KOEB 9/1/05: Pleas for help, and the debut of "I'm OK."

[Berry Cool]

Keith's doing what he can...so tune in.

[Botany]

1. Early rant .....

hi Berry :hi:

* has been President for 9/11, that ungodly mess called Iraq, & the drowning
of New Orleans (due in some part to taking money from levees and wetlands
and shifting it to his suck ass war)

*'s time before during and after Katrina

Golf ..... fly to Arizona ..... photo op and eat cake w/ McCain ......
Fundraiser ..... fly to San Diego ..... fundraiser ........ speech using
the US Navy as a prop where he posed w/ guitar, talked about WW II,
talked about the new "free" Iraq, pimped his war, and flew back to
ranch as New Orleans went underwater. Then a fly over of the death & stuff
on his way back to work


Bush as FDR after Pearl Harbor ..... "I will get on it."

:grr:

[SharonRB]

2. You forgot promote his stupid Medicare Prescription Drug Plan

:hi:

[Botany]

17. don't forget those health savings accounts ......

what a asshat.

I just paid health insurance today ..... the agent kept trying to
push *'s little b.j. for the insurance industry .......

I give you money so you make interest and when i give you enough
you "might" help me when I have a heart attack

[SharonRB]

34. Actually, for some people they make more sense than the

coverage they are currently enrolled in through their employers. For people with very minimal expenses they make sense and for some people with very large expenses they make sense because with the high deductible plans you have to be enrolled in, once you hit your out-of-pocket maximum everything is covered at 100%. Depends on the plan, but for some it really does make sense.

[Clark2008]

How does one buy "only what they need" in gasoline?

You're always, eventually, going to run out - so what you need, calculated over a lifetime - is several thousand barrels.

Bush is such a dimwit.

[SharonRB]

6. Hi, Clark --

How are you doing?

[Muffstser]

23. Yo, Dubya...we can't AFFORD to buy "only what we need."

What an idiot.

[WolverineDG]

60. yeah, you know for me

gasoline for my car was always one of those "what the hell?" purchases anyway..... :eyes:

dg

[Der Blaue Engel]

3. Haven't watched Keith in a while because every time I turned it on

he wasn't there. :cry:

But I finally tuned in last night...and had a big sob. I'm afraid to watch tonight. :(

[seito]

4. I never thought I this country could come to this

This can not be America.

[SharonRB]

12. I can't believe this is happening

Where is our government? If this is what happens after a natural disaster, I'm afraid to see what would happen after another terrorist attack. Homeland Security obviously is not very well prepared.

I hate to even think that it's a racial thing, but it's so hard not to. People are people and no one in this country deserves to be left to starve and die like this. Bush should be impeached for negligence and jailed for murder. He has now become the greatest mass murderer in this country's history -- I'm sure the death toll will be far worse than 9/11 when this is all over. Not to mention the disruption and destroying of people's lives.

I am so livid I just have no words for it.

[Clark2008]

5. This news photographer shouldn't be editorializing

BUT... it's kind of odd that the situation is so bad they have to have a new photojournalist tell things that are happening that are just too sad, bad and gory to show.

:cry:

[gkhouston]

7. when the news is too awful to show us

I'm not going to take off points for editorializing.

[Clark2008]

9. That's why I added that big "BUT..."

:hi: gk... how are you today, honey?

[gkhouston]

13. Better than the folks on teevee, that's for damn sure.

and you? :hi:

[Clark2008]

26. Having a few hours of silence.

The boy's about ready to go to bed and the significant other has a friend in town from Florida and the boys are out at a pub hoisting a few (he's off work tomorrow and didn't want to go out over the weekend while Ramzey and I were off, so they did their guy thing tonight).

[crispini]

8. I just completely lost it.

I didn't even see all of the first segment. I was screaming at my TV in the first two minutes and a neighbor came over to see what was happening and I just wigged.

This is worse than 9/11 and OUR GOVERNMENT ISN'T HELPING.

[Clark2008]

14. And our National Guard, who are supposed to help in situations

like these, are off, fighting a war we should never be in.

