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Sept. 1, 2005 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 1, 2005, Thursday, Hour #2
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Nothing better illustrates the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the left than their reaction to this disaster in the Gulf Coast region.
The only thing they can do is finger point.
Blame President Bush rather than directing their concerns and energies constructively towards solving the problem.
Instead of being part of the solution, they compound the problem by politicizing everything about this.
Bush didn't adequately prepare for this by getting assets into place.
And he isn't doing enough to rescue the people already there.
This is all a gotcha exercise rather than a genuine fact-finding exercise.
The left cannot help themselves.
All they know how to do is to hate, hate, hate George W. Bush.
They have no solutions.
When you look at the people in New Orleans conducting the rescues, do you see any environmentalists?
Do you see any elite leftists?
Do you see any of the people who are out there raising all these concerns?
Nope, you don't see them there.
You see the men and women who make this country work.
And I see American flags on some of these rooftops in New Orleans.
I see people of all races.
I see people of all sexes getting together, doing the best they can in circumstances that we can only try to relate to via watching it all on television.
It is more devastating than we can possibly imagine.
And efforts are being made.
The New York Times today has an editorial that it you may as well, as far as the New York Times are concerned, think that history began with the George Bush presidency.
The headline of this uh of this editorial is waiting for a leader.
And this editorial is one, two, three, four, five paragraphs is printed out from their website, and it blames Bush for virtually everything.
The war on terror and Iraq, 9-11, you name it, this uh disaster and uh in the Gulf region.
They start by saying he gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday, especially given the level of national distress and the need for words of consolation and wisdom.
In what seems to be a ritual in this administration, the president appeared a day later than he was needed.
He then read an address of a quality more appropriate for an Arbor Day celebration, a long laundry list of pounds of ice, generators, and blankets delivered to the stricken Gulf Coast.
He advised the public that anybody who wanted to help should send cash.
He grinned and promised that everything would work out in the end.
This is not good enough for the New York Times.
They want a quivering lower lip, and they want a bunch, a bunch of emotion expressed.
They want empathy, sympathy, which is not going to accomplish anything.
What we got from President Bush yesterday was the button-down business executive approach to a problem.
We had a problem.
It exists, is it we're doing or is it we're gonna do?
We expect to be able to deal with this.
It's going to take years, but we expect to be able to deal with this.
New Orleans will rise again.
That's not good enough for the people on the left.
The lower lift didn't quiver.
He didn't break out in tears.
He didn't empathize.
He didn't seem to have any any any compassion about any of this.
Well, of course, of course, of course, the Times says.
Endure, the city of New Orleans to come back.
But looking at the pictures on TV yesterday of a place abandoned to the forces of flood, fire, and looting, it was hard not to wonder exactly how that's going to come to pass.
Well, you know, I I I'm gonna it might be interesting to pose a little question to those of you armchair quarterbacks.
What would you do?
Let me ask whoever's writing these editorials at the New York Times.
This happens to you.
You you you put in your editorial what you would do.
You've got three days to set up a rescue operation system that saves everybody.
You've got three days to eliminate all the crime and looting that by the way has been permitted to go on down there for I don't know how many decades, because you know, law and order has become a code phrase for racism.
So you can't talk about law and order.
You think this is a new thing with these people running around down there with guns?
You think you think gang activity in cities is a new thing?
People are acting shocked and stunned that it would happen in this circumstance.
What do you expect?
I mean, the all elements of our society are on display.
Have you heard about what the inside of the superdome looks like?
I mean, we're we're dealing with a microcosm here.
You know, I I i i i it is what it is.
People are who they are.
Just because there's a disaster doesn't mean that everybody's gonna become angelic.
There are going to be people that try to take advantage.
Do you know you've probably seen the numbers?
80% of New Orleans underwater.
And it's been that way for three days.
And you're probably wondering, well, how come 85% isn't underwater by now?
We keep hearing the levees haven't been plugged up.
How come it's not 85% or 90%?
Because there are two sides to the levees.
There's a canal.
And there's a, I don't know if it's a west side and an east side of the canal.
Well, only one side breached.
The other side of one of the canals is the city of Metary, and it's dry.
And they're being told to leave.
They're being told to get out of there.
