Asshole on Fox: Where's the international outpouring of support for us?

[elehhhhna]

Let's use this disaster to manufacture more hate.

Great plan.

Guess GW IS back at work.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Like the greedy little piglets that we are, we misused and abused

it...and now it is gone.

[Hobarticus]

4. Went to the well one too many times...

Besides, what the hell do you give the world's most powerful and wealthy nation in a crisis, that they don't already have themselves?

[mitchum]

26. Absolutely, MrsGrumpy

[rzemanfl]

2. Gone, Bush is responsible. n/t

[tsuki]

45. President Chavez offered to send aid to the Hurricane victims. eom

[rzemanfl]

49. See, have one of your pet ministers threaten their life and they

pony right up.

[lectrobyte]

3. After we burnt the reichstag, and invaded Poland, I'm not

surprised by the lack sympathy... Did I say Poland? I meant Iraq.

[Benbow]

22. As a Brit, I think that there are two "reasons" -

one: most of the media in the UK is not yet conveying the scale of the disaster as I know it to be - but only because I read DU and follow up on the links to photos, blogs, etc - even the reports of flooding sound localised, and the loss of life mentioned here is still less than 100. Certainly, the BBC does not seem to have grasped how serious this is.

two: everyone in the world knows - even if s/he knows nothing else - that America is RICH and can probably pay for all the clean-up and compensation and rebuilding by just diverting a week's worth of funding from her defence programme and/or an amount equal to what she spends every day in Iraq before breakfast.

It may also be that the media of non-US countries are having difficulty getting into the area to file stories for their media outlets - not everyone is as resourceful (or has the good contacts of) that Italian photographer from La Repubblica who seems to have got himself onto an American coastguard helicopter.

But, mostly, I think - it is the first reason - ie that New Orleans and the surrounding area "missed the bullet". Only this morning, a friend of mine who has many business contacts in the US said that "it all looks a bit grim, but not as bad as it might have been nor than was expected" and that he had heard that the levees had held. He was very shocked by the brief run-down of facts I gave him, culled from messages on DU.

I guess that the BBC will become more interested if it is found that the refineries have been put out of commission. Something "meaty" for their economists to get their teeth into - predicting, analysing.

[Benbow]

27. Just heard the BBC Radio 4 10.00pm news item on post-Katrina NO -

and the journalist was trying and signally failing - in my view - to convey the enormity of the crisis. For instance, he spoke of the water rising "bit by bit" towards the high rise hotels (but I have read that it has been rising a foot an hour) and referred to only ONE breach in the levees!!!!

However, the "anchor" did say that the damage might be "collosal".

[MnFats]

5. they'll mention it four days later....just like bush after tsunami..

...and then they'll come up with a pittance. What goes around comes around.

[Beetwasher]

6. We Can Thank Chimpy For Lack of International Outpouring

The world hates the US now. They had outpouring of support after 9/11 and look where that got them.

Although, Hugo Chavez has offered to send us aid!

[no name no slogan]

7. Um, both Cuba AND Venezuela have offered aid

but they don't count, I guess, since they're godless commies...

[cascadiance]

33. Didn't Cuba get a lot of damage from this storm too?

Don't know much if they did or not, since our sensational MSM didn't talk about it too much...

[elehhhhna]

8. He should be asking: Where's the GD Prezzydent's outpouring of support?

[knitter4democracy]

48. He's been fundraising, so let's see those funds put to use.

Seriously--all the money from his fundraisers for the last week should go to the clean-up effort. I'm sure the Republican Party can spare a few million.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. And how much did the Faux asshole donate? Digging deep I bet.

[DFWdem]

10. It's a valid question

Forget governments, the citizens of the US have been more than generous. A little reciprocity from the other citizens of the planet would be nice.

[Lex]

17. See Post #15.

[dutchdemocrat]

20. Percentage wise

% wise vs. the GDP

The US are greedy pigs.

[SoCalDem]

36. Not valid.. WE are a "donor" nation

Donor nations do not ask for or accept aid.. If a millionaire's house burns down do the poor and middle class people take up donations to rebuild his house??

We have plenty of money, we just has assholes in charge who are hellbent on wasting it on idiotic "wars" and giveaways to their rich pals..

[buzzard]

43. I have sent my donation from Canada. When school starts next week

plans will be made to get schools involved in raising funds for this.

[nini]

11. We lost it when we lost our souls and bombed the hell out of iraq

Welcome to reality.

[Vogon_Glory]

12. Pariah States Don't Get International Aid

Rogue nations and paraiah states don't get international aid--and that's what Gee Dubya Boojum and the Banana Republicans want to turn the USA into--a pariah state.

[lebkuchen]

13. Bush squandered 9/11 goodwill by flipping the bird to the Europeans

an act that will go "down" as one of his most disastrous achievements (oxymoron, yes, as is "President Bush")

[kbm8795]

14. What is ironic about this

is that when other countries DO send support, our MSM never mentions it. I rememeber reading in a Canadian newspaper after Hurricane Andrew that CANADA sent a ship to Miami. . . I never saw any mention in our own media.