:(

[crispini]

18. The horror.

The horror.

[Clark2008]

22. Keith must be reading me.

Ironic that I just said that...

[Muffstser]

10. This is breaking my heart...

Ya know why I LOVE Keith? Because he knows when to be quiet and let the story tell itself.

[gkhouston]

16. KO? Can't be true. Isn't his ego supposed to be bigger than his

shoes? :evilgrin:

[Muffstser]

27. Unlike a networkt that shall remain nameless...

KO respects other journalists' stories when something like this happens.

I'd LUUUUUUUUV to see Rita Cosby sit back, shut up, and run other journalists' stories. Ain't gonna happen!

[Greylyn58]

11. I just switched over from Anderson Cooper

Anderson was rockin.

Now Keith starts his show off with that incredible footage. I've been in tears for about an hour now watching the horrors going on and Bush--the SOB--gives another useless speech and turns it into a photo op with his dad and Clinton.

This is just unbelievable. I'm just so sick.

[Muffstser]

19. Anderson is the Zen God of this stuff.

And as for Dubya...he'll answer to a higher authority someday. Count on it.

[SharonRB]

20. I was watching Anderson, too, and he was doing a great job

But I had to see KO.

I'm sure Bill and Poppy will be on the ground in NOLA way before the idiot son will even consider going there.

[Muffstser]

30. We can get aid to other countries faster than our own people.

This is just SICK.

[Muffstser]

15. And on a shallow note, he looks hot tonight.

I don't think God will mind the observation. With all this sadness, you need to take the precious moments to smile, you know?

[crispini]

21. 8,000 Nat'l Guard from MI and LA in Iraq.

[crispini]

24. what? who went to the comedy on Broadway?

[SharonRB]

25. Condiloser went to see Spamalot

Randi Rhodes was talking about it today.

[crispini]

31. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Screaming.

[Greylyn58]

28. Conjob Rice

Our Sec. of State. And still no sign of Uncle Dicky.

:grr:

[Botany]

29. i think it was Condi .....

..... and today she went and bought some $3000.00 shoes. A women
started yelling @ her .... she had her security take her away.


God Damn it ..... get into NO and help those people ..... those folks
on the roof top :grr:

I wonder how the cake bush ate was?

[Der Blaue Engel]

32. Condi

Then she bought shoes for a few thousand dollars.

[Clark2008]

33. She also was shoe-shopping in NYC when some citizen

popped up and asked her why... how she could do that when people were dying in the South.

Condi had the woman forcibly removed. :eyes:

[Muffstser]

35. Saddam, meet Condi. Condi, Saddam.

Somehow, I don't think "Spamalot" will use that bit of info in their promotional materials.

[SharonRB]

36. I hadn't heard the shoe shopping story before

She's another piece of work. Can't these people even pretend to care about what's going on?

[Muffstser]

37. GANG, I NEED YOUR HELP ON THIS!!

Do ANY of you remember who, or what, KO used as his source for the Condi Rice story? I have an idea...

[Botany]

39. Americablog

http://americablog.blogspot.com/


scroll down .... they have it btw .... another story FEMA giving $ to
Pat Robertson!

[crispini]

46. Permalink

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/09/breaking-sec-of-state-condi-rice.html

[WolverineDG]

38. Condi

she went to get some yucks last night on broadway & was seen dropping thousands on some shoes today.

BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dg

[Clark2008]

40. I wonder if she bought more FMBs to impress her "husband."

What an evil, wicked, heartless witch.

[WolverineDG]

49. Fuck her fuck her

fuck her fuck her & FUCK HER!!!

I can just hear her now "but i'm on vacation!" BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

dg

[SharonRB]

57. She need balance in her life -- Bush exercises, she shops

[Clark2008]

41. I love Al Sharpton.

And Keith's questions are spot-on.

Wow!!

Thanks for pointing out the fact that these people are POOR!

I lived paycheck to paycheck until a wonderful man swept me off my feet. But, I'm only a few weeks removed from that lifestyle and remember it vividly.

