Right-Wing Myths About Katrina, Debunked
There are a lot of right-wing myths about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. ThinkProgress has created this guide to help you set the record straight.
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Blog by reformed leftist "Paul Hue", and his friends, including some UnReformed Leftists; the headlines reflect these competing views.
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Over half of the "right wing" myths are phoney myths: at most Bush officials are promoting them, while all the right wing pundits are refuting them. I am eager to learn all the facts, which I assume are not yet available. The conservative commentators have been very brutal against Bush.
Have lefties found fault with local and state leaders?
Was the evacuation and response really handed off to the feds prior to the storm's landfall?
I do not know the answers, though I seek them out. It is interesting to me that "the left" already "knew" that "it was Bush's fault" even before they had most of the facts presented in this article.
Rochelle is right. The point is that the problem now has to be fixed.
The left has taken this opportunity to attack Bush when he is at his lowest point. Politics is war. Beat him while he is down.
The right is using every amount of spin possible to minimize the damage caused by their mistakes. Bush has admitted that he is ultimately responsible for the government's response (the first time he has accepted responsibility for anything negative in either term), and this is a way to deflect pressure.
Paul asked: "Have lefties found fault with local and state leaders?"
I have seen criticism of government officials on all levels. The governments responsible were the first to point fingers when they themselves had failed.
Was it all Bush's fault? No.
Was it all Nagin's fault? No.
Was it all Blanco's fault? No.
Was it the fault of the poor people in New Orleans who couldn't afford to get out of town? No.
Was it the fault of the rich people who left town when they had an opportunity? No.
There is much blame to go around, but more importantly, there is much work to be done. The spreading of blame and myths won't help to clean up New Orleans any faster.
Stop talking about it and get to work.
"There is much blame to go around, but more importantly, there is much work to be done. The spreading of blame and myths won't help to clean up New Orleans any faster.
Stop talking about it and get to work."
What the...I've been saying this from the very start!
Most people are correctly concluding that all three levels of govt (city, state, fed) failed, and not just in the days before and after the levees broke, but in the 20 years prior.
But few have talked about the failure at the personal level. The vandels started destroying and looting just hours after disaster struck -- well before it became clear that more help wasn't arriving soon, before people even got hungry or in need of water. I predict that the facts will show that outlawness was a primary factor in making the problems worse. This is the reason that the police in two cities closed their bridges to refugees.
Also, as facts emerge "racism" is desolving as a legitimate complaint. That email we all got with a white person "finding" food and a black person "looting" has been exposed: the reporters who labeled those photos saw the conduct of each subject, and properly labeled them very differently.
I am curious to see a racial breakdown of the Americans who have taken in black refugees. Will these statistics show that white Americans are largely racist, or not?
I am purposefully using the word "refugee" to annoy the race-baiters who are so proficient at finding racism everywhere, even in the use of such a term.
We are starting to see now that the wild criminal behavior played a huge role in this disaster:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9426745/
The thugs started robbing, looting, stealing, attacking, and destroying at the first sign of opportunity... well before anybody started going hungry or realizing that help was not on its way. It appears that this behavior was rampant, began within hours of the levee break, and played a major role in delaying help.
“The hurricane was a breeze compared with the crime and terror that followed."
Here's a good antidote to the "George Bush doesn't care about black people" nonsense:
http://hiphoprepublican.blogspot.com/2005/09/racismthey-charged-when-dont-they.html
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