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Jack is kick-ass.
September 1st, 2005 at 5:41 pmAll CNN commentators are finally showing some balls-including some of the gals-NOT Daryn Kagan, though.
September 1st, 2005 at 5:41 pmCafferty was great!!
He hasn’t always been kick ass. He tried being a Rush clone for a while.
September 1st, 2005 at 5:47 pmI’ll give credit for this. He was getting elevated the longer he spoke.
Right now on CNN theyr’e talking with a guy who is in the NO convention Center and people are laying down and dying…
Cafferty was great as are the reporters in the field. Even most of the studio anchors are finally getting it.
September 1st, 2005 at 5:53 pmI sometimes don’t agree with Cafferty, but he was kick-ass today – and rightly so. Blitzer can ask the most inane questions — how did he ever get to his level at CNN?
September 1st, 2005 at 5:53 pmWow! Jack kicked ass on this one.
Where are the services that our taxpayers have paid for. The “race card” is being played in full view of the world. The BushCo response is pitiful!
Impeach Bush. NOW!
September 1st, 2005 at 5:54 pmWolf “Breathless” Blitzer is absolutely worthless. No idea how he got this high up in CNN, unless he is the one willing to work for peanuts. He asks the most stupid, idiotic questions that ramble on and on so long that the person being interviewed tends to forget what the subject is.
Cafferty has been giving them hell. On a later Caffertyfile he went to work on the senate and house memebers who came back on a Sunday night to vote on the Schiavo matter, but wont be able to make into Washington until tomorrow. Go get em Jack.
September 1st, 2005 at 6:19 pmI would give Blitzer’s job to Jack, for sure.
September 1st, 2005 at 6:31 pmEveryone remember that the Congress hastened back to chambers in the middle of the night to vote on the Terri Schiavo case? So did Bush give up a vacation day for the same purpose?
September 1st, 2005 at 8:34 pmPriorities vs. politics.
There is something going on. Bolten’s performance at the UN is raising some very serious hackles, it is a storm brewing, ready to explode.
Bush is acting way to bizarre to explain, and it is becoming patently obvious to everyone (US and whole world), very rapidly, that the admin is self destructing. Okay, that is my sleep deprived impression!
Back to topic, Cafferty’s point about the economic niche of the ‘abandoned’, and his simmering outrage, coupled with the leading role Cindy Sheehan has taken, could be a catylyst for an avalanche of reprisal.
It still seems curious to me how nonchalant and audacious the admin continues to be. Indeed, their contempt for common decency is becoming so increasingly brazen that I wonder if the end is near, or if the Nukes are getting tuned up.
I also consider that the time has come to sacrifice someone very heavy to take the fall. Gut feeling, though it would seem impossible to believe, is that Rove, Cheney, and the like are going to make the self preserving move to actually … No, I hardly can think that possible, however it would be in character.
I am worried, and admittedly getting hysterical over the thought that nothing is beyond anyone in the crowd. Assasination, or worse ….? Mass indictments?
Am I loony for thinking and feeling this way right now?
September 2nd, 2005 at 4:43 amI am so appalled at how we have been dragging our feet to help the poor people left in New Orleans. Bush proves once again that he is may be the president but he is no leader.
September 2nd, 2005 at 9:22 amWhat can you do about Katrina? Get off your butt and take in a refugee. I have a small house and little money but have volunteered to take in one woman, all that I can do. For the long-term because this is not a situation that people can bounce back from in a couple of weeks.
September 2nd, 2005 at 4:22 pmDon’t just throw a few bucks at this problem. Get out of your comfort zone and really make a difference.
Jack
“Let them eat cake”-is the flippant quote that I feel best describes the president’s attitude to the devastation in the Gulf Coast.
September 3rd, 2005 at 10:38 amYou have renewed my faith in the press. Thank you for your rightous anger. Thank you for your compassion and honesty. For so long i have felt that our news media has been controlled/deeply influenced by what our government wants us to know vs truth. As I watched the horror unfold, my anger began to grow when I saw only african/american being left behind. I literally jumped from my seat and said “tHANK YOU” When you (alone) stood up for them.
SAY WHAT ANYONE WANTS…….IT’S SOLELY…TOTALLY BEEN THE MEDIA…THE LIKES OF CAFFERTY’S, BILTZER’S, MILES, RIVERIA, ETC., AND THE UNITIING NUMBERS OF REPORTERS/PRODUCERS WHO HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET THE WHEN/WHERE INFO TO THE “OTHERS”, WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN “THE MOST SIGNIFICANT REPRESENTATIVES OF THIS NATION”…….IT HAS BEEN THE MEDIA WHO HAVE GONE IN TO THIS DISASTER AND HAVE EVENTYALLY “FORCED” & DIRECTED TO WHERE AND WHEN THE MOST CRITICAL NEEDS HAVE BEEN DETERMINED……….THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO NOT ONLY PLEAD THE BAREST NEEDS, BUT INDENTIFY & GET OUR MOST VALUED RESOURCES TO WHERE THEY SHOULD BE APPROPRIATELY APPLIED…..IT HAS BEEN THESE “TRULY BRAVEST OF MEN AND WOMEN” WHO HAVE BATTLED THE MOST HORRIFIC ODDS…… TO ATTEMPT TO REPRESENT & EXPRESS THE DIREST NEEDS OF THE MOST FRAGILE AMOUNG ALL HUMANITY INVOLVED! MAY GOD BLESS THEM AND THOSE CIVIL & MILITARY MEMBERS WHO HAVE WORKED BEYOND ANY HUMAN EXPECTATION TO SERVE THE MOST VUNERABLE AMERICANS………WHO COULD HAVE IMAGINED THAT THOSE MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA, WHO “DID NOT” PATRICIPATE IN OUR COSTLY UNITED STATES PREPARATION FOR “MOCK TRAINIING EXCERCISE PROGRAMS”, YOU KNOW, WHERE THE INFINITE ACCOLADES OF “GREAT JOB”, WITH LITTLE/NO $$$$ ACCOUNTABILITY, THE REAL HEROS WOULD BE THOSE WHO ARE SO READILY “REFERRED TO”…. AS “BIASED FREAKS”….WHO ALONE HAVE PERSONALLY INFORMED AMERICA & THE WORLD…..MINUTE TO MINUTE…..RESULTING IN FINALLY GETTING SOMETHING DONE!
