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Full transcript of an interview this morning on Tim Russert's show - here's a quote
Don't believe they're keeping the vast majority of information from you? Think again.
A first-hand report from a member of MetaFilter, who took things into his own hands when FEMA wouldn't.
To give you all reference who this guy is, Grover Norquist compared the Estate Tax to the Holocaust.
But, you know, we shouldn't politicize.
And yes, take the icon. We need to cover livejournal with it. It's the *very least* you can do.
"The guy who runs this building I'm in, emergency management, he's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, "Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?" And he said, "Yeah, Mama, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday." And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night."A reminder: after the tsunami, we were in there helping in two days. Halfway around the world.
Don't believe they're keeping the vast majority of information from you? Think again.
A first-hand report from a member of MetaFilter, who took things into his own hands when FEMA wouldn't.
When we brought in the first set of people, a local Sheriff's Office lieutenant started telling us to leave. He said this had come from FEMA. A lot of guys got upset by this, because we had all come over here with our own boats, paying for our fuel, food and water, and were in the water and working before anyone else. FEMA, while certainly able to do more than us, didn't get in the water until around noon.And the bullshit keeps coming: Quote: Grover Norquist, blamed the chaos on "looting in a Democratic city run by a Democratic mayor and a Democratic governor."
We explained to the guy how this was going to look, and he finally relented. We had to take down everybody's names, and create an official badge with duct tape and an oversized red crayon. It turned out to be a good thing we didn't leave, because pretty soon some other FEMA guys were asking us to take their teams out. Which seemed to work out well.
To give you all reference who this guy is, Grover Norquist compared the Estate Tax to the Holocaust.
But, you know, we shouldn't politicize.
And yes, take the icon. We need to cover livejournal with it. It's the *very least* you can do.
