Tommy,

your opinion of Glenn Beck aside; CLEARLY, you have never met the Katrina victims first hand. You should interview the residents of Houston now and ask them how they feel about the Katrina refugees today, compare to the days just before Hurricane Rita hit Houston. Most of them will tell you that Hurricane Rita is a blessing that got many of the Katrina refugees out of Houston.

After Houston open its arms wide to accept Katrina refugees into its community, the way they trashed the community (apartment complex, temporary housings, hotels, etc..), engaged in gang warfare, TRIED TO LOOT a Best Buy store when Rita came on shore (they got caught)…these made the nightly news daily about 2 months after they arrived in Houston…

Search the archives…Katrina refugees wore out their welcome very quickly in Houston.

In this world, there are people whom you would love to help when they are in need; and then there are THUGS that you’d help, but definitely not liking it. Katrina refugees are clearly THUGS. I’d help them, but I’m not liking it…at all…

Well, since my Seahawks have been disappointing, I think I may have to become a Saints fan!

MichelleF said:
Well, since my Seahawks have been disappointing, I think I may have to become a Saints fan!

So, Glenn Beck doth follow, so shall i follow.

A flack for Beck’s radio show…

And who would know flacks, or shills, better than Tommy? Nobody, that’s who.

In fairness to Beck, I will point out that he says his remarks about Katrina victims were taken out of context. This is a popular defense among shock radio hosts, who will blurt out a “money quote,” then walk it back later in the transcript.

This is also standard operating procedure for Media Matters. It’s what they do, which is why they’re linked so often here.

Beck was talking about the criminal element and Tommy knows it, but being a dedicated liberal he chooses to portray Beck as hating all residents of New Orleans. Tommy also had a great time having lunch with a black panther, so guess where his sympathies lie.

Olbermann would be proud of this masterpiece !

Beck was talking about the criminal element and Tommy knows it

Silly Writer, don’t confuse liberals with the truth.

Hahaha this is FANTASTIC. Tommy boy’s conflict between his abject desire to do a straight hit piece on Beck and his knowledge that mediaite would want him to maintain at least some semblance of fairness has just generated pure hilarity.

Pablo said:
And who would know flacks, or shills, better than Tommy? Nobody, that’s who.

The term “flack” isn’t pejorative in this context, it’s just industry jargon for a media rep.

Yes, liberals must think it a terrible scandal that all money raised from this event goes to charity, but only after paying the event expenses. How dare Beck cover the costs of the event, huh? This is a huge scandal, huh?

Honestly, if you want to score points on Glenn Beck, this is pretty slim pickings. Maybe you can find some unpaid traffic ticket in his past. Or just invent some make believe quotes that he never said. Or — here’s an idea for you — send someone out to take pictures of every sign held up by every attendee and hold Beck responsible for misplaced commas and dangling modifiers.

Mr. T Christopher has decided he’s entitled to his own facts.

He knows full well Beck meant the hoodlums who decided to stay around,
loot & threaten authorities, cause chaos, &
anyone who was paying attention was thinking the same.

Every article today that i’ve read, is a total lie, misquote or mind reading
into other peoples words, what he wants them to mean.
In short , he’s the designated Lewinsky for the DNC & OBAMA
I suspect he’s honored, & soon you will hear of a personal meet at the White House
w/his Messiah for thrills chills and a head pat

I guess TC hopes people are stupid enough to forget …WHAT GLENN BECK MEANT:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9063708/

NEW ORLEANS — Mayor Ray Nagin ordered 1,500 police officers to leave their search-and-rescue mission Wednesday night and return to the streets of the beleaguered city to stop looting that has turned increasingly hostile.

“They are starting to get closer to heavily populated areas — hotels, hospitals and we’re going to stop it right now,” Nagin said in a statement to The Associated Press.

Looters used garbage cans and inflatable mattresses to float away with food, blue jeans, tennis shoes, TV sets — even guns. Outside one pharmacy, thieves commandeered a forklift and used it to push up the storm shutters and break through the glass. The driver of a nursing-home bus surrendered the vehicle to thugs after being threatened.

Police were asking residents to give up any firearms before they evacuated neighborhoods because officers desperately needed the firepower: Some officers who had been stranded on the roof of a hotel said they were shot at.

