Democrats worried New Orleans Death Toll Lower than Hoped
Democrats worried New Orleans Death Toll Lower than Hoped
So far, it's not been a good week for Democrats. Rescuers in New Orleans are finding far fewer corpses than hoped (by Democrats), city streets are already drier than Teddy Kennedy after a month in detox as the Big Easy stirred back to life faster than expected nearly 3 weeks after a major disaster triggered by powerful 160-foot oscillating fans mounted on platforms just off the Louisiana Gulf Coast, a Skull and Bones project funded by Bush's tax cuts for wealthy corporations working with FEMA in testing the first human-engineered racist hurricane.
In many parts of New Orleans, there were smaller mounds of trash, debris and rubble than you'd find after Mardi Gras. Death Toll lower than feared the headlines read over the weekend. No follow-up plague of super hairy-legged locusts, giant frogs, gnats, flies, two-headed vampire bats with a taste for Republican flesh. Not even boils, thunder and hail. Fewer dead than expected -- looks like Bush is off the hook again! So depressing. In the immediate aftermath of Katrina, with estimates of 10,000 floating corpses in Lake New Orleans, dumped there by passing slave ships, libbies were readying another one of their solemn Wellstone memorial celebrations. The early hysteria was fed by those "10,000 killed; Bush named as Possible Suspect" media stories. The "10,000 dead" figure, which was based on media reports, which were based on media reports prompted by Mayor Ray Nagin who retrieved the figure from his keister, drove the reporting.
"New Orleans Mayor: 10,000 Feared Dead" blared one headline 1 week after Katrina. Democrats were quietly hoping for a bigger haul -- 25,000 would be nice; but hey, why be greedy? So they settled for 10k. Now it looks like even that figure was wildly optimistic (for Democrats). The New York Times admitted Tuesday that "despite apocalyptic predictions, Marines searching St. Bernard Parish -- in the direct path of Hurricane Katrina -- have yet to find any bodies." Capt. Stephen Kahn, "operations officer for the battalion of Marines brought in from Camp Lejeune, N.C.," is quoted saying: "The areas worst flooded, as our guys are getting in there, they're not finding anything."
In short, the media reporting has been incompetent. At all levels, it failed. Reporters were too slow to respond, slow to understand the magnitude of the calamitous death toll that didn't happen. The reporting was disastrous. It showed the wretched failure of the media to prepare. Maybe the press is just too bureaucratic. I would fire them for incompetence. Or maybe ask for a commission. Or call Gov. Blanco. Just give me 24 hours to think about it.
Regarding the press, things could be worse. Just imagine if the media had been trying to inflate the death toll for shock value and high ratings to get people to watch those TV commercials which pay their bills! They'd never do it for ratings or sensationalism. Goodness no. I'm just sick and tired of the media blaming Bush for downed power lines, uprooted trees, wrecked homes and flooded streets! They know darn well it was John Roberts who did it.
By Monday, those "10,000 Dead; Cheney Feasting On Corpses In Undisclosed Location" headlines of the prior week slowly gave way to: Death Toll Now Believed Lower Than 10,000. By "Lower Than 10,000", they mean 423. In Mediaspeak, South Florida's death toll from Katrina was under 1,000 -- or 7. In the Gulf Coast, given the extent of the damage -- the effects of Katrina covered an area of nearly 100,000 square miles -- the death toll's been remarkably low. More died from the scorching '95 Chicago heat wave (nearly 800 were killed) than from Katrina. Bush can't even plan a hurricane right.
Which is why Katrina competed for news coverage this week with the John Roberts criminal trial -- excuse me, Senate confirmation hearings. Committee Democrats cross-examined Roberts over positions he took on contentious issues in debates back in 3rd Grade. They questioned him on a broad range of issues, such as abortion, capital punishment, abortion, civil rights, abortion, voting rights, abortion, presidential powers, abortion. And poor Sen. Joe Biden. He bruised his brain cell trying to get Roberts to say how he would rule on abortion. If this nominee won't tell us in advance what his rulings will be on cases that are likely to come before the court, HE AIN'T QUALIFIED TO BE A FAIR JUDGE!!
