Remember how thousands of poor people were dying under the bridges as the hysterical Shepard Smith and Anderson Cooper were reporting live during the Katrina aftermath in New Orleans? Remember how Kanye West spouted out the LibDem talking points during a television tribute concert declaring, “George Bush hates black people!” ?
Well, as has been the case in the Katrina situation and most other major events that the MSM has covered lately… the pre-event assumptions of the liberal reporters and editors have been crushed by the facts yet again.
In fact, we now know that George Bush must hate OLD people!
Katrina affected elderly the most; Analysis: Assumptions on victims were incorrect – Knight Ridder
Four months after Hurricane Katrina, analyses of data suggest that some widely reported assumptions about the storm’s victims were incorrect.
For example, a comparison of locations where 874 bodies were recovered with U.S. census tract data indicates that the victims weren’t disproportionately poor. Another database of 486 Katrina victims from Orleans and St. Bernard parishes, compiled by Knight Ridder, suggests they also weren’t disproportionately African American.
Both sets of data are incomplete; Louisiana state officials have released no comprehensive list of the dead. Still, they provide the most comprehensive information available to date about who paid the ultimate price in the storm.
The one group that was disproportionately affected by the storm appears to have been older adults. People 60 and older account for only about 15 percent of the population in the New Orleans area, but the Knight Ridder database found that 74 percent of the dead were 60 or older. Nearly half were older than 75. Many of those were at nursing homes and hospitals, where nearly 20 percent of the victims were recovered.
Now that is just shocking! After all, the elderly are never warned when a cold snap or heat wave comes. And they are never a special risk group when the flu breaks out. Come on…. we all know that the elderly are always disproportionately impacted by a disaster. You don’t need to be a rocket scientist… or a New York Times reporter…. to figure that out.
Fact is we need more objective journalists in positions of power at the TV networks and our major papers. Their biases are clouding their judgements and creating “fact” in the minds of the American public that are outright lies.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
So, how many dead old people is that really? I’m curious to know how many Hurricane Katrinas we would need to kill as many old people as one moderate french heat wave.
A lot of what the MSM reported in the early days of the disaster is now being exposed as untrue. The stats on the dead here in Louisiana has been available online for weeks at the state’s Department of Health and Hospitals web site. The most recent report is here. Yes, old people naturally were the most unable to survive the hurricane and the flooding it brought. And as far as all racism and classism, forget that. Hurricane Katrina was neither a member of the Klan nor the Black Panthers. Nature is indifferent. Unless and until New Orleans gets real hurricane protection, there’s no reason to even think people will come back and rebuild. Another hurricane will smack us again, you can count on it. We had better be ready.
Peace,
Tim
#2
True. But the fact is that you can’t conduct race baiting and incite a class war if you look at the truth.
The left doesn’t give a damn about the truth. They don’t care about the victims either. All they give two shits about is how it benefits them and, within the past 5 years, how they can bash Bush. Liberals don’t give a DAMN about the truth. Evidence of this can be found in their orgasms over the Jersy Girls, Dan Rather, Rep. Murtha, Cindy Shehan etc. Screw the monumental failures of the liberals, just focus on the self-serving Bush bash.
I’m inclined to believe that reporters are indeed biased. However I have to consider two other possibilities. 1) Reporters may simply have huge egos and ambitions and are willing to report any sensationalistic story that they can muster just to get attention and advance their careers. 2) Reporters may simply be dumb as dirt and lack the intelligence to report any story in a clear, informative and responsible way.
Obviously none of these possibilities reflects well on journalists/reporters who are almost entirely left leaning.
#4
The thing is, the reporters were clamoring to be the first to report on the story and fact tends to get in the way.
So I guess Brownie DID do a heckuva job!
#6
Considering FEMA had USAR teams in LA while the storm was still trashing MS & AL (yes, Katrina hit those states too), yes he did.
