With apologies to Michael Myers.
Rush Limbaugh Attacks Black Katrina victims and praises Whites as the Floods hit.
Limbaugh: I want to know. I look at Iowa, I look at Illinois—I want to see the murders. I want to see the looting. I want to see all the stuff that happened in New Orleans. I see devastation in Iowa and Illinois that dwarfs what happened in New Orleans. I see people working together. I see people trying to save their property…I don’t see a bunch of people running around waving guns at helicopters, I don’t see a bunch of people running shooting cops. I don’t see a bunch of people raping people on the street. I don’t see a bunch of people doing everything they can…whining and moaning—where’s FEMA, where’s BUSH. I see the heartland of America. When I look at Iowa and when I look at Illinois, I see the backbone of America.
He didn't see any of that in New Orleans either. He SAID all that but saw none of it. If I could, I'd challenge him to find reports documenting his claims on Lexis/Nexis. Now just rants from the likes of WorldNetDaily but arrest reports and such.
Since the places he's lauding are also gun nut country, he may well have seen all that if help was a week in coming.
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1 - Yeah, I would like to
1 - Yeah, I would like to see the reports, too.
2 - But, he does have a point. No one in the Midwest has been stuck without food or water for days without a sign of help from any level of govt.
3 - Hopefully, now, we'll fix the levies.
Trouble the Water
What can we say? Last week I was fortunate enough to attend an advance screening of an absolutely fabulous documentary about Hurricane Katrina survivors titled Trouble the Water that powerfully refutes, without intending to do so, the lies of people like Rush Limbaugh. This film will not have its theatrical release until August but it shows just how hard poor people in New Orleans, who had literally been abandoned by their local, state and federal governments worked to support and hold each other up during this cataclysmic event. I cannot post a link to the film's website because I'm using a Mac but I'll go out and drop the link as text.
http://elsewherefilms.org/
"Zeitgeist has picked up Sundance doc prize winner "Trouble the Water" by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal for a late summer release, the company unveiled Tuesday. Nancy Gerstman, co-president of Zeitgeist Films negotiated the deal with Sarah Lash of Cinetic Media who represented the filmmakers. The doc centers on aspiring rap artist Kimberly Roberts and her husband Scott Roberts who captured their personal trauma with Hurricane Katrina the day before and the day of the deadly storm on a camcorder they purchased days earlier. The film captures the hope for survival under extreme conditions and touches on issues of race and class and the stratification of American society. "We are absolutely thrilled to have acquired this brilliant documentary which has a dramatic trajectory most narrative features would envy," commented Gertsman in a statement. "We are still mixing documentaries with features every year, but have found that the documentaries we've released this past year and a half...have performed spectacularly well for us." Zeitgeist will roll out the film theatrically August 22 in New York and Los Angeles."
That's right, you told me
That's right, you told me about that and I haven't looked into it yet (hanging head in shame).
Um, they've been preparing for it
Um, they have the National Guard fortifying the levees.
Um, they have everybody and their mama helping them to evacuate.
Do I really need anymore.
I know I shouldn't wish bad things on people, BUT....
Relax rik. It's Limbaugh...I
Relax rik. It's Limbaugh...I doubt your curse could make it through the crowd...
When did the hurricane hit the MidWest?
And really? Fat Bastard says: "I want to see the looting."
Well, I have no idea what his point can be other than regional bias because I recall the "looting" and "finding" in NOLA went across the board. And I really have a hard time trying to see the sparsely populated Midwest (they say a lot of farmland has been damaged) being comparable to a large U.S. city.
Some 1800 people died as a result of Katrina. This Midwest flood less than 50 dead.
Tim Wise's response
http://www.lipmagazine.org/~timwise/InsulttoInjury.html