They know full well that if they leave, the looters and the gangs are going to be able to get across the levee and steal whatever's in their houses.
What do you expect them to do?
So you're running the show, New York Times.
What are you going to do about this?
Nobody's taking any action against the looters because the fear of political correctness, I will guarantee you it's the fear of political correctness.
In one instance, people are saying, well, you know, these gangs have AK-47s.
They broke into these gun stores and they got AK-47s.
Some of them probably did, but a lot of them didn't have to break into gun stores to get guns.
That's part of the requirement of being in a gang.
That was followed by the cops.
And the cops went into the same gun store gun stores.
But you know what they did?
They took the ammo so that the looters wouldn't be able to go back and get the ammo and reload.
They're doing what they can.
And now the cops are being complained about and and uh and and accused of looting as well.
And there may be isolated incidents of it.
But don't say the cops are looting when they're going in there and taking the ammo from a gun store that's already been broken into and guns already stolen from.
Guns worthless without the ammo, so they're going in and doing what they can to get the ammo out of the reach of the looters.
They're doing what they can do.
And to somehow make all of this the fault of Washington, all of this, the fault of the Bush administration.
It's like nothing ever happened in this country before Bush became president.
Like there was no crime.
There wasn't any crime in New Orleans before Bush became president.
There was no terrorism either.
Do you know that?
Before Bush became president.
And there wasn't an energy problem before Bush became president.
And there weren't rising gas prices before Bush became president.
It's amazing.
If you read the New York Times, the country only began on January 21st, 2001.
Prior to that, we were some you know nice little hunky-dory utopia.
But now all of a sudden we've got a country that's gone downhill fast, and it all happened starting in January of 2001.
And of course, um, what is it?
Howard Dean got in on the act today.
Um the Democrat National Committee has issued the following press release.
This morning, President Bush told Diane Sawyer on ABC's Good Morning America that the uh that to ease skyrocketing gas prices, Americans ought to conserve more, and I would hope Americans conserve if given the chance, quote unquote Bush.
Howard Dean writes, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement, reminding President Bush that in case he hadn't noticed, ordinary Americans have been doing their part.
They have been making sacrifices, they have been suffering.
Yeah, that's Democrats look out across the land, that's all they ever see is suffering.
Meanwhile, President Bush has failed to rein in skyrocketing gas prices.
Now, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, as a as Americans pull together to do their part and gas prices again explode, Chairman Dean suggested that perhaps it's time for President Bush to finally use whatever influence he may have to call on his friends and campaign contributors in the oil and gas industry to bear their fair share of the burden.
Last I saw a whole bunch of rigs and refineries were rendered impotent by this storm.
How much more harm and damage do you want to happen to them?
And by the way, what is this desire for harm and damage to the oil industry?
You see where it gets us.
It's in it's it's folks, it's not sane.
It is just, there's no other way to describe this.
Fossil fuels has become every I mean may as well be a poison.
Maybe it may as well be a cancer, an incurable cancer.
It's a disease that's consuming us all.
Fossil fuels and oil.
Nope.
It's the fuel of the engine of freedom and democracy.
It's the fuel that keeps us growing and going.
And without it, we don't grow.
And without enough of it, we don't even go.
And the Democrats seem happy about this.
Once again whining, moaning, complaining, offering no solution.
Well, they have offered solutions and they would only compound the problems.
Bill Nelson, I'm not going to let them drill anywhere for I'm not going to let them drill in Florida.
Ain't no way, man.
Not on my watch.
I'll filibuster whatever I have to do.
We need to freeze gas price.
Yeah, that'll really make situation even worse.
And then Hillary Clinton, we need congressional hearings on gouging.
And of course Howard Dean picks up on that.
He wants the president to call on his friends in big oil to join in the sacrifice and stop gouging American families at the gas pump.
Supply and demand how many times do we have to say it supplies down to take 30 million gallons of gasoline off the market in a day for every day for as long as this lasts and what do you think is going to happen to the price?
At any rate it is this this unceasing ongoing almost like enemy opposition to the oil industry.
And I hope all of you notice particularly now when you are finding shortages in high prices.
And if you listen to people like Howard Dean and his cronies and his party and the environmentalist left you'll have even less of it and you'll have even higher prices.
