Jack Cafferty Suffers From Foot-In-Mouth-Disease.
This post was written after our Katrina post this afternoon, but it needs to be addressed. Jack Cafferty went on an absolutely partisan and disgusting rant today on CNN with Wolf Blitzer. His words are courtesy of a RadioBlogger transcript. I will be cutting in on this rant. I am so ticked at seeing this right now that I have to correct this idiot.
http://www.radioblogger.com/#000943
Well, and the thing that's most glaring in all of this, is that the conditions continue to deteriorate for the people who are victims in this, and the efforts to do something about it don't seem to be anywhere in sight.
First off, none expected the devastation that is present in New Orleans. They braced for a Category Three or Four hurricane, not the finger of God. The efforts are flowing into the region, but it is kind of hard to rescue people while one is dodging bullets, or angry mobs. He wants to put the blame somewhere, then it should be affixed to the state government. Whose bright idea was it to send eighty police officers to the Superdome to quell the problems there. Those cops, by the way, were run off by the animals in the Superdome.
I want to read you something, Wolf. This is a quote from an editorial. A better leader would have flown straight to the disaster zone, and announce the immediate mobilization of every available resource.
Really? Is Cafferty really this stupid, or does he do this as part of his act. Had President Bush decided to land (which the secret service would have most certainly overruled) the three-ring circus that would have occurred would have hampered the efforts further. President Bush did not immediately fly to New York on 9/11. Partially because he knew that with the attack on DC, the terrorist animals were attempting to decapitate the government. With tempers amongst the populace running as high as they are, the secret service could not guarantee the safety of the president. Plain and simple, Jack.
The cool, confident, intuitive leadership Bush exhibited in his first term, particularly in the months following 9/11, has vanished.
What planet Earth is this joker from. The president’s leadership of this nation has been steady and methodical. He is the reluctant wartime president who is not afraid to defend this nation, unlike his predecessor. He has dealt with the damage over the last couple of years that have come from hurricanes slamming into Florida. He is still overseeing the efforts to bring New York back from 9/11. Where Cafferty sees a lack of leadership, I see a good dose of it. Someone please quit handing Jack the LSD.
Now that's not from some liberal rag, that is an editorial from one of the most conservative newspapers in the country. New Hampshire's Union Leader. The New York Times, not unexpectedly, kind of chimed in. They said the president showed up a day later than he was needed, and they excoriated him for appearing casual to the point of carelessness. Harsh words coming from FEMA's former disaster chief, Eric Tolbert, who says the government was not ready, and shifted its attention from natural disasters to fighting the war on terror.
He is quoting the New York Times, who today wrote an article that basically said that global warming was not the cause of the hurricane (no kidding, guys. 6th Grade science teaches that.), yet on their editorial page, they rip the president because he does not support the Kyoto Treaty, and basically accuses him of allowing global warming to cause this hurricane. Um, hello? Is anyone home at the Times? And when I want Mr. Tolbert’s opinion on the government’s response, I will give it to him. Disaster relief was on the way down before Katrina even hit. I am so sorry we did not have Superman to prevent the breaking of the levees for Mr. Tolbert. I am so sorry that we did not have an immediate premonition three weeks ago that something was going to kick New Orleans’ ass. The government is responding as best it can.
The questions that we ask on the Situation Room every afternoon, Wolf, are posted on the website, two or three hours before we go on the air. And people who read the website often begin to respond to the questions before the show actually starts. The question this hour is how would you rate the response of the federal government to Hurricane Katrina. I've got to tell you something. We got five or six hundred letters before the show even went on the air.
Letters? Really? I did not know that CNN had found a way to get their mail so quickly from a question put up just a few short hours before the show. Again, showing his stupidity, I do believe that Cafferty was referring to e-mails as opposed to letters, but it goes to show how inaccurate this man is.
No one. No one says the federal government is doing a good job in handling one of the most atrocious and embarrassing and far-reaching and calamitous things that has come along in this country in my lifetime.
No one? Can I call him a liar now? I cannot believe that the amount of e-mails he is getting are all accusing the president or the government for the failures in the relief. Again, this goes back to the state, and even goes as far as the state’s refusal to call for evacuations until almost twelve to sixteen hours prior to Katrina hitting the shore. The state virtually guaranteed some people would be stranded in the city. The highways were packed. There were no rental cars to rent, and no buses were taking people out of the state. The state failed in getting its citizens out when they needed to.
