Snark of the Week: One angry man
This Caribbean national thinks America could use a few more honest men like Mayor Ray Nagin. In case you have heard his frank WWL-AM radio interview this week, I've hosted the MP3 file HERE. I think everyone should give this man a listen.
Nagin: - to give me executive powers. To authorize me to dictate and manage military resources down here and I'll fix this for you. You call him right now and you call the governor and you tell them to delegate the powers that they had to the mayor of New Orleans and we'll get this damn thing fixed. It's politics man and they're playing games and they're spinning. They're out there spinning for the cameras...Read more...
Garland: What did you say to the president of the United States and what did he say to you?
Nagin: I basically told him we had an incredible, uh, crisis here and that his flying over in air force one does not do it justice and I have been all around this city and I am very frustrated because we are not able to marshal resources and we're outmanned in just about every respect. You know the reason why the looters got out of control? Because we had most of our resources saving people, thousands of people that were stuck in attics man, old ladies, when you pull off the doggone ventilator vent and you look down there and there standing in there in water up to their freakin neck and they don't have a clue what's going on down here. They flew down here one time, two days after the doggone event was over with TV cameras AP reporters, all kind of goddamned, excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed...
Read the full transcript over at Twisty Passages. (Photo credit: San Antonio Express-News)Drugs flowed in and out of New Orleans and the surrounding metropolitan area so freely it was scary to me. And that's why we were having an escalation in murders. People don't want to talk about this but I'm going to talk about it. You have drug addicts that are now walking around this city looking for a fix. And that's the reason why they were breaking into hospitals and drug stores. They're looking for something to take the edge of their jones, if you will. And right now they don't have anything to take the edge off and they've probably found guns. So what you're seeing is drug starving crazy addicts. Drug addicts that are wreaking havoc and we don't have the manpower to adequately deal with it. We can only target certain sections of the city and form a perimeter around them and hope to God that we are not overrun...
- but we authorized 8 billions dollars to go to Iraq lickity quick. After 9-11 we gave the president unprecedented powers lickity quick to take care of New York and other places. Now you mean to tell me that a place where most of your oil is coming through, a place that is so unique - when you mention New Orleans everywhere around the world everybody's eyes light up - you mean to tell me that a place where you probably have thousands of people that have died and thousands more that are dying everyday that we can't figure out a way to authorize the resources that we need? Come on, man...
Now get off your asses and let's do something! Let's fix the biggest goddamned crisis in the history of this country...Excerpts from the WWL-AM's Garland Robinette interview with New Orleans Mayor Nagin.
Addendum:
As the blame the victims game gains steam; watch the 'Republicans 'R Us' boys over at Fox News turn on each other like rats as they wrestle with the truth. Click here for the Crooks and Liars post and clip of Geraldo Rivera and Shep Smith coming undone on air.
Thanks to Chris for pointing me to the clip.
posted by dorna! @ 10:43 am
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