ABC Nightline Swings Like a Slugger ... Strikes Out

After Mr. Bush's speech, ABC Nightline pulled some of the refugees / evacuees / whatever we're calling them today ... (I'll get to that later) ... out of the Astrodome for a good, ol' fashioned Bush-whooping. This was tee'd up perfectly ... no democrat response, but put the blood-n-guts victims right there ... that would be so much more powerful than even that picture of the naked vietnamese girl running from her burning village, right?

KA-BOOM!

(That's the sound of a major league backfire!!!)

Not only did these people appreciate the president, not only did they believe in HIM that he was going to see the city rebuilt ... but these people also spent a good amount of time ripping on the state and locals, who THEY KNEW were supposed to be the ones to provide the first response.

WOW!!!

You can look up the details on your own, but I did want to point this out ... the reporter at the scene, and Ted Koppel (after they returned to him), were both totally befuddled. Not confused, but totally dumbfounded ... if you watch the tape, listen for how many times the reporter says "uh", "um", "ahhhh"; the kind of thing that professionals are trained not to do, but this guy was caught so far off guard he could not help himself! Then ABC gave their best attempts at leading the questions into even a mild slap against Bush, and they got HAMMERED! These people were not even in the same ballpark as the more moderate "blame them all" type crowd, let along coming at Bush.

They were appreciative of what this country has done and is doing for them, and they were most appreciative of Mr. Bush, who they knew they could count on to fix what has been broken.

Damn them to hell!!! (If you are a democrat or in the media ... oops, redundant)

Then it hit me ... NOBODY who is trying to blame Bush (that I have seen or read about) have been the real victims! Only the Mayor, the Governor, and of course the idiot leadership of the democrat party (I know ... redundant) ... are putting this on the federal government. The actual victims themselves are HAPPY the feds are their to pick up after the catastrophe that their local and state officials have caused.

Now ... please sit down, because this will blow you away if you are not prepared ... one of the "victims" even said that SHE was responsible, because she could have gotten out but did not take it that seriously!!! Another woman said that it wasn't the hurricane, the city was still standing ... it was the levees (now the ABC reporter was licking his chops ... this has GOT to fall on President Bush!!!) ... and she was pissed that Nagin got the billions of dollars to fix the levees but never did.

Ohhhhhhh, catch me, I'm going to faint! Man ... Karl Rove better get their numbers and get them on the tube EVERY day! I am so glad this wasn't FOX News, or else you know the liberals would be screaming that these people were plants!

In all seriousnous, though ... if you are unfamiliar with the book "The Burden of Bad Ideas" (Heather MacDonald), you need to get the books-on-tape version just to listen to the introduction. In one part she discusses how you will typically get two versions of a story when you ask the people served by government programs about that program ... one is the truth (which typically lies along the lines of what conservatives say), the other is the government version that you get "when their handlers are present".

ABC's problem ... they didn't have the "handlers" standing there (check in hand) to let these people know they were supposed to be blaming this on Bush ... so we got the truth.

Actually, I am not surprised by this. These folks have not had much TV, so they have not been dieting on a steady stream of sewage flowing out of the mouths of the liberal media and the democrats. They have actually been LIVING the crises, so they know what's what. I am guessing that they didn't even read the plans (just like their mayor and governor), but still they knew that George W. Bush was not the one who was supposed to be calling the shots.

Along those same lines ... did you notice how the poverty pimps ... Farrakhan, Jackson, etc. ... are all charging and and getting all offended because the media could not figure out what term to use to reference the victims of the storm? Did you also notice that when they talked to the victims themselves, they couldn't give a crap what they were called?

Nancy Pelosi called the president "disconnected" when he asked her to justify her assertion that Brown be fired before ANYBODY had figured out what went wrong or if he or anybody else was to blame (I am ashamed of how they treated Brown ... we are going to owe that guy an apology). We certainly are seeing who is REALLY disconnected though

Do note that these opportunities to see what is really going on are going to become fewer and fewer as the media realizes that the victims are not in line with the democrat talking points.