And no hybrid or no newfangled new technology is going to bail you out because we're nowhere near it.
Anyway, there are other things to discuss and I got to get to them and we'll do so after this break.
Stay with us phone number if you want to be on the program today is 800 28282.
And quickly back to the phones Randy in Tallahassee I'm glad you called sir.
Welcome to the program.
Rush it's an honor.
Thank you, sir.
One to make a point the environmentalist and Bill Nelson have been proven wrong again.
I think one of the reasons that the environmentalists say they don't want to drill more in the Gulf is they're worried about spills and some eco damage.
Well we just all the rigs just survived a category five hurricane when it was out over the water and I don't think a drop of oil was spilled so Bill Nelson's point he's made he's disproving his own point.
Why not drill make drill more in the Gulf?
Look you know I'm I I think this is obviously true.
And if it wasn't category five or they were it was category four as a big hurricane they still survived not a drop of oil spilled.
That's only one of the arguments.
One of the other arguments is well we don't want to spoil the views from our coastline.
We don't want to look at these things.
That's the argument they have in California, and I'm sure it's the argument they have in parts of coastal Florida.
Property values, don't you know?
But that's, folks, you have to understand something here.
Bill Nelson's just doing the bidding of the people that support him.
You have to understand this.
It is the environmentalist left and a bunch of bureaucrats and the courts which are enforcing this kind of thinking.
The environmentalists are opposed to this because they are opposed to the very progress we need.
Privately, their environmentalists are rubbing their hands together in glee this is what they think this country deserves they want to see us this way we need to be punished for polluting the planet as we have and causing global warming what happened in this disaster is Mother Nature getting even with us and sending us a message.
Senator Nelson gets supported by these people he has to keep them happy they send him money same thing with Chuck Schumer.
They may individually believe this stuff too if so it's even worse.
But Senator Nelson's just out there trying to curry favor with his donors he's a Democrat he's a liberal he knows who his supporters are he caters to them.
He's not going to stand up and tell them they're wrong.
He'd rather be in the Senate and be wrong than not be in the Senate and be right at this point in time though we don't have we don't have the luxury of having a bunch of nincompoops and ignoramuses run this show as it is becoming patently obvious now.
The elected class the Democrats they're all part of it but folks I'm I've been trying to tell you for 15 years now Sierra Club Environmental Defense Fund Earth First all these wackl groups all these militant environments some environmental groups of course that are good but you don't know who they are because they aren't not the pet agencies that the media loves to promulgate and amplify.
But all these militant environmentalist groups Greenpeace I mean I the list is so long it's the Sierra Club is trying to get SUVs off the road.
It's where would we be without SUVs and big trucks down in New Orleans today?
Stop and think.
Stop feeling about all this.
Stop being so susceptible to the fact that we're destroying nature and the environment.
We couldn't if we wanted to.
Not even with a nuclear weapon.
As has been demonstrated, by the way, uh, we didn't destroy the environment or anything else.
It just, it's just this this is just folly.
And we don't have time for this kind of liberal folly anymore.
Uh Lisa in Cape Coral, Florida.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Uh, dealers, Russ.
How are you?
Thank you.
Fine, thanks very much.
Good.
I wanted to make uh two points, and that is that the blame cannot be fully on the federal government.
It needs to be spread between the individuals who did not prepare properly for the storm, the local and state governments that could not have an emergency preparedness plan in place.
Um, you know what's gonna happen, though, those people are just gonna blame FEMA.
They're just gonna blame FEMA and the Corps of Engineers.
The state people just gonna say, well, the court only told us to build this to Category Three, and we didn't have the money anyway.
The blame game uh that's not that's not gonna solve anything.
That's my whole point.
I folks, I resent, I really resent having to talk about this whole story the way I have been all week.
But I can't in good conscience just ignore some of the stuff that's being said out there by the environmentalists and the others who are trying to make this totally political.
That's what I do every day anyway.
I get up and I defend the things I believe in.
This is not an attack show.
We don't get up and attack people, we don't look for people to attack.
We they they present themselves, and we defend their attacks, and that's what's happening here today.
And it's absolutely it's a it's a crying shame with what we're seeing going on over there in the Gulf Coast region that this kind of stuff even has to be dealt with.
