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September 8, 2005Red Cross says it was stopped?I almost can’t wrap my head around this one. Betsy Newmark writes that Instapundit had this story three days ago but in the glut of news it seems to have been missed. It’s not missed anymore: As Hugh Hewitt writes: The Red Cross Blocked The Fox News Channel’s Major Garrett was just on my show extending the story he had just reported on Brit Hume’s show: The Red Cross is confirming to Garrett that it had prepositioned water, food, blankets and hygiene products for delivery to the Superdome and the Convention Center in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, but were blocked from delivering those supplies by orders of the Louisiana state government, which did not want to attract people to the Superdome and/or Convention Center. Garrett has no paper trail yet, but will follow up on his verbal confirmation from sources at the highest levels of the Red Cross. Hmmm…before anyone says this is all Republican Hooey, they should probably know this: Radioblogger has the transcript of Garrett with Hewitt. HH: Now Major Garrett, on what day did they block the delivery? Do you know specifically? MG: I am told by the Red Cross, immediately after the storm passed. HH: Okay, so that would be on Monday afternoon. MG: That would have been Monday or Tuesday. The exact time, the hour, I don’t have. But clearly, they had an evacuee situation at the Superdome, and of course, people gravitated to the convention center on an ad hoc basis. They sort of invented that as another place to go, because they couldn’t stand the conditions at the Superdome. HH: Any doubt in the Red Cross’ mind that they were ready to go, but they were blocked? MG: No. Absolutely none. They are absolutely unequivocal on that point. MG: I have not been able to reach them yet. But, what they have said consistently is, and what they told the Red Cross, we don’t want you to come in there, because we have evacuees that we want to get out. And if you come in, they’re more likely to stay. So I want your listeners to follow me here. At the very moment that Ray Nagin, the Mayor of New Orleans was screaming where’s the food, where’s the water, it was over the overpass, and state officials were saying you can’t come in. Betsy also had a link to the Belgravia Dispatch: Further, the Red Cross web site has a message that it was not allowed by state authorities to provide relief to the Superdome/Convention Center. Ed points out: It’s also worth noting that the Red Cross gets more access to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay than the people still stuck inside New Orleans. He spells it out, here: The Red Cross expected that either the local authorities would get the last of its citizens out of New Orleans or allow them to set up their relief provisions inside the city. To this day, the city and state have done neither, nor have they allowed the federal government to take control of the relief effort to make these decisions themselves. That means that the Red Cross personnel (and the relief provisions that FEMA helped them stage) have no way to reach those in the city anywhere, including the Superdome, the Convention Center, or any of the other shelters in New Orleans. Until Nagin and Blanco allow them to go to the victims or act to bring the victims out to them, the residents will not see any relief supplies except that dropped to them by air, a dicey proposition at best when facing toxic flood waters. Right Wing News and Right Place have more. Lorie Byrd notes - unsurprisingly - that none of this is being reported by CNN and I couldn’t find it in the mainstream media, either. http://theanchoressonline.com/2005/09/08/red-cross-says-it-was-stopped/trackback/ 24 Responses to “Red Cross says it was stopped?” |
September 8th, 2005 at 2:48 am
Red Cross Delay Blanco Gate
Governor Blanco is making FEMA Under Secretary Mike Brown look good (and that’s saying something since FEMA doesn’t know the difference between Charleston, South Carolina and Charleston, West Virginia)….
September 8th, 2005 at 3:01 am
Whoa! Hang On A Second! Red Cross Blocked From Superdome?
Gateway Pundit tipped me to Right Wing News who led me to this amazing story. Hugh Hewitt interviewed FoxNews’ Major Garrett to discuss a story about the Red Cross being blocked from delivering supplies to the Superdome…ON MONDAY AFTERNOON,&nbs…
September 8th, 2005 at 4:48 am
[...] Today I got up and read this report by the Anchoress. [...]
September 8th, 2005 at 10:17 am
It is interesting, for sure. I suspect the calls for another ‘investigation’ will become muted over time.