I'm sixty-two. I don't remember...I remember the riots in Watts, I remember the earthquake in San Francisco. I remember a lot of things. I have never, ever seen anything as badly bungled and poorly handled as this situation in New Orleans. Where the hell is the water for these people? Why can't sandwiches be dropped to those people that are in that Superdome down there?
Evidently Cafferty missed the fact that there was violence breaking out in the Superdome. Women had been raped. People were being jumped for their food and provisions. And the state decided that eighty police officers would be enough to keep the peace. The state government of Louisiana must be sharing a brain with Jack Cafferty.
I mean, what is going...this is Thursday. This is Thursday. This storm happened five days ago. It's a disgrace, and don't think the world isn't watching. This is the government the taxpayers are paying for, and it's falling right flat on its face, as far as I can see, in the way it's handled this thing.
You twit. What do you want? Had you sent troops and relief workers into New Orleans before the storm hit, they’d probably be dead, too. Not to mention their supplies and provisions would be sitting in some neighborhood in Northern Louisiana or Biloxi, Mississippi. As far as I see, the government is doing an adequate job for the time elapsed since the hurricane left, and now. I guess Jack missed the fact that New Orleans is also under water, so there is not a whole helluva lot of driving going on around the city.
We're going to talk about something else before the show is over, too, and that's the big elephant in the room. The race and economic class of most of the victims, which the media hasn't discussed at all, but we will a bit ater. Wolf...
Race and class? Leave it to an ass like Jack to turn this into a discussion about race and class. I hate to tell him this, but New Orleans is predominantly black. Well over 60%. It is obvious that that will be the demographic most affected, but there are white people in New Orleans, too. And Hispanics. And Asians. This is politicization at its basest form. To reduce a national tragedy and a natural disaster into a debate about the race and class of the people affected. How about this Jack...They are Americans. They deserve anything we can spare to help them come back from this. The last thing that needs to be injected into this debate is politics.
If I were CNN, I would consider the black eye this moron just gave my network, and he would be fired. If he is a guest, he would never come back on my network. Now is not the time for partisan swiping. It is time to pull together, and rescue a city that has suffered the worst possible disaster in its history. So, to Jack Cafferty, I say this.
Either lead, follow, or shut the hell up and get out of the way. The person who looks for blame is beaten by the person who just accomplished the unthinkable. The unthinkable right now is the return of New Orleans. She will come back, and better than before. I would pay money to be a part of Mardi Gras next year.
The Bunny ;)
This post was written after our Katrina post this afternoon, but it needs to be addressed. Jack Cafferty went on an absolutely partisan and disgusting rant today on CNN with Wolf Blitzer. His words are courtesy of a RadioBlogger transcript. I will be cutting in on this rant. I am so ticked at seeing this right now that I have to correct this idiot.
http://www.radioblogger.com/#000943
Well, and the thing that's most glaring in all of this, is that the conditions continue to deteriorate for the people who are victims in this, and the efforts to do something about it don't seem to be anywhere in sight.
First off, none expected the devastation that is present in New Orleans. They braced for a Category Three or Four hurricane, not the finger of God. The efforts are flowing into the region, but it is kind of hard to rescue people while one is dodging bullets, or angry mobs. He wants to put the blame somewhere, then it should be affixed to the state government. Whose bright idea was it to send eighty police officers to the Superdome to quell the problems there. Those cops, by the way, were run off by the animals in the Superdome.
I want to read you something, Wolf. This is a quote from an editorial. A better leader would have flown straight to the disaster zone, and announce the immediate mobilization of every available resource.
Really? Is Cafferty really this stupid, or does he do this as part of his act. Had President Bush decided to land (which the secret service would have most certainly overruled) the three-ring circus that would have occurred would have hampered the efforts further. President Bush did not immediately fly to New York on 9/11. Partially because he knew that with the attack on DC, the terrorist animals were attempting to decapitate the government. With tempers amongst the populace running as high as they are, the secret service could not guarantee the safety of the president. Plain and simple, Jack.
The cool, confident, intuitive leadership Bush exhibited in his first term, particularly in the months following 9/11, has vanished.
What planet Earth is this joker from. The president’s leadership of this nation has been steady and methodical. He is the reluctant wartime president who is not afraid to defend this nation, unlike his predecessor. He has dealt with the damage over the last couple of years that have come from hurricanes slamming into Florida. He is still overseeing the efforts to bring New York back from 9/11. Where Cafferty sees a lack of leadership, I see a good dose of it. Someone please quit handing Jack the LSD.
