WTF!? Chertoff gets his details about whats going on from the newspaper?

[tk2kewl]

This asshole keeps saying "I opened the paper on Tuesday and read that NOLA had dodged a bullet. So that's why we were surprised by the levee breach"

:wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf::wtf:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. That's his frigging cover!!! He is making a fool out of himself!!! nt

[tk2kewl]

4. How fucking asinine is that!?

I wish I could get my hands on these assholes! :grr:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

21. I want them all locked up. Key thrown away. This Sociopathic

Administration has Shown Over And Over Again, Their Reckless Disregard For Human Life At Best, and INTENTIONAL Disregard at worst. Our lives are being held for the most part in these imcompetent and possible criminal hands. Not too comforting.....

[expatriot]

2. I have been wondering this for days. The government depends on the media

for its informatioon gathering. You see this all the time.

[Tuesday_Morning]

22. Yeah but I heard Chertoff on NPR Thursday afternoon...

The radio host (Not sure who) asked him about the people at the convention center. He said their NPR reporter estimated the number of people in the thousands. Chertoff responded with "That's just a rumor. I don't know about that." NPR host, voice rising, says,"That's not a rumor. That's what are reporter is seeing right now and he's experienced. That's what he's telling us." Chertoff then maintained that it was just a rumor and he knew nothing of it.


Has it been posted here?
Anybody got a link or transcripts of this bullshit?

I think it was around 2pm ET.

[UpInArms]

23. part of that transcript is in the CNN news story linked

to this DU thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4624314

[habitual]

3. he got slammed and had no good response

how long will these asswipes say 'now is not the time to place blame.'

[KaryninMiami]

5. Look at the bright side. Unike the president, at least he reads.

Pretty pathetic that they weren't all in the situation room starting on Thursday of last week, planning how they were going to manage this once it hit. Instead Bush was playing Golf, Condi was shopping for Shoes and it looks like Chertoff was drinking coffee and having leisurly breakfasts. WTF is well put.

[KeepItReal]

6. I think he's reading D.U. now. He changed policy on rescues this morning

Chertoff just had a quickie press conference to announce that people will no longer be allowed to refuse rescue attempts and stay home.

Check my post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4624050

"NBC News: Rescue crews are leaving behind (uninformed) victims


Some people are refusing to leave. Rescue copters leave them behind. The crews say when they go in to get people, sometimes they refuse to leave their homes in and around New Orleans, thinking that the water will go down and that the place is still habitable.

They are not communicating to victims what the situation is!

How are people with no electricity, TV or Radio supposed to know how dire the situation is and that there is no option but to leave New Orleans?

There should be helicopters with powerful speakers broadcasting evacuation instructions to the people. At least they should drop flyers of emergency communications that anybody can pick up.

Do the people in charge of this rescue have any common sense?"

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. THAT video needs to be replayed on every show. In every cartoon.

On AAR. On The Daily Show. Over and over and over. Director of Homeland Security. "I opened the paper and read..."

What else can he say really? But seriously.

[MADem]

19. Is he tasked with reading the paper to the chimp?

Monkeyboy does not watch tee vee, either...

Upsets his beautiful mind, maybe?

[elehhhhna]

8. THE LEVEE BROKE IN MONDAY AT 11:15 a.m. !!!!!!!!!

[tk2kewl]

12. He thinks it broke when he finally read about it in the papers

[KeepItReal]

13. Damn right! He was chillin just like Bush. Monkey see, Monkey do.

<eom>

[Inland]

16. Well, he didn't say he was reading that Tuesday's paper.

He might have been behind a day. See, everything could have a perfectly reasonable explanation.

[tk2kewl]

20. Yeah... he couldn't get to a newstand on Tues.

Too busy playing golf or something.

[UpInArms]

24. no - that levee broke Monday at 8:30 CST - see DU post by 54anickel

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1733774&mesg_id=1734641

(edited to add date and time of post)

Mon Aug-29-05 08:37 AM
Response to Original message

57. .. A LEVEE BREACH OCCURRED ALONG THE INDUSTRIAL CANAL AT TENNESSE STREET

http://www.wwltv.com/

.. A LEVEE BREACH OCCURRED ALONG THE INDUSTRIAL CANAL AT TENNESSE STREET. 3 TO 8 FEET OF WATER IS EXPECTED DUE TO THE BREACH...LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ARABI AND 9TH WARD OF NEW ORLEANS.

St. Bernard Parish spokesman Larry Ingargiola says the parish's two shelters at Chalmette High and St. Bernard High are suffering major damage. He said Chalmette High shelter is losing its roof, and St. Bernard High has plenty of broken windows and glass. He estimates 300-plus refugees at the two sites.

Entergy says 317,000 customers were without power as of 6 a.m. Cleco reported 40,000 without power in St. Tammany Parish.

Air conditioning out at Louisiana Superdome due to power outages.

St. Bernard Parish officials say most of the parish has no power.

[stillcool]

9. ...and he insinuates that the government...

is providing all this help...when it is the Red Cross, and other state and volunteer organizations that are doing the heavy lifting...so much horseshit so little time.

[Misunderestimator]

10. Did you just now hear CNN contradicting everything he said?

This is wild!

[elehhhhna]

11. NOMINATE THIS THREAD, pleeease?

[Mr_Spock]

14. WHAT THE FUCK??????? He must be joking 'cause that is incompetence

on a grand scale if that's how our government is claiming that they get their information. We are fucked people, totally fucked.

[mom cat]

15. Link...Save and doctument everything..thanks.

[tk2kewl]

18. this was on MTP today... I will look for a transcript when it's available

[Marr]

17. Most of these guys seemed to get their info from Fox News in particular.

Lots of talk about "law and order" and not much talk about "food and water".

[struggle4progress]

25. Oh, what good news! He can read! eom