What our Government is doing RIGHT!!!!!

[ThAnswr]

It''s kind of interesting to see that and then I hear someone on the Angry Left, even in the last few days say, "the Federal Government has done NOTHING to help those people in New Orleans".

For the umpteenth time, link please.

 

[ThAnswr]

Btw, nice laundry of list of what FEMA thinks they're doing right.

 

[ThAnswr]

No problem... However, this is a good example of a larger point. There's a heck of a lot of bad and false information floating out in the media. I wouldn't say it's a majority, but a lot of news stories have developed into myths that are now accepted as "true".

Here's a good example from the editoral page of the Washington Post yesterday (9/13):

OK, think about that paragraph for a second or two.... See anyting wrong with it? Nope? It's what you're heard and read about, right?

In fact there's two major errors.

1) The biggest one.... Brown never said that. It was the DHS Secretary Chertoff in an interview taped earlier in the day and aired on the 9/1 edition of NPR's "All Things Considered". So the Washington Post will "always remember" Brown for something he didn't say.

2) "..despite television reports broadcasting that fact for the previous 24 hours." This is the biggest whopper in the national media chorus. Nexis searches have found that the first national broadcast that mentioned the situation at the Convention Center occured late Wednesday night (8/31) on MSNBC. It was MSNBC’s Michelle Hofland, who wasn't on the scene and only said she had heard a "report" about the situation. Mayor Nagin's televised "plea" on the matter didn't take place until the morning of 9/1. The Chertoff interview with NPR was taped sometime during the day of 9/1 and aired that late-afternoon. So the claim that the crisis had been going on full blown in our living rooms for the "previous 24 hours" is false.

So, "12 hours/24 hours, big deal... the Feds still were clueless, right?" Not quite. Here's a photo of food being 'coptered into the Convention Center. It was transmitted by AP in the late afternoon and therefore would have been taken some time earlier in the day. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050901/480/laeg12409012143 I would guess this was one of the drops that took place before gun fire in the area that lead to additional drops being called off.

A search of wire photos also doesn't show any images from the crisis prior to 9/1.

Also, it would seem odd that a major crisis ("National Disgrace" I think was a common term used) that had been on national TV "the previous 24 hours" from 9/1 wasn't report in the Washinton Post's own paper until 9/2! The same goes for The New York Times.

It is legitimate question to ask how the crisis was allowed to build and fester at the Convention Center, but I don't think its asking too much for the critics to get the facts straight. I also don't think it's asking too much to attribute the quote to the right person.

Click your heels 3 times together and say "I wanna believe".

 

[bsnyder]

No problem... However, this is a good example of a larger point. There's a heck of a lot of bad and false information floating out in the media. I wouldn't say it's a majority, but a lot of news stories have developed into myths that are now accepted as "true".

Here's a good example from the editoral page of the Washington Post yesterday (9/13):

OK, think about that paragraph for a second or two.... See anyting wrong with it? Nope? It's what you're heard and read about, right?

In fact there's two major errors.

1) The biggest one.... Brown never said that. It was the DHS Secretary Chertoff in an interview taped earlier in the day and aired on the 9/1 edition of NPR's "All Things Considered". So the Washington Post will "always remember" Brown for something he didn't say.

2) "..despite television reports broadcasting that fact for the previous 24 hours." This is the biggest whopper in the national media chorus. Nexis searches have found that the first national broadcast that mentioned the situation at the Convention Center occured late Wednesday night (8/31) on MSNBC. It was MSNBC’s Michelle Hofland, who wasn't on the scene and only said she had heard a "report" about the situation. Mayor Nagin's televised "plea" on the matter didn't take place until the morning of 9/1. The Chertoff interview with NPR was taped sometime during the day of 9/1 and aired that late-afternoon. So the claim that the crisis had been going on full blown in our living rooms for the "previous 24 hours" is false.

So, "12 hours/24 hours, big deal... the Feds still were clueless, right?" Not quite. Here's a photo of food being 'coptered into the Convention Center. It was transmitted by AP in the late afternoon and therefore would have been taken some time earlier in the day. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050901/480/laeg12409012143 I would guess this was one of the drops that took place before gun fire in the area that lead to additional drops being called off.

A search of wire photos also doesn't show any images from the crisis prior to 9/1.

Also, it would seem odd that a major crisis ("National Disgrace" I think was a common term used) that had been on national TV "the previous 24 hours" from 9/1 wasn't report in the Washinton Post's own paper until 9/2! The same goes for The New York Times.