September 3rd, 2005 at 11:42 amKudos to Cafferty and the rest of the media! If not for them driving this story, God only knows what the fate of those poor AMERICAN CITIZENS (not REFUGEES)would have been. I have nothing but praise for all of them (even FOX – especially Geraldo and Shepard Smith). Bless them all!
September 3rd, 2005 at 10:15 pmDear Sir:
September 4th, 2005 at 11:06 amI am annoyed with the attitude of defensiveness displayed by Micheal Chertoff and the Director of FEMA. They must be held responsible for the completely unacceptable response to this tragedy. Now that the President and Congress have been GRACIOUS enough to return from holiday during this NATIONAL EMERGENCY, perhaps a formal investigation into what went wrong will happen. It will, however, only mean something if this horrible lack of planning/anticipation/preparation NEVER happens again. Perhaps I am snotty or arrogant. But I believe ours to be the greatest nation on earth. I am appalled that so many who didn’t have to, have suffered and died. You sir, verbalize things quite elegantly while still remaining plain spoken. Please relay my sentiments if you will. Perhaps others will begin to call for the same.
The press should stop dramatizing the seriousness of what is really going on. As a hurricane survivor{HUGO} This tragity brings back the horror that took me 12 years to forget. The shirt on my back, doesn’t seem so important anymore. DONATE AMERICA
September 4th, 2005 at 10:56 pmThe president arrived Mon.on a 747 for his “Photo Op” but I did not see any supplies being unloaded. You would think a plane this large could have brought a lot of stuff to help those poor people.
September 5th, 2005 at 8:00 pmthe availability of cnn and other 24hour new media allows us to see the devastation such as katrina uncomfortably upclose and tragically personal,
i wonder what the devastation of nagasaki and hiroshima looked like after the nuclear bombs were dropped, too bad cnn was not in existence back then.
hope the entire world sees what a typical man-made or natural disasters do to humanity ..it brings us together,.
interesting katrina happened just as the world was mourning that man made disaster in japan,
September 6th, 2005 at 4:04 amTHE PRESIDENT DOESN’T NEED AN INVESTIGATION, HE ONLY NEEDS TO LOOK INTO THE MIRROR TO FIND OUT WHAT WENT WRONG. AGAIN, HE BLEW A CHANCE TO AT LEAST APPEAR AS THOUGH HE CARES.AS FOR BEING A “COMPASSIONATE MAN”, HE IS NEITHER. THAT IS SO APPARENT.
September 6th, 2005 at 3:19 pmShould Congress investigate itself about the dismal Katrina response? Absolutely not. Who voted for a budget wherein the Army Corps budget to reinforce the NOLA levees was reduced to nothing? Who approved of the transfer of funds to Iraq? And which of the Republican power structure will acknowledge the the Commander in Chief was ultimately responsible for taking control of the situation? Any congressional investigation will be a spin dry for this country.
September 6th, 2005 at 3:20 pmBush finally got off of his month long vacation—-to FLY?? over the Katrina disaster. Condi Rice shows up in Alabama and then goes to New York to buy thousands of dollars worth of expensive shoes……DICK Chaney finally gets off of his ranch because he is busy buying 2.9 Million waterfront Maryland estate.And he’s supposed to show up on Thursday—10 days AFTER THE HURRICANE DISASTER…….WHAT IN THE HELL KINDA OF GOVERNMENT LEADERS DO THEY CALL THEMSELVES?
AND AS USUAL THEY ARE TRYING TO PUT THE BLAME FOR INCOMPETANCE ON EVERYONE BUT THEMSELVES—–WHATEVER HAPPEN TO “THE BUCK STOPS HERE” OR I AM SORRY I REALLY SCREWED UP!!!!!!
September 6th, 2005 at 3:22 pmDoes anyone remember the night of the storm when the mayor and governor gave a simultaneous sign of relief because Katrina moved east? The blame for the late response goes to them for an early assessment. The blame for the flood itself goes to the US Army Corp of Engineers who engineered levees to withstand cat 3 storms and which failed in a max cat 2 backlash of Katrina from the North. If a cat 5 storm had hit New Orleans, there would not be a roof to stand on in the flooded area.
September 6th, 2005 at 3:24 pmI think there should be a seperate investigation on the hurricane matter..i myself admit i didnt think it was bad until i watched hour after hour…then tears after tears I couldnt understand..i dont think flying over a raped city after a five week vacation should have been the first response from the gov.The second hand they should have made the evacuation a must…bush was way to lapsed in this he should look at his yes men and himself…he has been hiding on every issue from iraq to the fallen soldiers’ mom to this when the sky is falling chicken little hides his head.
September 6th, 2005 at 3:26 pmThe alibi administration will of course have to have an independant investigation of the responose to Katrina. They have no ability to tell the truth. Their only response is to never let the buck stop here. If there is any hope of finding out the pathetic truth, the investigation will have to be done by an independant group. There has never been a more “it ain’t my fault” administration than the Bush administration.
September 6th, 2005 at 3:26 pmJack: I agree that an independent commission should investigate the Bush administration’s lackluster response to Hurricane Katrina. Bush and his minions are great at making excuses but very bad at taking responsibility for their actions. Let’s take care of the living then then hold independent hearings to fix the blame and fix the problem. By the way, why not accept offers of aid and personnel from other countries like Cuba and Venezuela? They seem to be better prepared than our own FEMA.