Hillary’s desire for an ‘independent inquiry’ is a very shrewd move. She understands that for every criticism of Mr Bush, there will be 5 for NO and LA officials. She’s going to look very ‘responsible’ and ‘fair minded’- above partisan politics.
September 8th, 2005 at 10:31 am
They claim that the reason they would not let Red Cross in is that if Red Cross was helping the people at the Superdome, they would not want to leave. But then they did not use their buses to take people out of the Superdome, where they had no food or water, because they had said that everyone needs to bring their own food, water, and blankets when they come to the Superdome. I guess they should have also said bring their own PortaPoties.
September 8th, 2005 at 12:04 pm
Unbelievable and yet so believable at the same time. Just when you thought the state of Louisiana couldn’t be any more inept and downright criminal.
September 8th, 2005 at 12:11 pm
As of yesterday Gov. Blanco was still in low gear. Why do I get the feeling that somewhere in LA there are people furiously shredding paper in an effort to cover something or, more likely, several somethings up?
The first reports were that it was FEMA that wouldn’t allow the Red Cross to go into NO. Democrats in Washington were in sky-high dudgeon. Now that it was LA officials who stopped the Red Cross,I bet those Democrats come back down to earth real fast.
You know the tide has turned when the Liberals on the talking head panels are saying, “Well, there was fault at all levels.” They have given up on trying to pin everything that went wrong on Bush.
By the way, the daily water ration for people is one gallon per day. How is a woman with three kids and, perhaps, an infirm family member, supposed to take a 5-day supply of water anywhere?
September 8th, 2005 at 1:24 pm
I think Pat Leahy and Nancy Pelosi were separated at birth. They are self-righteously angry and STILL wanting answers as to why no one could provide H2O. Must be they don’t read The Anchoress. If I happen to see Pat around, I’ll clue him in. I doubt he makes it this far North in VT; maybe I’ll e-mail him and let him link to a *Catholic* Coservative Blog.
If he hasn’t caught on to the reasoning of ineptitude of the handling of Katrina, I seriously doubt he would follow the link.
Do you think he knows what a Blog even IS?
September 8th, 2005 at 6:31 pm
Hi Karen!
Was Gov. Blanco following the orders of the National Democratic Party? Did the Domocrat brain trust see an opportunity to destroy Bush in an area where they had absolute control. Was she promised something for cooperating in case some of the blame shifted to her? Would she be willing to release all her phone records(including cell phones)so that we could see just who she was talking to and when? Could any human beings stoop so low as to put lives in danger for their own political ends? Ask Howard Dean. Listen to his words from yesterday “We must … come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and economics played a deadly role in who survived and who did not,” A man who thinks nothing of causing racial unrest for political ends is capable of anything…
September 9th, 2005 at 5:11 am
Well you know Darrell and Karen, everything points to the MSM not giving us the truth. Either that, it is just the nature of the democratic party (un-Christian and un-American) at work here. Thank God the two of you are here to deflect any criticism of the non-catholic George Bush and bash bad Catholics such as Pat Leahy.
September 9th, 2005 at 10:08 am
Gee, Lyle, does that mean there’s enough of Superman’s cloak to cover all us Republicans? What power…
If Blanco REFUSED help for her state and her people, she’s got a lot to be held accountable for. If W had his head stuck up his… cloudy,little world so far he couldn’t forsee the need TO help, or demand to help… then HE has a lot to be held accountable for.
Democrats aren’t calling for investigation of Blanco, or even Nagin-are they? No, they are calling Bush a murderer. That the blood of the poor and the black are on his hands. Typical.
We pay these people how much $$$$ to act like my six yr old? What a dream job, eh? What a freaken’ mess. For once, I’d love to see the Dems actually try to reach across the damn line they’ve drawn in the sand to help in any way they can so that some form of unity and normalacy can occur. It ain’t gonna happen w/them pushing the Republicans buttons and spitting venom.
Pat Leahy is a hypocrite of his Faith. Any Catholic that blantantly supports abortion, to TERM, no less; is a hypocrite to their Catholic Faith.
