Latest freeper e-mail...

[AbbyR]

I got the below from my freeper "pen pal" this morning. I KNOW there's something wrong here, but I can't find the sources. Does anyone with a better memory than I have know where I can find sources to tell him he's an idiot - nicely, of course.






President Bush hasn't yet taken Oprah Winfrey's advice last week and
apologized for the federal government's so-called bungling of Hurricane
Katrina relief efforts.
But judging from Bush's tone yesterday, it sounds like an abject apology is
just around the corner.
"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels
of government," Bush told reporters. "And to the extent that the federal
government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility."
Bush's public handwringing shows that he still hasn't learned his lesson
from the Abu Ghraib fiasco, where countless presidential apologies only
seemed to feed the media's faux outrage. suing to have even more gruesome Abu Ghraib photos released by military
censors.]
More frustrating still, it appears that Bush and everybody else associated
with Katrina's federal rescue effort has precious little to apologize for.
In fact, as chronicled over the weekend by the Pittsburgh Post Gazette's
Jack Kelly, the so-called villainous, incompetent feds actually performed
quite well this time - in comparison with past efforts.
"The federal response here was faster than Hugo, faster than
Andrew, faster than Iniki, faster than Francine and Jeanne," a National
Guardsman involved in the Katrina rescue effort told Kelly.
The federal government pretty much met its standard timelines, but the
volume of support provided during the 72-96 hour was
unprecedented."
After Hurricane Andrew hit Florida in 1992, National Guard troops didn't
arrive on the scene in strength for five days.
And as NewsMax noted last week, FEMA's response to Hurricane Floyd in 1999 -
with the agency then under the vaunted leadership of President Clinton's
appointee James Lee Witt - was fraught with month-long delays.
After Katrina's floodwaters hit, however, the National Guard, the Coast
Guard and, yes, FEMA - was on the scene in force in three days.
In just the first week after New Orleans' levees had been breached:
More than 32,000 people had been rescued by Coast Guard helicopters.
Shelter, food and medical care had been provided to more than 180,000
evacuees.
The Army Corps of Engineers had all but repaired the breaches and had begun
pumping water out of New Orleans.
Unnoted by columnist Kelly is the fact that the extraordinary first week's
effort took place while roving bands of Katrina "victims" were shooting at
the rescuers.
Considering the complete collapse of city and state rescue efforts - where
even the most basic stipulations of New Orleans' evacuation plan were
ignored - the federal operation was a model of efficiency.
It's just too bad that the head of the federal government can't muster the
political courage to say so out loud.

[Clark2008]

1. Here you go:

Regarding Jack Kelly:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200509120009

Jack Kelly column littered with Katrina falsehoods

In a September 10 column, Toledo Blade and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Jack Kelly put forth numerous falsehoods and dubious statements in defense of the Bush administration's response to Hurricane Katrina. Kelly's column was quickly embraced by the conservative media: On September 12, it was posted on the Drudge Report and read aloud by Rush Limbaugh on his nationally syndicated radio program.

This has a long list of the wrongs in Kelly's idiotic column.

[AbbyR]

6. Thank you so much - I appreciate it! (nft)

[marbuc]

2. Freeper Pen Pal?

What is this, some sort of cultural exchange program?

[AbbyR]

4. Nah....he just likes to irritate me

This is the husband of our book keeper, who knows how very liberal I am and keeps sending me this stuff. My boss keeps telling me kill file him and save my blood pressure, but I can't seem to do that. Glutton for punishment, I suppose.

I must say, when he sends me stuff and I reply, he gets FURIOUS.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. Excellent! If it's an e-mail to many, make sure to reply to all.

Good thing HIS blood pressure is suffering more than YOURS from the exchange!

[PurgedVoter]

5. I have had some neat pen pals but this is incredible.

I used to type Braille to a blind pen pal and I corresponded for a while with a pen pal in Germany, but this is amazing. I figured that pen pals at least had to be human or from the same world.

[AbbyR]

8. He's not really a pen pal...

All I ever get from him is freeper e-mail. He's the husband of our book keeper, and he built my computer.

[zanne]

3. Why is it always freeper email?

I don't receive any myself, but I wonder why it's always them sending emails, and not us. Why not us? Anyway, I think the point of the freeper email you received is that they don't want to just control things; they want to control EVERYTHING. These people have the presidency the congress, most of the governorships and soon, the Supreme Court. Why do they get so defensive when someone doesn't see things their way 100%? If we had control of all of these things, a little criticism wouldn't really bother us. They can't handle ANY dissent because they're insecure about their dominance of the American political system.

[AbbyR]

7. You know, I hadn't noticed, but now that you mention it...

I don't ever get liberal e-mail, except from Moveon, and I asked for that.
Odd...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Simple explanation.

They are pushy, preachy, arrogant, and sanctimonious. We're not.

[PurgedVoter]

12. The simple explaination is that liberals are less likely to spam.

Conservatives are desperately trying to convince themselves, so they constantly try to convince others.
Many of them desperately want to be good, they just want to avoid the price of being good.

[Ron Mexico]

11. Set up a filter. When mail from him comes in, direct it to the trash.

That's the only way to deal with Freepers.