Publicity shot of Chuck D. :
Posted on 09/16/2005 8:17:52 AM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
Two hosts at the liberal radio network Air America are defending Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan - saying he's not wrong to suspect that white people deliberately blew up the levees in New Orleans.
"You cannot blame people for coming up with conspiracy theories," Air America host Chuck D. said, after he was asked Thursday about the paranoid pronouncement by MSNBC's Tucker Carlson.
"They look on television and see that the government is four days late in saving people [who are] supposed to be their citizens," Chuck D. explained.
Carlson gave him a second chance to denounce Farrakhan's lunatic declaration, saying, "You're a smart guy. You know that white people didn't blow up the levees to kill black people. You've gotta know that didn't happen."
But the Air America host refused to budge, insisting instead that there was a chance Farrakhan could be right.
"I can't say unless I know for sure what's the actual facts and what's actually false," the rapper-turned-talk host said.
Carlson tried a third time, telling Chuck D.: "Look, I can say for certain that it was not a white conspiracy. White people did not blow up the levee to kill black people."
Still, the radio lefty wouldn't denounce Farrakhan's poisonous rant, saying only, "I don't think it's a person at fault but I think the system needs revamping."
After failing to persuade Chuck D., the MSNBC host turned to panelist Rachel Maddow, who also hosts a show on Air America.
Asked if she believed that white people deliberately destroyed the levees, Maddow declined to render a personal judgment - and instead defended the sentiment behind the toxic hypothesis.
"Conspiracy theories don't necessarily help but you have to understand where they come from," she told Carlson. "They come from people feeling like this disaster had a real racial component. I mean, it was a majority-black city that was absolutely abandoned by the country."
On Monday, Farrakhan uncorked his ugly theory, telling a North Carolina audience: "I heard from a very reliable source who saw a 25 foot deep crater under the levee breach. It may have been blown up to destroy the black part of town and keep the white part dry."
We know where the theories come from, but most people simply flush, rather than displaying their work.
How much water would have to flow into the poor neighborhoods in order to drain the lake down to a level that would make the other levees safe?
Hey, as long as we're going to conspiracy theories,
why not try this on (beneath the tinfoil hat)--
it's also possible that gang-elements blew up the levees; we know the jihadis try to enlist gangs--so why not jihadists using gangs to hamper relief efforts--and even blow the levees?
(Oops! That won't be put on Air America. . .)
If I had made such stupid remarks on the public airwaves, I wouldn't want to use my full last name either.
He would realize that he is not dealing with a rational individual.
I have a better idea:
Let the market destroy the POS station and it's commercial supporters. Boycott ALL products/services advertised on the station.
Promoting these race-baiting conspiracy theories is absolutely irresponsible, and borders on criminal action. It's like yelling "fire" in a theater.
Listen nimrod! This "majority-black city" wasn't abandoned by the country. It was abandoned by it's elected government. Your mayor didn't bother implementing the evacuation plan. Your governor delayed asking for federal military assistance, and kept relief workers out of the areas that needed them the most.
Mark
What do expect from people who encourage their lemmings to kill the President?
Buy tinfoil futures. NOW.
Too much.
These people have minds. The problem is it is called: Silly Putty. They are absolutely, screaming, stupid, ignorant, hypocritical idiots. They are not Americans. They do not believe in America. They believe in their own sick, twisted, stupid, absurd agendas. Fart-con and these pukes at Airless Amerika.
Publicity shot of Chuck D. :
Okay, okay. I admit it. I blew up the levees. You're on to me, but you'll never catch me, Copper!
Who would be out in a hurricane trying to blow up a levee?
Who then also would be around to actually see the event. Who
then would be able see under the water that would be rushing in from the lake to see a 25 foot crater? This whole idea
defies logic as they do most of the time.
Ain't america great? When total lunatics can excrete their intellectual fecal matter onto the air waves.
Yeah, who needs free speech? We should blow the crap out of anyone who disagrees with us!
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