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In reply to the discussion: DUers post the thing about post Katrina that shocked you the most [View all]Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)1. Not sending the National Guard in with supplies because of rumors of "snipers shooting at rescue workers." Hello, the National Guard? The rumors turned out to be false--the shooters were signalling for help.
2. The righties who blamed the stranded residents of New Orleans for breaking into stores for food and water (which was going to spoil anyway). I remember seeing footage of a young mother giving her baby a drink from a bottle of orange juice. What was she supposed to do, let her baby die of dehydration?
3. Turning down offers of help from Cuba and other countries
4. The faked footage of Bush visiting the stricken areas--the supposed Mississippi girls who were actually flown in for the photo opp. Some African-American DUers spotted something a white person wouldn't have noticed, that the girls had hairstyles that required hot water for styling, when the news reports were telling us that there was no water or electric power or any other kind of utilities available.
5. What I believe to have been green screen footage of Bush supposedly visiting an evacuation center. Now some of you may remember that when Oprah Winfrey walked into one of the evacuation centers, the whole place erupted in cheers.
Now the footage I saw had Bush and a couple of official looking types supposedly standing in a school gym that was being used as a refuge. People are walking back and forth nonchalantly in the background.
Uh, what? The pResident is in the building and you just walk around like nothing in particular is going on? You'd think that the people would react SOMEHOW, cheers from some, jeers from others.
Green screen, I'm pretty sure.