September 6th, 2005 at 3:29 pmThey are not refugees they are Americans just poor American please stop using that term America. Do we call hurricane victims of Florida refugees No! please stop!!!!!
September 6th, 2005 at 3:30 pmAttention to prevention by Local Officials and Agencies in Lousiana was the key here. Our federal government has made a tremendous and totally adequate response to the disaster.
September 6th, 2005 at 3:33 pmGod Bless America and our President Bush.
Jack, It should be investigated, the people who dropped the ball should be fired. But, I’m afraid any investigation from this administration will never amount to much. Afterall wasn’t a investigation on who leaked the CIA agents identity also done with no answers or punishment doled out?
September 6th, 2005 at 3:38 pmYES! thank you jack for staying with this and saying what many of us aren’t heard about…the President is going to lead an investigation into what went wrong with the Katrina response? GIVE ME A BREAK!!! the man wouldn’t know culpability if it bit him in the ass. and even now he’s getting an ass-kicking amongst the people of this country and he still thinks it’s o.k. to be seen on TV glad-handing his buddies and ignoring the crisis while he makes his appearance “to deal with the crisis.” remember, this is the man who was reading about a goat while the WTC was being destroyed…maybe WE’RE THE IDIOTS for thinking his responses would have improved any over these last 6 years. what’s that thing about insanity and a brick wall??? hmmmmmm.
September 6th, 2005 at 3:44 pmby the way, i also love how dick cheney feels it’s most important to hold a press conference to explain how they we SO PREPARED ahead of time and responded in a timely fashion to the crisis, yet when he’s asked to provide a timeline of preparations, he chokes…
We need an INDEPENDENT investigation of the incompetent handling of this disaster. Everybody is just passing the buck. Heads should roll, all the way to the top. They are STILL mishandling … i.e. the offers of help from other countries. Who is in charge here?? Looks like the Keystone Cops!
September 6th, 2005 at 3:51 pmI think it is time people took a class in U S Government. It in NOT up to the federal govt to help Louisana do anything until they ask! First it is the city responsibility, then the state’s and then the state has to ask for federal help. NEVER has the DOD been asked to pluck people out of hurrican waters.
September 6th, 2005 at 4:28 pmI live in Oklahoma City and we took care of us when our city was bombed. We had thousands of volunteers come from other states and cleaned it up ourselves.
On 9/11 thousands of volunteers helped clean up
The DOD was NOT called in to help then and I think Pres Bush was doing his part when he called in the
DOD to help clean up after the hurricane.
I think you should stop downing the federal govt. and be glad you live in a country that has freedom of speech.
New Orleans will be rebuilt, because of it’s startigic location, and nostalgic history. However, a new mindset needs to come forth. Global warming is changing the Earth. This tragedy was very predicable. Ignorance to the fact that our world is changing at a catastrophic rate will be very costly. New Orleans was extreemly vulnerable, and still is. So, we can remain ingnorant of the changing world around us, or we can open our eyes, accept climate change, etc. and adapt. At New Orleans, that would mean rebuilding in a way that is not so vulnerable to hurricaines, and floods. James Kimmel
September 6th, 2005 at 4:30 pmWhy are you giving the presidents mom crap???? News here in so. cal most of the people transfered here say they are not going back. And blame the mayor. There is a bigger story here like years of welfair and people need the goverment for all there needs. This is a man made problem when people cant get out of town with 3 days notice boarders retardation !!!!!!! Kevin , Pismo Beach
September 6th, 2005 at 4:37 pmFIRE THAT IDIOT BROWN AND WHY DID THEY BRING OUT THE OTHER FOOL DICK CHENY
September 6th, 2005 at 5:15 pmNo Brown should not resign, he should be fired.
September 6th, 2005 at 5:19 pmCan’t wait for Cheney to show up at ground zero on Burboun street, to have his photo op and see Carl Rove sulking in the background to ascertain how to make political hay out of this horrible situation. Give ‘em hell Jack.
Not only should Micheal Brown be fired, but the person(s) responsible for his employment should also be fired and ordered to volunteer for FEMA!
September 6th, 2005 at 5:37 pmI am just disgusted with our government and our commander President Bush. How dare he say he is on top of the stuation. The people begged for HELP long before Bush got off his “HIGH Horse” and did something. As for Bush not knowing the magnitude of this crisis, is just Pathetic to hear from him. The Republican Party is in DEEP Trouble and the suffering that those suffered AFTER Katrina hit will NEVER be forgotten. Bush and his many Rich Folks think they can talk their way out of this by blaming those in Loisiana, but as the old adage goes: “YOU can fool some of the people some of the time, BUT YOU can’t fool all of the people ALL of the time”!I am ashamed to say I am a voter, but not ashamed to say I did not vote for this man who is a false Prophet and who loves all the PHOTO Shots of him hugging the victims of Katrina.Why are the religious people so quiet now, when before they were so outspoken about their Pres. Bush before. GOD Help Us All.Race was and still is a great factor in this crisis and so is how much money you have.
September 6th, 2005 at 5:38 pmLinda in Ohio
Jack,
September 6th, 2005 at 6:32 pmI think everyone in the US should send New Orleans one pound of dirt, or perhaps a good sized rock. After they doze all the junk and ruined structures into piles against the levies, they should crush the pile and spread the earth of America on the top. In this way the levies could be extended upward while dramatically increasing their thickness…to about 2 blocks I should think. This would clean the place up and add security it against future catastrophies. With a tree here and there, a bicycle trail, maybe some tennis courts or putting greens, we could build a part around New Orleans.
I am sick of those from other countries bashing us. Did we make mistakes? Sure, but we are still able to handle any crisis and come out of it better. When 9/11 happened there were all kinds of predictions saying our economy would be ruined and we would collapse. It didn’t happen. The outpouring of money, goods and shelter shows that all of us care (even our politicians) Also anyone who wants to divide us on the race issue should look at the helicopter squads who took person after person off of the roofs of New Orleans.
