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Gilliard's references to a nuke attack becomes more and more apt as the images begin to seep out from the Gulf Coast. His anger is palpable, and I don't blame him.
What is perhaps most remarkable has been the face of the disaster: poor, too old or too young, and black. It boggles the mind. It turns the stomach.
Cable surely deserves 2005's Minstrel Award for missing an elephant-sized story, pawing and huffing right in it's fatuous face: "drown the poor." Let them "find food..."
Consider this - 30% of the population was left to suffer the brunt of the storm. That's about the size of it. The message goes out to get up and go, the rest of you, well, thems the breaks down heah in The Big Easy.
Of course, a contingent of National Guardsmen might've been useful at a time like this, but shoulda coulda woulda, bitches. This is almost like the un-9/11. Next disaster? Wear suits and ties.
UPDATE, SEPT 2ND, 2005: I stand corrected, at least to some degree. CNN in particular has rolled up it's sleeves and attempted to get a hold of this story, just like a real news organization would and should. Dare I use the phrase "crusade"? And not a co-ed in sight...indeed, the banner at the top of the page at around a 12:15 in the P.M. on this date was "WHERE'S THE HELP?", and Anderson Cooper's lambasting of LA's dippy, half-dumb Dem senator's a proud moment for the network and in his career.
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