Now that's not from some liberal rag, that is an editorial from one of the most conservative newspapers in the country. New Hampshire's Union Leader. The New York Times, not unexpectedly, kind of chimed in. They said the president showed up a day later than he was needed, and they excoriated him for appearing casual to the point of carelessness. Harsh words coming from FEMA's former disaster chief, Eric Tolbert, who says the government was not ready, and shifted its attention from natural disasters to fighting the war on terror.
He is quoting the New York Times, who today wrote an article that basically said that global warming was not the cause of the hurricane (no kidding, guys. 6th Grade science teaches that.), yet on their editorial page, they rip the president because he does not support the Kyoto Treaty, and basically accuses him of allowing global warming to cause this hurricane. Um, hello? Is anyone home at the Times? And when I want Mr. Tolbert’s opinion on the government’s response, I will give it to him. Disaster relief was on the way down before Katrina even hit. I am so sorry we did not have Superman to prevent the breaking of the levees for Mr. Tolbert. I am so sorry that we did not have an immediate premonition three weeks ago that something was going to kick New Orleans’ ass. The government is responding as best it can.
The questions that we ask on the Situation Room every afternoon, Wolf, are posted on the website, two or three hours before we go on the air. And people who read the website often begin to respond to the questions before the show actually starts. The question this hour is how would you rate the response of the federal government to Hurricane Katrina. I've got to tell you something. We got five or six hundred letters before the show even went on the air.
Letters? Really? I did not know that CNN had found a way to get their mail so quickly from a question put up just a few short hours before the show. Again, showing his stupidity, I do believe that Cafferty was referring to e-mails as opposed to letters, but it goes to show how inaccurate this man is.
No one. No one says the federal government is doing a good job in handling one of the most atrocious and embarrassing and far-reaching and calamitous things that has come along in this country in my lifetime.
No one? Can I call him a liar now? I cannot believe that the amount of e-mails he is getting are all accusing the president or the government for the failures in the relief. Again, this goes back to the state, and even goes as far as the state’s refusal to call for evacuations until almost twelve to sixteen hours prior to Katrina hitting the shore. The state virtually guaranteed some people would be stranded in the city. The highways were packed. There were no rental cars to rent, and no buses were taking people out of the state. The state failed in getting its citizens out when they needed to.
I'm sixty-two. I don't remember...I remember the riots in Watts, I remember the earthquake in San Francisco. I remember a lot of things. I have never, ever seen anything as badly bungled and poorly handled as this situation in New Orleans. Where the hell is the water for these people? Why can't sandwiches be dropped to those people that are in that Superdome down there?
Evidently Cafferty missed the fact that there was violence breaking out in the Superdome. Women had been raped. People were being jumped for their food and provisions. And the state decided that eighty police officers would be enough to keep the peace. The state government of Louisiana must be sharing a brain with Jack Cafferty.
I mean, what is going...this is Thursday. This is Thursday. This storm happened five days ago. It's a disgrace, and don't think the world isn't watching. This is the government the taxpayers are paying for, and it's falling right flat on its face, as far as I can see, in the way it's handled this thing.
You twit. What do you want? Had you sent troops and relief workers into New Orleans before the storm hit, they’d probably be dead, too. Not to mention their supplies and provisions would be sitting in some neighborhood in Northern Louisiana or Biloxi, Mississippi. As far as I see, the government is doing an adequate job for the time elapsed since the hurricane left, and now. I guess Jack missed the fact that New Orleans is also under water, so there is not a whole helluva lot of driving going on around the city.
We're going to talk about something else before the show is over, too, and that's the big elephant in the room. The race and economic class of most of the victims, which the media hasn't discussed at all, but we will a bit ater. Wolf...
Race and class? Leave it to an ass like Jack to turn this into a discussion about race and class. I hate to tell him this, but New Orleans is predominantly black. Well over 60%. It is obvious that that will be the demographic most affected, but there are white people in New Orleans, too. And Hispanics. And Asians. This is politicization at its basest form. To reduce a national tragedy and a natural disaster into a debate about the race and class of the people affected. How about this Jack...They are Americans. They deserve anything we can spare to help them come back from this. The last thing that needs to be injected into this debate is politics.
If I were CNN, I would consider the black eye this moron just gave my network, and he would be fired. If he is a guest, he would never come back on my network. Now is not the time for partisan swiping. It is time to pull together, and rescue a city that has suffered the worst possible disaster in its history. So, to Jack Cafferty, I say this.
Either lead, follow, or shut the hell up and get out of the way. The person who looks for blame is beaten by the person who just accomplished the unthinkable. The unthinkable right now is the return of New Orleans. She will come back, and better than before. I would pay money to be a part of Mardi Gras next year.
The Bunny ;)
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