September 7th, 2005 at 4:16 pmMr. Cafferty,
September 7th, 2005 at 4:38 pmI am impressed by the mass media coverage lately by the American press of Hurricane Katrina. It is about time that I can watch a news program that is impartial, reporting facts (and opinions) of the government and the people. George Bush’s response to this disaster confirms the sentiment that came from his on words. He is only concerned about.. “the have’s and the have more’s..”
Mr. Bush”s presidential legacy is floating around in the fetid waters of New Orleans.
September 7th, 2005 at 5:19 pmJack,
September 7th, 2005 at 5:39 pmI agree with all the previous comments, you have kicked ass and told it, as it is. All the CNN reporters have done a great job. It was refreshing to see their emotions come out and who can blame them, seeing what they saw.
Bush again has failed this nation, he and his NeoCon cohorts all deserve to be fired, along with Jack Brown of FEMA.
How far has this agency fallen, since the Clinton era.
I’m not referring to those agency workers, who do a fantastic job, but leadership is sorely missing. I suppose, he is just following the lack of leadership at the National level.
I too, wonder why all those religious right followers of Bush, who bought his bull, prior to his election. It’s too easy to say that this was an act of God and no one could forsee it. Any idiot, reading the newspapers, or watching the Discovery Channel, was aware of this. Including the Federal Government. This was no surprise.
Time to impeach Bush and all his lackies.
Harry Truman told us where the buck stops. Pres. Bush must take full responsibility for staying on the ranch, merely flying-over two days later, uttering inane platitudes on Friday, saying he will investigate his own responses, and showing an appaling lack of leadership. You and the media must stay on this as well as voicing your own opinions–we are bright enough to know who is telling the truth!
September 7th, 2005 at 5:47 pmJack
September 7th, 2005 at 5:49 pmBush’s 2nd term legacy is floating on water in New Orleans, and I hope it will float him back to Crawford!
He’s the sorriest excuse of a president I’ve ever seen.
My Goodness! This site is crawling with hateful democrats. But I think ALL levels of government are responsible for their own State’s disaster plan. When things get tough, it’s easy to pass the buck and point fingers at someone else…the Mayor is responsible and so is governers of each State. And I thought everyone would be working together during a disaster, but no, someone still want to keep this country divided. What a damn shame! ginnya
September 7th, 2005 at 6:00 pmI get outraged when I here about the energy company donating millions of dollars to New Orleans for the relief. They need to put that money in a general fund and reduce the gas prices in 1/2 and when that fund is gone, they can raise prices to the market levels. Also, I hope there are no superbowl commericals from energy companys.
Also, I dont think Race was a issue. I didn’t see other African-American from around that area that wasn’t affected by the flood waters coming to the rescue to help there own people. I think everybody is pointing fingers and I think we all should foot some of the blame, some more then others.
September 7th, 2005 at 7:07 pmLet us not forget the State and City Democrats who have wasted billions of tax dollars that were supposed to go towards fixing the levee problems. Wonder where all that money went? They could have used it to evacuate the people who needed to get out. Maybe a “Blue Ribbon Panel” should investigate that mayor and govenor.
September 8th, 2005 at 3:23 pmIf the President can run the country from his home in Texas, let him. He can let the flood victoms live at the White House. He can stay home and work/vacation till the end of his term and will not have to worry how they vote in the upcomming election.
September 8th, 2005 at 4:10 pmmike
Jack–Comments and remarks from CNN exposing the ineptness and incompetence of this administration are singularly noteworthy in the recognition of the failure and unwillingness of the media to astutely analyze and assess the failures of the Bush regime since he took office. America needs a loyal opposition and a critical eye in order to control the excesses of government. This has been absent in the affairs of state since January, 2001.
September 8th, 2005 at 4:43 pmJack
September 8th, 2005 at 5:53 pmI was wondering how long it would take for cheney/halaburton to be awarded the rebuilding contract`s in new orleans only to find that has already been taken care of.they were awarded the contract`s in july for any damage that the militery bases might suffer in the event of a storm,talk about your planning.cheney/haliburton was the first to receive any money related to the storm by being put under contract “just in case”.
dennis
Mr. Cafferty,
I truly believe you have a level head about you and your comments made on your show. I sincerely hope that you as a reporter and a man of intelligence will please make note of what I am going to say. I don’t care to be named myself. I just truly wish these points I will hit are made public.
1. There are no degrees of computer modeling or planning that can even approach what has happened in the Gulf. Are we so arrogant as a nation as to believe that we should be able to just wave a magicaly projection wand and know what truly can be dished out be mother nature?
2. This event will be used by Democrates as excuses to create more beauracracy, and to create a paper shield over the US. In the liberal eyes, through money at it and any thing can be prevented.
3. I am sick and tired of the comments about failures to respond and the such. What do people expect? I don’t remember magic wands being issued to the government, both federal and state. Look at what happened. NO one could have even come close to guessing the magnitude of this disaster.
4. I hear a lot of media talking about, “Such suffering due to lack of response. We are down here and getting around just fine, with all our fine reporting phones, communication equipment, etc.” Well perhaps the media should be the head of disaster relief. Since they are so able to move in, perhaps instead of talking about it and running after dirty laundry, they should have had vans full of relief supplies rather than running their mouths about stuff.
5. I am not hearing about people being mad outside New Orleans – I know they were not spared either. Perhaps they got out instead of wanting to stay behind to loot.
6. This was a catastrophic event. Old and sick people are going to suffer more. Not that it makes it any easier, but when the world is coming down around you, it is hard to worry about others, when your own skin is fighting to live.
7. This country is doing all it can. The government and everyone involved. What do people think? Do they expect that everything should have been ready to sweep in as Katrina’s winds dropped below 70 MPH? I mean think about it, it takes weeks or months to plan a major military operation. And this is more complex than that by far.