Police said their first priority remained saving lives, and mostly just stood by and watched the looting. But Nagin later said the looting had gotten so bad that stopping the thieves became the top priority for the police department.

Or maybe TC forgot:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122487570244867421.html

citizens.

There seems to be some confusion in terms of terminology on TV. People with no food and water who are walking into supermarkets and taking food and water off the shelves are not criminal, they are sane. They are not looters, they are people who are attempting to survive; they are taking the basics of survival off shelves in stores where there isn’t even anyone at the cash register.

Looters are not looking to survive; they’re looking to take advantage of the weakness of others. They are predators. They’re taking not what they need but what they want. They are breaking into stores in New Orleans and elsewhere and stealing flat screen TVs and jewelry, guns and CD players. They are breaking into homes and taking what those who have fled trustingly left behind. In Biloxi, Miss., looters went from shop to shop. “People are just casually walking in and filling up garbage bags and walking off like they’re Santa Claus,” the owner of a Super 8 Motel told the London Times. On CNN, producer Kim Siegel reported in the middle of the afternoon from Canal Street in New Orleans that looters were taking “everything they can.”

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Hahaha this is FANTASTIC. Tommy boy’s conflict between his abject desire to do a straight hit piece on Beck and his knowledge that mediaite would want him to maintain at least some semblance of fairness has just generated pure hilarity.

Interesting! But I wonder IF Mediaite would want him….

Bias-Media said:
your opinion of Glenn Beck aside; CLEARLY, you have never met the Katrina victims first hand. You should interview the residents of Houston now and ask them how they feel about the Katrina refugees today, compare to the days just before Hurricane Rita hit Houston. Most of them will tell you that Hurricane Rita is a blessing that got many of the Katrina refugees out of Houston. /blockquote>

Flashbacks to interviews of Croats about Serbs, Hutu about Tutsi, Russians about Chechens, protestant Irish about Catholic Irish. We never learn.

writer said:

Beck was talking about the criminal element and Tommy knows it, but being a dedicated liberal he chooses to portray Beck as hating all residents of New Orleans.

Meanwhile, Beck has the Super Bowl Champion Saints fundraising for his 8/28 gig. I think Beck wins this one.

But hey, maybe that Malik Shabazz thing will work out! I’ll get you, my pretty!

Tommy’s comments about his pizza summit with a black panther pretty much said it all. Tommy felt it was a real kumbahyah moment, and told himself that the guy liked him. Of course the panther still hated his guts for being white, but Tommy came away telling himself otherwise.

Tommy Christopher said:
The term “flack” isn’t pejorative in this context, it’s just industry jargon for a media rep.

True. “Shill” is a little different, though.

tiredofbs said:
Mr. T Christopher has decided he’s entitled to his own facts.

He knows full well Beck meant the hoodlums who decided to stay around,

I know what Beck SAID. If he meant criminals, he didn’t say it here:

“The only ones that we’re seeing on television are the scumbags, again, and it’s not all the people in New Orleans, most of the people in New Orleans got out! It’s just a small percentage of those who were left in New Orleans, or who decided to stay in New Orleans, and they’re getting all the attention.”

He also referenced Astrodome refugees, who are not criminals, and about whom he told falsehoods.

Of course Tommy knows what Beck meant. But in staying true to his far-left hysteria, he must use any and every opportunity to trash Beck. Especially when Beck is responsible for generating millions to a charity that Tommy wouldn’t flip a quarter to. This is what media matter’s flack’s do.

Now, Tommy boy is trying to get the Saints to distance themselves from Beck so that Tommy can feel all giddy inside. Forget the fact that they are donating to a worthy cause (at least to most of us), what’s really important is that Tommy hates Glenn Beck because he’s wildly popular and successful. This piece is just pure d-baggery. But hey, if Tommy succeeds in getting the Saint’s organization to distance themselves from Beck, he’ll be lauded by the far-left wingnuts he emulates in our corrupt media.

So if you’re talking about black panthers, assume the best. If you’re talking about Beck, assume the worst.

