The Daily Howler - 09/07/05

KATRINA CREEP (PART 2)! Today, we’ll try to speak so slowly that even professors can follow: // link // print // previous // next //

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2005

WE ALMOST FORGOT: Also amazing this weekend was Cynthia Tucker, editorial page editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She appeared on Sunday’s This Week roundtable. Try to puzzle this out:

TUCKER (9/4/05): I was one of the people who was very angry watching from the safety of my living room and with the New Orleans portion of my family—I have a sister who lives there with her husband and their small daughter—we were all watching it in the safety of my living room but I was furious and disappointed at my government that this looked like Bangladesh or Haiti or somewhere. And if we don't figure out what went wrong, I don't know how we can correct the mistakes that were made and let me also say that I think one of the things we have to focus on is those people who don't have the resources to get out, and I think that all of the officials knew—local, state and national—that there was a significant portion of residents of that area who didn't have the resources and I have to tell you, I was one of the people who was not aware of that. I'm one of those people—I'm middle class. My sister and her husband are middle class. They had the resources to get out and get to me. And I said, “Why didn't those people leave?” and my sister said, “You don't know how many desperately poor people there are in New Orleans.”