8. Yeah that is the answer, all we need is more bueacracy, yeah put Fema back on its own, yeah. Idiots. This makes a terrorist act look like a fireworks display gone bad. Don’t worry about our response to a terrorist act. It cannot even approach this event. Katrina makes 9/11 look like someone held a firecracker too long in his or her hand.
9.This affected a region larger than many world countries. So what do people expect? Emergency operations just flailing out into the carnage? IDIOTS. I have an idea: Just tell all the liberal bleeding hearts to put down there pens and stay out of this country’s pocket book in the future.
10. When you live on the coast, on land below sea level, I think it is expected that you are taking your life, limb, and possessions into your own hands.
11.What about that water? Where are they pumping that filthy cocktail? Great, right out into Lake Ponchatrain, so its sediments and waters can be poisonous for years. Pump it into the marshlands, so mother nature can detoxify it. It is not that hard of an issue to do. IDIOTS.
12. The media needs to stop being a conduit to those that are already welfare drains to the country. I mean all the demands and fiery curses are coming from people representing groups that had nothing to start with. They are going to make a killing off of the looting and subsequent frauds that will be committed on assistance checks and other moneys. Don’t need to have another baby to get more welfare now, just claim a sprained toe while looting.
13. The relief effort is all that can be expected, sure mistakes are made. I mean it is a catastrophe, and the word itself implies a field of landmines for error. This finger pointing and media megamouth is only heightening tensions.
14. I don’t see you guys interviewing people for very long that are happy with the relief effort. I suspect the media is avoiding clean laundry, preferring to remain in the dirtiest underwear they can find.
15. We knew this was coming. New Orleans had about a 50 year lifespan before this event. (Check with scientist and engineers that know, not politicians)
Please, Please, Mr. Cafferty: Bring up these issues. I am not some run of the mill moron. I am a scientist, and I am from lower middle class parents and presently am myself. I am not from the elite, I have no money or wall street baggage to taint my comments. I am just a well informed, intelligent man. Wake up some of those “DISASTER HOUNDS” and stop the crap talk. NO disaster can be magically removed. Human recover of the disaster is a painstaking and sometimes a “two steps forward, threes steps back sort of thing.” NO ONE IS TO BLAME, THERE IS NO PREVENTION THAT COULD HAVE EVER EASED THIS EVENT. Save for massive changes to the canal and drainage systems of the lower mississippi. It would have and will take hundreds of years to restore the proper sediment deposition to the Mississippi Delta region to halt it sinking into the ocean.
Thank you for your time, and I hope you read my statement. Please, voice these things, please. All I am hearing is stuff from HAND WRINGERS.
Please help me avoid an ulcer watching the news on this.
Sincerely,
Terry L. Lambert
September 9th, 2005 at 4:52 amOh an one more comment:
September 9th, 2005 at 5:13 amThe President and other high level officials do not need to be on the ground where a looter or nutcase can fire a shot or two at them. Furthermore, all you that have negative comments about the government and our leaders responses to the disaster should get off your collective rear ends and march down to New Orleans and keep wading out into the waters shouting your protests until the water goes over your head, or a looter shoots you for target practice. Complain complain, all anyone wants to do is complain. When I last checked, no one was perfect, and none of you so eager to blame someone walks on water.
Have your moment in the sun. When the hysteria dies down, all the complaints will be pumped out of the spotlight, and right along with the fowl waters of New Orleans into Lake Ponchatrain. There they can intermix, liberals with filth and make a perfect, oozing, fuel for intelligent people to make fun of and laugh at your ignorance.
Oh yeah and, for any of you that might not have long term vision of time and space, I do realize that this is not a forum for direct talk to Cafferty. What it is though is a medium in which any human with any degree of ego would take frequent looks at to see how they are doing. So there, I get to have my comment for the intent of CNN – the liberal network, and others which have that affliction of short sightedness to see some realistic, logical thoughts on what has happened. I just couldn’t go to bed thinking that short sightedness and lack of vision might convolute your understanding of my postings.
September 9th, 2005 at 5:33 am“THINK PROGRESS” – yeah you guys are the poster children for laying in your own feces and crying about it.
First of all. The Mayor and the Governor.Stop making excuses for letting all the peopel of La. down. You two did it. NOT the Federal Gov. You are the first line of defense for them.You dropped the ball. Everyone saw you do it. You can’t hide it. Stand up and assume the responsibility. Thats the very least you owe the good peopel of La.YOUR PEOPLE. The people who elected YOU TWO. I don’t think you’ll have to worry about that though. Maybe the next Mayor and Governor will ACCUALLY DO THEIR JOB>! They can even put you two in the same jail cell.
September 9th, 2005 at 9:39 amThe story below is appropiate for the “Disaster Response”. As teachers, we are accountable for our students’academic success. Where is the accountability with our leaders at the local, state, and federal level?
This is a story about four persons named Everybody, Somebody,Anybody,and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Now Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought anybody would do it, bit Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
Deborah Yancy
September 9th, 2005 at 10:09 amSan Antonio, Texas
How many died because Brownie lied!!??
September 9th, 2005 at 3:18 pmJack,
I am a retired from the navy, and it has been my experience when something went whether it was the captain’s fault or not……..the captain of the ship was utimately held responsible. Point being at a minimum the head of FEMA should be fired immediately.
Take care, FRED
September 9th, 2005 at 3:22 pmI believe Mr Brown should be fired.
September 9th, 2005 at 3:23 pmAs a previous resident of New Orleans for 50 years Iwant to reminds us all that each year the Army Corp of Engineers would attept to get appropriations from Congress to redo the ancient levee systems without success. A brain drain from New Orleans began in the 50s.The educational system is appalling. Many educators quit because all their time is spent breaking up fights in the public school system. Police are necessary at most of the public schoole. The Governor is a typical Banana Republic policitian who came up through the ranks but just was overwhelmed with the recent situation. General Honore (or John Wayne as he is called in New Orleans) brought order into chaos. The FEMA Director replacement today was necessary.The Firemen & Policemen did well in an impossible situation & deserve credit for performing without any support or communications. They were in horrible situations.