But since it is, I have a piece here.
One of my favorite blogs is the American thinker, and I got a piece submitted here by I think it's Thomas Lift Thomas Liftsen wrote this, and he's the editor and publisher of the American thinker.
Now, this is this is gonna be hard-hitting to some of you people.
I want you to brace yourselves.
I'm just gonna give you little excerpts of this.
Nobody wants to kick New Orleans and Louisiana when they're so devastated, but we will be deluding ourselves and laying the foundation for future suffering if we do not examine the human failures which have turned a natural disaster into a tragedy.
Few, if any cities have contributed more to American culture than New Orleans, goes on to cite them.
Jazz uh has its origins there, uh cuisine, uh, New Orleans virtually without peer, on and on and on.
But the many virtues of New Orleans are offset in part by serious flaws.
The flowering of the human spirit in the realm of cultural creativity is counterbalanced by a tradition of corruption, public incompetence, and moral decay, writes Mr. Lifson.
It's no secret that New Orleans and the great state of Louisiana have a sorry track record when it comes to political corruption, and corruption tolerated in one sphere tends to metastasize and infect other aspects of life.
They don't call it the big easy because it's simple to start a business and easy to run one there.
Many years ago, an oil man in Houston pointed out to me that there was no inherent reason Houston should have emerged as the world capital of the oil business.
New Orleans was already a major city with centuries of history, proximity to oil deposits, huge transportation advantages.
When the Houston ship channel was dredged, and that made the then small city of Houston into a major port.
The discovery of the humble oil field certainly helped Houston rise as an oil center, but the industry could just as easily have centered itself in New Orleans.
When I pressed my oil man informant for the reason Houston prevailed, he gave me a look of pity for my naivety, said corruption.
Anybody making a fortune in New Orleans based on access to any kind of public resources would find himself coping with all sorts of hands extended for palm greasing.
Permits, taxes, fees, outright bribes would be a never-ending nightmare.
Houston, in contrast, was interested in growth, jobs, prosperity, and extending a welcoming hand in newcomers.
New Orleans might be a great place to spend a pleasant weekend, but Houston's the place to build a business.
Today, Metropolitan Houston houses roughly four times the population of pre-Catrina New Orleans, despite the considerable advantage New Orleans has of capturing the shipping traffic of the Mississippi Basin.
It's far from a coincidence that Houston is now absorbing refugees from New Orleans and preparing to enroll the children of New Orleans in its own school system.
Houston is a city built on the can-do spirit, space, oil, medicine, shining examples of the human will.
Houston officials have capably planned for their own possible severe hurricanes, and that disaster planning is now selflessly put at the disposal of their neighbors to the east.
We'll be back.
Thomas Liffson, there, editor and publisher of the American thinker.
Speaking of New Orleans and looters living, I uh we just we just got a great couple of pictures from a uh guy in a club gitmo t-shirt on the top of a house roof, saving it and uh protecting it uh against looters.
Uh the uh email is from Roy Cuvillion, and he says um with chainsaws and generators, a little help from our friends.
We're reclaiming New Orleans area little by little.
There will be no successful looters here.
My brother's law, brother-in-law's home is in St. Charles Parish.
A tiny sliver of land in between the Mississippi River and the New Orleans protective levee was spared from the flood only because a couple of railroad levies crossed to form a protective bowl with a little help from bulldozers.
Several homeowners have returned to camp out at their homes.
Even the police are confronted when making their rounds.
Dear Rush, you might want to consider a public service announcement to the looters looting here is a one-way trip.
And uh we've got a picture of Mr. Cavulian, two of them actually on the roof of his brother-in-law's house in St. Charles Parish.
Now, this is the point that I was making earlier.
There's there's there's still parts of New Orleans that have not been flooded because you know, one side of uh uh of a levee or seawall was not breached, and so the water is not flooding.
One of those areas of Metary, I think.
Uh and apparently St. Charles Parish is uh is another area where it may be part of Mettery or Mettery may be part of it, but uh still um you tell everybody to get out, and they're they're subject to the evac order.
I mean, they're all part of Metro New Orleans.
You've got to get out of here.
Well, there are gangs and looters roaming the city now, and they're armed.