Pompous-butt FAUX needs to just go off the air with their unpatriotic, anti-American drivel. Their owner isn't even an American citizen.

[Lex]

15. Damnit! All the right wing ever does is play the poor victim!

They are sickening.

They go around beating their chest about how big and bad America is, and how we don't freaking NEED the UN, and damn the torpedos but we are invading any country we damn well please, and then . . .

they whine when countries don't fall over themselves to help us out?

HOW STUPID ARE THEY ANYWAY?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

16. Was this an anchor?

A commentator? Some in-studio audience member?

Not that is changes how despicable that kind of whining is, just curious.

Faux lowers the bar yet again. :puke:

[elehhhhna]

23. Cavuto, I think.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

31. What a professional. Crybaby, that is.

Thanks for the reply :hug:

Calling Cavuto an idiot idiot would be be redundant redundant. :)

[skippysmom]

18. If I had a dollar for everyone who said that

I could fund all of Katrina's disaster relief.

Ugh.

[In Truth We Trust]

19. What about Chavez and his generous offer?!? WTF Fox-douchebags!

[stopbush]

21. Yes! Remember the outpouring of US support when 14,000

French died in the 2003 heat wave?

What? There was no ourpouring of support? This is the first you've heard about the 14,000 deaths? Well, death by flood is more TRAGIC than death by heat wave, so there!

[Hav]

41. Wait, that's not fair!

The Washington Post had a nice article called "Can't stand the heat?" during the heat wave to mock thousands of deaths in Europe.

[brettdale]

24. There was a huge outpouring of love

After 9/11, then Bush*t said you are with us or against us, and bombed a country that had nothing to do with Iraq, while holding hands and kissing a leader of a country that was responsible.

[underpants]

25. Are we a third world nation?

I know our economy is third world crony capitalism but we are supposed to be Numero A#1 in the world or did I miss something?

[MsTryska]

28. Hugo Chavez offerred to help......

as for Europe - well they're busy putting out wildfires and or dealing with their own floods. :shrug:

[maxsolomon]

29. it will come

my god, talk about jumping the gun! the disaster is 24 hours old.

[qanda]

30. How do they know that there isn't going to be an international outpouring?

The hurricane just took place yesterday and the devastation of the storm is just being realized today. Some parts of the world are just waking up to what is happening here in the United States. I'm sure that, just like after 9/11, the rest of the world will pour out their hearts to America.

BTW, when they see the President playing the guitar, perhaps they cannot get the full picture of how tragic this event truly is.

[Benbow]

34. Call me cynical but I wonder if the UK government has put the brakes

on our media until Blair has had an opportunity to ask Bush how he wants the story portrayed.

You are right: the President of the United States is on tv eating cake and playing the guitar, so it can't be a crisis, can it ... ?

[SoCalDem]

37. and playing golf and eating cake for a photo op

:(

[Horse with no Name]

32. I tell you all it is the talking point of the day

Someone called in to Springer with it...it was on Faux...and geeee...look, it was even here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4513518&mesg_id=4513730

[SunDrop23]

35. The support is in a mobile chemical and bio lab in Iraq

and some more of it is on one of the radio controlled drones.

[Ilsa]

38. You bet we need help, after what * has put us through.

He's wrecked our economy, many industries, ecological damage, international hatred for us, and spent us into the hole in manufacturing a war to make Dick wealthier. Now we all owe China and others about $145,000.

I didn't give to other countries expecting anything in return, but dammit, I'm not to proud to ask for our brothers and sisters in La, Ms, Al, etc.

But i understand what you mean. We are supposed to be one of the best and wealthiest, so why do we need help? Yeah, it will probably cause more hatred.

[Deja Q]

39. Kick

[raysr]

40. Why would anybody

give a shit about us?? We've destablized the entire world economy. We thumb our nose at nuclear treaties, global warming treaties, and Bolton is trying to ruin the UN. Yeah right, help the US.

[neverforget]

42. Maybe it's our "go it alone, our way or the highway" approach

towards the rest of the world? :shrug:

[TWiley]

44. Oh wait ...... the outpouring of HATRED due to the Republicans?

What in hells passionate name has this country, run entirely by the republi-craps, done anywhere in the world during the past 5.5 years that would endear even a cockroach to us?

Republi-craps have squandered our good name and the good faith other nations had in us. They are actually safer if we are poorer, so why should they help? I would not expect it to turn around anytime soon either.

[ComerPerro]

46. We wouldn't need an outpouring of support if Bush didn't waste our money

by spending hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives to turn Iraq into a Muslim theocracy.

[VOX]

47. That's the right wing battle cry: "ME! ME! WHAT ABOUT ME?"

"I want MY gas, and MY guns, and MY SUV, and MY stuff, and MY rights, and MY country, and MY tax relief, and MY yellow magnetic ribbons, ME! ME! ME!"

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[kskiska]

50. Chimp offered Cuba $50,000 for their last hurricane

They turned it down. Maybe they'll offer him the same.

[sakabatou]

51. Well, it may be that we get hurricanes almost every year

Maybe not on this magnitude, but there have been worse NDs all over the world.