[Muffstser]

42. I am LOVING Keith and the Rev.

I hope this is on "Countdown"'s Emmy reel, if they do one.

Today's show is superb. The best coverage so far, bar none, on any network.

[CC]

43. Hi all

Al Sharpton is my hero. Go Al, go. Keep on shouting out the truth.

[Clark2008]

44. Does anyone think that ShrubCo will actually rebuild N'awleans?

I have a sinking feeling (no pun intended) that it just isn't going to happen.

I'm glad I got to see her before she sank.

:cry:

[Muffstser]

47. If the RePugs are in power, it ain't gonna happen. And ya know what?

They'll use some lame excuse, while sinking millions into Iraq.

[SharonRB]

51. He'll be long gone before it's ever rebuilt, IMO

It happened under his watch, but he won't be around to do anything about it.

[Muffstser]

45. Four words: Follow THIS up, Rita!!!

Reverend Al needs his own show, and sooner, rather than later.

[CC]

50. Wouldn't count on her

doing even half as good a job of it. Though will say Tony Z. coverage earlier today that was on tonight again really changed how all the media was covering NOLA. Others had tried to get to point across but somehow he broke through.

[WolverineDG]

53. how interesting

that most of the people in her promo were white & most of the people in the scenes keith has shown us from NOLA are black. too bad i can't stand her to keep the tv on after keith does the toss to find out if she only talks to white people.

dg

[MidnightWind]

48. Longtime lurker here--

poking my head out of hide here to say that Keith is just awesome tonight. I still can't believe that this is happening in my own country.

[CC]

52. Welcome to the KOEB Midnight

Come on in, have a seat and talk a while. We don't bite.

Yes Keith did his usual great job. Hoping more people notice.

[crispini]

54. Hi!

((( BIG HUG )))

Oh God! :cry:

[Greylyn58]

56. Welcome MidnightWind

KO has done an incredible job and I agree. I look at the scenes being shown and can't believe this is happening.

Bush and his cabal must pay for this!!!

[MidnightWind]

61. Thanks everyone.

Thanks for the warm welcome. Keith and Rev. Al need to take their show on the road. They were great tonight.

[SharonRB]

59. Welcome to DU, MidnightWind

Nice to see you here.

Oh, and :hug:

[Clark2008]

62. And happening in one of Bush's alleged "base states."

Louisiana is red, even though, I believe, that NOLA is blue.

Still... if these were white people, I'm betting Shrub would pull back the NG from Iraq to help.

This is abso-fucking-lutely unbelievable!!!! :banghead:

[Gogi]

81. If all these people were white Bush would act the same.

Remember New York City!

[Clark2008]

84. Bush is such an incompetent ass.

Why-oh-why can half the country (well, less than half the country now, but not at the time when we needed it) NOT see this?! :banghead:

[DemReadingDU]

65. Hi all, Welcome Midnight!Wind

I too, sort of pop in every now and then. Keith has the best overall coverage of the news of all the shows. I like this new segment where people can let their family know that they are ok.

[Miami Liberal]

55. KO is kicking ass tonight!

Class act all the way... :loveya:

Hi all :hi:

[WolverineDG]

58. DROP THAT FUCKING REMAX AD!!!!

If it's anything I DON'T want to see after a show like tonight's is a FUCKING AD FOR A REAL ESTATE COMPANY CENTERED AROUND A RESCUE DURING A STORM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok, i'm going off quietly to go finish ripping my hair out.....

dg

edited because i'm so FUCKING PISSED i can't spell "hair"

[Greylyn58]

71. I've been having similar reactions

to all the freaking car ads. Especially the ones where they are pushing these huge, gas-guzzling SUVs and trucks. With the gas problems we're having, these people got some nerve.

I want to throw things at the tv every time they come on.

[WolverineDG]

78. car ads i can deal with

ads with rescue scenes like the one in the remax ad i can't. especially when so many in NO are being rescued by helicopter & many many more are being left behind without water or food.....sure, let's use a chopper rescue to get more folks to sign up their houses with us! :nuke:

dg

[Muffstser]

63. This "I'm Okay" is making me lose it...

That and the guy with the two dogs.

