MSNBC: Frist says dying people a "distribution problem..."

[msongs]

"At Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, thousands of people remained in a triage center, many of them dying for lack of medical care.

“The hallways are filled, the floors are filled. There are thousands of people there,” said Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., who was at the airport. “A lot more than eight to 10 people are dying a day. It’s a distribution problem..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9156612/

how did frist get there? why cant he take people out in HIS plane?

HOW many refugees would fit in AIR FORCE ONE? especially if the usual passengers were denied access?

Msongs
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[Greeby]

1. Dunno

Someone told him the survivors had a lot of cats maybe? :shrug:

[tuvor]

2. I think you got it wrong.

Sounds to me like he's saying people are dying BECAUSE of a distribution problem, not that they ARE one.

[msongs]

15. just quoting his words per msnbc nt

[tuvor]

18. Okay, more precisely, I think you've *interpreted* it wrong.

Is seems more sensible to me that the "it" in "it's a distribution problem" refers to why people are dying.

If he meant the dead people were causing problems, you'd think he'd have said "*they're* a distribution problem."

I just don't see any reason to conclude that he meant what you suggested.

[ecoflame]

17. Here's the entire quote...

At Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, thousands of people remained in a triage center, many of them dying for lack of medical care.

“The hallways are filled, the floors are filled. There are thousands of people there,” said Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., who was at the airport. “A lot more than eight to 10 people are dying a day. It’s a distribution problem. The doctors are doing a great job, the nurses are doing a great job.”

Let's see...you say you read it as (shit, i can't go 'back' to read it) saying: there is a distribution problem as in these people need to be gotten out to hospital, distributed in other words to places that can take them.

You know, he's a medical professional - goddamnit, talk like one! A distribution problem?! I'm a medical professional; THAT is not the phraseology I would use.

I don't like him. In fact, I dislike him. Any physician who wants to use video to diagnose ........ infuriating!

And those medical personnel did AN ABSOLUTELY HERIOC & FANTASTIC JOB. Have you ever physically bagged someone? You know for a bit it's OK, but to constant bag someone who needs artifical ventialation is not easy to maintain. I'm babbling.....on a rant!

[tuvor]

19. No.

Let's see...you say you read it as (shit, i can't go 'back' to read it) saying: there is a distribution problem as in these people need to be gotten out to hospital, distributed in other words to places that can take them.

I read it to mean that there is a distribution problem as in distribution of life's necessities.

[ecoflame]

20. I don't see it that way

I read it to mean that there is a distribution problem as in distribution of life's necessities.

- Rearranged to put quote alone -
(said Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., who was at the airport.)

“The hallways are filled, the floors are filled. There are thousands of people there,” “A lot more than eight to 10 people are dying a day. It’s a distribution problem. The doctors are doing a great job, the nurses are doing a great job.”

No, I don't see it to mean "life's necessities" at all.

Perhaps, the 'it' refers to the numbers medical personnel and the lack thereof.

[Racenut20]

3. Distribution ?????? as in needing medicine and not getting it distributed?

[jus_the_facts]

4. here's the response....this is homeland security....deal with it.....

[Greylyn58]

5. "A distribution problem"

They aren't cargo or pallets of goods to be moved around!!!!!

What a BASTARD!!!!!!!!

[tuvor]

11. See post #2

I think some people aren't reading very carefully.

[ecoflame]

6. A distribution problem?!

Did he just want the dead 'evenly distributed' and not concentrated.

Correct! How DID Frist get there? Trent Lott flew in on a military chopper to survey the damage to his property in Louisiana. Who could he have taken out with him?

[ananda]

12. what!

A distribution problem.. like cargo? Is he talking like a plantation master or what?

These are people.. human beings.. just like you and me Mr. Frist.

The problem is people like you and Mr. Bush and the DHS who have turned people away from helping so that the military could take over with Bush in the foreground hugging Black women.. while many thousands were needlessly suffering in large, unliveable edifices in a destroyed city.

Sue

[Halliburton]

7. he has to see their videotapes first

so Frist can make a diagnosis

[theHandpuppet]

8. Hey, Frist!

The REAL doctors are down in NOLA saving lives, not just running their mouth.

[mod mom]

9. "Distribution Problem"-what a cold-blooded comment. Par for the course

for Dr Death, (or is that Sen Death?)

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. Distribution problem? Well,

Bill Frist needs to have his medical license revoked! He should be doing everything in his power to get people out of there and he's doing jack shit. Revoke his medical license. :grr: I am SO sick of repuke BULLSHIT I could spit nails.

Al Gore is doing what NEEDS to be done. FUCK Republicans!

[BootinUp]

13. Distribution as in nobody wants them?

[Bumblebee]

14. i.e. collateral damage?

[Cassandra]

16. Poverty in America is a distribution problem

Who here expects this bunch of incompetant thieves to do anything about it except to make it worse.

[bklyncowgirl]

21. Maybe they can put him to work at the animal shelter

Euthanizing injured cats.

[Renew Deal]

22. He's a fucking doctor.

Why doesn't he help out?

[Marr]

23. I see he got the talking points. Hannity used the exact same phrase.

"Distribution problem". I believe Hannity embellished it a little and called it a "slight distribution problem".