It is legitimate question to ask how the crisis was allowed to build and fester at the Convention Center, but I don't think its asking too much for the critics to get the facts straight. I also don't think it's asking too much to attribute the quote to the right person.

Thanks for the info, Geoff.

 

[bsnyder]

Click your heels 3 times together and say "I wanna believe".

 

[Geoff_M]

"Click your heels 3 times together and say "I wanna believe".

You're right, that's expecting way too much from those publications!

 

[Teejay32]

I spent most of the day running around the
ship getting these people off and on helicopters and in and out of the
meetings and command spaces. It was like herding cats.

****

It is always a pleasure to work with the United States Secret Service. These folks are always ON TIME!

Thanks for posting this, I hope we see more from him!

 

[Ibby]

This was an article written by the Rev. JL Peterson, a black columnist. Who by the way is being shunned b/c of what he thinks.

Is it really the fault of our government? Isn't it our own responsibility to keep ourselves and our family out of harms way?

If you think the article is a farce, look it up on [COLOR=Blue]http://www.Snopes.com [/COLOR]



Moral poverty cost blacks
in New Orleans

Posted: September 21, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

(c) 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Say a hurricane is about to destroy the city you live in. Two questions:

1. What would you do?



2. What would you do if you were black?



Sadly, the two questions don't have the same answer.

To the first: Most of us would take our families out of that city quickly to protect them from danger. Then, able-bodied men would return to help others in need, as wives and others cared for children, elderly, infirm and the like.

For better or worse, Hurricane Katrina has told us the answer to the second question. If you're black and a hurricane is about to destroy your city, then you'll probably wait for the government to save you.

This was not always the case. Prior to 40 years ago, such a pathetic performance by the black community in a time of crisis would have been inconceivable. The first response would have come from black men. They would take care of their families, bring them to safety, and then help the rest of the community. Then local government would come in.

No longer. When 75 percent of New Orleans residents had left the city, it was primarily immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind and waited for the government to bail them out. This, as we know, did not turn out good results.

Enter Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. Jackson and Farrakhan laid blame on "racist" President Bush. Farrakhan actually proposed the idea that the government blew up a levee so as to kill blacks and save whites. The two demanded massive governmental spending to rebuild New Orleans, above and beyond the federal government's proposed $60 billion. Not only that, these two were positioning themselves as the gatekeepers to supervise the dispersion of funds. Perfect: Two of the most dishonest elite blacks in America, "overseeing" billions of dollars. I wonder where that money will end up.

Of course, if these two were really serious about laying blame on government, they should blame the local one. Responsibility to perform - legally and practically - fell first on the mayor of New Orleans. We are now all familiar with Mayor Ray Nagin - the black Democrat who likes to yell at President Bush for failing to do Nagin's job. The facts, unfortunately, do not support Nagin's wailing. As the Washington Times puts it, "recent reports show [Nagin] failed to follow through on his own city's emergency-response plan, which acknowledged that thousands of the city's poorest residents would have no way to evacuate the city."

One wonders how there was "no way" for these people to evacuate the city. We have photographic evidence telling us otherwise. You've probably seen it by now - the photo showing 200 parked school buses, unused and underwater. How much planning does it require to put people on a bus and leave town, Mayor Nagin?

Instead of doing the obvious, Mayor Nagin (with no positive contribution from Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco, the other major leader vested with responsibility to address the hurricane disaster) loaded remaining New Orleans residents into the Superdome and the city's convention center. We know how that plan turned out.

About five years ago, in a debate before the National Association of Black Journalists, I stated that if whites were to just leave the United States and let blacks run the country, they would turn America into a ghetto within 10 years. The audience, shall we say, disagreed with me strongly. Now I have to disagree with me. I gave blacks too much credit. It took a mere three days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into ghettos, rampant with theft, rape and murder.

President Bush is not to blame for the rampant immorality of blacks. Had New Orleans' black community taken action, most would have been out of harm's way. But most were too lazy, immoral and trifling to do anything productive for themselves.

All Americans must tell blacks this truth. It was blacks' moral poverty - not their material poverty - that cost them dearly in New Orleans. Farrakhan, Jackson, and other race hustlers are to be repudiated - they will only perpetuate this problem by stirring up hatred and applauding moral corruption. New Orleans, to the extent it is to be rebuilt, should be remade into a dependency-free, morally strong city where corruption is opposed and success is applauded. Blacks are obligated to help themselves and not depend on the government to care for them. We are all obligated to tell them so.