And people don't want to leave.
They don't, especially the people that are high and dry.
They don't want to leave their homes and their possessions to be stolen, burned down, and who knows whatever else, and so they're arming themselves and they're planting the American flag on a roof.
And we've posted this picture at Rushlinbaugh.com of Mr. Cuvillion on top of his roof, or his brother-in-law's roof uh in uh in St. Charles uh Parish.
Here's uh Keith in Kansas City, Kansas.
Hi, Keith, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Thanks, Rush.
Longtime listener, first time successful caller.
You bet, sir.
Um I don't watch the boot tube for my news.
I get most of my news through the internet nowadays.
And uh yesterday I was looking around on Yahoo News and I saw some articles about the plight of the people in New Orleans, and they had some pictures, a couple of different uh articles had uh some Caucasians with drags dragging bags behind them in the water as they waited, talking about how they had just uh been seen scavenging for food in grocery stores.
And then I saw some articles on looting showing some African Americans dragging bags behind them, commenting that they had just been seen looting grocery stores.
Now, tell me, doesn't that just smack a racism?
Um, well, um this this whole issue of race.
Uh let me let me take the occasion of your phone call to get into this.
This is dicey.
Like I say, law and order in New Orleans is a code word for racism.
You don't talk about law and order.
Uh because you'll have people like Jesse Jackson on your case.
So you don't talk about the idea that, for example, the gangs running around down there now just came to life because of the disaster is uh naive.
I mean, there are gangs in major metro areas all over the country, uh, and they surface whenever.
And this is the exact type of circumstance they exploit.
I mean, folks for crying out loud, we had rescue helicopters being fired on by these people today.
At the Superdome.
Rescue helicopters being fired on by.
Oh, they haven't, Anna confirmed that.
No, the cable networks are running it as though it was confirmed.
Okay, National Guard says it's not confirmed.
Well, they suspended the rescue effort for some reason.
National Guard said they have not suspended the rescue effort.
Well, okay, so uh I don't know what to believe now.
I mean, cable networks all morning long with rescue effort suspended.
Shocks fired on rescue chopper.
Yeah, the wires had it, everybody had this.
The National Guards is no.
Well, what is the National Guard know?
They're in Iraq.
All right.
Uh back to the back back to this race business.
I mentioned at the beginning of the program that I I've been I've been trolling these uh these wacko leftist uh websites.
And I saw one that was particularly disturbing earlier this week.
Um used the N-word in a headline, and was all about um well, the point of this of this uh whole post was that uh the reason nobody's rescuing them, and the reason nobody cares about them, and the reason they're being allowed to die the way they are is because they're the N-word.
And uh it would they were not blaming anybody but our culture.
This is the America is a racist country.
This is this leftist website's point of view.
Daily cause is where it was.
Daily chaos, however the hell you pronounce it.
This is our culture.
This is our society.
We are a racist society.
Uh and this attitude, of course, has been prevalent long since before the Civil Rights Act in the 60s and the actions that led up to it.
Remember, the Libs work off an old playbook.
They never modernize.
They have a view of America that never changes.
And depending if whatever the view of America when it comes to race is 1960.
The view of America economically is the 1930s.
Uh the view of uh of America at war is 1969 through 73, Vietnam.
That's how they look at this country.
So when race enters into it, whenever there's pictures of black people suffering on television, the liberal cannot help but conclude: well, it's the 1960s, and this is actually probably desired by somebody.
I read it, and to be fair, there are a number of people on this website that were horrified and offended by it and said, take it down, it's you're gonna hurt us by putting this up there.
And an argument began on this website as to whether or not the headline should stay.
And very few really were debating the substance of this loco weeds point.
Um, it has now, you know, that that that's what starts these things, and they percolate out there and they efferves, just like the Nar enough Iraq uh or National Guard troops because Bush sent them all to Iraq.
That started on this website.
And now Diane Sawyer's asking Bush about it today.
Make no mistake.
I mean, when I when I tell you that the mainstream press has its tentacles dug deep into the fringe kook of the Democratic Party, it's true, and that's where some of this stuff comes from.
It's where a lot of the mainstream press questions and attitudes and overall worldview come from.
Cindy Sheehan, no different.