Where is our government? Where is the aid?

[Clark2008]

64. How come all the folks at Lowe's are white, except that one woman?

Weird.

I guess those folks have some money to spend on home repairs.

[crispini]

66. This is Biloxi.

Not NO. They're starting to rebuild.

[Clark2008]

82. I realized that after I posted.

But, it's still sad that ShrubCo. is ignoring all the people of color - everywhere: in this country, in Dafuar, in Iraq.

:(

[DemReadingDU]

67. and finally, Rita is back in the U.S.

we've had enough of Aruba and Natalie

[crispini]

70. Rita Skeeter can fucking bite me. nt

[Botany]

88. No

that is my job! :evilgrin:

[crispini]

90. Hee!

:evilgrin: :hug: You always know how to cheer me up, sugar! :P

[Botany]

96. Rather bite you then .....

..... Rita!

Why not give that time slot to Ron Reagan or Molly Ivans or
Stephanie :loveya: Miller

She is like a toothache with a hang over and a sunburn!

[Botany]

68. Nice Job ending the show!

Class is class.

[Muffstser]

69. Is it just me, or does KO look like he's going to break down?

And then they HAD to cut to Rita. Yo, Cosby...this is NOT a happy story. Loose the perky shit.

[MidnightWind]

72. He did sound as if he was choking up.

Thanks again everyone for the warm welcome and thank you Keith for caring and not being afraid to show it.

[WolverineDG]

80. yup, i caught that too

:loveya: keith.

dg

[Gogi]

83. This is hard on KO because of 9-11...

second great urban disaster he's covered and it probably brings back all the traumatic memories. My brother's death in 1996 made me really bawl everytime someone (JFK, Jr., Princess Diana) died. It was mourning for them and my brother combined.

[gkhouston]

110. yup.

I've been thinking for a couple of days now that this must be dredging up memories of the time he spent giving us the play-by-play from Hell. It's bad enough that we're coming close to another anniversary without adding this on top of it.

:hug: for Keef.

[DemReadingDU]

73. Earlier, did anyone see Anderson Cooper

He almost had an emotional breakdown too.

[SharonRB]

74. I saw it. He was doing a great job.

[Greylyn58]

75. I was watching him before Keith

and when he lost it, I started crying. Right along with that woman who was searching through the rubble of her home looking for anything that was left.

God...

[DemReadingDU]

79. yes, so sad.

This guy, Marv?, he's showing video clips from today. Just horrible situation, and getting ready to explode..Marv's words

[crispini]

76. I just left a message for the President.

You can call the White House comment line directly at 202 456 1111 and if you wait about 10 minutes you can talk to a real human.

I told her, "I want to know why it took so long to get help down there. I want to know why I am watching people suffer like this in New Orleans."

I was trying to be calm but I started to cry a little towards the end.

[Botany]

86. Crispini!

I tried to call my repug Congresswomen ..... her aid told me that
everything was going to be fine in NO .... and I was just over reacting.

I told her I just watched people die ......

she said "That is not good is it."

God I hate these fuckers ........

[crispini]

91. Fucktards.

I hate them all.

[Botany]

77. Those post cards to people .....

....... what is that wet stuff on my face.

:cry:

[Berry Cool]

87. You're all reacting the way I did.

Keith was great tonight. Everyone he had on was great tonight.

The scenes and the stories are horrifying and unbelievable.

No, I didn't like that Remax ad either. It should have been canned some time ago.

And no, it didn't escape my notice that unless I missed something, every last living person over at the Lowe's store on the "I'm Okay" segment was white...and most of the frantic people at the convention center screaming and crying for help were black.

I thought "What is wrong with this picture? Plenty...It really is true, isn't it? This is all happening because our government has decided that poor people, especially poor black people, are expendable."

If you could afford to escape, good for you. If not, tough luck, Charlie. You can even do as you are told to do and there will be no help for you...none at all.

What I want to know is, what can we do? I feel so helpless at the thought of being able to do nothing but send some money somewhere. People are dying. Those people need to get out of there and they need to get out NOW.

