They scoff at Bush's promises (Evacuated Residents)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/347016p-296039c.html

As President Bush spoke from New Orleans last night, few of the thousands of residents of that evacuated city, lying on rows and rows of cots in the sprawling River Center shelter here, paid him much attention.

"What can he say to me that he hasn't said already?" scoffed Leslie Garnier, 29, a student from New Orleans. "I don't think he should say anything anymore. He should just do. We're getting jobs before we're getting a FEMA check. I've already got a job at the Baton Rouge Sheraton. But I've seen nothing from FEMA. His promises mean nothing to me."

Outside the shelter, a Norwegian TV crew, determined to get some reaction to the speech, set up a TV so people could watch. Only about 25 men gathered around, many seemingly out of boredom.

They snorted at Bush's reference to aid being given out and just stared blankly when he mentioned spending billions. But several nodded and laughed when he talked about "rebuilding, but higher" and they liked it when he said more people should own, not rent.

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Others wondered why he was talking in an empty city instead of to its residents, 60 miles away.

[myrna minx]

1. How many people did ABC news have to screen

to find several * enthusiasts at the Astrodome? Nice. Propping up the chimp is what they do best...

[gratuitous]

10. My thought exactly

Right after the speech, ABC had a half dozen folks sitting outside the Astrodome, and the reporter (Reynolds?) had hey presto! found the half dozen people out of the hundreds available who had nice things to say about Stupidhead.

It helped, I'm sure, that Bush had just given them a pie in the sky boatload of promises without haggling over little details like how he was going to pay for it. The people sitting in the parking lot were duly impressed -- as I suppose I would be -- that the President of the United States was personally and explicitly addressing their problems. They even had a woman spout the "mayor left the buses to drown" talking point!

Proposed slogan for the Disney channel: "ABC News: We know where our bread is buttered."

[Ready4Change]

2. They are right to scoff.

He is the King of un-funded mandates. He talked much of spending, but not one word about where to get the money.

[CottonBear]

3. These are the people Rove kept off the air on the post-speech shows.

Somehow, he found lots of happy people to say what a good job * was doing even though they had no help from FEMA yet.

[chalky]

5. Well, I wouldn't say LOTs , exactly.

On ABC there were seven apologists out of how many thousand in Houston?

[CottonBear]

6. You're right. My point was they only interviewed pro-Bu$h* people.

They wouldn't dare let another "Fuck you Mr. Cheney" occur.

[chalky]

7. When you're right, you're right.

:-)

[chalky]

4. Thanks for this. I was still reeling from that ABC koolaid fest from last

night. I needed to see something like this to get my bearings back.

[OneBlueSky]

8. Bush's speech was nothing more than a publicity stunt . . .

hell, they even went to the trouble (and expense) of bringing in blue lighting for the church in the background . . . staged the whole thing just like a commercial for Dial soap . . .

[SoCalDem]

9. Using "Bush-logic", this person was done a favor

and "needs" no help...:sarcasm: