AL Franken has a NOLA guy on the phone now-talking about *'s lies

[CottonBear]

and the shocked response (I can't beleive it's so bad, that so little has been done)of all of the politicians who visit parts of the city beyond the "sliver on the river."

I think the man is Garland Robinette, radio man.

[CottonBear]

1. He said Bush saw no devasted areas on his last visit. n/t

[WolverineDG]

4. true

he toured the garden district which is beyond the french quarter & was not flooded.

dg

[CottonBear]

7. Then * jetted off to an exclusive Florida resort. What an asshole. n/t

[CottonBear]

2. Don Powell is Bush's Hurricane Czar in charge of 4 state rebuilding.

Robinette said President and Powell against plan of Rep. Richard Baker (R-Baton Rouge)to rebuild homes.

Bkaer bill had enough mmoneu top rebuild homes and neighborhoods. Bush says they can have 2 Billion and apply for CDBG grants. Rep. Baker wants/needs 40 Billion for his plan.

[waiting for hope]

3. My mother in law

was here from Metairie over Christmas - felt like crying all over again listening to the horror stories of what went on and what is still going on down there. The city is a shell of it's former self and it's going to take A LOT to get it back to where it needs to be.

[CottonBear]

5. My in-laws live down there too. My husband's cousin's house

was flooded and she now lives in a 5th wheel RV in a freinds driveway. My sister-in-law still doesn't have her roof, walls and interiors repaired. The whole area is a giant mess. The in-laws live in St. Tammany parish. We're going down at the end of February. Hopefully, we can help her with her house and yard.
:cry:

I'm so sorry about your mother-in-law. :cry: It is so hard to see your community and state so devastated. :cry:

[BOSSHOG]

8. Hi Cotton Bear

Garland Robinette is on WWL-870 AM every day from two to five and he kicks ass on a daily basis; going through government officials and their relationship to Katrina like Sherman through Atlanta. He has a long and storied career in NOLA broadcasting. I'll respond to your PM soon. I need to clear my head and plan the near term future. One of my old fart buddies in Slidell died this week of a heart attack, funeral is on Saturday. He was just a few years older than me. Thanks for posting this info. Air America does not come in very good here in Pearl River County. Its on 1350 out of New Orleans but its not near as powerful as WWL. I hope to get together soon. Don't know if I'll make it to Mardi Gras this year.

[CottonBear]

10. Oh no BOSSHOG! I am so sorry for you loss.

It is so very hard when a friend dies at a young age. :cry: :hug:
Take care of yourself. You'll need to be strong to support your frined's family during this difficult time.

Mr. Robinette should be a guest on AAR more often. I remember listening to him online during the Hurricane disaster. He's impressive.

I spoke with my sister-in-law on Tuesday evening. She hope to have her home repaired by mid-February so that she can sleep in her own bed for the first time since the hurricane. We haven't seen her since my brother-in-law's death. :(

Her neighbors spotted cougar in their backyard the other morning. Maybe it escaped from a wildlife refige or a zoo. Who knows. It could be a Florida Panther that got pushed west by the storms. I'm sure there are many displaced animals in LA and MS.

[BOSSHOG]

17. WWL was radio at its best

during the days following the hurricane. Mayor Nagin and one of the announcers got into a shouting match a few days after the hurricane. Lots of the broadcast were people with cell phones giving their locations on tops of roofs in the ninth ward and asking the station to tell the military how to get to them to pick them up. One lady delivered a baby in an attic while her mother tried to get help. Then there was the report of the mall on the westbank on fire and how the police kept people from crossing the bridge to Gretna. Amazing stories, seemingly fiction, cause you couldn't make this stuff up. I sat out in the garage and listened on a battery operated radio and contemplated our next move since we had no power, no water, no gas available and it was incredibly hot. We finally left Friday morning and went to the inlaws in Kansas. Gas was plentiful west of Baton Rouge. Our neighbor was armed and had a generator so he took good care of our homes while we were gone.

My wife is very close to the wife of my buddy. He was just a big old laid back fun loving south Louisianian. I hate funerals.

On a bright note, our Pansies and Snapdragons are showing off real nice.

[CottonBear]

18. I hate funerals too. The last time I was there was for a funeral.

:( Give your wife my condolences.

WWL should get an award for their public service during Katrina and Rita!

We have Forsythia bushes blooming all over the place here! The sunny, butter yellow flowers are beautiful!

[BOSSHOG]

19. I'm gonna have a jazz funeral

I want people to party and celebrate my life, not mourn my death. I want to be cremated and have my ashes paraded down Bourbon Street and maybe part of them could be encased in the wall upstairs at the Tropical Isle. There is one urn holding parts of a lawyer up there now.