September 9th, 2005 at 3:51 pmIt is time for some HUGE changes to New Orleans. Too much of our national shipping goes through the port to overlook the situation now. The staggering loss of people & property has shocked the world. Our national economy cannot afford another devastation such as this. The poor evacuees will probably never be able to return. It isn’t going to be easy in The Big Easy for years to come.
Verify the facts, then fire Brown. Arrest him for fraud. However, let not this “gentleman” serve as yet another scapegoat for the failure and incompetence of the Bush administration. That’s who put Brown there.
September 9th, 2005 at 4:03 pmJack is no nonsense and tells it like it is. The current White House, is run like a private country club. All you havae to do to be hired is have a blind sense of loyality to the current admministration and experience be hang, your in. Mr. Cafferty in his grumpy old man style has never hesitated to point out the grosses of the infraction commited against the public interest by this elite bunch of clowns. Keep up the good work Jack.
September 9th, 2005 at 4:08 pmMy pets are my family–sometimes better. They never complain, borrow money, lie, and they comfort you when you’re down or sick. That’s more than I can say for most family members.
September 9th, 2005 at 5:19 pmthe animals got left behind. they screwed that up, too. there are willing volunteers there to rescue them, yet they wouldn’t let them rescue people’s pets!
September 9th, 2005 at 5:30 pmPlease save the pets in New Orleans.
They are so important to all of our lives.
They are all some of us have.
If the people had been able to take their pets with them, I am sure more of them would have evacuated early on.
September 9th, 2005 at 5:35 pmWhen will we learn that compassion should extend to more than humanity?
YES YES YES pets should definitely be rescued – my dog is my child and I wouldn’t leave without him. Many people have lost everything and being reunited with their pets should help their recovery.
September 9th, 2005 at 5:35 pmWhy? What went wrong?
I see the same question over and over on every network. How can no one see what went wrong? It’s right in front of them. Can’t see pass their nose? Lack of Communication is what went wrong. Some finally admit they never had a disaster plan. Wow! Just as good as playing russian roullete with their own life by not having a plan on how to get out of Dodge when they had a chance and know a natural disaster is approaching. And they were warned four days in a row but refused to evacuate. Some died or dying. Maybe they thought they were invincible. No one in this world is any match for Mother Nature
Virginia A – Metlakatla, Ak
September 11th, 2005 at 4:42 amdear mr cafferty as you already know the entire united states is in a very embarrassing time right now due to the hurricane katrina tragedy. it has been a total disgrace and outragious times for all americans of all walks of life. but the most thing that has been most startling to me is that the fact that the government has made claims that they had no way of getting to those people in new orleans in the superdome but yet the news media had no problem in getting to those people from day 1 you guys were in position and the government wasent ?? also they claim they couldent get water and supply,s to those people in mississippi why exspecially since they were on dry land. my personal opinion of some of the changes that should be made mr president you should look seriously into governing some members of the media in situations such as what just accured. because they are always there on the job no matter what the conditions are. dedcated to the job. also the news anchorman that was at the superdomewith the salt &pepper hair. that said were is the help were,s the troops, there is no national guard, no fema, no one, he did such a fantastic job its just unbelievable and thanks to cnn my family has been found thank you so very much ms pamela griffin charlotte, nc
September 12th, 2005 at 4:09 pmBush’s efforts to avoid all responsibility for the slow response to deal with the gulf coast disaster by calling it “the blame game” is disgusting. He should grow up and act like the President he wants to be and accept responsiblity. Instead he is out doing public relations appearances. They should fire ALL political appointees in critical positions in FEMA.
September 12th, 2005 at 4:13 pmThey should fire ALL neocon ultraright christian political appointees in critical positions in all agencies associated with national security. The uncouncinable removal of wage standars is the joy of the neocon ultraright christians. Their thinking has led to the lies about WMD, yellow cake, the outing of a CIA agent, the transfer of funds for levies, mediare, and the poor to tax cuts for the rich and a quagmair in Iraq.
September 14th, 2005 at 5:04 pmDEAR JACK…..YOU AND WOLF ARE DOING A WONDERFUL JOB, IN BRINGING US THE WHOLE TRUTH..THANKS…..AS FAR AS PRESIDENT BUSH, I WOULD HAVE APPRECIATED HIM COMING FORTH TO GIVE A REAL APOLOGY ON HIS OWN, AND NOT WAITED FOR THE POLLS AND HIS BOYS TO TELL HIM WHAT TO DO. PLEASE NOTE THAT, HE TAPPED DANCE WITH WORDS, IN SAYING HE IS RESPONSIBLE. OH YEA, HE SAYS THESE FAKE WORDS WHILE HAVING A SIGHT GRIND ON HIS FACE. HEY BUSH! WHY DON’T YOU TRY THAT AGAIN, BY SAYING YOU ARE TRULY SORRY, AND SPEAK TO THOSE IN NEW ORLEANS. BETTER YET TREAT THEM LIKE YOU TREATED YOUR BROTHER’S HURRICANE SITUATION…..
September 14th, 2005 at 5:12 pmThe John Roberts matter is the usual secret mess that hallmarks everything republican during the bush calamity called government.
If Church and state must be seperated why not seperate politics and justice. The High court’s appointing of Bush cannot be erased from the records of malfeasance and will stand as an irreversible dishonor to the 5 men in black who destroyed the credibility of the
supreme court.
Put term limits of 10 years on High court appointees
Take the high court out of the political arena by making politically diverse committees responsible for recommended appointments.
