Wolf Blitzer: "Isn't it the fault of the Clinton administration?"

[Julius Civitatus]

Wolf Blitzer, apparently fully engaged in "Operation Deflect Blame from Chimpy", just asked that point blank to former US Senator John Brieux during an interview on CNN.

Jaw-dropping...

:wow:

[Arkana]

1. Are you KIDDING ME??????

Wolfy's a dick. It was only a matter of time before Karl reinserted his Kool-Aid enema.

[MuseRider]

2. Response?

I expect this from Blitzer, one reason I can't watch him. I am interested (if you did not damage your TV too badly) what the response was.

[Darkhawk32]

3. Clinton's fault for FUCKING WHAT?!?! n/t

[opihimoimoi]

7. For not fixing the dykes and giving everyone a good paying job

and for not providing a new city that is Hurricane/flood proof. He once had such a plan but got side tracked by a BJ...what can I say?

[GoBlue]

4. Calling Jack Cafferty...

will you please beat the shit of Leslie. I know you want to.

[slor]

5. It is Clinton's fault!

He always said New Orleans was next on his list, after he started the Great Chicago fire. And why is it that Clinton was working so hard on getting his pilots license and training in November 1941, while visiting Japan?

[Imagevision]

20. Clinto lied but nobody died...!

[AverageJoe]

6. Surely not....

I cannot in my wildest dreams imagine how they can pin this on Bill Clinton. Blitzer has betrayed journalism beyond words. He should be taken out and stoned.

[opihimoimoi]

9. I got a pile of sharp stone you can share with me....lol

[senseandsensibility]

8. Did Breaux respond?

I've been very angry with that DINO in the past, but apparently he is upset about Katrina now. Did he muster all his courage and respond to Wolfie? Oh, let me guess..."There's enough blame to go around, Wolf." Something like that?

[AlGore-08.com]

10. Breaux said that they've been asking for money for decades

So he didn't exactly say "it sure is". But he didn't shoot it down with "the buck is supposed to stop with the President, moran."

[Julius Civitatus]

14. Chimpy has been in power for 5 years. Still, nothing is his fault.

Five years after, they still use the "blame Clinton" card.

Even Breaux wouldn't go that far... but he still wouldn't shut it down either.

[sallyseven]

21. Breaux is a big nothing.

Too weak to be a real senator.

[1932]

11. Since 1973, the Clinton years were only time things improved for poor!

If Wolf wants to talk historically, lets go back to 1973 and talk about how at that point in history the corporations started taking over. Let's talk about how all the right wing think tanks started getting organized and starting implementing their "drown the government in a bath tub" ideology.

And even if we talk historically, we cannot ignore who was president during the three days after the levee broke when the Federal Government did nothing.

[AntiCoup2K4]

12. Clinton punched a hole in the levee with the infamous Clenis

It's true because Jerry Falwell told me so :)

[Julius Civitatus]

18. Beware of the Mighty Clenis!!!

:rofl:

[salin]

13. Wolf decides to bare himself to the nation as the bush protector that he

always has been.

[Cha]

17. Yeah, blitzed should be Excoriated

for this!

[movonne]

15. Is there a web site for wolfe??we should all write and ask when

will you start to blame who is to blame...bush...war in iraq, economy,tax cuts to the rich, etc.

[nickshepDEM]

16. 5 years later and...

they're still blaming Clinton.

The RNC's new platform. "When all else fails, BLAME CLINTON."

[melissinha]

19. regardless of spin

THe people of the Gulf Coast see it in simplistic terms. They were wondering where the Federal troops were... they know CLinton is not at fault. Its plain to see.

[gizmo1979]

22. They should have been doing something

since 1965.So blame Nixon.

[HardWorkingDem]

23. What was even funnier was....

Blitzer prefaced his comment with someting about a study in 2001 that showed 14 billion was needed to fix NO's and then he went into the "is this the Clinton Admins fault"......

[Morning Dew]

24. This just in -

Clinton responsible for death of Rehnquist. The impeachment took so much out of him, he never really recovered.

[Jawja]

25. Perhaps Blitzer

was baiting him with what they expect them to do, which is blame it all on Clinton as they've done so many times before?

Just a thought. I don't like Blitzer.

[EVDebs]

26. Clinton not in charge of FEMA's 'outsourcing' of buses

It took around FIVE whole days but FEMA finally got around to the process of privatizing bus contracts to rescue those New Orleans Superdome/ConventionCenter refugees. The 'outsourcing' goes from 650 buses to about 5000 buses, according to the links below. This is a smoking gun of FEMA, Bush administration incompetence.

FEMA Urges Patience

http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18540

“ *Convoys of food, water and ice which are arriving hourly in impacted areas.

*The evacuation of thousands from New Orleans to Texas. FEMA has contracted for more than 650 buses to expedite the state-ordered evacuation.”

Local Company Sending Charter Buses to Gulf

http://www.wcpo.com/news/2005/local/09/02/bus.html



“The Federal Emergency Management Agency is mobilizing 5,000 buses nationwide.” This is from a Cincinnati, OH bus company ; a No. Carolina Christian bus charter firm also got a contract

Community Offers Relief

BY JENNIFER MENSTER

Record Staff Writer

Saturday, September 3, 2005

http://www.hickoryrecord.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=HDR/MGArticle/HDR_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784847098&path=

So, you can see, FEMA was ‘privatizing’ the rescue/relief effort and dawdling in this effort, rather than expediting rescue/relief that the National Guard/military could have been doing.

[AlamoDemoc]

27. I want to see that clip

Christ all mighty! I am pissed off beyond believe right now.