About the hurricane
There's been a great deal of coverage in the mainstream press regarding not just the slow federal reaction to the Gulf Coast disaster (see these pieces in the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune if you haven't gotten enough coverage yet), but also the fact that FEMA has been in the city for three days without restoring anything that remotely resembles order.
What has arisen amid all this speculation, though, is the suggestion that the slow response is due to the fact that a large number of the victims were poor and black. If this is the case, it is a staggering indictment of the current administration. I'm not an unfair person; I like to at least try to see both sides of an issue, and since most of my friends are foaming-at-the-mouth liberal democrats, I thought I'd try to find some foamers on the other side. Also being rather lazy, I thought I'd get the opinions of the usual suspects: Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. The truth, then, probably lies somewhere in the middle.
Ann did not disappoint. Not only did she not even mention the suffering in the Gulf Coast, her website features a fantasy dialogue about Ted Kennedy's genitals. I shit you not. And you have to admire her style- why post a link to relief sites (hell, even I did that) when you can fantasize about the sagging balls of an elder statesman?
Rush, on the other hand, decided to use his considerable influence to encourage people to put aside their differences and help each other. Ha Ha, just kidding! He says: 1) people didn't leave New Orleans because they were poor, and they were poor because the (mostly democrat) people have an 'entitlement mentality' and just expect the government to step in when AN UNIMAGINABLY POWERFUL ACT OF NATURE DESTROYS ALL THEIR POSSESSIONS... whew, sorry. Anyway, those silly people- maybe next time they'll learn not to be so poor!
The best part, though, is 2) the press is actually demonstrating reverse racism by not showing all the suffering white people. I'd like to comment further, but just read it for yourself.
You might ask why I'm even worried about the comments of a single conservative blowhard. Because for the New York City area, WABC, the local affiliate that carries his program, has a 3.5 Arbitron rating. Even in the blue states, people are listening to this garbage.
For further criticism of the great leader, check out . Michael Moore's open letter to George W. Bush. Funny and incisive at the same time.
What has arisen amid all this speculation, though, is the suggestion that the slow response is due to the fact that a large number of the victims were poor and black. If this is the case, it is a staggering indictment of the current administration. I'm not an unfair person; I like to at least try to see both sides of an issue, and since most of my friends are foaming-at-the-mouth liberal democrats, I thought I'd try to find some foamers on the other side. Also being rather lazy, I thought I'd get the opinions of the usual suspects: Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. The truth, then, probably lies somewhere in the middle.
Ann did not disappoint. Not only did she not even mention the suffering in the Gulf Coast, her website features a fantasy dialogue about Ted Kennedy's genitals. I shit you not. And you have to admire her style- why post a link to relief sites (hell, even I did that) when you can fantasize about the sagging balls of an elder statesman?
Rush, on the other hand, decided to use his considerable influence to encourage people to put aside their differences and help each other. Ha Ha, just kidding! He says: 1) people didn't leave New Orleans because they were poor, and they were poor because the (mostly democrat) people have an 'entitlement mentality' and just expect the government to step in when AN UNIMAGINABLY POWERFUL ACT OF NATURE DESTROYS ALL THEIR POSSESSIONS... whew, sorry. Anyway, those silly people- maybe next time they'll learn not to be so poor!
The best part, though, is 2) the press is actually demonstrating reverse racism by not showing all the suffering white people. I'd like to comment further, but just read it for yourself.
You might ask why I'm even worried about the comments of a single conservative blowhard. Because for the New York City area, WABC, the local affiliate that carries his program, has a 3.5 Arbitron rating. Even in the blue states, people are listening to this garbage.
For further criticism of the great leader, check out . Michael Moore's open letter to George W. Bush. Funny and incisive at the same time.
posted by La Blonde Parisienne at 4:33 PM
1 Comments:
Be of good cheer, Rush's numbers have been falling steadily. He's getting creamed by Al Franken where they're on the air at the same time. He's still a chubby imp, though.
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