The Good News

Why haven't the concerned Right Wing Media Establishments begun to report on the good news in New Orleans? Aren't they the one's so concerned about getting the things that the Prez has done right, the Good Things, reported properly?

Oh yeah, it's because they realize just how bad things are in New Orleans. It is an incredible tragic world unfolding there. We all can only watch, and help those who we can. As Jack Cafferty has said:

The question for this hour is whether the government is doing a good job in handling the situation.

I gotta tell you something, we got five or six hundred letters before the show actually went on the air, and no one - no one - is saying the government is doing a good job in handling one of the most atrocious and embarrassing and far-reaching and calamatous things that has come along in this country in my lifetime. I'm 62. I remember the riots in Watts, I remember the earthquake in San Francisco, I remember a lot of things. I have never, ever, seen anything as bungled and as poorly handled as this situation in New Orleans. Where the hell is the water for these people? Why can't sandwiches be dropped to those people in the Superdome. What is going on? This is Thursday! This storm happened 5 days ago. This is a disgrace. And don't think the world isn't watching. This is the government that the taxpayers are paying for, and it's fallen right flat on its face as far as I can see, in the way it's handled this thing.

I have to point out: not one thing thus far that The Administation has been faced with has turned out well. Not one fucking thing. They can't handle it, okay? 9/11 came, they got support, they haven't caught the guy responsible, haven't patched up Afghanistan. They chose to Invade Iraq, it's turned into a cesspool. They're faced with the worst natural catastrophe in contemporary American history, they can't handle it. They declare it Operation Zero Tolerance and can't figure out how to get food and water to people in an amazingly, astoundingly desperate situation. FEMA is a wreck. The National Guard is doing all they can- stretched so thin from... well, we all know from what.

The Administration has blown it. They have blown it beyond acceptibility.

And all we can do is push for more assistence for these folks. Call your friends, neighbors, open your homes if you can. Find organizations you can give to. These people, below, are Americans, they are Us. They need us, and we need them. This photograph was not taken in Afghanistan, the Sudan, Iraq, Somalia.

This is New Orleans.


I do want to note that not all is in complete shambles. Those refugees who have made it to better grounds, those who have made it to Houston or Baton Rouge or anywhere else where they can get help have been finding assistence. And this is the majority of them. Good things are happening to some of those in Katrina's trail. But in New Orleanse it is still getting scarier and more desperate.