Why isn't it legal to set these people on fire?
Another pearl of Katrina-related compassion from the mouth of a Bush, this time it's rusted vagina Barbara Bush:
""And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this (she chuckled slightly)--this is working very well for them."
These people have abdicated their status as human beings. They lack any semblance of humanity. They truly view those less wealthy than themselves as lesser beings. And they rule us.
And, of course, no compliment of patriotic Americans are going to gather the kerosene tanks and light the funeral pyres for these amoral, murderous corporate pirates. One of the big reasons for this is that so many white people, including a thundering dumbass blathering at the table next to me at dinner tonight, have bought the O'Reilly line that "a lot" of the people who stayed in New Orleans did so with the express purporse of looting the city. Now, I know that the words "a lot" are vague (intentionally so in this case), but I've got to figure that, to be accurate, A LOT must connote at least 30% of a given whole. Given that there were more than 50,000 people stranded in New Orleans after the levees broke, that would mean that 15,000 or so people were hanging back, just waiting for the chance to wade through a waste-high pool of sewer water to lift some Nikes from Payless. Sure it's racist, but it's also stunningly idiotic. A much of white folks will buy it, though, because it gives them a nice excuse to justify their lack of compassion or concern over the fate of a bunch of poor black folk that they where never going to be terribly moved by in the first place. And so, the reign of the Crimson King and his inbred whore-mongers continues.
""And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this (she chuckled slightly)--this is working very well for them."
These people have abdicated their status as human beings. They lack any semblance of humanity. They truly view those less wealthy than themselves as lesser beings. And they rule us.
And, of course, no compliment of patriotic Americans are going to gather the kerosene tanks and light the funeral pyres for these amoral, murderous corporate pirates. One of the big reasons for this is that so many white people, including a thundering dumbass blathering at the table next to me at dinner tonight, have bought the O'Reilly line that "a lot" of the people who stayed in New Orleans did so with the express purporse of looting the city. Now, I know that the words "a lot" are vague (intentionally so in this case), but I've got to figure that, to be accurate, A LOT must connote at least 30% of a given whole. Given that there were more than 50,000 people stranded in New Orleans after the levees broke, that would mean that 15,000 or so people were hanging back, just waiting for the chance to wade through a waste-high pool of sewer water to lift some Nikes from Payless. Sure it's racist, but it's also stunningly idiotic. A much of white folks will buy it, though, because it gives them a nice excuse to justify their lack of compassion or concern over the fate of a bunch of poor black folk that they where never going to be terribly moved by in the first place. And so, the reign of the Crimson King and his inbred whore-mongers continues.
posted by matthew christman at 10:20 PM
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If there's any sign of this disaster actually improving anything, its in things like Keith Olbermann's vicious, bile-soaked rant, or even Shepard Smith bitch-slapping Hannity on air.
If nothing else, its refreshing to be reminded that the news media hasnt always been lap dogs to the the President, Enduring Freedom and the almightly Status Quo.
We'll see: my big fear now is that the visceral power of the images captured during the worst of it will fade with time, and the weak-bladdered nancies of the media, once they find themselves comfortably ensconsed in their air-conditioned New York studios, will slowly forget their rage and the White House expertly blames the whole thing on the local and state officials and the unruly blacks who aren't really Americans anyway.
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