Posted on 09/05/2005 4:45:09 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Jerks: if the Feds were to pull 5,000 troops out today, then by tomorrow the same people would complain that there isn't enough personnel available to to the necessary house-to-house searches for survivors.
LOL!
That would be scarey. ;o)
Bingo.
>"it's just what residents of New Orleans do not need as they decide whether to leave a ravaged city or tough it out."<
Uh, in this situation, it's not up to individuals whether to go or to stay.
I'm sure, in the coming future, the liberals will begin to whine that "people's civil rights" were trampled upon, because the authorities ran them out of their homes.
WAIT A MINUTE..JUST LAST WEEK THEY WERE SAYING WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH MILITARY BECAUSE THEY AND THE GUARD WERE ALL IN IRAQ!!!!
Liberals, what a silly lot they are.
Gosh! Without you and people like you nobody here would have any idea what was being said on the TS! I hope you are wearing protective gear. I'd hate to hear you got hydrophobia and had to be put down.....Thanks! I gotta kick out of this one!
Talk about living in the belly of the Beast! You've got more courage than most, that's for sure.
Thanks, DR. There are a few of us here. Sometimes it's fun to make noise as a member of the distinct minority; sometimes it feels a might lonely.
Excellent example of MSM double-think. Any argument is OK, so long as it bashes Bush.
You might say a daily Nexium serves as my internal body armor ;-)
"One cannot be too rich, too thin, or have too many troops."
Amen.
Can I help?
Great reporting as always. Thanks again.
Anyone who stays should be required to sign something like the following: "I have been advised to leave New Orleans as it will be months before basic safety and services can be assured. I understand I will recieve no aid, food, water, or rescue if I stay, this is my one opportunity for evacuation."
I totally agree. The ones that choose to stay have cost the US enough.
It won't happen, but Hurricane Katrina should provide an opportunity to expose the high crimes, high comedy, and low value of cable news networks.
As Camille Paglia said last night on Drudge radio, these reporters on the ground in New Orleans are having entirely too much fun. They over-dramatize their reports because it keeps them in front of the camera. They insert themselves into the stories, they stage poignant, heart wrenching backdrops to their reports, even interrupting themselves to give direction to their camera crews. These glory hogging reporters ask insipid questions of pathetic victims, then interrupt, to answer their own questions.
Reporters on the ground might not be expected to give balance or even to always use good judgement in the heat of the moment. But anchors in the studio should. They haven't. During this crisis, studio anchors have allowed obscene lies to go unchallenged. The anchors have not offered balance, and even though it's hard to say whether it's intentional, the effect on truth is chilling.
CNN seems to have malicious intent in distorting hurricane Katrina coverage. I haven't been able to count, but I would bet the farm, a huge majority of their studio and telephone guests, far removed from the hurricane itself, have been hostile to President Bush and FEMA. You can read the transcripts for yourselves. CNN is proving to be an echo chamber for the far left fringe of American politics, using Katrina for unholy political advantage.
Watching all cable news channels, it's impossible to tell what's currently happening in New Orleans, from what happened yesterday or even last week. All the channels repeat, repeat, repeat, the same tragic scenes of human suffering. From watching and listening, you might think small children are still starving outside the convention center. None of the networks consistently identify whether you are watching "live" video feed, or days old tape.
In this hurricane tragedy, the lies get repeated over and over. The worst example was the cable channels repeating AP's constantly changing report on New Orleans police shooting 8 people on a bridge. AP's version of events changed 3 times in one hour, and all cable channels repeated each drastically different version as the gospel.
When an orange helicopter went down shortly after the bridge shooting incident, the cable channels made the same mistakes all over again. They never learn. They can't because exciting news hot off the wires is why they exist. "Damn the truth, full speed ahead" must be their motto.
And sadly for me, FOXNEWS is little better than CNN. I'm proud FOX doesn't join forces with CNN on being hellbent to destroy President Bush. I'm glad FOX reporters don't prod their guests into making raw, unfounded accusations against our own government during a crisis. But FOX has blundered many times in covering Hurricane Katrina. Over-zealous and immature FOX reporters are troubling, but at least they aren't angry Bush bashers.
Tomorrow's headlines will be:
"BUSH ADMIN ACCUSED OF RACISM FOR SENDING SO MANY TROOPS TO NEW ORLEANS"
Excellent post, well worth reading and considering, IMO.
They are makin' me crazy!
'cept it's MONDAY! ;^)
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