BONES Posted September 7, 2005 Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 I read this and wanted to strangle the hell outta this fool aaaahhhhh I posted the link. I am not sure if you all have seen or heard this ............ Please read....thanks http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/barbara-b...5772563296.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted September 7, 2005 Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 Original Source: Provided by dream19 - thanks Barbara Bush comments on survivors spark outrageSeptember 7, 2005 - 12:31PM "They're underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them" ... former first lady Barbara Bush and former president George Bush visit hurricane evacuees in Houston on Monday. Comments about Hurricane Katrina victims by the mother of President George Bush have fuelled the ire of some Americans, who see the Bush family as out-of-touch patricians. The refugees in Houston, Texas, were "underprivileged anyway" and life in the Astrodome sports arena is "working very well for them", former first lady Barbara Bush said in a radio interview. "Almost everyone I've talked to says: 'We're going to move to Houston,' " Mrs Bush said late on Monday after visiting evacuees at the Astrodome with her husband, former president George Bush. "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality," she said. "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this - this is working very well for them." Her comments were aired on Marketplace, an American Public Radio show broadcast nationwide. They triggered a flood of negative messages on the Huffington Post, a popular left-leaning blog. "Cold hearted witch," read one of the more polite comments, signed by IowaDem. "No wonder her son remained on vacation, playing guitar and eating cake instead of seeing that aid and rescue operations were well-managed." Another writer found the comments hard to believe. "Did she really say that?" wrote 'Stephen.' "My God! What or who have we become?" Meanwhile, "Katrinagate" fury has spread to US media. "For God's sake, are you blind?" a woman shouted at Michael Brown, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). "You're patting each other on the back, while people here are dying." The woman was not a victim of Hurricane Katrina. She was a reporter with US television network MSNBC who was so affected by the misery she had witnessed she could hold back no longer. "Katrinagate" is the term being used by the media to describe the biggest challenge facing the political establishment in the US since the Watergate affair in the 1970s toppled Richard Nixon. Not for decades has there been such merciless questioning of the President and his Administration by the US media. Even now, as the rescue operation gets under way in earnest and the flood waters in New Orleans are starting to subside, the Federal Government's inadequate reaction - in the run-up to the hurricane and directly afterwards - is still being criticised by the media in reports that are anything but detached. Never before, say some observers, have US reporters been so emotionally involved in a story to the point of being enraged. They are not just telling a story, they have become part of it. "Has Katrina saved the US media?" asked BBC reporter Matt Wells, who sees the shift in tone as a potentially historic development. A number of US journalists who cover federal politics, especially television presenters, had become part of the political establishment, said Wells. "They live in the same suburbs, go to the same parties. Their television companies are owned by large conglomerates who contribute to election campaigns." It's a "perfect recipe" for fearful, self-censoring reportage, he said, but added: "Since last week, that's all over." But if the Bush Administration's reaction to Hurricane Katrina was slow, so too was the media's. On Friday, reporters at the scene were still having difficulties establishing the scale of the disaster and the number of dead. Used to reporting on comparatively harmless storms, heroically riding out the storms with windblown hairdos, they were then confronted with the "Big One". The television reporters, particularly, were left scrambling in the first few hours of coverage as they tried to comprehend the scale of the disaster. Then came the emotion. A CNN reporter broke down as she described the cries of help of people stuck on rooftops in Louisiana. Other journalists also related what they saw in broken voices. Then the federal officials rolled into town and the press conferences started, with politicians thanking one another for their tireless efforts. Next came anger. "This isn't Iraq, this isn't Somalia, this is our home," one NBC television reporter shouted. The usually stoic ABC television presenter Ted Koeppel lashed out at the FEMA head in a interview, when he could not give any details on the number of refugees waiting to be rescued from the Convention Centre. "Don't you people ever look at television?" the veteran presenter raged. "Don't you ever hear the radio? We've been reporting on the crisis at the Convention Centre for a lot longer than just today." A CNN journalist also attacked Brown. "How it is possible that we have better information than you? Why aren't supplies being dropped in [by plane]? In Banda Aceh, in Indonesia, they did it two days after the tsunami." Another CNN reporter interrupted Senator Mary Landrieu during an interview in which she was praising Congress for passing an emergency aid package. "Excuse me Senator, I'm sorry for interrupting. I haven't heard anything about that, because