Monday, September 12, 2005

Sunday Night: tapes the MSM is not playing but Drudge is


There's a bigotry of low expectations about the people of New Orleans that is
disgusting:


  • You couldn't expect the police to return to restore order. They had to think
    of their families and themselves first.
  • You couldn't expect the bus drivers to report on Sunday, so the buses had to be left unused and even parked on the low ground.
  • You couldn't expect a mandatory evacution to be taken seriously.
  • You couldn't expect the poor of New Orleans not to loot as poor as they are.


Mayor Nagin's attitude on Sunday night as the Drudge show was airing was "No problem. It's all under control. Everyone either evacuated or made it to the Superdome for safety." There was no discussion of the actual implementation of the city's own emergency plan which called for a much greater response by first responders both before and after a hurricane landfall.


Any fair investigation of what happened is going to give the public comments by Nagin and Blanco on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday some serious criticism.

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