Tommy:
How many Katrina “refugees” have you been around? Were you in Houston between Katrina and Rita? I was, I live here. Our local community college offered FREE vocational classes to any former N.O. residents. Guess how many showed up? Zero. Were you here to see the crime? The gang wars in the schools? No, you weren’t. All you know about it is what was shown on your television box. In other words, you’re ignorant to the facts. Of course, facts don’t matter to you. It’s easier to sit in the confines of your east coast apartment and spout off about things you only know about because you read them on some left-wing internet site.

Tommy Christopher said:
I know what Beck SAID. If he meant criminals, he didn’t say it here:

“The only ones that we’re seeing on television are the scumbags, again, and it’s not all the people in New Orleans, most of the people in New Orleans got out! It’s just a small percentage of those who were left in New Orleans, or who decided to stay in New Orleans, and they’re getting all the attention.”

If you substitute “criminals” for “scumbags”, it’s staring you right in the face. Who do you think the scumbags in New Orleans during Katrina were?

Tommy,

Re: Astrodome Refugees…

criminals they are not; thugs (or scumbags)…certainly debatable. Do you realize the damages and the mess that they left behind? Do you know the condition of the Astrodome after they left? …and about the hotels that they stayed in? apartments? Did you know, there are neighborhoods, with newly constructed homes that the developer opened up to help house the katrina refugees…any idea what they did to those homes / neighborhood?

…and, guess who is left with the tab to clean it up?

to be PC, perhaps thugs or scumbags maybe a bit strong. How about, very ungrateful guest? (i.e..scumbags)

…I believe this is why Beck refer to them as scumbags…btw…

Tommy Christopher said:
“The only ones that we’re seeing on television are the scumbags, again, and it’s not all the people in New Orleans, most of the people in New Orleans got out! It’s just a small percentage of those who were left in New Orleans, or who decided to stay in New Orleans, and they’re getting all the attention.”

“It’s just a small percentage of those who ..”

You know very well what he said & how* he meant it.
You are looking at me straight on & asking me not to believe my eyes.
I read all of it. YOU I’M SURE have read…
Please.. Just stop it Its shameful.

Peggy Noonan called them “PREDATORS” Is taht better?

Associated Press
updated 9/1/2005 7:25:48 AM ET
The driver of a nursing-home bus surrendered the vehicle to thugs after being threatened.(Not sc*mbags?)
Some officers who had been stranded on the roof of a hotel said they were shot at. (Still not sc*mbags to u?)

TC you are a tricky finagler but i’m sure you are proud of that..
just as long as u know u r not fooling any1..

Tommy is simply taking the usual far left approach. If a white guy is a criminal (or ‘scumbag’) then just call him a scumbag. But if the criminal belongs to a minority group, then hold on a minute. We must be understanding and look for reasons and excuses and past history and consult sociologists and so on.

writer said:
So if you’re talking about black panthers, assume the best. If you’re talking about Beck, assume the worst.

Ha! Where did I ever assume anything about the New Black Panthers? And what am I assuming about Beck? These are his own words.

writer said:
So if you’re talking about black panthers, assume the best. If you’re talking about Beck, assume the worst.

That’s a great comparison, though. Both seek refuge in “context.”

gilbertmerliq said:
How Glenn Beck intends to restore the honor?

He started by informing America especially Black people that African Americans were part of the
founding of this country. That’s a whole lot, just right there, a lot more than Jessy, NAACP,
or Al Sharpton have ever done. WHAT A RACIST PIG GLEN IS huh?

He’s looking to build bridges, not hate between the races,
to try & end the division & hatred installed by the usual suspects,
who use naive people as props & pawns for Political gain.

If u r a Lefty, I can see how u’d take issue w/that

So Tommy, you had no idea that Beck was talking about the criminal element? And you never go out of your way to give, say, the black panthers the benefit of the doubt, and go out of your way not to give it to Beck? Really? OOoookaayyy.

I sometimes wonder…if it wasn’t Obama in the White House right now, if it were, say, John Edwards in the White House, would the hate from the LEFT against Beck be this strong…

Glenn Beck have been saying pretty much these same things for a very long time…I don’t recall any left wing group criticizing him when he was knocking GWBush for expanding government with his various programs…

So, if I understand correctly, it was okay when Beck was criticizing a White President for expanding government; but it’s NOT okay when the President is Black…

…tell me again, exactly who’s the racist?

