Jack Cafferty is on fire!

[arcos]

:wow: :wow: :wow:

I'm absolutely amazed... he has always seemed VERY right wing to me, but today he has been awesome. He has ripped Bush a new one, tackled race and poverty issues, etc...

[annabanana]

1. He must have family on the Gulf Coast.....

to engage in such a turn-around

[Kenroy]

4. No...

ANY person with three or more brain cells knows this is a travesty and a tragedy of the first order.

Even a conservative would find it obvious.

[nine23]

11. He said the other day his daughter attends university in NO...

...but left for Rome last Saturday for an exchange semester. I doubt this has anything to do with his "turn-around", but I thought I'd post this anyway...

[fooj]

2. Common sense dictates that there is something very wrong here.

Conservatives are decent people, too.

peace.

[riverwalker]

3. keep his fire lit

[e-mail]

[TomInTib]

5. Seems he has also....

sewed some cojones on ol' Leslie.
I guess every road has a curve in it and Jack found it.

[BlueJac]

6. No Kidding

The race card is being played and it should of been played long before. Help them people!!!

[donsu]

7. Yes! I was amazed - more power to him

nt

[Alpharetta]

8. It's like the light bulb went on in his head: people matter

He suddenly figured out that domestic politics is not only about undoing Roosevelt's programs.

[Nite Owl]

9. Can't believe this is

Cafferty and on CNN.

[SofaKingLiberal]

10. Next feedback question

What role have race and class played in the gulf crisis?

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[kenny blankenship]

13. And the answer is

Flood control money slated for the New Orleans district was stolen away from that region because the voters living there are black and poor which makes them invisible at best to the Bush Administration and GOP. (They only notice them when it's convenient to vilify them) When these people vote, they vote for Democratic candidates. This President had big, big plans for nation building in Iraq and diverted the money scheduled for building and protecting this nation.

This aggressive contemptuous neglect has ensured that tens of thousands of N.O.'s inhabitants (who can only be called refugees and former inhabitants) now struggle for their lives, and even those who got away in time face the prospect of starting over with nothing. When they are robbed invisible people are robbed invisibly. Until, the consequences spill out so spectacularly and visibly that the sight can no longer be blotted from view. Today the consequences became visible to Mr. Cafferty for one, and perhaps to many others as well.


Add to the above, the sheer invisibility of the black and poor residents of Orleans Parish and surrounding areas led to the apparent lack of any provision (through FEMA) for mass evacuation of these communities. Evacuation was 100% private sector in nature, strictly a laissez-faire affair in accordance with the new slogan at FEMA under the Bush Administration:

Devil take the hindmost.

Since the hindmost are this nation's black and poor urban populations, who're counted down by both their economic status and their race, the black and poor were the ones left in the Devil's care.

[raysr]

12. I'm in a Pacific Time Zone,

when was Caffery on, my time? Or has he not been on yet?

[Stephanie]

15. it's all live - just tune in CNN

[growlypants]

14. just emailed him

[DearAbby]

16. It is too bad it took this catastrophe for MSM to grow a pair

I am sorry if I dont seem all that forgiving. I cant help but wonder what our country would have been like had we had a decent media...granted it could not have prevented this, but maybe just maybe hundreds of thousand of people that were alive in 2000 would be alive today, including some of those that had died due to this storm.