New Orleans Bloggers to World-"We are Not Okay"
Of course our very good friend Scout Prime is in New Orleans right now for the Rising Tide Conference and she sends us some links to some NOLO bloggers.Two blog posts I liked are from Mark Folse of the Wetbank guide
This Post setting the record straight about evacuation, where he reminds people to not believe all the media that are descending on New Orleans this week and talks about the "reason a mandatory evacuation order wasn't given until Saturday."
Another post is about the bullshit story about the "plucky Katrina survivor" who drove his "FEMA trailer" to the White House and was granted an interview. I could smell at preplanned PR stunt a mile away. He praised the President and just wanted people to not forget New Orleans. It was bullshit Publicity Stunt but nobody in the mainstream press called him on it.
I can say without reservation that Mr. Vaccarella does not speak for the vast majority of people in this area, who harbor tremendous anger and resentment toward the executive branch of the federal government--the President, FEMA, SBA, the Corps of Engineers--and everyone who represents it.
Of course people want things to be better. The businesses don't want people to be scared away from visiting. I understand that. But I also know that like when they focused on SF during the earthquake they looked at the few areas that were bad and made people think all of SF was messed up. In some boosters want to do the opposite.
The French Quarter? Fine. Come on down. Great. But based on Scout's on-the-scene reporting and these other bloggers. "We are Not Fine."
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It's like Jack Cafferty sez, it's amazing the crooked politicos of this country even set foot.
Or it would be if a single one of them had a conscience.
i don't believe the media-as the mouthpiece of the admin- and i don't believe a word that comes out of anyone in the government. propaganda and lies. the folks in new orleans and louisiana in general have gotten screwed in the patootie in a big way and the rest of america goes on about its business because they don't question anything. ridiculous. people should be yelling from the rooftops for some retribution and rebuilding.
Kelleyb: Yeah that was interesting. Of course Bush had to have his standard crowd of supporters. I would LOVE to see a crowd of pissed off New Orleans folks. "Where the hell is the money you said is on the way?" Why were you playing guitar when we were drowning!? How dare you!"
Betmo: One of the things that I noticed is that there is no one who is pushing the story of the problems, all the businesses and tourist places WANT the story to be "Come on down!" and I don't blame them they need the money. But since there is no one on the national scene pushing news stories of what DOESn't get done, it doesn't get any attention.
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