This editor is a strong believer in the First Amendment, but this kind of speech is incendiary, hateful, and downright un-American. And the people who engage in it should be banned from the airwaves and jailed if necessary.
Fox News must be taken off the air until it can be trusted to properly serve the public interest.
Hopefully, a future Democratic-controlled FCC will have that as one of its first priorities.
Case in point. A bartender in a local bar in a "trendy" and "yuppie" neighborhood in the Washington, DC area commented that the people who stayed behind in New Orleans did so just so they could loot the city after the hurricane struck.
When I said that a number of the people left behind were poor, infirmed, elderly and not able to evacuate because they had no cars or immediate families in the area, the bartender said that was crap. He also did not see the difference between wanton looting and obtaining necessities for survival from damaged stores.
It seems that some people commit Rush Limbaugh's and Fox News' talking points to memory and then just repeat them like human tape recorders. I also pointed out what WMR reported on Aug. 31: that a number of people who tried to evacuate were forced to turn back after being caught in traffic jams as the hurricane's effects first began to be felt in the city and suburbs.
Then the bartender's final words, which sums up the mindset of these disgusting right wingers: "If cops from Philly were down in New Orleans, they'd take care of the looters. They'd shoot the boogs."
Unfortunately, this is the same sort of mentality that permeates the Bush administration -- the disaster that can be called "Hurricane Dubya."
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in New York shopping for expensive shoes at tres chic Ferragamo's on Fifth Avenue. (Is she the lost love child of Imelda Marcos?)
A shopper confronted Rice shouting at her about shopping for shoes while thousands were dead and homeless on the Gulf Coast. Rice, showing the compassion of a shark on a feeding frenzy, had store security remove the woman.
Of course, Rice does not have much to do. Its U.S. policy not to accept foreign aid in a natural disaster (always has been, even under Democratic administrations). Its considered beneath the dignity for a "super power" to accept foreign aid.
Other nations have offered aid in the past only to be given the back of Uncle Sam's hand. If this ridiculous policy were to change (along with the Secretary of State who most world leaders think is a joke), France would be the first to offer assistance to its cousins in Acadiana and southern Mississippi.
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has offered gasoline and food. Fidel Castro would offer doctors (they are top notch). Ditto aid from Russia (they've already offered helicopters but were told they could only be used to rescue Russian nationals trapped in New Orleans (3 on the upper floors of a hotel, at last count).
We could count on Canada, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, Japan, Britain, Spain, Italy, China, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Jamaica, South Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, and a number of other nations.
And in a most disgusting example of chutzpah, the so-called "President" Dubya strummed a guitar at the Coronado Naval Base in San Diego while thousands drowned in New Orleans. One day, Bush's name will replace Emperor Nero's as a synonym for a lackadaisical tyrant who fiddled while his nation was in need: "Bush fiddled while New Orleans drowned." Maybe Bush could play the guitar while someone sings that refrain.
"Nero" Bush -- Fiddles in San Diego while New Orleans drowned. Will someone in Congress please introduce an impeachment resolution? This asshole raced back to DC from his eyesore of a "ranch" to sign a bill to keep a woman in a persistent vegetative state on her feeding tube. But he plays the guitar as thousands of healthy human beings perish.
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