Write NOLA.com what you think about Rockey. Link here

[uppityperson]

http://www.nola.com/mailforms/standard/rockey_doc.ssf?OneMansJourney

[watercolors]

1. Tried to send letter, won't accept!

covered all fields required

[uppityperson]

3. hmm, worked for me. Did you check the little box @ bottom?

please let me know if you did and I'll check into it further. Perhaps you need to go to nola.com and click on the link from there. Part way down under "rockey's journey" or some such bs, there is a "tell us what you think" sort of link. Thanks for trying.

[uppityperson]

2. dupe, sorry

[magellan]

4. Sent mine, thanks! (nt)

[pitohui]

5. why give him more publicity?

we have nothing to gain by directing further attention toward this ass-kisser, publicity is what he seeks

[uppityperson]

8. Because I want to have my thoughts heard.

He has enough publicity, but until people speak out and point out the hypocrisy, it is all positive publicity. I want to be heard. Same reason I write letters to the editor about varied things.

[pitohui]

9. fair enough but

in my case i don't think having my thoughts heard is so important as to justify giving this person more publicity

i'm sorry to say that i simply don't see the upside

the best that can happen is that my thoughts are heard and quickly forgotten, the worst that can happen is that a controversy is created giving this person more attention and he gains his goal of many years of becoming a political force because suddenly he is a name

my every thought doesn't need to be heard at such a cost to society

when i write my letters, i want them to be focused and i want them to have at least a chance of gaining a positive outcome

giving further publicity to this guy may make you feel good but all you are doing is making a hero of him

my opinion of it anyway

[uppityperson]

10. I can see that, just feel different.

not sure what "such a cost to society" this is, but whatever. We are different people, doing different things, working towards making the world better in different ways. :toast:

[pitohui]

12. i feel this guy is going to make publicity out of this

he has apparently run (unsuccessfully) for public office in the past, i don't want to get his name out there and give him any momentum

hence i have stopped referring to him by name

my own stupid protest, probably useless i suppose

[uppityperson]

13. that thought makes my lip lift

you may be right about this, name recognition, support by family, good republican. Thanks for the thought.

[Atman]

6. Here's mine...

"How many times does the American public have to be subjected to these absurd theatrics from the people at BushCo? If they'd spend half the time actually governing as they do PRETENDING to govern, something might actually get accomplished in this administration. Oh, wait...who am I kidding?

I don't hold any of this against BushCo; pathological lying is their entire excuse for a "foreign policy." But Rockey...you should be ashamed of yourself. Get some self esteem, man. Whoring yourself out for this group will not get you a special place in line at the pearly gates, regardless of what the right-wing extremists tell you!"

[DrDan]

7. worked for me

[Neecy]

11. interesting....

NOLA.com has allowed Rocky to blog on their site, and there are a few responses from wingers - and one in particular tells you all you need to know about what brought about this little photo op:

"...If Ray Nagin and Kathleen Blanco replaced their mouth with a hammer and nail it could get done a lot faster and Spike Lee* as well. Hammer and nail speaks volumes not blaming anyone for an act of Mother Nature."

*emphasis mine.

Interesting how this winger attributes the incompetence of the Corps of Engineers to 'mother nature'.

There are a couple of positive comments on that blog - just a couple - that sound like they were frantically typed out by young interns at the RNC. Gotta get maximum milage out of this sham, y'know.


http://www.nola.com/katrina/journey/

[uppityperson]

14. I get tired of people saying the Katrina/levee disaster was nature.

Yes, hurricane Katrina was mother nature (leaving side global warming), but the RESPONSE ALL OVER and the flooding from the levees in New Orleans, that was in no way mother nature.