Plan of Attack: Sean, Celine & Kanye
After being overcome with bad press and finger pointing by the mainstream media, it is satisfying to read the some real facts regarding what it will take to get a handle on the mess in New Orleans. Teflon at MoltenThought has some reasoned thoughts addressed to the blathering talking heads, crying governors, and ranting mayors. He has some sober thoughts for what it will take to begin to get the city back on its feet.
My advice to everyone on the air for the 8th day in a row is to slow down, dial back the emotion bordering on lunacy and read Teflon's great article. My favorites are #2 and #12
2. The United States military can wipe out the Taliban and the Iraqi Republican Guard far more swiftly than they can bring 3 million Swanson dinners to an underwater city through an area the size of Great Britain which has no power, no working ports or airports, and a devastated and impassable road network.
12. If you must vent your indignation, how about targeting the Louisiana officials who did absolutely nothing to protect their constituents? At least you can help ensure the populace doesn't elect these clowns again.
Mayor Nagin's image makeover didn't wait very long. Even though his own citizens are still suffering in his own flooded city, Oprah Winfrey was invited along for a helicopter ride of his own city's devastation. His critics don't stand a chance now that Ms. Opratunity's on the scene. It's good to know that Mayor Nagin' s priorities are in order: his political image first, everyone else, alive or dead, a distant second. How should I support this outrageous claim? He has been doing radio and television interviews non-stop (don't forget the highly visible 60 Minutes on Sunday) and NEVER ONCE ACCEPTED ANY BLAME WHATSOEVER for the almost total inaction by his city's emergency response team, of which he is ultimately to blame.
TwoTabletsWriting, IndependentSources , Gateway Pundit, and Yahoo via AFP report that everyone's favorite Hollywood actor turned oppressed and downtrodden worldwide spokesperson-Sean Penn, was down in New Orleans doing "[w]hatever I can do just to help." In Sean's world, just helping included bringing a large entourage including his biographer and a professional photographer along to document his helping for posterity's sake. I guess in Sean's world the question is, if you do something good for someone else and no one is there to write or photograph it for someone else to see, why is it worth doing? Does it even happen? (Whose to say either way?)
Don't ask Celine Dion about stardom, she knows all about it. She also has some understanding of the human psyche most trained mortals could only dream of. She displayed her deep insight on CNN's Larry King Live (easily the worst interview show, and interviewer, on television). Dan at RiehlWorldView reports...
Canadian singer Celine Dion was on Larry King Saturday night blaming the media for their portrayal of the looters commenting that those who stole t.v.’s and other items would probably return them later. She also is said to have indicated that media and government are focused entirely too much on the looters. Evidently at one point she is said to have begun crying while blaming the US government and media for their poor treatment of the people of New Orleans. [emphasis mine]
I stand corrected. When I saw some of the looters shielding their face from the stores they were borrowing from, I thought it was because they felt shame for being a dirty, self-centered thieves. I see that now, they were doing the shopkeepers a favor by taking shopping carts full of shoes and TVs and every other thing so that they wouldn't be damaged by the water.
They are storing these items in their homes until the city is safe and they can return these items promptly to the store at which the TV cameras showed them being taken from. Myself and every other rational TV viewer in this country (this excludes Jesse Jackson and Celine Dion, they don't meet the first stated condition) owe these people a sincere apology. We thought they were just thieves taking another shit on an already shitty situation in New Orleans.
Rap Mothers, Behold Your Son 
Finally, how could I forget Kanye West's heartfelt, impassioned verbal vomiting on NBC on Saturday night. He's not just any R&B superstar, he's a the closest thing R&B has to a Rhodes-scholar. He's the "[S]martest man in pop music." With that pose, he actually does look smart. He doesn't show the slightest hint of self-consciousness or anxiety. A man of this intelligence would not studder or stumble over his words in public and would never, never fall prey to making gross exagerations just to try and make a point. He would never do this unless this professor was live on NBC on Saturday night where he made a total and complete fool of himself and Time magazine's cover headline editor. Here is the video ( 4Mb .wmv or 2.1Mb .mov ).
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