[CBHagman]

85. Keith does know what matters.

There's both empathy and just enough restraint in him to keep things focused on what matters.

And frankly, I'm glad he commented on the latest hateful blathering from Rush Limbaugh, who is either going to have a road to Damascus conversion someday or be ridden out of the country on a rail. The Media Research Center will aim their darts at Keith, as usual.

[Berry Cool]

89. And who the hell cares if they aim their darts!

Bunch of jerks. What is happening is obvious. Look at the color of the people who are able to report that they are safe and all right. Look at the color of the people, most of them, who cannot say the same.

The poor, the old, the very young are being left to die...the vast majority of them black. It is so blatantly obvious it is disgusting. Let's see Rush try to explain THIS away.

Oh, and one more thing about Keith: if I have to hear ONE MORE PERSON EVER complain about the size of his ego and how he always has to inject himself into a story, I am going to SCREAM.

All he is doing is sitting there at his desk letting the story tell itself and asking the questions that need asking. In the meantime, Rita Skeeter FINALLY comes back from Aruba to hit Houston, where she can talk to a bunch of white people and safely exploit their "emotional, heartbreaking" stories from a safe distance for the entertainment of others. And Joe Scarborough is going to make out like he is some hero who's going to help all those poor people. Talk about injecting yourself into a story. Sheesh.

[crispini]

92. You are right. Keith is great.

:loveya:

[WolverineDG]

109. Let 'em

Appearances to the contrary (based on my posts last night), my hair is still on & my powder is still dry. Some circle-jerk rw organization wants to take off after Keith for calling it as he sees it re: Rush is going to have to come through me first, and I'm loaded for bear.

dg

[RevCheesehead]

93. Hi there, KOEB peeps!

:hug: another rough night?

[CC]

94. Hi Rev

Yep another tough one. Though I am trying hard not to cuss with the typing even if I have given up on the not cussing out loud here.

Just got back myself.



The woman that wanted to know why aren't people getting in their cars and coming to help really had me wanting to get in my car and go. And I know there are others with family there that are having a harder time not just going.

[RevCheesehead]

97. I'm back..

I sure miss the "My Posts" feature - it goes bye-bye at level 3.

From what I saw in GD, lots of people were very impressed with Keith.
I can hardly wait to see it (I had a meeting tonight).

[crispini]

95. Hi Rev.

I'm watching CNN.

"Do you see any optimism yet?"

"No."

Now it sounds like Baton Rouge is losing control. This is INSANE.

[RevCheesehead]

98. I wondered how long it would be before people began to break.

This is what happens when you gut the infrastructure and social services. And we have to keep reminding people who's in charge of the White House AND Congress.

And sadly, many people don't care much about what's happening down there - they are only concerned about their gas prices, their wallets, and their own well-being.

[CC]

99. Some die hards are changing

their minds. And a couple of us at work have found a great way to point out it is * fault. We use the word "feds" all the way through about the lack of really anything, get people agreeing with us and doing their own commenting on how the"feds" have made a bad situation worse. When the conversation is winding down we gently remind them that the repukes are in control and they are the "feds" we were talking about. Most people seem to be having a light bulb moment after that.

[RevCheesehead]

100. Hey, CC -

Is your husband affected by any of this? ie, routes he drives, gas prices, etc? How is he handling it? And how are you?

[CC]

102. Sorry phone call from my mom

no he isn't because he goes to WI and MN. (Brings back butter from Richland Center)
Edited to add: He also drives for a company so he isn't the one paying for fuel. Fuel for the trip out there has gone from 230 a fill up to 628 a fill (last week afraid to ask about this week. He fills up twice after leaving the shop with a full tank.)

Not sure if you are still here. The phone call was about my nephew and his girlfriend. She was pregnant with complications and lost the baby tonight. Poor kids. They are keeping her tonight and guess will let her come home tomorrow. We kinda of new this was coming for the last week but we all hope for a miracle.
After that my mom needed to rant about * and how she told us she did not want to live in a country with him in charge all along. Well she had more rants about * and ineptness too. But pretty much what we all are thinking too.