(Yes, I know that Beck have been harder on Obama, and that’s because Obama have expanded government much much more than GWBush did. My point is, Beck have not changed…where were all the Liberals and Left Wing advocates when he was criticizing Bush?????)

writer said:
So Tommy, you had no idea that Beck was talking about the criminal element? And you never go out of your way to give, say, the black panthers the benefit of the doubt, and go out of your way not to give it to Beck? Really? OOoookaayyy.

Show me where I gave the NBPP the benefit of the doubt. And actually, show me where I didn’t give it to Glenn. Did anyone else bother to check with the charity, or to find out if Palin was taking a fee? On his Katrina comments, Beck’s explanation doesn’t wash with the facts.

Sorry Tommy,

Beck’s Katrina comments, or rather, his view of Katrina refugees (scumbags)…pretty accurate. Does that mean we don’t help them? No; of course not.

In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if Beck himself donated to help Katrina refugees. Beck is a very charitable man; and much of his charity work doesn’t make the MSM. I guess I just don’t understand the need to criticize a very charitable man.

I don’t have the facts, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Beck did donate a lot of $$ to help Katrina victims, Rita victims, Tsunami victims, or other charitable causes…much like Biden and Obama both donated much to these charities…

oh, wait…

There’s no need to go fetching like your lap dogs, various snippets
from your articles to prove u wrong..
You know you are finagling/spinning /shilling for the Left.

Even when someone brings you proof positive, u deny, lie & spin.
Typical Left MO.
“Who u gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?” “fughettabout it”

Using charities to support his “hate racist” fest next month. Beck and his handlers: “Wow how we gonna spin this one. Donate the money we don’t need and get a high profile millionaire to fund our Racist Party”

Let me see if I have this “Right”. Millionaire Glenduh Beck and Faux rounded UP another Millionaire to fund his Racist Fest on the Anniversary of the MLK I have a Dream speech for the “Grassroots” organization Tea Party. And the “money” the Millionaire Glenn Beck doesn’t use to finance his Millionaire funded Grassroots Racist Fest will go to charity to make his Race Fest look humane. And to make the Racist who attend feel OK about themselves and show up in “huge” numbers for their Big Photo Op on Fox and the mainstream media.

Am I following this??

I bet there won’t be ALL THOSE HATEFUL Racist signs. The memo is going out NOW. Leave your “Overt” Racists signs at home This time. Of course there will be a few “rebels” who won’t listen.

Especially when Mamma Raicst will be there collecting her $100,000 to drivel Real Americans, Patriots, Not like us, we’re NOT racist.

Why isn’t Fox reporting this??

On Election Day, Nov. 6, 2006 a posse of three men in Tucson, Ariz., proved that the Wild West still lives.A group, which was three strong, and allegedly composed of two anti-immigration activists, Russ Dove and Roy Warden, carried a camcorder, a clipboard — on which, they said, was information about a proposed law to…… make English the state’s official language — one with an Armed 9mm Glock automatic strapped to his side. While one man would approach a voter, holding the clipboard, another would follow, pointing the video camera at them. The third would stand behind, holding his hand to the gun at his hip in what activists on the other side called classic voter intimidation tactics in a precinct one local paper had previously declared the bellwether of the area’s Hispanic vote.
In that instance, the DOJ declined to bring any action for alleged voter intimidation, notwithstanding the requests of the complaining parties.

So the naacp picks out a few signs in a Tea-Party rally & declares “rampant Racism” (John King’s show), yet we find NO vocal outrage or condemnation by Democrats or the Left over the new black panthers’ – whom the naacp has been shown to be interwound with – call for the killing of white babies!

WHERE’S THE NAACP’S CALL FOR CONDEMNATION OF THIS, COMPARED TO WHAT THEY’RE SAYING ABOUT THE TEA-PARTYER’S? – NOWHERE!…THAT’S TODAY’S RACIST NAACP!

…and the head of the naacp,in an interview, tacitly condones the killing of police, and wouldn’t denounce the call for slaughtering ‘cracka-babies’ – yet this BLACK RACIST IS INVITED TO THE WHITE HOUSE!!! – and a DOJ investigator EXPOSES the protection Eric Holder’s DOJ provides for them!!!!!!!!
(and, as an aside, the Network & Print Media DELINERATELY IGNORE THIS STORY! – can you only imagine the coverage if it were Bush’s DOJ!!!!!????)