If you’ll recall, it was the Times Picayune who first bashed Bush for commending Brown. Their smear was based on reports of multiple murders & rapes at the Super Dome and the Convention Center, which of course, never happened.
Then there was Hitlery who lamented that James Witt, who took 3 weeks to respond to hurricane Floyd, wasn’t in charge anymore.
LOL….I did think the way the whole “murders and rapes” thing vanished was interesting, but it was completely explainable……the liberal lines of Bush leaving angelic, innocent black folks to die blew up in a hurry if it was revealed that those same black folks were raping, looting, and murdering each other.
I think the misinformation is attributable as much to the fact that the media is lazy and with 24/7 news coverage they want to be the first to report the sensational/tabloidesque story, rather than take the time to actually check the facts.
The media is also notoriously lazy about correcting its mistakes.
Dave in #4
I’d like to add a fourth explanation for the reporting. Reporters are human. If I were a reporter in that desperate situation, I probably would have reacted the same way. Sensationalizing the sensantional seems like an obvious human response. They were there. They saw it, heard it and smelled it (even if they didn’t know it for a fact).
My problem with the media is their automatic blame of the federal government. I don’t count on any bloated bureaucracy to do anything well. It takes me two hours to get a driver’s license. Why should I count on them to rescue me in a timely fashion? The disastrous mess in New Orleans is the result of an electorate thinking that government will solve all of its problems, no matter how bad.
Of coarse GW hate old people. They vote Democrat. That’s also why he hates dead people even more!
If FEMA screwed the pooch at all, it was for paying too much attention to rumors reported by the glorious lapdogs of the DNC that is the MSM.
Much to people’s surprise, rescuers have to put their lives ahead of others, otherwise they won’t do a damn bit of good to those needing rescuing.
Another thing that astounded me was the constant whining that the rescuers weren’t handling the dead first.
These statistics are interesting. However, I am immensely suspicious of them. Even if George Bush doesn’t hate poor people, one would expect they would be more likely to die because it would be more difficult for them to get out of town. Possible explanation for why they are underrepresented in the fatality figures I would venture: 1. housing projects are taller than the flood waters so people weren’t trapped as their buildings went underwater; 2. the several thousand missing persons are precisely ‘missing’ because the carcasses retrieved are overwhelmingly those in the better neighborhoods. Moreover, fatalities are not the only measure of impact of Katrina and the federal authorities handling thereof – it is possible (and I don’t have the statistics – indeed, I’m not sure there are any, as yet) that blacks/poor people have born the brunt of deposession and relocation.
it is possible (and I don’t have the statistics – indeed, I’m not sure there are any, as yet) that blacks/poor people have born the brunt of deposession and relocation.
Why, because the liberals and shakedown hucksters like the Revrnnnnd Jacksonnnnn and Calypso Louis told you so?
Why do you refuse to believe that, quite possibly, the “poor blacks” didn’t far as bad as what you’re supposed to believe? We’ve already found out that the majority of the dead were, in fact, white. We already know that a hell of a lot of “poor blacks” were able to get out before the storm hit.
Isn’t it entirely possible that many of those who died chose to stay behind and paid the price for that decision? Year after year, storm after storm, there’s still a lot of coastal people who chose to stay behind. They see the size of the storm and it’s power after hitting other places and they still think they can survive it. Heck, the main thing I learned in a Skywarn class not long ago, there’s still folks who think you’re supposed to open windows for a tornado or even that they’re attracted to mobile homes.
#13
Possible explanation for why they are underrepresented in the fatality figures I would venture: 1. housing projects are taller than the flood waters so people weren’t trapped as their buildings went underwater
Thank God for the US government housing poor people in overcrowded, crime ridden high rises.
2. the several thousand missing persons are precisely ‘missing’ because the carcasses retrieved are overwhelmingly those in the better neighborhoods
I guess poor dead people don’t stink as much as rich dead people and are somehow overlooked.
Never test the depth of the water with both feet. just my 2c…
Thank you!