and months after the hurricane, some of those who stayed were quite astonished to find out that the good people of Texas, generous in a disaster, meant it when we said "Enough!" Some had made no effort to find jobs or otherwise help themselves and had to be all but pried out of their free housing.
LOL I wonder if he knows how famous he is on the internet.
Believe me. Nashville doesn’t want to be close to the comparison. A guy got caught looting and his case is already over. 10 years.
Danny, if you want to be fair.... The NWS told the residents of SE LA to get the hell out. They had a cat 5 bearing down on them. They are below sea-level. They are lazy fools. Flood and wind would be catastrophic. The levees may fail from lake Ponchartrain.
Nashville had no warning.
That’s true. I grew up in Louisiana. We all knew New Orleans was below sea level and would flood if it ever had a direct hit from a hurricane. So it wasn’t a surprise at all.
Still the scope of the disaster just doesn’t compare. Practically all of New Orleans was under. That didn’t happen in Nashville. You didn’t hear about many medical facilities being evacuated in Nashville. New Orleans not only had to evacuate them. Some of them like Tulane Medical Center were trapped with water filling the bottom layer.
Don’t get me wrong. Nashville was bad. I drove through the Bellevue and Kingstons springs areas last week. The belongings are piled at least a story high on the side of the road everywhere you look. And I understand they are still there. And we had 30 counties affected.
But Katrina was still far far worse.
New Orleans had had many near misses in the past. And they grew comfortable thinking that it would never happen. Plus
I understand that both Democrat and Republican administrations withheld the funds over many many years to shore up the levies. Not that it would likely have made much difference.
LOL! I’m saving that.
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Thank you for making valid comparisons where they apply. I am in no way defending the ‘entitlement’ mentality prevalent in much of N.O. As a native and resident of Jefferson parish I can only tell you how it was from my perspective.
LOCAL news( which most people swear by) DOWNPLAYED Katrina until that Saturday evening. Saturday morning the local weather woman( Orr) was saying we’d be on the ‘good side’ and would get tropical storm force weather. SATURDAY MORNING! Now most of N.O. doesn’t bother with news on weekends. My family got out that Saturday morning after a friend in Mobile told us what was being forecast there. AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT perspective from our local news! On the way out, in a traffic jam, we saw kids playing in the streets and people in supermarkets actually asked ‘ what storm’?!
The people who remained behind, out of ignorance, no $$ or transportation( and it took us 12 hours to get to northern Mobile county-so junky cars weren’t going to make it) were, for the most part, the ‘wait for government’types. Not all.
Some were genuinely stuck for personal reasons.
With almost all of Orleans parish under 4-12 feet of water for nearly a MONTH, self-help without boats was pretty impossible.
All rescue efforts were launched from Jefferson parish and we weren’t even ALLOWED to return there for a month.
A flash flood and a bowl filled with stagnant water and cars and bodies for a month is not the same thing.
AFTER the water subsided is when the ‘waiting for government help’ criticism is valid, IMO. It SICKENED me to see groups of church volunteers doing cleanup when the locals sat and watched. In some cases- elderly and disabled- people couldn’t help with their own houses- but I didn’t see a lot of local volunteers helping the ‘outsiders’.
In comparison, in Alabama and MS, people got out immediately and started clearing roads, etc. There is a self-sufficient mentality that is sorely lacking in N.O. and also a poverty factor. We’re talking a culture that stocks up on beer and snacks for hurricanes, not chainsaws and generators.And even those who might have had them in one story homes lost them to 12 ft of water.
Even HOSPITALS had their vital generators in basements or on ground floors where they KNOW flooding is a fact of life!
Bottom line- the general comparison is valid in many ways, but not all. A flood that destroys and wipes clean is different from one that drowns an already old and decaying city for a month. The ability to recover is different. But in comparing prevalent ATTITUDES re. self-sufficiency and laziness and ignorance and helplessness as part of the culture it was true.
As a native I not only take no offense at that truth, I agree with it.
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