This from Joe Scarbourgh...?

[katty]

"If they tell you they didn't know, if they tell you they didn't realize, if they tell you they could not foresee, if they tell you they have sent help; don't believe them and they do not deserve to be called leaders. Remember that."

Joe Scarbourgh, reporting from Mississippi.

[BlueJac]

1. How true!

[stray cat]

2. Joe is occasionally right on

[Olney Blue]

3. Joe's coverage of this disaster has been surprisingly aggressive.

[Wind Dancer]

4. Disgusting!

Scarbourgh is full of shit.

More from an earlier entry on his blog:

>snip<

Secondly, the first responders in any hurricane are local and state officials. When Florida was struck by four hurricanes last year, Governor Jeb Bush was nothing short of spectacular. Louisiana Governor Blanco was breathtakingly clueless as were other Louisiana officials. The deaths of many lay on their doorsteps.

>snip<

One state over, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour continues to claim that Katrina caught him by surprise, telling one reporter that it was after all a cat one storm after crossing Florida. That useless fact doesn't erase the fact that the entire Gulf Coast was put on alert as early as Friday that this storm would be historic.

If Barbour thought Katrina would be little more than a category one storm, then he is not to be trusted organizing his sock drawer — let alone the most tragic natural disaster to ever hit his state.

As for those politicians hell-bent on claiming all went well over the past week, don't waste your breath. People died in New Orleans because of incompetence. Not because of racism, or poverty, or any other social ill. They died because the political leaders we elected were not up to the task of protecting the innocent from the most savage among us and from dehydration, starvation and heat exhaustion. Deaths, that I learned from the Terri Schiavo death-watch, are most painful to endure.


The man has no shame.

[jjanpundt]

5. I only watch him occasionally but it seems to me

that his coverage of the Katrina disaster is confused. Aggressive and combative one minute demanding that the feds be held accountable and then a few sentences later blaming the local people. Last night he brought up the point that FEMA did ok in Florida but then noted that it was an election year and shrub's brother was the governor. I can't figure out which side of the fence he's leaning toward.

[klyon]

6. plenty went wrong, plenty of errors to go around

time for some straight talk and some answers

Better plans are needed, I'm tired of poor plans and nonthinking leaders. Where is the leadership? Just shows how important it is to strive to have sharp people running government not just someone you might want to have a beer or a chat. Leaders must have vision not just a smile and hollow words. Compassionate?

KL

[Skittles]

7. well let me assist: Scarborough (R-Dead Intern) is a f***ing repug whore

if he's sounding the least bit rational he must be trying to run for something

[I Have A Dream]

8. Good point! n/t