It’s really simple: View the Tea-Party tapes, then view the panther or naacp meet tapes – AND DETERMINE FOR YOURSELVES, without Media Cover-Up & Spin, WHO THE REAL RACISTS ARE!?!?
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- & – naacp officials are shown CHEERING over the BEATDOWN of a black tea-party victim, as a rally leader depicts him as a (pejoative) “Negro” & “Uncle Tom”!

- AND THE NETWORK & PRINT MEDIA COVER THIS UP FOR POLITICAL REASONS!!!!!

Black Liberals & Separitists been a have been USING the Racism LIE for decades.
These Lefties use the ploy of ACCUSING their distractors of doing the exactly what they’re doing – POTUS uses the SAME PLOY!!

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Tell me, what whites declared a:

CONGRESSIONAL WHITE CAUCUS!

WHITE ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION!

WHITE MS. AMERICA!
etc.

I’M SICK & TIRED OF ‘PROGRESSIVE’S’ DOUBLE-STANDARDS!!

Black activists, and their Media Lapdogs, have been PLAYING-THE-RACE-CARD for decades, and it’s now being EXPOSED for the blatant CANARD and Political Tool that it’s always been!!!!!

@Norbit:

There was a White Miss America until the 1980′s. There was a Congressional White Caucus until the ’60′s.

Fox News plays the race care Pay-lin/Beck/Hannity etc.

The first time I ever saw a Ms. America other than a white girl was when Vanessa Williams was named.

The whole country has been all white EVERYTHING until the past 40 years. So….now you know how minorities felt. The problem is No matter how much you guys rant, rave, complain and threaten the country is turning Brown. And NO one can stop it. Not the M00siah, Glenduh, O’Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, a million Tea Parties. All they can do is pick up seats in 2010. After that it’s all down hill. Unless they move to the center. But Good Luck with that ONE.

After that disastrous interview Pay-lin gave O’Reilly I think he’s even fed up with pretending she’s Presidential material.

Actually I think this is a good thing. All the white people can vent their frustrations. But it’s NOT going to change the trend in demographics.

@Norbit.

You’re frustration has touched me. So I am going to stop calling Beck/Pay-lin, etc. racist on this site. I can feel what you’re saying and how you feel.

I realize this is largely unrelated to the post, but has C-SPAN announced that they’ll be carrying the rally? Personally, I fear that because apparently everything that Sarah Palin says is considered news, both CNN and MSNBC may try to cover her speech and I don’t know Fox’s plans, but rather than have any portion of the event covered by anything more than stand-ups from the crowd, I’d prefer for one of the C-SPANs to give it gavel-to-gavel.

Does anybody know the networks plans for the day and though he may be limited because it’s public property, but is Mr. Beck planning any restrictions on press or broadcast availability?

Tommy,

When can we expect your investigative reporting on the partisan political activities of the naacp, la raza, the aclu, et al – and their CONTINUED TAX-EXEMPT STATUS?

Will that be coming soon, Tommy???

LOL!!

yweston said:
@Norbit: There was a White Miss America until the 1980’s. There was a Congressional White Caucus until the ’60’s. Fox News plays the race care Pay-lin/Beck/Hannity etc. The first time I ever saw a Ms. America other than a white girl was when Vanessa Williams was named. The whole country has been all white EVERYTHING until the past 40 years. So….now you know how minorities felt. The problem is No matter how much you guys rant, rave, complain and threaten the country is turning Brown. And NO one can stop it. Not the M00siah, Glenduh, O’Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, a million Tea Parties. All they can do is pick up seats in 2010. After that it’s all down hill. Unless they move to the center. But Good Luck with that ONE. After that disastrous interview Pay-lin gave O’Reilly I think he’s even fed up with pretending she’s Presidential material.

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You’re assuming INDIVIDUALS will be permanently fixated with an indoctrinated ‘group-identity’, unable to transcend that FIXATION! – EVOLUTION WILL PROVE YOU WRONG!