The supreme court is a dated concept whose time should now run out so that real justice can thrive without applications of political poison.
September 14th, 2005 at 6:00 pmPresident Bush should stay home and quit wasting funds to go to New Orleans once again. For his speech tonight he should just say “good night”; there is nothing more for him to say.
September 15th, 2005 at 4:29 pmWhat do I want to hear from President Bush’s speech tonight? Like it really matters what Bush says anymore. Regardless of what President Bush says, people are going to gripe about it. Don’t people realize how ungrateful they are these days? They are expecting too much from Bush, he’s a person, he’s not God. Shame on those people.
Whine,Whine,Whine…that’s all they do these days.
September 15th, 2005 at 4:45 pmBill Clinton was a good president he just couldnt keep his pants on. That doesnt make him not be intellegent and I believe he could and would have done a better job at this Hurrican Katrina thing. I believe he would have been there right from the beginning.
September 15th, 2005 at 5:18 pmIt is utmost nonsense for an administration to investigate itself. What^&%^&*(*(&@@$#!!!!! What would happen if criminals were allowed to be thier own judges. You can fool the people some of the time but you can’t fool the people all of the time eventually the truth will prevail. Bush became president through a big fraud and continued to fraudently reason the war in IRAQ putting this country into debt and killing americans wastefully who only fault was believing in thier country and their commander. They were lied to and sacraficed. we are a nation of hipocrits when calling others in humane. Thats the new reason for rebuilding IRAQ and capturing Saddam, Everyone is a terrorist that does not bow down to this administration. Democracy or I’ll shoot.????? I have finally found a news station (CNN) that appears to have finaly not afraid to tell the truth and show it like it is. Let me see don’t sugar coat nor tune it down or give me your oppinion. If the body is floating by you tell me and show me. Don’t go with the (jones’s). Thank you CNN. We’re missing one more pink slip. We got one and Mr. Brown needed to go. He was incomptent and ineffective. Bring our troops home clear up our deficits and take care of home. We need to spend money on the hurricane relief and less money on IRAQ. We are waiting on Bush’s pink slip. He needs to take a class on communication and read more his brother must have gotten better grades in school he speaks spanish very well. I’m sure all the lation and cuban and spanish people have really appreaciate the tax breaks and self starting business opportunities and free schooling i.e. that The Bush family have bestowed and given to this ethnic group whether american citizens or not.
September 20th, 2005 at 4:41 pmHow to pay for the Iraq War and Katrina disaster? During WWII the government sold “War Bonds”.. the same as Savings bonds now… They could not be cashed in for several years. This provided the funds to fight the war. It would have a double benefit: 1. we would be borrowing our own money, not borrowing from other countries. 2. It would be an opportunity for people to really contribute and would promote savings. (During WWII we had bond drives, children saved quarters to buy a $25.00 bond, we had bake sales even though sugar was rationed.)
There has been no call for any kind of sacrifice except for those actually in the fighting or their families. No request for any conservation of resources, we are to go about our daily lives as though nothing has happened, and somehow everything will work! It won’t.
September 21st, 2005 at 4:50 pmWe need the social programs we have, in light of the displacement of many persons, discard the tax cuts, get everyone to do something positive.
This maynot be on the suject as above.But , I want to say something. You probbile will not talk about this on the air, but it needs to be said. Have anyone noticed that Bush is out of town when anything oppressive happens.Seems to me he is either out of town or on vaction. He had to cut his vacation because of Katrine. there is a demonstration in washington he found a reason to be out of town.I am as you can tell not very proud of this man.Why can’t others in america tell he is saying what he thinks americans want to hear. I am don’t think he cares about the pepole or what the people think. After all he is worried about getting re-elected again. Thanks for listening to me rant and rave.I am so frusted at this man in the highest office in this great land of america and to me it appears to me all he cares about is putting more money in his pocket.OIL,OIL, and more OIL.
September 24th, 2005 at 11:09 amif bush is a god fearing, religious man, he should be very concerned by the recent natural disasters as a sign that his god is very angry with him and his country’s policies..
global warning is the culprit, perhaps the earth temperature rose by one degree or more from all the massive explosions of her bombs she has dropped all over the world in recent years..
i believe in what goes around comes around,
as a buddist, world is out of balance because of the american foreign policies.
katrina and rita are americas hiroshima and nagasaki.
September 25th, 2005 at 2:17 amhope americans see for themselves the similar kinds of destruction and pain she has committed in the world in the past and in present day iraq with their corrupt, criminal foreign policies..
you are doing a heck of a job, Brownie but just when did you get Stuck on Stupid????
September 27th, 2005 at 3:18 pmJulia in Knoxvillle
Can we count on the media to now to be the eyes and ears of the citizens and question the judgement of the politicos in DC? You have been too soft and kept blinders on regarding the blatant self serving elected and appointed officials. We can only get to them on election day, but you have access to them daily. Don’t let us down.
September 27th, 2005 at 3:27 pmJulia in Knoxville
Regarding A woman for President: I just wonder what is taking so long for the women today to step up to the plate. I think the honesty factor alone would skyrocket this country back to an honest and well-balanced society with a zero-tolerance disciplinary plan, cause we are the ones raising the kids and I think we are better suited for the job, no pun intended. Susan, New York
September 27th, 2005 at 4:19 pmYour reporting is concentrated on sensationalism. Good reporting is concentrated on the Facts on the ground not repeated commentary on what might be happening.
Yours truly,
Antonio Domingo Valdez III
September 27th, 2005 at 5:16 pmThe rich have to get their tax cuts according to the ultra right Christian Neocons that run this country. They can lie about the War, Out CIA agents and fail to help in natural disasters. They can’t be bothered paying for body armor of our troupes.
September 29th, 2005 at 5:16 pmDear Mr. Cafferty:
I am the mother of a Marine of the USA. My son just finished 4 years with the Marines and he was deployed to Iraq twice.