With the grim news of fewer than expected body bags taking the wind out of Katrina's sails, Democrats tried to shoehorn the hurricane into the confirmation hearings. Teddy Kennedy said in a statement that "the tragedy of Katrina shows in the starkest terms" blah, blah, blah. The bottom line is that the tragedy of Katrina for Teddy is that Katrina was no 9/11. New Orleans was not attacked by some stateless, Saudi-funded hurricane. There was no need for Bush to grab a bullhorn atop a damaged home in New Orleans. Anyway, what was he supposed to say? 'I hear you, the rest of the world hears you and Hurricane Katrina will hear from all of us soon!' Hard to rally the nation against weather disturbances. 9/11 remade Bush into the "war President." Katrina would not remake Bush into the "Hurricane President." Bush was not going to announce a "War On Hurricanes" before a Joint Session of Congress, with preemptive bombing strikes against 'hurricanes and those who harbor them.' Better to fight hurricanes there so we won't have to fight them in New Orleans! LET'S BOMB THOSE HURRICANE TRAINING CAMPS IN PAKISTAN!
Nope, doesn't sound quite right. Libbies gazed into Katrina's eye (it was love at first sight) and saw a great opportunity. Thousands of body bags! Recession! Gas lines! Chimpy, crippled forever by Katrina! He may not even run in '08! Dems could smell corpses in the water. But two weeks after Katrina, they can't even find the corpses. No gas lines. Pump prices are down. Bush's still light years ahead of Democrats in Congress. Economy's still hitting on all cylinders. And Katrina's gone! Poor, poor losercrats.
Anyway, that's...
My Two Cents...
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RE: Democrats worried New Orleans Death Toll Lower than Hoped
I wouldnt think most D,s would be doing that either- but then again i dont thinksome mind at all jumping onthese deaths of Americans here or overseas to use as poltical tools to use against there opponents.
Now the media & there hype of the body bags& the high death tolls to expect- was & is made for the tv drama& hypeof there making- as they go along- Or just a normal day at work for the news stars& celebs of tv land.
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I wouldnt think most D,s would be doing that either- but then again i dont thinksome mind at all jumping onthese deaths of Americans here or overseas to use as poltical tools to use against there opponents.
I wouldn't put anything past Teddy or Howie. Anything for a chance to jab the red party.
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um, well, i don't think any D's really hoped for the deaths of any american citizens
I would agree with you about MOSTDems - like the rank and fileones living around me. Clueless, misguided, but good people. But as for the ones we keep hearing from - Biden, Kennedy, Pelosi, Reid, Boxer, Kerry, Hillary, CNN, and the New York Times - guaranteed they are losing sleep because not enough died. They do not want Bush to make any improvements in the system - it might improve his ratings. They are praying to the power formerly known as God for a bigger disaster next time.
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RE: Democrats worried New Orleans Death Toll Lower than Hoped
Scanr,
Thank you for sucha great post. As a democrat, I guess I have failed to tow the party line. I am now saying a Novena every hour that the number of dead in New Orleans is at LEAST 8,000. I figure that that will be close enough to ten thousand (if you round) that we could still claim ten thousand dead.
In all seriousness. There is NOTHING in that article that is newsworthy, there is nothing that could be considered journalism. I suffered through the rantings of some madman that were so incoherent, illogical, and partisan, they could NOT make the editorial page of most respected newspapers. We are all dumber now for having read this drivel.
Just liike Mr. Slim Goodbody used to say, you are what you eat, I might add, you are what you READ. Some lighter reading like "Through the Looking Glass" or even some old "Good Ol Charlie Brown" might help with your gloom and doom attitude. This is deserving of being used as a paper source for the outhouse for my cabin out in the bush. I will remember to run off several copies for just that purpose.
RE: Democrats worried New Orleans Death Toll Lower than Hoped
I don't know if some of the main democrat politicians hoped for more deaths or not. I hope not. I sincerely doubt that the rank and file democrats did. I have seen that main democrat politicians are quite enthusiastic in politicizing Katrina and using it for their own political purposes. I have not seen many rank and file democrats disown or rebuke the democrat politicians for this crass politicization of a tragedy.
The other group of people written about in this article is the mainstream media (MSM). The MSM have also sought to politicize a tragedy and have failed to get the whole story or even get it accurate much of the time. They seem to focus on the blame game and overlook what good people are doing to help. They do not have much balance nor do they have a lot of credibility.
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There is NOTHING in that article that is newsworthy, there is nothing that could be considered journalism.
AM, I may be wrong here, but I believe that article is what is referred to as a "blog." (I've not started reading blogs, but I hear a lot of people talking about them.) The author has not even attempted to write a news article. It's all opinion, probably found on a partisan web site.
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