I watched 60 Minutes earlier this evening with the Dishonorable Mayor Ray Nagin. I can’t witness this man speak anymore without him royally ticking me off. His offhand, defensive comment about the World Trade Center was bad enough but the spew from his mouth merely confirmed to me that Nagin is a lying sack of sh….
You get the picture.
I’m sure there will be a lot of other political blogs that will pick apart much of what he said and claimed and there will also be the pro-Nagin blogs that will fawn all over the man thereby stroking his ego, but while it’s still somewhat fresh in my mind, I’d like to point out one major deception…misdirection…flim flam…whatever you wanna call it.
When asked about a plan to evacuate New Orleanians if another hurricane struck, Nagin stated that all methods would be used to evacuate the citizenry. He specifically mentioned trains and planes.
Problem.
Unless someone has some inside info I’m not privy to, Nagin nor anyone else in his government has contracted with any airline or train service for such an evacuation. As far as I can find out, no one has even started negotiations for any such contract. So unless Nagin plans on somehow magically pulling those signed contracts out of his butt…er…hat, then he’s making a claim about something that does not exist.
Way t’go Ray.
In short, Ray has a plan to make a plan that he’s planning to get around to planning.
New Orleans, you re-elected him…you’re stuck with him. Pray no hurricanes hit your fair city while Nagin remains in office because if one does, you’re all screwed.
The softball interview, conducted by Byron Pitts (Pitts was really kissing Nagin’s butt), was full of misstatements and ridiculous commentary. Some examples include, but are not limited to, Pitts intro’ing the piece stating that Katrina was a “direct hit” on New Orleans (not true), Nagin knocking on the new levee like someone was going to answer the door (we now know it won’t come crumbling down if someone taps on it), a nice segment showing black-&-white pictures of debutantes with hooded figures standing behind them (betcha a lot of folks watching that mistakenly now think the Klan attended the debutante balls for white girls in New Orleans instead of masked Carnival riders), etc.
I expected this to be a puff piece from Byron Pitts and 60 Minutes, but the nonsense that was presented by CBS in that piece was inexcusable.
However the understated moment of the whole segment was Leonard N. Moore being called a “critic” of Nagin’s and then the title of his upcoming book being revealed as “An Oreo In Chocolate City.” Man, that ain’t critical, that’s brutal!
So far, much of what I have read from other bloggers about the 60 Minutes puff piece is equally as outraged as I. I’m curious to see how those who have not weighed in as of yet will respond.
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