Some Reports of N.O. Violence Exaggerated

Associated Press ^ | Sep 27 | MICHELLE ROBERTS

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Duly noted. ;]

[freema]

I'm right with you on all of it, especially the Guardsman.

[ohioWfan]

Well, you're not lying here. Even busted up in a wheelchair, I still look oh, so good.

That line made me laugh out loud. :) Zinggg!!

[FreeReign]

(Yes this is a real quote) "Only two of those are believed to have been murdered." Oh, thank goodness there were ONLY two murders. Well then it was an experiment in human kindness and generosity at the super dome.

Your removal of the quote from the context of the article is "real" too.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Well the one truth I have yet to see repeated is the footage of the two female New Orleans cops wheeling shopping carts as they...umm...shopped or...umm...looted. The footage ran on one day for a short period and then was not ever shown again. One of the cops was quoted saying she was "only doing her job!"

This happened as I swear I saw the footage and heard her reply. She was scurrying along with all the others inside this store. I doubt she was doing her job and I saw an awful lot of non-food items on the shelves and in people's hands and shopping carts.

Yeesh. This was a NO cop -- someone who is supposed to uphold the law!!!!

[FreeReign]

My point is that since we all are normally circumspect on what comes out of the MSM, we should be this way consistently. But it appears that if the MSM report confirms one's worldview here, it's automatically legitimate. No questions asked.

Yes, well said, and it will be used against us to make us over react, all the way to 2008.

For example since it's our world view that we need a conservative SC judge, the MSM will try to convince us that the nominee is not -- and some will take it automatically as being legitimate.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

POLICE ISLE 3# WALMART

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Thank you!

This really steams me. Hearing the lamestream media 24/7 pointing their dirty fingers at GWB and Michael Brown and FEMA and meanwhile the damn first responders are *cough* shopping for free.

[Suzy Quzy]

I watched a report on SCarborough and a photo journalist and he had taken LOTS of pictures of dead bodies around the Dome and Center. I feel certain there were more than the 5-6 that they say.

[Suzy Quzy]

I think Nagin may be telling the truth, but now people are re-thinking helping some people.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

It is the soft bigotry of low expectations. That is the story here. Smart folks don't like to be pandered to- no matter how much pigmentation they have.

Now I want on the record as being the first to defend the honor of our police- because most them are top notch- but NO has a problem that George Bush himself can not solve.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

"It is the soft bigotry of low expectations. That is the story here. Smart folks don't like to be pandered to- no matter how much pigmentation they have."

What you wrote is so true. I treat all people the same and I expect the same from all of them, too. I never expect less from people of color and many folks that I know personally and professionally have always appreciated that and said so. Those who aren't hoodwinked under the spell of the democrats and people like Jesse Jackson and his cohorts don't see themselves as perpetual victims and they, too, want to be treated equally as they deserve.

To expect less of a person is to think less of that person, something that the morons in the democrap party and the professional poverty leaders like Jackson and others refuse to acknowledge since it would interfere with their real agenda.

[Bella_Bru]

And here I thought posters here were wise to the media.

Bwahahahahahaha!

C'mon, you know the drill: the media is lying, unless what they say fits one's preconceptions.

[Xenalyte]

One of those victims _ found at the Superdome _ appears to have been killed elsewhere before being brought to the stadium, said Bob Johannessen, the agency spokesman.

I mean, really. If you're gonna go to all the trouble of poppin' a cap in someone, wouldn't you just leave him lie?

[Xenalyte]

That picture looks as if he's exhorting the crowd to thow its hands in the air and wave 'em like it just don't care.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

True -IMO- we have to remember that some people feel very threatened when there is talk about taking away their "special status" and standing in society as a protected group tho.

Of the people I know- from different cultures, backgrounds and ethnic groups- I do not associate with one who would enjoy being treated as tho they needed some special help in life. None of them remind me that they look different from me- otherwise we would not be hanging out together very happily. :]

[CaptainKeyword]

everything out of new orleans was exaggerated, except perhaps the real story of the plight of its citizens. the media is the enemy.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[Bill Waldron, a homicide detective from Florida in New Orleans for a murder trial, was stuck in the convention center until Sept. 1..."People were wanting just some type of authority to come in...]

Yes, "some authority" like the NOPD or other agencies within THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. Where were they? Certainly not under president Bush's command. Lousiana is clearly the most corrupt state of dependent wimps in the entire USA, bar none. It's raining -- "WHAAAAAAA", It's blowing -- "WHAAAAAAA", It's flooding -- "WHAAAAAAA". Give us $250B -- "WHAAAAAAA".

[SJackson]

And many many people bought it....Sure did! At FR and elsewhere, bought it hook, line, and sinker...Do you think they bought it because they hate black people?

Yes.

[SJackson]

C'mon, you know the drill: the media is lying, unless what they say fits one's preconceptions.

Exactly.