How the hell did they get the talking points coordinated so damn fast?

[blondeatlast]

Aren't they supposed to get them a week ahead from the Heritage Foundation Press Room?

"chose not to evacuate..."

They can't get buses, helicopters, water, food, and Guardsmen there, but by damn, they've polished the talking points bright as day.

Unbelievable that they pulled this off, but they did.

God damn, I can't believe this is the nation I grew up in.

[liberaliraqvet26]

1. I hope they use that talking point...

the public wont like it

[blondeatlast]

2. That saptwit shit FEMA director has used it endlessly today on the blabfes

Hasn't he got a job to do?

They are calling him "Baghdad Brown" now, and very rightfully so.

:mad:

[Poiuyt]

10. What's funny is that I heard him yesterday say that not everyone had

the ability to evacuate. I guess he got the memo from Karl

[Redneck Socialist]

3. It's the one thing they're good at. n/t

[Botany]

4. Creative Response Concepts ...

http://www.crc4pr.com/

that is what they do ..... talking points and plant stories .....

look @ their site ..... rather & swift boats came from them.....they
are on KKKarl's speed dial.

[blondeatlast]

5. Holy poop--I knew about the HF Press Room, but this makes

my skin crawl:

From their home page:

"At Creative Response Concepts, we understand that results don’t just happen."

words fail me.

[JAbuchan08]

7. Good God, I thought I knew how sick these people were

how do they continue to astound me!

[unrepuke]

8. "Holy Poop" ?! Golly Gosh Darn, that's funnier'n

Aich Ee Double Hockey Sticks! :rofl:


I used to live in Baldwin Park, a crime riddled 'hood, and on a block wall was a grafito; "Poop"

Down in Long Beach I saw "Shitte" painted on another wall,

And in Eagle Rock "Heck" is painted in silver, 4' high letters on the street.



Who does this? the Osmond Family? :7 Pat Boone?

[Javaman]

6. That's how they respond to emergencies, not by giving help but..

by sending out the memo to their minions to protect THEIR asses.

Once again, altogether, they don't give a shit about you or I. That's a fact.

Colossal Failure!*. fucking asshole*.

[mikelewis]

9. They ran them through Rush's show to see what would stick...

I think they did this one on the fly, that's why the message is so scattered and incoherent. They're definitely caught offguard on this and I don't think they have any idea on what to do. My guess is that they had something else planned and this unfortunate hurricane just threw a wrench in the works. Looks like the attack on Iran may have to wait a week or so, sorry Bush, better luck next time.

[Cha]

11. They blew it with these

"talking points"..Out of one side of their collective mouths they're saying they didn't know how bad it was going to be and outta the other side they're saying.."The victims bear some responsibility"??

If they didn't know how bad it was going to be then How would the people who chose to stay? Hmm..doesn't make sense, does it? Cause I got back up and turned the computer on to get this down as it came to me when lights were out.

[petronius]

12. The "three disasters" schtick is especially clever:

"First, we had the hurricane, then the levee failures, then the flooding. We can't possibly be expected to respond effectively to three disasters, can we?"

I'm boggled that people fall for it, but they do...

[Toots]

13. They knew well in advance that there were going to be those that would

not evacuate. there were papers written about just such a scenerio and yet they act ignorant about it. This article was written a year before this happened.

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/


But the next day the storm gathered steam and drew a bead on the city. As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people evacuated to higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, however—the car-less, the homeless, the aged and infirm, and those die-hard New Orleanians who look for any excuse to throw a party.
 
The storm hit Breton Sound with the fury of a nuclear warhead, pushing a deadly storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain. The water crept to the top of the massive berm that holds back the lake and then spilled over. Nearly 80 percent of New Orleans lies below sea level—more than eight feet below in places—so the water poured in. A liquid brown wall washed over the brick ranch homes of Gentilly, over the clapboard houses of the Ninth Ward, over the white-columned porches of the Garden District, until it raced through the bars and strip joints on Bourbon Street like the pale rider of the Apocalypse. As it reached 25 feet (eight meters) over parts of the city, people climbed onto roofs to escape it.
When did this calamity happen? It hasn't—yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched. The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City. Even the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane shelters in the city, claiming the risk to its workers is too great.
 
"The killer for Louisiana is a Category Three storm at 72 hours before landfall that becomes a Category Four at 48 hours and a Category Five at 24 hours—coming from the worst direction," says Joe Suhayda, a retired coastal engineer at Louisiana State University who has spent 30 years studying the coast. Suhayda is sitting in a lakefront restaurant on an actual August afternoon sipping lemonade and talking about the chinks in the city's hurricane armor. "I don't think people realize how precarious we are,"
Suhayda says, watching sailboats glide by. "Our technology is great when it works. But when it fails, it's going to make things much worse."
 
The chances of such a storm hitting New Orleans in any given year are slight, but the danger is growing. Climatologists predict that powerful storms may occur more frequently this century, while rising sea level from global warming is putting low-lying coasts at greater risk. "It's not if it will happen," says University of New Orleans geologist Shea Penland. "It's when."

[tanyev]

14. Blackberries. Probably a custom made GOP model.

[Karmadillo]

15. It helps when you don't have an Opposition Party pointing out

your crimes.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

16. The elephant in the room.