Nancy Pelosi is just Pop-eyed Pelosi, to me. Stirring the pot, just consantly stirring the pot…
September 9th, 2005 at 11:10 am
You finally got it, Lyle. Your first two sentences are spot on. Absent sarcasm, so’s the rest.
Just reading the papers this morning and seeing headlines like “Every Image Coming Out Hurts Bush”… Yep, the MSM is doing a fine job. Also reading about Hurricane Floyd in 1999, where FEMA was still in the assessment mode three weeks after it hit. Reading Director’s James Lee Witt’s comments “It’s been so wet it’s been difficult to get things in there, but now it’s going to be moving very quickly.” Yep. Of course I’m not reading or hearing this from the MSM…
September 9th, 2005 at 11:35 am
James Lee Witt was advising Gov. Blanco. Perhaps he was behind the “no need to hurry” attitude of LA officials.
September 9th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
But it was wet, Evon!
September 9th, 2005 at 1:49 pm
Lyle, I can’t help the fact that I see things as unfair. Yet, it really has more to do w/the unfairness of blame rather than my conservative heart.
I make perfect sense, I would wager everyone on this site understands and agrees that it’s unfair of the Dems to not do something to build, rather than tear down. When the Dems fought to block W’s nominees for Judiciary, for example, who crossed over the party lines to create a compromise? The seven *Centrist* Republicans. Not the Dems.
I say, now it’s their turn to shut up and put up. Just shut up about the ignorance and incompetency of W. It’s NOT helping restore confidence anywhere for people, except frustrated, powerless Dems. If they want power, they gotta earn it- not bemoan it.
September 9th, 2005 at 2:14 pm
Darrell}Yep. Of course I’m not reading or hearing this from the MSM…
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What are you hearing from MSM folks like FOX and Rush Limbaugh?? Are you not hearing different from those media outlets??
September 9th, 2005 at 2:40 pm
Darell, Do you listen to Rush? Because I don’t. I actually could care less about his sound bites. You must watch FOX, but I only get four channels here… no, one of them is not FOX. I get my reliable news from the blogs these days, unfiltered and straight up. Of course these are two of the most conservative examples of media around, but i can see the differences. I know their angle is suited to my taste buds.
Spud, would I kid a kidder? Of course, I’m serious. Give me the fine examples of partisianship behaviour from the Dems… i really gotta hear it:)
September 9th, 2005 at 4:03 pm
come on, Kyle, you have to admit that FOX news and Limbaugh are NOT the MSM. Until the MSM media picks up on a story, it’s as if it doesn’t exist. Witness how most of the world doesn’t know that Al Franken is a lying liar!
September 9th, 2005 at 4:23 pm
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September 9th, 2005 at 7:31 pm
I catch Rush every once in a while if I am in the car at the right time, 11 AM-2 PM where I live. That’s a couple og times a month now. I had to visit more often during the Presidental election–just to counter the bias in the MSM. And I don’t watch Fox Cable at all because I don’t have cable. I visit their website from time to time. I research stories from my memory on the Web….MSM sources, by the way, not Blogs. I just screen out the MSM bias. For example, the spin around the
Witt quote was praise for FEMA efforts before the storm–ordering the largest evacuation in history. Clinton, btw, was in New Zealand when it hit. Natchez got its first shipment of water 4 days after the storm.
September 9th, 2005 at 9:10 pm
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September 9th, 2005 at 9:36 pm
Yeah, no cable here, either. I think this is the first time in a long time we’re on the same thread together. I like you. Lyle likes you too, Darrell :). You make his blood pressure rise!! Isn’t it funny how people so different can still agree to disagree, even if we are spot on in this one? Silly Lyle :)!!
I hope my smiley faces take. Sometimes they don’t.
September 9th, 2005 at 11:50 pm
We better meet on a current topic. We are using the Anchoress’s bandwidth! Even Saints have their limits as far as patience goes….
May 25th, 2007 at 9:44 am
[...] his bounds and dissing a female governor, to boot!) Do you remember the Red Cross saying they were prevented by local government from going into NOLA to help? Do you remember all the exaggeration and disinformation everywhere? [...]