Tommy Christopher said:
I know what Beck SAID. If he meant criminals, he didn’t say it here:

“The only ones that we’re seeing on television are the scumbags

Katrina hit NO on August 29. After a day or two, all we were seeing on TV WERE the looters/scumbags. Perhaps MSNBC and ABC shouldn’t have constantly ran stories about the looters if people like you would become so sensitive to their criticism later.

Looters take advantage of New Orleans mess

New Orleans mayor orders looting crackdown

New Orleans police ordered to halt looting

Police looting a Wal Mart in New Orleans

Troops told ‘shoot to kill’ in New Orleans

This doesn’t even include all the stories we were hearing about what was happening inside the Superdome. All I saw (from reporters), after the first images of people on the roofs, was story after story about looting, and violence inside the Dome.

Who’s fault is that?

Do you think it’s really fair to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation to start this controversy? Are you calling the Saints to try to get them to pull out because of Beck’s comments, that you are purposely misinterpreting? Are you so biased towards Beck that you want to hurt the SOWF?

Norbit:

No I’m NOT. I’m basing my thoughts on the Republican message. They are going further and further to the right. The millenium (sp) generation will be 100 million strong in (10) years and 90 million will be voters. They are NOT going to be interested in moving back to the 1950′s. African Americans, Asian and Latinos will all increase. I think many in these groups will vote Republican. Actually I would. But…..signs of the Pres. with bones in his nose is associated with Republicans (AA’s) will turn off. Latinos will double, not all are illegal immigrants. Many of their family members will be deported and children will have citizenship revoked. The legal Latino’s will have a strong opinion of deporting their Aunt who has been here 20 years without giving her a path to citizenship (that ideology is also associated with Republicans).
All I’m saying is the Parties must change with the times. Selling the racist card may fly today, but it ain’t going to fly later. Telling young woman what to do with their bodies in an age group raised with the idea of “needles” that can stop their menstruation for months and (in their minds five them freedom) what to do with their bodies. Is NOT going to fly that much longer.
Different times, different mindset, different everything. I remember when being gay was the worst thing in the world in America. Now people live openly. Things change.
But I’m not trying to argue with you I’m trying to understand your point of view. I’m not worried about this political climate and I’m not afraid of losing the house.

sarainitaly said:
Katrina hit NO on August 29. After a day or two, all we were seeing on TV WERE the looters/scumbags. Perhaps MSNBC and ABC shouldn’t have constantly ran stories about the looters if people like you would become so sensitive to their criticism later.

Looters take advantage of New Orleans mess

New Orleans mayor orders looting crackdown

What is wrong with you? I hope it’s just your inability to receive the full range of American media on a regular basis, but if all you saw was looters/scumbags, then I truly pity you. I saw the Southern Baptist Convention in Arkansas running buses and volunteers taking water to victims, I saw the Red Cross setting up tents and shelters and serving food and water and providing clean clothes. I saw a host of college-aged volunteers providing assistance. I saw neighbors helping neighbors. I saw thousands and thousands of acts of outreach, millions of small kindnesses from people of all sorts trying to comfort scared, devastated, desperate people. I saw good and noble journalists (not the Glenn Beck’s of the world, of course), wading through muck and mire to show us the pain, but to also show us the essential goodness of the American people, the compassion of the American people, the wisdom of the American people, a people better, more compassionate and wiser than their government. I saw people in Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Dallas (other cities as well), embracing and aiding the evacuees. If all you saw was looters/scumbags, you have terrible vision. Perhaps, self-serving and not pathological, but terrible nonetheless.

All you saw was looters/scumbags? Seriously?

yweston said:
Actually I think this is a good thing. All the white people can vent their frustrations. But it’s NOT going to change the trend in demographics.

You do know that there are growing racial tensions…not between whites and blacks, but between Latinos and blacks. The majority of fights between racial groups in the Southwest is between Latinos and blacks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1j–ATskLk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5ScoavEyRU&feature=related

yweston said:
Am I following this??

No, you’re too busy being an ugly bigot. It’s got your head all full of hatey nonsense.

MichelleF said:
Well, since my Seahawks have been disappointing, I think I may have to become a Saints fan!

