this writer is on serious crack

[montana500]

is this part of the new spin machine?


http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05254/568876.stm

[flowomo]

1. about the author:

Jack Kelly, a syndicated columnist, is a former Marine and Green Beret and a former deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force in the Reagan administration. He is national security writer for the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gazette.

[chemenger]

9. Speaking as a native Pittsburgher

who has subscribed to the Pittsburgh PG for years, IMO Jack Kelly is one of the biggest Repuke horse's asses alongside of Fred Honsburger, Jim Quinn, and of course Limbaugh, Hannity and 0'Rielly. I really hate it that these last two are Irish.

[OneGrassRoot]

2. blah, blah, blah............I have yet to hear a response to

the question: "Why didn't they drop food and water, like they did in Indonesia?"

Yeah, yeah about the logistics of getting all those troops and equipment mobilized and able to enter the region, but why couldn't they just drop food and water in the meantime??????

Has anyone here heard any response to this question?

[mzteris]

3. oh for

:crazy:

:wtf: kind of crap is this?

Great. Now we get to hear this as a talking point from freeps who don't know their @ss from a hole in the ground..... Spin Spin Spin.....

It's enough to make you wanna :puke:

[blondeatlast]

4. It is the new talking point; I saw an earlier thread about an article with

virtually the same wording.

[MsUnderstood]

5. his last questions goes right agains the local authorities

Yet he does little homework to find out that an evacuation was done by the Mayor of New Orleans utilizing the buses in NO.

And he doesn't answer why no Federal Authorities stepped in to take charge of the local law enforcement who were preventing citizens from leaving during the worst days.

Ot may take days to get troops mobilized, but it takes hours to get a plane down there with someone to TAKE CHARGE of the mess--no authority=chaos.

Oh and if he wants to go on that spin, why doesnt he explain why Bush declared a state of emergency on the 27th but troops didn't begin mobilizing til AFTER the levy broke?

FEDERAL AUTHORITIES KNEW THE LEVY WOULD BREAK, but did nothing to prepare for that disaster then Bush got on TV and said "DUH, who knew the levy would break *SMIRK*"

[pretzel4gore]

6. what about the shut ins, the bag ladies,

the physically challenged? New Orleans is a big city, and to adequately evacuate it would have required everything the authorities had-but the authorities were hohum
a DU'er said that taxmoney should be spent freely on katrina while FUNDRAISING can be used to fund the piggy war in iraq! is that a good idea, or what?

[Debs]

7. Media Matters took this editorial apart

He is factually wrong about virtually everything he says

[NYCGirl]

13. Here's the link for people who want to read what Media Matters said:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200509120009

[ladylibertee]

8. On serious crack indeed.What a nut job.

The federal response here was faster than Hugo, faster than Andrew, faster than Iniki, faster than Francine and Jeanne."

Uh,remind me again how many died and who all resigned after fucking up in any of those hurricanes ? Oh I didn't think so.

[BlueIris]

10. Crack...or something else. Damn. This was my favorite:

"The federal government pretty much met its standard time lines, but the volume of support provided during the 72-96 hour was unprecedented...faster than Andrew."

!?

[Skittles]

11. Rove was giving this guy a handjob as this piece was being written

yes INDEED

[PurityOfEssence]

12. Another asshole conservative claiming to be one of the "grown ups"

This is the same shit-headed sneering at liberal arts majors that's so hackneyed it literally reeks. Engineers aren't the great god-kings of the universe, and people who study various forms of communication are hardly all useless potheads.

It's hardly as if many of those entrusted to lead relief efforts have technical degrees anyway.

This is classic Republican tripe: dismiss any critics as self-indulgent children while proclaiming oneself as the stalwart and mature champions of society.