Anderson & Nagin

[luna_k]

OMG, if only I had CNN here right now. Directly lifted from Wonkette (sorry to C&P off you, baby):
KING: Anderson Cooper in Biloxi, Mississippi and you were an angry man today, Anderson at what

Comments

[leahpia77]

Maybe I'm just dumb, but why the hell would anyone be screaming that Mayor Nagin sucks?! The hell?

[luna_k]

It's mostly right-wing blogs, but their words are spreading. I'm seeing stuff like "he waited too long to evacuate", and most of all "he's no Rudy Guiliani".

[hederahelix]

People need to seriously stop comparing this to Rudy & 9/11. It's a completely different situation on a thousand levels. The 9/11 attacks were a single catastrophic event, and all the damage was centered on a single geographical location. There were tens of thousands of ready-and-willing trained rescue professionals on hand. All Rudy really had to do was cheerlead and keep up moral.

Word.

It's just such a very different city. NYC has plenty of dirt poor people, but it also has an awful lot of ungodly wealthy ones, and the damage to Manhattan, while extensive, was centered in one place that concentrated that wealth. And the rest of the city was still there to serve as a staging platform for anything that needed to be done. NOLA is entirely gone, leaving no staging area, and the main freeway route in from the east, is gone. They can't even bus people to the cities closest to New Orleans because they can't get out that way and those cities have been leveled too.

[bailunrui]

*has so much Anderson love, so much*

[canadia_bit]

People need to seriously stop comparing this to Rudy & 9/11. It's a completely different situation on a thousand levels. The 9/11 attacks were a single catastrophic event, and all the damage was centered on a single geographical location. There were tens of thousands of ready-and-willing trained rescue professionals on hand.

And, let's be honest. The death toll in NOLA is going to be at least double that of 9/11. The numbers we keep hearing haven't cracked a couple of hundred, but that is ridiculous. There is no way right now to be sure of how many people died in their homes and still wait to be found. From eyewitness accounts of evacuess, there were dozens upon dozens of dead bodies floating in the water as of Tuesday. And come on, I keep reading reports of "Three confirmed deaths at the Superdome, one a suicide." Again, that was Tuesday. No one's adding all of this up, and it feels to me like they're burying their heads in the sand. If the death toll in NOLA alone doesn't reach at least 5,000-10,000, I will be shocked

[buffyx]

I want to give Anderson Cooper a hug, I really do. The man seems so miserable, and thank god he's actually questioning people and being frank. Damn right he should be angry! That's real journalism right there.

Nagin is my new hero and should run for higher office. Yes.

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