Hey Kanye - these folks didn't get your memo!
ABC News producers probably didn't hear what they expected when they sent Dean Reynolds to the Houston Astrodome's parking lot to get reaction to President Bush's speech from black evacuees from New Orleans. Instead of denouncing Bush and blaming him for their plight, they praised Bush and blamed local officials. Reynolds asked Connie London: "Did you harbor any anger toward the President because of the slow federal response?" She rejected the premise: "No, none whatsoever, because I feel like our city and our state government should have been there before the federal government was called in.” She pointed out: “They had RTA buses, Greyhound buses, school buses, that was just sitting there going under water when they could have been evacuating people."[H/T doubleplusgood infotainment] Posted by Chris at September 16, 2005 12:21 PM
Not one of the six people interviewed on camera had a bad word for Bush -- despite Reynolds' best efforts.
If it was not clear enough before Kanye's outlash that the president is a racist, perhaps Farakhan's allegations that white people intentionally blew up the levees so that black people would suffer would lend it some credence. When will the veil of racial profiling ever be lifted from the face of our great nation?
Posted by: Antonio Mendez at September 20, 2005 07:55 PM