I failed when it came to forsythia. I think I planted them where they got too much shade. After Katrina, I've got alot less shade on the south lot. I think I'll go overboard with Gardenia this spring to replace what the wind took away.

[CottonBear]

20. A Jazz Funeral sounds perfect! I want a party too!

That's cool that Tropical Isle has a lwyer's remains in an urn! He must've really loved that joint!

It's hard to fail with Forsythia. It must've been the shade.

I adore Gardenias. The most Southern and sweetest of all evergreen shrubberies! I have a dwarf Gardenia on my patio. At work we have about 10 really big ones out front that bloom until November!

[CottonBear]

6. "Brit Hume said most people have Katrina fatigue & want it to go away."

Robinette said Hume reported this (last night?).
Of course, Faux wants people to forget about Katrina. :cry:

Newshounds Fox Watch site:
http://www.newshounds.us/

[BOSSHOG]

9. Who is "most people?"

Jerkoffs like you britt? Uncaring "conservative" assholes. The folks who live on the coast have fatigue from having their asses kicked and their lives turned upside down by mother nature and an uncaring federal government. Of course, you and your kind are not fatigued by all the dead innocent civilians in Iraq are you? Too bad you lost your credibility, otherwise why would you be on faux?

[CottonBear]

11. I reserve my greatest Faux News contempt and hate for Brit Hume. n/t

[ninkasi]

12. What a truly arrogant, ugly thing to say

The people who suffered heart-breaking losses due to Katrina are no doubt fatigued, as well. They have been fighting nature, an uncaring federal government, and loss of homes, loved ones, jobs, income, everything. They are tired, traumatized, and now this arrogant idiot says "most people" are tired of hearing about it? Try trading places with them, then, those who are just tired of hearing about it, and see what real, bone deep, soul destroying fatigue must really be like.

The idiot who claims he absolutely has to spy on us to keep us safe could prove that he cares about American's safety by getting NOLA and the rest of the hurricane ravaged areas cleaned up, and livable again. He doesn't give a rat's ass about anything or anyone but his cronies and gathering more power. There are still Americans missing after Katrina. There are families who have no idea where their loved ones are, or if they are dead or alive.

For any piece of human refuse who is just too tired to keep hearing about Katrina...donate to organizations trying to help the recovery...do that, and maybe you won't have to keep having your sensitive ears offended by hearing about tens of thousands of Americans who are still suffering from one of the greatest disasters ever to hit the United States.

[CottonBear]

15. Brit Hume has an arrogant and ugly soul. n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. Did he qualify it by saying "most people in my exclusive country club..."?

[CottonBear]

16. No, but I'm sure he thought it. n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

22. To call him a human Shar Pei is insulting dogs. n/t

[seabeyond]

14. betcha those actually experiencing are a bit fatigued too, asshole

[KamaAina]

21. KamaAina says Brit Hume is as much of an idiot as people who think

they can make this go away just by clicking the remote.

http://dailynightly.msnbc.com/2006/01/a_word_about_ou.html#below-fold

A necessary word about our coverage of the storm zone— specifically, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the City of New Orleans. Lately, a lot of viewers have felt the need to tell us what they think of our coverage, and we like that and we read them all. And while most of the e-mails we get are from folks wanting to thank us for our coverage, an increasing number do not.

A viewer in Houston writes, “I was very saddened by the damage caused by the hurricane and certainly support the re-building of New Orleans... but can’t we give this a rest?”

Another viewer writes: “I’m getting just plain sick and tired of hearing the constant drumbeat about New Orleans...”

Still another is even more direct: “ENOUGH. We’re sick and tired of 'the long road back.'"

:grr: :banghead:

Do you recall anyone broadcasting letters from people who were tired of all the 9/11 coverage? "All I ever see is New York this, New York that..."? Huh? And that was on the network that hadn't yet succumbed!

Oh, by the way, Brit, everyone knows that's a rug on top of your pointy little head, so there. You're not fooling anyone.

edit: italics

[BOSSHOG]

23. Bosshog endorses KamaAina's position

on the aforementioned dumbass who, realizing he no longer had any credibility but had to continue to make a paycheck headed for faux where he and his kind gaggle to hate America and hate the constitution. Ironically, I've turned to NBC every night since they have been covering the hurricane recovery better than the other networks. Thanks Brian Williams and keep on covering the long road back.

[misanthrope]

24. Well, those folks complaining...

...can kiss my narra' white ass! Let it happen in their backyard, like it did in ours, and see how their feelings change.

Folks, this one of the biggest stories in the history of the nation. When was the last time an American city suffered that kind of devastation? Chicago's Great Fire in 1871? The 1906 San Francisco earthquake?

Face it, one of the country's oldest cities, and our first real cosmopolis, was almost wiped off the map. It's a huge story.