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Mayor Nagini shocked, SHOCKED! by second Katrina video

2006-03-03

ScrappleFace

(2006-03-02) Just hours after the Associated Press (AP) shocked New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin yesterday by showing him video of a FEMA briefing during Hurricane Katrina in which government officials speculate about the impact of the expected Category 5 storm, the AP has shown the mayor a second alarming and disgusting video.

The first video shows President George Bush, Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff and then-FEMA Director Michael Brown, among others, dealing with how to respond to the developing disaster, and what to make of inconsistent reports from New Orleans about the condition of the Lake Pontchatrain levees.

The second video, shot by a parking lot security camera several days earlier, shows row upon row of yellow school buses, sitting idle on a day when thousands of local residents remained in the path of the storm.

Someone at the White House should have given the order to use those school buses to evacuate the city before Katrina hit, said the Mayor, who is the top local government official in New Orleans. It makes me ill to think that the federal government failed to intervene to save these people. George Bush had plenty of time, and he did nothing.

Mr. Nagin, who is the Mayor of New Orleans, noted that local residents did just what we have trained them to do in a disaster. They watched the hurricane coverage on CNN and waited for a federal official to knock on the door and rescue them.

They followed their training, said Mr. Nagin, the Mayor of New Orleans, but the knock never came. They were helpless, utterly helpless.

In May 2002, Ray Nagin was elected Mayor of New Orleans, a city which sits below sea level, between the Gulf of Mexico and a large lake.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan today said, One can always argue after the fact about whether President Bush should have intervened more forcefully to protect New Orleans from this grave threat, but Ray Nagin is the lawfully elected mayor, and whether he remains in office is up to the people of New Orleans, not to the president.

Posted by:Korora

#12 I missed most of the segment but a lady on FNC called in and claimed that over 90%+(?) of these LOCAL/CITY buses weren't in working order to begin with, or words to that effect. Someone should tell Mayor Nagin, etal. FEMA doesn't come in unless the State formally requests it, and usually after any storm; that FEMA is obligated/charged only to return the city or affected to the same or similar condition it was before the storm; and that it isn't FEMA's duty/mandate anyways to substitute for either the local private sector andor the local public sector, espec the latter. IS THE LADY CORRECT?

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-03-03 23:23

#11 GOT ME on this one!!LOL! It is just so close to real! Good on ya Korora.

Posted by: 49 pan 2006-03-03 20:22

#10 Now THAT'S fake, but accurate!!

Posted by: AlanC 2006-03-03 12:32

#9 :>
Very truthy piece.

Posted by: 6 2006-03-03 11:52

#8 Someone at the White House should have given the order to use those school buses to evacuate the city before Katrina hit, said the Mayor.

Mayor Ray: You've got your bus colors all discombobulated. Federal and State Buses are usually white and have bars and mesh netting over the windows, and have angry looking drivers, etc. Yellow buses are owned by the local school system, city or municipality. Yellow is your color mayor, your buses, your responsibility. White buses be the Feds or State.

Posted by: Visitor 2006-03-03 09:48

#7 Its like bronzie and goldie only its made of iron.

Posted by: pihkalbadger 2006-03-03 06:24

#6 Got me as well. I missed the Scrappleface and thought it was a real news report and what's more it didn't even surprise me.

Posted by: phil_b 2006-03-03 03:19

#5 49, this is parody.

Posted by: gromky 2006-03-03 02:58

#4 Agreed, bro - but this is Scrappleface. I used to say that with a wink, but the gap between the parody and reality has become razor thin these days.

Brings to mind the Ghostbusters with their "proton gun" beam weapons... sometimes Scrappleface and Reality strike me as crossing the beams, lol. We're getting slimed, bro, lol.

Posted by: .com 2006-03-03 02:34

#3 agreed, these guys are fools, lead by bigger fools. The big easy should now be called the big stupid. This is criminal what he did and he should be tried by the people of LA for his crimes.

Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-03-03 02:24

#2 LOL. Ott Rulez. NO / LA are terminally fucked, politically, and will likely remain so forever.

Posted by: .com 2006-03-03 02:15

#1 Someone at the White House should have given the order to use those school buses to evacuate the city before Katrina hit, said the Mayor

The mayor owned the busses! Why the F?C! did he not do it! It was well within his authority. This guy must be the dumbest mayor on record. Sad to say but it looks like New Orleans will get a Darwin for electing him. He should be charged with neglegence and accessory to mass murder for not acting in his legally bound duty to protect his city. Some day it will sink into his head that he hold responsability for this.

Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-03-03 02:08

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