Subj : Re: Mayor Nagin
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 16:51:07

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

John Iwaniszek wrote:

> Nick wrote:
> 
>> John Iwaniszek wrote:
>> 
>>> If you listen to NPR, you probablly heard an out of context clip of
>>> this interview:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://www.zen41771.zen.co.uk.nyud.net:8090/WWL-AM%20Interview%20Nag
>>> in .mp3 
>> 
>> I pulled this from another story.
>> 
>> "In an interview Friday on NBC's 'Today,' Federal Emergency
>> Management Agency director Michael Brown stood behind the massive
>> federal relief effort that's under way."
>> 
>> 'I understand the mayor's frustration. ... We have been having a 
>> continuous flow of commodities into the Superdome, there were five
>> trucks arriving last night to feed well over 50,000 people.'"
>> 
>> He knows the people are no longer in the Superdome, right?
>> 
> 
> He has more important priorities than Emergency Mangement.  He has to
> get the message out:
> 
> "Director Brown, thanks for joining us. As things stand, what is your
> biggest challenge tonight as we speak?
> 
> Mr. MICHAEL BROWN (Federal Emergency Management Agency Director):
> Stone, I think it's conveying to the American public just how
> catastrophic this disaster is."

Interesting part at the 9 minute mark where the mayor is talking about how 
a lot of the looting of hospitals and stuff is probably being done by drug 
addicts who can't get a fix.

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