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Friday, September 09, 2005
After These Messages, We'll Be Right Back
Let's see what people on the street have to say about Katrina:
- Barbara Bush: "Let them eat cake."
- Laura Bush: "Stop picking on my husband."
- Paul Krugman: "These boneheads don't learn too good."
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Does Laura Bush belong on this list? She's been talking about the hurricane Corrina...
Posted by: ellroon | Sep 9, 2005 2:36:58 PM
Instead of just taking NTodd's word for it, let's see what these ladies actually said . . .
Barbara Bush: "Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."
Laura Bush responded (at least she didn't "boo" them) to the comments by Kanye West ("George Bush doesn't care about black people") and Howard Dean ("race played a role in the hurricane casualty numbers"): "I think all of those remarks are disgusting, to be perfectly frank, because of course President Bush cares about everyone in our country . . . And I know that. I mean, I'm the person who lives with him," she said. "I know what he's like and I know what he thinks and I know how he cares about people."
Mrs. Bush pointed out that poor people (REGARDLESS OF RACE) were more vulnerable when the hurricane hit. "They lived in poorer neighborhoods. Their neighborhoods were the ones that were more likely to flood, as we saw in New Orleans. Their housing was more vulnerable," she said.
"And that's what we saw, and that's what we want to address in our country."
Please refute ANY of those facts or opinions
P.S. As for Krugman, I'm not even sure what NTodd is referring to (or why Fred R. Conrad's picture is being displayed).
Posted by: Charlie | Sep 9, 2005 2:37:27 PM
In comparison to what Barbara Bush actually said (nice bit of selective editing there, Charlie, by the way), Marie Antoinette's famous quip, Qu'ils mangent de brioche, doesn't even rate as a faux pas.
Bar's full remarks, broadcast on NPR's "Marketplace" program, as reported in Editor & Publisher:
"In a segment at the top of the show on the surge of evacuees to the Texas city, Barbara Bush said: 'Almost everyone I’ve talked to says we're going to move to Houston.'
"Then she added: 'What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.
"'And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them.'"
What's so scary, Babs? The fact that there are going to be a lot more poor (and largely black) people living in your sacred environs? And nobody with a brain could possibly describe losing homes, possessions, pets, jobs, and loved ones, and then having to relocate to what amounts to a concentration camp*, as "working out well," even for people who were "underprivileged." Unless Babs meant that concentration camps were just fine for underprivileged folks.
*Yes, I know the difference between a concentration camp and an extermination camp. I'm not comparing the Astrodome to Auschwitz.
Posted by: Michael | Sep 9, 2005 2:57:49 PM
Sorry, Michael - the "scary" comment was not in the original link that NTodd posted so I did not do any editing - unfortunately, I have to stay on this topic per NTodd's instructions. Maybe he NTodd will start another thread on those other quotes too. For the record, I do think everything is working very well for all those who survived the hurricane and are in shelters (given the alternatives).
Posted by: Charlie | Sep 9, 2005 4:40:42 PM
I do think everything is working very well for all those who survived the hurricane and are in shelters ….Posted by: Charlie
Of course allowing the Bush regime to separate families and sent them to places far from home, places which in some instances sound like concentration camps is fine with you. They are, after all, only brown people. Their dead don't count.
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Posted by: Mike | Sep 9, 2005 6:03:29 PM
Of course, I never said "Their dead don't count" - I disagree with any comparison to NAZI concentration camps - did you overhear this exchange between Tom DeLay and three young boys evacuated from New Orleans:
The congressman likened their stay to camping out and asked, "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?" They nodded yes . . .
http://blogs.chron.com/domeblog/
Posted by: Charlie | Sep 9, 2005 6:16:44 PM
Yeah, Chuckles, being displaced from your home is exactly like camping out. Good lord...
Posted by: NTodd | Sep 9, 2005 7:00:14 PM
Compared to being trapped in a swealtering attic with a dead body, it is: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/09/katrina.survivors/index.html
Posted by: Charlie | Sep 9, 2005 7:31:15 PM
Instead of just taking NTodd's word for it, let's see what these ladies actually said . . .
You are really a stupid git, Charlie. You clearly haven't heard of snark, summarization, or following the fucking link.
Posted by: NTodd | Sep 10, 2005 3:24:49 PM
Compared to being trapped in a swealtering attic with a dead body, it is:
I'm sure that's exactly what DeLay had in mind. Jesus, you are a simple SOB.
Posted by: NTodd | Sep 10, 2005 3:25:36 PM
Oh, and I notice he's only disavowing any resemblance between the FEMA camps and the Nazis' concentration camps. Apparently it's still OK to compare them with other kinds of concentration camps? (The Japanese internment camps during WWII spring immediately to mind, or the British original versions during the Boer War....)
Posted by: Michael | Sep 10, 2005 6:59:02 PM
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