Posted on 08/27/2006 1:18:19 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
Since the media has planned an orgy of finger pointed for the anniversary of Katrina, let's make sure they get a finger in the eye they so richly deserve for their performance. Here's a few I recall, and I'm sure there are more:
Photo captions had white survivors foraging for supplies, while black people were captioned as looting. Helicopters were being fired at, which led to a stand down till it became clear that it was untrue. All those lives lost during that interval are due to media neglagence and the blood of those victims is on the media's hands. Please feel free to forward the results to local or national talk radio so their sorry reporting is not white washed. The media told us of a little girl who had been rapoed and then her throat slit in the Superdome.
Was that the president of Jefferson parish who went on Russert to blubber and drool with crocodile tears?
How about Whorealdo's performance -- snatching a baby from the mother's arms in a tearful, tawdry stunt?
Thanks.
Broussard from I believe Jefferson Parish. Sopke of someone else's mother being left to die. In the end, the timing of his story didn't hold up. 'Rat Bastard.
Ordinarily that'd be a crime eh!
Now exactly what does the inability of Houston to exercise law and order have to do with what the MSM said about New Orleans?
" As a news camera rolled, Neville told Bishop Hughes she and others had just been through a living hell. "Alligators were eating people, they had all kinds of stuff in the water," Neville said. "They had babies floating in the water. We had to walk over hundreds of bodies of dead people," she said. "
You've still got millions of leftwingnuts spouting this one as the honest to gosh truth.
Im sorry did you miss the news or something? 150 thousand NOLA residents moved to Houston last year because of Katrina, they left from New Orleans.
In case you think im off subject the story was even (gasp) on the MSM
These are totally different subjects, and don't your cops have guns?
That was the most outrageous of all. It was even put as part of a montage on a Christian song created as a theme to help raise money. People believed him and had sympathy - and he was making the whole thing up. Words can't describe how disgusting that is.
He made the whole thing up.
"I can't remember the exact words, but he basically shook his head, and said there was no way to evacuate the people. HE WAS ASKED why buses or cars couldn't be sent in, and he said, even if transportation was provided, the people would not go."
I believe you stated it very well.
He said they WOULD NOT GO.
Then he pleaded with them to leave.
>Then he pleaded with them to leave. <
But didn't bother to arrange transportation so they could leave. However, he sure didn't hesitate to bash the feds for not immediately waving their rescue wands and saving all the people he left to fend for themselves.
"However, he sure didn't hesitate to bash the feds..."
You got THAT right!
He and Blanco are quite the pair.
"But didn't bother to arrange transportation so they could leave."
He left all of the school buses to drown...
9 NEWS EXTRA by Donna Britt
Charmaine Neville Stands by Story of Rapes, Alligator Attacks during Katrina
May 1, 2006 03:08 PM CDT
As famed New Orleans singer Charmaine Neville prepares to take the stage on opening day of the 2006 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Friday, she stands by her chilling account of rapes, alligator attacks, and stealing a city bus to rescue herself and others from the horrors of Hurricane Katrina.
On September 2, 2005, just hours after Neville says she drove out the city on a stolen city bus packed with people from her beloved city of New Orleans, the singer shocked many by showing up at the newsroom of WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge.
Visibly shaking, dirt in her hair, wearing a dirty shirt, and crying, Neville spoke with Archbishop Alfred Hughes, who happened to be in the station's newsroom at the time. Hughes heads up the Catholic Archdiocese in South Louisiana.
As a news camera rolled, Neville told Bishop Hughes she and others had just been through a living hell. "Alligators were eating people, they had all kinds of stuff in the water," Neville said. "They had babies floating in the water. We had to walk over hundreds of bodies of dead people," she said.
Minutes later, Neville told the same story during a live interview broadcast during WAFB-TV's continuous coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
Neville, who is set to perform at Jazz Fest Friday afternoon, performed at an outdoor concert in Lafayette earlier this month. After that concert, she again spoke with WAFB 9NEWS, and said she stands by the harrowing story she told eight months earlier.
"I have had people come up to me and say, did that really happen?" Neville said, when asked that question, she often replies, "I'm glad you weren't there, but had you been there, you would know."
Neville says, while trying to head to higher ground after the levees broke, she was raped. "I'm not going to say that it has changed me, because one person hurt me, not everybody, but one person," Neville said during the interview earlier this month. "I'm not mad at him, I forgive him," the singer said. "I don't know what made him do what he did. He didn't just do it to me. He did it to other women. I know that he will be caught. And he'll get what he deserves."
Dr. Louis Cataldie, the coroner in charge of recovering the bodies of Hurricane Katrina victims, says, of the 1,296 victims recovered so far, none showed evidence of alligator bites. It is, of course, possible the people Neville says she saw eaten alive were never found. He also says, while recovering more than a thousand coffins in St. Bernard Parish, he saw several alligators, but they never attacked.
Neville says her most haunting memory of Hurricane Katrina is not the rapes and not the alligators she insists were eating humans alive near her home. She says her most haunting memory was being behind the wheel of a stolen bus, packed with people, and having to pass by others who were pleading to get onboard. "Driving that bus and seeing all those people with their arms up saying take me, take me!" "I can't get that out of my head. I'm being honest here. I could not fit any more people on the bus."
Neville is now rebuilding her home where it stood in the Bywater Neighborhood of the Ninth Ward. After performing at Jazz Fest, she plans to spend the summer performing in Europe. And, she plans to pick back up a dream she had before Katrina devastated New Orleans. A dream of opening a business called Charmaine Neville's Just Desserts, which would serve dessert such as 3-crust deep apple pie, a treasured family recipe. As far as coffee, she says, the restaurant would only serve coffees from the state she loves and cherishes: Louisiana.
http://www.wafb.com/Global/SearchResults.asp?qu=charmaine+neville&x=14&y=13
Lets not forget the "witnessed" explosions of the levees as they were blown up by the Bush Administration.
I remember that!
There were reports of cannibalism after just 4 days!
Again, events in Houston have nothing to do with what the MSM were saying about NOLA.
Has anyone checked YouTube?
I'm sure that video exists somewhere on the internet.
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