WFT (Rant)

[Huckleman2000]

It wasn't a response Burley.

Basically, Wolf cut from that interview with the reporter crying to something else. I guess it was nearing commercial break, because they cut away from that footage with a back to New York. And cafferty came on.

They cut from his face to the roof of a house, with a hole about the size of a dinner plate and someone's arm sticking out with a white hankey.

Cafferty cut in on voice with

"Where is the president?"

Wolf came back with we just reported he was in San Diego I believe.

Cafferty demanded to know what he was was doing there besides making a speech in support of the war in Iraq.

Wolf replied he had cut his vacation short and was returning to Washington.

Cafferty: "Well I should think so, condsidering his approval ratings. But that isn't the question right now"

With wolf concuring and them cutting back to footage of Caferty as he plugged the caferty file.

Basically, his comments were his own, had nothing to do with the situation, by his own admission and were an affront to everyone siting in the living room. It wasn't provoked by conversation on the situation room, it wasn't prompted by anything reported, it was just him prosteletysing about GW and not germaine to the situation in any way, by his own admission after he got done.

Well, considering the President played a round of golf and made (yet another) speech about how justified the Iraq war is (which he funded at the expense of the continuation of improvements to the levees in New Orleans) while the situation in New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf area ravaged by Katrina continued to deteriorate, Where the fuck is the President? seems like a pretty good question.

I don't think that GW could actually DO anything like drop a couple sandbags on the hole in the levee, but symbolic gestures count for something! You'd think he'd have learned that after riding his bullhorn speech after 9/11 to big-balls nirvana for the last four years.

If you're offended at this, just wait until they drag GW through the mire and muck his policies have contributed to in NO and the ravaged areas. It would only be fitting that he should reap what he has sown, in the full biblical sense.

No, it's not GW's fault that a hurricane struck New Orleans. But it is his fault that preparations to deal with this inevitability were put on hold on his watch, in favor of tax cuts favoring wealthy people and a war that he started under dubious pretense, which has balooned into hundreds of billions of dollars of drain on the US infrastructure.