I was busy these past four days seeing dead people on the street. And when I hear how one politician congratulating the others ... Yesterday there was a corpse on the street which had been eaten by rats because it had been there for 48 hours." If the alarm bells are not already going off in the Oval Office, they should be, because the previously staunchly pro-Bush Fox News is also starting to show signs of disaffection. As one of their reporters was being directed to another area because of the danger caused by looting, he spoke quickly into his microphone, saying: "These people are desperate. Why shouldn't they try to steal water and food from us?" Photo: AP"They're underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them" ... former first lady Barbara Bush and former president George Bush visit hurricane evacuees in Houston on Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted September 7, 2005 Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 I'm not a democrat or of the democratic inclination, but the Bush family makes it a serious consideration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blitzer71988 Posted September 7, 2005 Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 You know, I'm for Bush hands down (and always will be) but I, after reading that, am definitely not for his big-headead wife. I'd like to see her live like the people in New Orleans have lived, I know she couldn't do it... so she should have just kept her mouth shut about that situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONES Posted September 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 I am so upset over these comments ...... I am sorry I just despise the entire family. I respect those who do support him but omg aaahhh I just do not understand why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted September 8, 2005 Report Share Posted September 8, 2005 You know, I'm for Bush hands down (and always will be) but I, after reading that, am definitely not for his big-headead wife. I'd like to see her live like the people in New Orleans have lived, I know she couldn't do it... so she should have just kept her mouth shut about that situation.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Well, considering her son is the president, I wouldn't be thinking too highly of him either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mephisto Posted September 8, 2005 Report Share Posted September 8, 2005 This is a little off-topic for the Bushes, but it is about Katrina. Next time you get the chance, check the October 2004 issue of Smithsonian magazine. It very accurately describes what has happened less than a year before it happened. The thing is: No one did anything to try and help lessen any of it. Actually, I take that back. Louisiana asked for so many billions of dollars to upgrade the things that keep the water from the river from rushing into town (sorry, but their name escapes me at the moment) from category 3 to category 5. The government gave them money, but it was only 30 something million. That's real nice. Give them way too little money and expect them to do all that should be done. Sorry about being off topic, but the last section of that quote posted up there in the second post set me off. Also sorry about some of the wording in this. It all sickens me and I'm having a hard time putting it into words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blitzer71988 Posted September 8, 2005 Report Share Posted September 8, 2005 Well, Wolfie, I beg to differ. At least her son isn't stupid. Come on, when are you just going to wise up and realize that you are not going to change my opinion on Bush? Sheeze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted September 8, 2005 Report Share Posted September 8, 2005 You know, I'm for Bush hands down (and always will be) but I, after reading that, am definitely not for his big-headead wife. I'd like to see her live like the people in New Orleans have lived, I know she couldn't do it... so she should have just kept her mouth shut about that situation.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Well, Wolfie, I beg to differ. At least her son isn't stupid. Come on, when are you just going to wise up and realize that you are not going to change my opinion on Bush? Sheeze.<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Hey the former president Bush wasn't too bad, even though his wife said that stupid stuff. It's the current Bush that's president that I'm not too crazy about. Ok I'm not really fond of the first Bush either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONES Posted September 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2005 (edited) They both sucked eggs. Bush (W) has spent most of his presidency on a bleeping vacation playing golf just like daddy did while the world goes to pot and Cheney oh hell his hands are so way up W's bleep it makes me sick. He has screwed us over with messing with our social security and now the whole bankruptcy issue. When we are all ready to retire we are gonna have zip money for our retirement hec my parents will have nothing. He is a homophobic idiot who has no right to interfere in anyones love life. It is not who you love but how you love that counts. The gay and lezbian community have the right to marry and get the same benefits that straight people do/have the govt. needs to step off our private lives. Mama Bush's remarks just proves that the apple does not fall from the tree. Edited September 8, 2005 by dream19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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