He had to pay for his uniforms and everything that goes with them.
My husband contacted his representative in Texas and we were told that that was not the case.
It is a disgrace to know that we are lied to all the time and that our sons are putting their lives on the line every day for this country.
Those who send them to grave harm do not have the decency to admit such disgusting policies and do nothing to protect our soldiers.
I wonder what would the do if their sons and daughters we the ones facing death everyday.
Shame on them
Sonia Lellis
September 29th, 2005 at 5:40 pmKaty, TX
George Bush wants our toops to pay for their own armor, stay loyal as long as George Bush wants them to be in Iraq even after their contracted time is up, doesn’t provide needed assistance when they are injured and cannot continue their civilian jobs. The soldiers are losing their homes, their famillies, and their lives for an egotistical president who insists on pursuing a war that the citizens of his country don’t support. Isn’t it time to give him and his kind the old “heave ho”?
September 29th, 2005 at 6:03 pmArrogance is too timid a word for what this administration is doing.There has been so many people in it shooting themselves in the foot that a new post called the podiatry czar should be created.
September 30th, 2005 at 4:23 pmRegarding Mr. Bennett’s comments: I do not claim to know the precise ratio of ethnic groups in the crime statistics. But, IF, blacks do have the highest rate in the crime ratio, then Bennett’s comments were merely ones of factual statistical information offered back to his questioner. Informational facts are not meant to be taken personally and are not debatable.
Furthermore, why don’t people take comments from others, in context, for what they are to the SPEAKER intead of making it all about the personal feelings or opinions of the LISTENERS. Growing up, when my feelings were hurt by someone’s falsehood, my grandma used to say, “Just consider the source and ignore it.” When things hard to hear were true, she also said, “The truth hurts; learn from it.”
Americans have gotten SO wimpy the past decade or two. Let’s quit nit-picking and restart building up people and this country, instead of tearing them down.
September 30th, 2005 at 5:57 pmDon’t forget people, hurrican season is not over, yet. So use ‘common sense’ and don’t sit like a bump-on-a-log, and wait for someone to tell you to evacuate…when you know a hurricane is approaching, pack what you need the most and hit the road…uh, I hope some people still have “common sense”
October 2nd, 2005 at 9:59 pm’cause you know, each person is responsible for their own actions…if you decide to stay behind then don’t point your finger at anyone.
i have a large 2 bedroom lower duplex for rent at 600.00 a month for katrina’s flood victoms but dont know who to contact . i live in minnesota , Braham can you tell me who to contact ? ty john
October 10th, 2005 at 8:01 amThe Bush administration is the closest thing to a dictatorship that the United States has ever seen. This administration governs by manipulating the public with fear. Most Americans I talk to see the Iraq war as a war for oil by oil people and other conected profit factions (Haliburton, ETC.) Were we lied to about the intelligence? Yes! I hope the majority of Americans can see this is a administration of divide and conquer using fear in a effort to gain their families wealth.
November 1st, 2005 at 4:36 pmTHE DEMOCRATES IN THE SENATE FINNALY DID SOMETHING!!! THE ACTION’S TAKEN TODAY ARE LONG OVERDUE!!! THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE HAVE USED FEAR, HATE, LEAD BY DEVIDING THE NATION. A VICE PRESIDENT WHO LEADS A PRIVATE LIFE.. A SHADOW OVER THE LAND!! HIS REAL EMPLOYER HALIBURTON REAPING IN BILLION’S ON NO BID CONTRACTS!!! OUR PRESIDENT CAVING INTO THE MOST EXTREEM ZELOTS!! WE AS A NATION CAN NO LONGER STAND BACK AND ALLOW THIS GOVERMENT BE DRIVEN INTO THE ABISS!!!
November 2nd, 2005 at 1:49 amWAYNE R. DUNCAN
How can i send an e mail to Jack Cafferty. I have navigated your web pages and can not find a link…all i can get to is the “situation “room”. I need to converse with Jack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thanks Gary Bakken
November 10th, 2005 at 8:41 pmI watched on my t.v. the remembrance day ceremony in ottawa Canada.There were huge crowds and the politicians were silent The veterans marched past to cheering crowds it was their day and i as a child in Scotland remember and revere the Yanks who came and fought and died for us. I still salute their memory.
November 11th, 2005 at 4:18 pmAlito sounds like a man who has gotten caught cheating on his girlfriend. He says that “from now on he’ll be good.” But, we cannot be the weak ones that give in to his excuses and take him at his word.The truth is that men are not who they say they are going to be right then, they are the person they have been their whole lives.A leopard can’t change it’s spots, especially crazy religious freak ones.
November 15th, 2005 at 4:27 pmDear Jack:
Good job keep up the excellent reporting. The news tonight about the chinese SUV is funnt. while General Motors close plants, they already have a deal with the Chinese, whom they helped to build a new plant to build SUV’s. not more then several months, GM fired their VP of Chinese operations after he set up the factories to build a SUV that gets better fuel milage then any GM ever manufactured. Some one should ask the question, “how did the management at GM, the CEO’s and VP’s blow their jobs. I’ts the management that is at fault. they never addressed the fact that they marketed the gas pigs SUV’s. Simply becuase they could make more money on the bottom line. Now the bottom line should be no golden retirement packages for any of the Executives, put them on Social security and Medicare, see how they like to loose their futures.
thank you John King. Industrial Designer. Ret.
November 21st, 2005 at 8:10 pmI think the federal government and FEMA are disgraceful. I heard today about the 11,000 house trailers valued at 300 million dollars they intend to scrap.
Is there any leadership at the federal level?
And what about the thousands of 5th wheel trailers and camper trailers that were shipped to aid Katrina victims? Where are they? Are they headed to the scrap yard too?
Has the federal government never heard of selling unwanted items on e bay?
It is time for the american taxpayers to hold government accountable.
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