[RevCheesehead]

104. So sorry about your nephew.

In the midst of disaster, sometimes we forget that people are also experiencing pain.

Sounds like your mom needed to talk. Bless you for being there for her. :hug:

[CC]

105. Thanks and yeah she did

but more because of the girlfriend's family and finding out how they get around "abortions" at catholic hospitals. She feels the inducing labor and calling it a birth at this point in pregnancy is cruel to the kids.

On a positive note she just forwarded what my sister is doing...going to paste below. Terri is my sister, Marc her bf and they are doing something.

If we can make an announcement Saturday for help in collecting funds and
> nonperishable items we got the means to get it there. Marc and these
> truck drivers are willing to take the risk of delivering the goods. I
> will be setting up Sat. with you and Sunday and Monday at Big Kmart on
> Goldenrod & University Blvd. to take up collections.
>
>
> We have just been offered trucks from the FFA in Stark Florida Bradford
> VoTech center and Channel 35 on making arrangements to send truck loads of
> nonperishable items to the storm victims.
> The school is donating the use of trucks & drivers to our organization and
> our President
> Marc will be in charge of driving the truck loads to those in need. We are
> currently asking for help in raising money and more items. We already have
> 2.5
> warehouses full of items ready to send.
>
> Currently we are supplying food, pet food, and health aids to families
> here in
> Orlando of whom are housing friends, relatives and pets from the hurricane
> areas. Several of these victims will be here for a while for they have no
> homes to go back to.
>
> Any help right now is greatly needed with funding the delivery of items
> needed
> to get to both the people and animals in need.
>
> Please feel free to contact Terri Barton at 321-377-8483 cell
>
> Veterans' Recovery & Food Bank of Florida Inc.
> make all check donations to : (Vets & Pets for short)
> Marlon Industrial Park
> 2591 Unit D Forsyth Rd
> Orlando, Fl 32807
> Marc Marchettii 321-229-9976 President
> Terri Barton 321-377-8483 treasurer
> email: [e-mail]
> wk email: [e-mail] ( Westside Tech)


Edited to add, Vets & Pets is a charity in Orlando that helps out vets with their needs (food, meds, housing etc) and also helps them take care of their pets with food, care etc. Some of these vets have no one but their pets so they decided they had to help with both. They did step up beyond vets during the hurricanes last year and helped everyone they could. They went into poorer neighborhood, found people that needed help and brought help to them instead of waiting for people to come to them.

[Berry Cool]

107. I'm sorry too.

It's very sad. You did the right thing.

[crispini]

101. Good for you.

I am glad you are able to be gentle. I'm not talking to any of my conservative friends at the moment. I am too afraid I would go off on them. I am a walking ball of rage right now.

[CC]

103. I am too but have decided

the best thing I could do is try to change their minds with their own BS. I bite my tongue a lot and I have to really figure out how to say it so they don't realize what I am doing. But it does seem to work better than telling them the truth then listening to the Fox BS until I tell them they are stupid idiots that deserve what they get. Sometimes the really dense ones get the stupid idiot rants.




decide should of been deserve

[crispini]

106. I have to watch this again.

I couldn't watch it the first time, I was too busy flippin' out.

I can't believe these people crying "help" "help" "help."

[CC]

108. I have it on and recording it

this time. The hub just got home so had to tell him about the kids. Taping it for him because though he heard on the radio he hasn't seen any of the images.

[Nothing Without Hope]

111. Hi KOEBers! I have a request: would you see if this link works for you?

I want to post about the Amazon account for Red Cross, but I don't know of the URL I have is specific to me or is the same for everyone:

http://www.amazon.com/paypage/PELYGQVJ8Q7IB

Does this go to the Red Cross Hurricane Relief donation page for you?

And hello to all my fellow KOEBers! :loveya: I hope you'll forgive my long absence! :hide:

[CC]

112. Hi Hope

Only here for a second but your link works. Hugs

[Nothing Without Hope]

113. Hello and thanks, CC!

:hug: