Combative N.O. mayor blows up during live TV interview

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: USA Today

Nagin: My disappointment is the way some in the media are handling me personally … Our local newspaper, for example, had me pointing a gun at the police chief. This got all over the Internet, all over the nation, and is now sitting on the most racist websites in America. Hate groups now have that picture, so now I am personally more at risk and my family is personally more at risk.

And I’m a little upset with this station cause you advertising about the ratings, about what’s getting ready to happen with my schedule, you put my personal schedule out there, I am coming back to the station and me and your news director are going to be outside in the parking lot having a good one on one. You do not put my family at risk.

Eric Paulsen: This was a schedule from last year, though.

Nagin: I don’t care. That schedule has formal stuff on it. It has patterns on it and now you have these Aryan race people focused on me and we've got some mental cases out in this community and you’re getting ready to put my schedule out there. Where are the other elected official’s schedule? Are you going to do a follow up on that? This has gone beyond the point of reasonableness. ... I am sick of this.


Read more: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/02/combative-no-ma.html

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Nagin's interview with WWL-TV: http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl022108tpnagininterview.145b0443.html

[msongs]

1. nagin needs to retire asap nt

[NOLALady]

2. Why?

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

3. Nagin is really.really weird,and yet he got re-elected.

NOLA is a big,fat mess.

[louis-t]

4. Nagin was a Repug. He changed parties to get elected.

Or so I've heard.

[Yael]

5. That would explain the submerged school busses

[pleah]

6. I think people are forgetting that NO had little damage until

the levies broke. The center of impact was MISSISSIPPI!