Ahh, Michelle – a woman after my own heart :D

Not in the first days/week, we didn’t.
The media was running with the continuous looting and superdome violence stories, in addition to showing the devastation, from day one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RVHDlPqZWE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dHZ7fSHiU4

Red Cross: State rebuffed relief efforts
Aid organization never got into New Orleans, officials say
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/08/katrina.redcross/index.html

Thursday September 1, 2005 – 3 Days After

Time Uncertain – Red Cross President Marsha Evans asks permission to enter the city with relief supplies, but Louisiana state officials deny permission.

—”Red Cross: State rebuffed relief efforts: Aid organization never got into New Orleans, officials say” CNN.com, 9 Sept 2005.

Thirty-thousand National Guard Troops from across the country are ordered to report to the Gulf Coast, but many do not arrive for several days.

—”More Navy Ships, National Guard troops head to the Gulf Coast,” Associated Press, 1 Sept 2005.

The first buses arrive at the Superdome to take evacuees to the Astrodome in Houston, 355 miles away. But the evacuation goes slowly and will take several days.

—Evan Thomas, “The Lost City,” Newsweek, 12 September 2005.

Evening – In a special report that is typical of the picture that television is conveying to the world, CNN Correspondent Adaora Udoji reports: “Three days after Hurricane Katrina, and the situation is getting more desperate by the minute. Thousands are still stranded in misery. . . . They are marching in search of food, water and relief. They’re surrounded by a crumbling city and dead bodies. Infants have no formula, the children no food, nothing for adults, no medical help. They’re burning with frustration, and sure they have been forgotten.”

—”Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees, Special Edition: Hurricane Katrina,” CNN Transcripts, 1 Sept 2005.

Friday September 2, 2005 – 4 Days After

The Red Cross renews its request to enter the city with relief supplies. “We had adequate supplies, the people and the vehicles,” Red Cross official Vic Howell would later recall. Louisiana officials say they needed 24 hours to provide an escort and prepare for the Red Cross’s arrival. However, 24 hours later, a large-scale evacuation is underway and the Red Cross relief effort never reaches New Orleans.

—”Red Cross: State rebuffed relief efforts: Aid organization never got into New Orleans, officials say” CNN.com, 9 Sept 2005.

http://www.factcheck.org/article348.html

sarainitaly said:
Not in the first days/week, we didn’t.
The media was running with the continuous looting and superdome violence stories, in addition to showing the devastation, from day one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RVHDlPqZWE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dHZ7fSHiU4

Red Cross: State rebuffed relief efforts
Aid organization never got into New Orleans, officials say
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/08/katrina.redcross/index.html

http://www.factcheck.org/article348.html

Just as I thought. You didn’t watch the coverage. A real shame you felt compelled to advance a racially-tinged comment without knowing any of the facts.

Tommy, all it took was a pizza lunch with a black panther to convince you he was actually a good guy. Maybe you’d see things differently if you and Beck shared a pizza.

Tommy Christopher wrote:
“Show me where I gave the NBPP the benefit of the doubt. And actually, show me where I didn’t give it to Glenn. Did anyone else bother to check with the charity, or to find out if Palin was taking a fee? On his Katrina comments, Beck’s explanation doesn’t wash with the facts.”

Hah. The only reason you checked was because you were hoping to find out that they were taking payment. You, and everybody else, know that you were upset when you found out Palin wasn’t taking a fee. If she were taking a fee, you’d have been elated as it would have been an excuse for you to attack her & Beck. Don’t pretend that you did this in order to give Palin & Beck the benefit of the doubt. Everybody who reads you knows your journalistic integrity is very thin…kinda like Obama’s skin.

I guess I’m a Saints fan now.

Tommy Christopher said:
I know what Beck SAID. If he meant criminals, he didn’t say it here:

“The only ones that we’re seeing on television are the scumbags, again, and it’s not all the people in New Orleans, most of the people in New Orleans got out! It’s just a small percentage of those who were left in New Orleans, or who decided to stay in New Orleans, and they’re getting all the attention.”

What you did here, Tommy Christopher, saying that Glenn Beck called Katrina victims “scumbags”, is deliberately taking his comments out of context, you worthless hack.

The event has already been completely paid for by donations. All the money raised from the event itself goes to charity. Every penny. You liberals can’t stand that Beck is doing a good thing here.