So it has now come a little higher toward the surface.
It bubbled up a little bit beyond the sewer of the Daily Chaos website and has now reached Slate.com in a piece by a man named uh Jack Schaefer.
I'm sorry, I do not know who oh, Jack Schaefer is Slate's editor at large.
Um I don't know where to start with this.
Uh the title of his piece, let's just start with, I guess, at the beginning.
Lost in the Flood, why no mention of race or class in TV's Katrina coverage?
And this piece is actually asking the media, why aren't you pointing out to everybody that these are black people suffering?
That these are black people dying, that these are black people that are going thirsty and black people not being rescued.
This is a asking the mainstream press.
So they're exerting pressure on the mainstream press uh to, hey, come on, gang, notice what's going on here.
Now you might be asking yourself, wait a minute.
The majority population is New Orleans.
Well, who are they supposed to be?
And then we had a natural disaster that went through there.
Nobody steered it there.
What what what who who's supposed to be there if they didn't leave.
Oh, and by the way, they couldn't.
They didn't have the means.
They didn't have the money.
They didn't have cars.
They didn't have a way to get out.
Nobody cared to get them out.
Nobody really, really cared.
Nobody really cared to try to prevent what we're seeing because they're black and nobody cares about them because they're not full citizens.
This is the liberal template.
This is how they look at this.
This is what they're seeing when they when they watch television.
And they wonder why the media is not echoing this.
They wonder why the media is not saying the same things that they're thinking.
Well, the mayor of New Orleans is black.
The last mayor of New Orleans was black.
The previous mayor of New Orleans was black.
Police chief is black.
So majority of the population of New Orleans is black.
So I mean if if uh if hurricane or some sort of tornado destroyed uh Gross Point, Michigan, I guarantee you that it would all be white people.
But that doesn't happen or hasn't happened recently.
I think Biloxi, I don't know what the racial makeup of Biloxi is, Mississippi, but uh the idea that you can look at a disaster like this and just and not see human beings.
You see it's the it's it's it's the Democrats always tell us that you know they're not racist, that we are.
We're we're we're the racists.
We're the we're the ones who notice race or sex or skin colors, gender, religion, whatever.
I'm sorry, folks, but I I look at this and I just I'm overwhelmed by the human misery of it all.
And to the extent that I see people who are poor, I see poor people.
And then I say, why is this?
This city's been around forever.
So I run across Thomas Liffson's piece, comparing Houston to New Orleans, and why should why Houston shouldn't be the capital of the oil business in this country, but it is.
And there are reasons for it.
They have nothing to do with race, they have everything to do with politics, they have everything to do with the worldview.
If you, as a mayor, or if you as a city council run a city based on the welfare and entitlement thinking of government, bam okay you're gonna get poor citizens.
If you run a city that believes in entrepreneurialism and growth and so forth, you're not gonna have as much of that.
But if your city believes that it's entitled, if you if that's if that's the world view of the leaders of a community, and I don't care what their race is.
If their world view is that this is a welfare state, the government needs to protect us, the government needs to feed us, the government needs to transport us, the government, well, guess what?
Government needs to build a levies, the government needs to make sure to levies the government.
You're passing the buck all over the place and accepting all the money that the government's sending in to you, uh, and then something like this happens, and then you start you know wringing your hands or oh, look how poor the population.
Well, what do you expect when you have a welfare state mentality as your city government?
I mean, I I'm not even being critical.
I'm just trying to point out something obvious here.
Talking about this for 18 years, folks, socialism versus capitalism, entrepreneurialism, entrepreneurialism and self-reliance versus the entitlement mentality.
So much on display here, that's what nobody's got the guts to say.
Now the left wants to couch all this in racism because to them, this just shows the country is no far, no farther beyond the 1800s or 1964 than we've ever been.
The left doesn't want to talk about the ideology of this.
They want to talk about Bush doesn't care, Republicans or whoever is racist, and then nobody cares about the suffering black people.
I see a lot of people care about it.
I see people of all sexes, all creeds, all religions.
I see people of all skin colors down there running this rescue effort.
I see all kinds I I see people being pulled from near death by people of a different skin color.
I see the military working, I don't, I don't see any of what these liberals see.
