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Storm response: What people are really saying (ZORN ALERT)
Chicago Tribune ^ | September 15, 2005 | Eric Zorn

Posted on 09/15/2005 7:41:02 AM PDT by Chi-townChief

Cliff Kelley (host)--New Orleans "Mayor [Ray] Nagin is an idiot. It's unfortunate. I'm sorry. The man's a brother, but he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about ... That man is totally incompetent, and it's too bad, because he takes some of the heat off [the Bush administration]. As far as I'm concerned, he didn't fulfill his responsibility."

Linda (caller)--"It's quite obvious why they're doing what they're doing. It's outright racism. We need retaliation!"

Pete (caller)--Former FEMA director Michael Brown "was the person who went into the Air National Guard in Alabama and destroyed [Bush's old military] records."

Rev. George Clements (guest; Catholic priest)--"People ask, when did all of this business about Hurricane Katrina and the fact that there were so many black victims start? And I tell everybody it started in 1619 when those first slaves got to Jamestown."

Valeria (caller)--"I still don't believe [that Bush actually] flew over [the disaster zone] on Wednesday [two days after the storm]."

Felicia (caller )--"The number of dead people is being undercounted. FEMA plans to get rid of [the bodies] so that nobody knows what happened."

Rose Sanders (guest, founder and president of the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute in Selma, Ala.)--"If we had been a very organized, well-connected people, like the Jewish people in this country, there is no way [this would have happened]."

Atlee Berrie (guest, evacuee from New Orleans currently living on the West Side)--A [neighbor of mine] said she heard a loud boom before the water came up. I believe with all my heart [a deliberately set explosion to breach the levee] is exactly what they did. [The way the water was flowing in my neighborhood] "made no sense at all."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: katrina; liberalbias; racism; tinfoil
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Kelley's show is on WVON 1450-AM from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. weekdays. I used to listen quite a bit until my starting time at work changed to 6:00. I've always challenged my white liberal friends to listen for a week or two if they wanted to hear some mainstream black thought but, as far as I know, none of them has.
1 posted on 09/15/2005 7:41:06 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: AbsoluteJustice; Augie76; Barnacle; BeAllYouCanBe; BillyBoy; Bismarck; bourbon; cfrels; ...

CHICAGOLAND PING


2 posted on 09/15/2005 7:42:01 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief

These people(the callers) make really good victims and whiners. What a surprise.


3 posted on 09/15/2005 7:44:37 AM PDT by RexBeach (Pardon me, but is that a malaise sandwich in your pocket or are you just glad to be in a funk?)
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To: Chi-townChief

Shoot, I listen to WLS online a lot, and from what I heard there I always thought people (black and white) got along pretty well in Chicago. Sad to see I've been mistaken!


4 posted on 09/15/2005 7:44:50 AM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (From the rainbow center of the bluest part of a good Red State)
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To: Chi-townChief

Urban legends live.


5 posted on 09/15/2005 7:44:58 AM PDT by GVnana
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To: Chi-townChief

My comments would be censored so: ^^%##@**&%^@.


6 posted on 09/15/2005 7:45:59 AM PDT by verity (Don't let your children grow up to be mainstream media maggots.)
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To: Chi-townChief

Is he up against Larry Lujack ?


7 posted on 09/15/2005 7:46:28 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Yeah - now I leave for work about 5:00 so I listen to Lujack and Tommy Edwards on RealOldies alternating with Don and Roma on WLS and Bill Bennett's "Morning in America."


8 posted on 09/15/2005 7:50:22 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief

Clearly Bush's fault for not stopping the levee destroying martian invaders by cutting the NASA budget too. [/tinfoil]


9 posted on 09/15/2005 7:50:52 AM PDT by Horatio Gates
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Felicia (caller )--"The number of dead people is being undercounted. FEMA plans to get rid of [the bodies] so that nobody knows what happened."

I could believe this.

10 posted on 09/15/2005 7:51:06 AM PDT by SittinYonder (Nemo me impune lacessit)
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To: Chi-townChief; GVgirl; To Hell With Poverty
An American Tragedy in Black and White
11 posted on 09/15/2005 7:52:45 AM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Chi-townChief

Oh...and i suppose thunderstorms are a republican plot..
..the thunder actually being republians testing weapons
and lightening, being another, that is used to destroy
only black owed buildings....(O Lord, are these some
pathetic paranod losers!)


12 posted on 09/15/2005 7:57:44 AM PDT by NickatNite2003
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Rev. George Clements (guest; Catholic priest)--"People ask, when did all of this business about Hurricane Katrina and the fact that there were so many black victims start? And I tell everybody it started in 1619 when those first slaves got to Jamestown."

Oh sure....

Equal opportunity for all is essential...No sarcasm on that point.

But on the other hand, doesn't everyone know that life experience demonstrates (and our government proclaims it true) that all races, on average, are physically equal and have identical intellectual capabilities and work ethics.

Uh Huh....After almost 400 years these folks were shoved into their situation because yellow people and white people in the U.S. wanted to keep slavery alive...Oh sure...

The priest is a self proclaimned idiot.

13 posted on 09/15/2005 7:59:02 AM PDT by squirt-gun
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To: Horatio Gates
Good thing you got rid of that tinfoil and faced reality. You want to know why FEMA didn't try to resolve the tragedy? Because it was FEMA's job to CAUSE the tragedy. Now you get it? Just what part of FEDERAL EMERGENCY Management Agency don't you get?

Why do you think Bush said "Heckuvajob, Brownie?" Because he HAD done a heck of a job in making a heck of a mess. THAT WAS HIS JOB. Theeeeenk about it, man! He didn't get fired, that was part of the cover. His part was over. He's laying on a beach somewhere sipping a margarita and watching the REAL LOSERS scrambling like ants trying to fix what he dune.

Heckuvajob Brownie. It sure was.

14 posted on 09/15/2005 7:59:15 AM PDT by johnb838 (I got nuthin to say,)
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To: Chi-townChief

Geez, how I miss Little Snot-nosed Tommy.


15 posted on 09/15/2005 8:00:25 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Mike Bates

Good article. Thanks.


16 posted on 09/15/2005 8:01:14 AM PDT by GVnana
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To: RexBeach

I keep hearing ridiculous comments about the "intentional blow up of a levee to protect the rich, white neighborhoods." Will someone here please enlighten me as to how something like THAT is supposed to work!

Jesse Jackass made that SAME CLAIM back in 1994 during the floods in Ga. He went to Albany Ga. (the only place he was welcomed), and went on a racist tirade claiming they suffered flooding due to intentional actions further up the river to protect the white property owners. Of course, he could provide no specific details or PROOF!


17 posted on 09/15/2005 8:01:20 AM PDT by Muzzle_em (I'm an island awash in a sea of stupidity)
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To: Chi-townChief

Gee! Ya think that maybe a few hundred tons
of dirt and stone, being pushed/broken forcefully
out of place by thousands of gallons of water crashing dow from dozens of feet above street level, into a bunch
of buildings might make a *little* noise?


18 posted on 09/15/2005 8:02:15 AM PDT by NickatNite2003
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To: To Hell With Poverty

You gotta be kidding - I listened to this guy from about the time Mayor Washington's death to about 2002 and you wouldn't believe the crazy stuff some of the callers come up with. One of the first things I heard on his show, for example, was that Washington was poisoned by his Jewish press secretary Alton Miller.


19 posted on 09/15/2005 8:02:22 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief

Our Nation is filled with moonbats. God, save us!


20 posted on 09/15/2005 8:09:37 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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