Subj : Re: Mayor Nagin
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 16:55:06

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Nick wrote:
> 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%20Na
>>>> g 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.
> 

That is quite an interview.  It's all true too.

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