They see it and then they charge racism.
They see it and they charge racism.
They need a mirror.
They charge racism so it bounces right back at them because they're the ones exhibiting, and some of it is is hideous.
And I will share with you some examples.
We'll come back after this break.
Don't go away.
All right.
Uh look, a lot of you people are on hold out there, and it's gonna be a while.
I just want to be honest.
You're on hold because I want to talk to you.
Got a guy that wants to disagree with me on capping the gas price.
I've got to talk to that guy.
Uh and the uh uh some other people.
Uh uh refineries, uh refiners supposedly don't want to build new refiners.
That's somebody making that point.
So, uh, but I've I've it's gonna take me a while to go through this because uh he got a tiptoe through this stuff, folks.
Uh the racial component, we can no longer deny it.
It's it's you're if you haven't yet seen it or heard it mentioned overtly, it isn't going to be long.
And it'll come up uh uh a cable show or uh uh a morning show, an interview of an administration official or something.
It's been bubbling all week, and it's now reached uh, you know, a little level higher than the Democrat sewer, and it won't be long before it then graduates to the mainstream press.
This guy, Jack Schaefer, the uh editor at large, Slate uh.com, lost in the flood, why no mention of race or class in TV's Katrina coverage?
And again, this is a piece directed to the media.
Why doesn't the media tell us what we're all seeing?
What we won't all see, what the left sees is the reason.
Says, I can't say I saw everything that the TV newscasters pumped out about Karina, but I viewed enough repeated segments to say with 90% confidence that broadcasters covering the New Orleans end of the disaster demoured from mentioning two topics that must have occurred to every sentient viewer, race and class.
Nearly every rescued person, temporary resident of the Superdome, looter or loiterer on the ground, high ground of the freeway that I saw on TV was African American.
And from the look of it, they weren't wealthy residents of the garden district.
This storm appears to have hurt blacks more directly than whites, but the broadcasters scarely mentioned that fact.
Uh I I'm sorry, I do not understand this.
Help me out, Mr. Snergley.
When when he says this storm appears to have hurt blacks more directly than whites, but the broadcasters scarely mention why sh what is the point?
They lived there.
They weren't transported and placed in front of this storm.
It has to be this 1960s mentality that the lib mantra that uh hurricanes or disasters hurt blacks and the poor and women hardest.
Uh the the white people leave, the white people are able to get out of there.
Well, uh the only ones with cars.
Well, why why is this?
Is somebody's not allowing black people to buy cars?
Somebody's not allowing black people to earn enough money to buy cars.
I mean, what he says, now don't get me wrong.
Just because 67% of New Orleans residents are black, I don't expect CNN to rename the storm Hurricane Carter in honor of the black boxer.
Just because Katrina's next stop after destroying coastal Mississippi was counties that are 25% to 86% African American, and 27.9% of New Orleans residents are below the poverty line.
I don't expect the Reverend Jackson to call the news channels to give a comment.
But in their frenzy to beat freshness into the endless loops of disaster footage that have been running all day, broadcasters might have mentioned that nearly all the visible people left behind in New Orleans are of the black persuasion and mostly poor.
And and that's I have seen white people in line at the Superdome.
I have seen white people that have not been able to get out of that town.
Now, to be sure, some reporters sidled up to the race and class issue.
I heard them ask the storms, New Orleans victims why they hadn't left town.
Many said they were broke.
I live from paycheck to paycheck, explained one woman.
Others said they didn't own a car, uh, and that they hadn't understood the importance of evacuation.
But I don't recall any reporter exploring the class issue directly by getting a paycheck-to-paycheck victim to explain that he couldn't risk leaving because if he lost his furniture and appliances, his pots and pans, his bedding and clothes to Katrina or looters, he'd have no way to replace them.
No insurance, no stable, no large extended family that could lend him cash to get back on his feet, no middle class job to return after the storm.
So this this ought to be, according to this man, the focus of the coverage that we're getting out of there.
There's much more of this, but I've got a break, as you know.
We'll continue here in just a sec.
There's a thought for Mr. Schaefer.
You know, Democrats are able to get all these people to the polls on election day, but they didn't seem able to get them out of town with an uh oncoming hurricane.
Sit tight, folks.
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