Writer Anne Rice: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us

[swimmernsecretsea]

Link:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050904/ap_en_ot/katrina_anne_rice_3

Sun Sep 4, 7:48 PM ET
NEW YORK - Novelist Anne Rice harshly criticized the response to Hurricane Katrina's aftermath in her old hometown of New Orleans.
"Why did America ask a city cherished by millions and excoriated by some, but ignored by no one, to fight for its own life for so long? That's my question," Rice wrote in a New York Times op-ed piece published Sunday.
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"You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music," she continued. "Then when you saw us in real trouble, when you saw a tiny minority preying on the weak among us, you called us 'Sin City,' and turned your backs."

This report is based on an Op-Ed piece Anne Rice has written for the New York Times. This link will require a log-in:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04rice.html

[NYC]

1. I read this at WWLTV last night.

I didn't know it was written for the New York Times. That's good. Bigger circulation. She also talked about why the poor could not afford to evacuate.

[oasis]

2. Rice gave 'em hell. And she's not through yet. (nt)

[Mythsaje]

3. Anyone who's ever read her stuff

could have seen that op-ed piece coming.

Tough talk we desperately need.

[femmecahors]

4. Beautiful. n/t

[Andromeda]

5. She's great and....

she speaks the truth. Having been through a lot of turmoil in her personal life, she has a lot of compassion for those less fortunate.

[pretzel4gore]

6. government by vandalism

even the nazipoos outdid themselves in beautiful old New Orleans.....the arlo guthrie song is HARD to listen to...put a spotlight on the lying bully Anne (ooh, he hates that!)

[MadeinOhio]

7. Because a cowardly freeper woke up in the White House.....

Got out of bed, and said We dont care!!!!!!

Then did everything in his power to save his image.