In Ted Rall’s latest unsupported and uninformed hit piece on the Bush Administration, he repeats several of the rumors that were circulating at the time that Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, but offers no evidence whatsoever that any of them are credible:

There it was, right there on CNN the afternoon of December 6. Ishmael Mohammed, an attorney for the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund, quoted a young woman named Denise, talking about her experience in the New Orleans Superdome: “The National Guard did not serve or protect. They were constantly threatening us and herding us by machine guns like cows. I saw a teenage boy beaten up by a National Guard officer in front of a crowd of thousands of people.” Denise confirmed accounts of “white and Asian tourists… rushed quietly out one side of the barricade that held thousands of exhausted, financially underprivileged black families with babies.” Tammy, a thirtysomething African-American woman who was attempting to escape the city by car, said police stopped, arrested and jailed her and her two daughters for weeks. “Lie down on the ground, you black monkey bitch,” she claims one of them yelled. Patricia Thompson, a 53-year-old New Orleans evacuee, testified that soldiers aimed their machine gun target lasers at her granddaughter’s forehead, and that New Orleans cops routinely spat racist insults at storm victims. Others spoke of looting and gratuitous murder by police gone berserk.

Well, hang on a minute here. If there’s one thing that you can count on from people who feel that some authority figure has injured them or mistreated them is that a lawsuit is going to be filed. The people Rall discusses here, if there stories are actually true, all have good causes of action against the City of New Orleans and/or the Federal Government. Why haven’t they filed these suits? Why aren’t they cashing in on what would seem to be a lottery-type situation? I’ll tell you why: because there isn’t any evidence to back up these stories. In a time where people in government routinely loose their jobs for the slightest act of political correctness, why isn’t “Tammy” yelling and screaming about how the police called her a “black monkey bitch”? If true, she could and should have that officer hung from the highest flag pole.

Certain editors are brazenly partisan, politically and otherwise, making choices that reflect their publisher’s or their own personal tastes. The New York Times, for instance, doesn’t practice “advocacy journalism.” That policy prompted Times editors, worried about affecting the outcome of the election, to kill a story revealing that the mysterious lump in George W. Bush’s jacket was indeed a transmitter that he had used to cheat during the 2004 presidential debate.

Now I want you to make sure you caught what Rall is saying in the above quote: Rall is saying that The New York Times, the one newspaper on the planet who can be counted on to criticize anything and everything the President says or does, of covering up for him during the 2004 Presidential Election. This alone should be enough for any sane person to realize that this column is nothing more that a wheel-barrow full of excrement. It should be enough to demonstrate the complete lack of credibility Rall and others of his ilk have in the real world. Most of all, it should tell you that he can not be taken seriously about anything.

This entry was posted on Friday, March 24th, 2006 at 11:43 am by Nick, and is filed under Conspiracy, Culture War, Natural Disasters, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.