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Iowa vs. Louisiana >>Something to think about
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| jonas |
Think about this:
As I watched the news coverage of the massive flooding in the Midwest with over 100 blocks of the city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa under water, levees breaking, and the attention now turned downstream for when this massive amount of water hits the Mississippi, what amazed me is not what we saw, but what we didn't see...
1. We don't see looting.
2. We don't see street violence.
3. We don't see people sitting on their rooftops waiting for the government to come and save them.
4. We don't see people waiting on the government to do anything.
5. We don't see Hollywood organizing benefits to raise money for people to rebuild.
6. We don't see people blaming President Bush.
7. We don't see people ignoring evacuation orders.
8. We don't see people blaming a government conspiracy to blow up the levees as the reason some have not held.
9. We don't see the US Senators or the Governor of Iowa crying on TV.
10. We don't see the Mayors of any of these cities complaining about the lack of state or federal response.
11. We don't see or hear reports of the police going around confiscating personal firearms so only the criminal will be armed.
12. We don't see gangs of people going around and randomly shooting at the rescue workers.
13. You don't see some leaders in this country blaming the bad behavior of the Iowa flood victims on "society" (of course there is no wide spread reports of lawlessness to require excuses). Re: Iowa vs. Louisiana: Where are all of the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for
help in restoring Iowa and helping the folks affected by the floods?
Where is all the media asking the tough questions about why the federal
government hasn't solved the problem? Asking where the FEMA trucks (and
trailers) are?
Why isn't the Federal Government relocating Iowa people to free hotels
in Chicago?
When will Spike Lee say that the Federal Government blew up the levees
that failed in Des Moines?
Where are Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks?
Where are all the looters stealing high-end tennis shoes and big screen
television sets?
When will we hear Governor Chet Culver say that he wants to rebuild a
"vanilla" Iowa, because that's the way God wants it?
Where is the hysterical 24/7 media coverage complete with reports of
cannibalism?
Where are the people declaring that George Bush hates white, rural
people?
How come in 2 weeks, you will never hear about the Iowa flooding ever
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| Gen3r4l1ty |
| Less dense population I'm guessing. |
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| diggerz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Gen3r4l1ty
Less dense population I'm guessing. |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by Gen3r4l1ty
Less dense population I'm guessing. |
this
nice try though, OP
racist.
:p
also, no one cares about iowa (except right before january third every four years)
i hadn't even seen the word since then before you posted it |
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| jonas |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
this
nice try though, OP
racist.
:p
also, no one cares about iowa (except right before january third every four years)
i hadn't even seen the word since then before you posted it |
I'm not a racist. I don't discriminate in my hate. :wtf: |
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| The17sss |
| Haha... yeah where is Shepard Smith demanding to know where the government is to get these people out like he was in N.O.? What happened in Katrina with the human tragedy is no less important than what happened in Iowa. We are talking about the mind-set of the media and the left that was on full display in the post-Katrina aftermath. You can even say, "Hey, look there was devastation over in Mississippi, but we didn't see Shepard Smith or Geraldo (in his opportunistic ways making sure he got on film rescuing a black baby from a flood) or Anderson Cooper. We didn't see 'em spending any time over in Mississippi, either," and we all know why. This was an excellent opportunity to bash Republicans and conservatives under the time-honored and old-hat cliche that they are racists and that they are bigots, and when a flood happens to minorities, "Republicans don't care. Bush doesn't care. I mean, Bush might have even steered the hurricane right in there! Bush wanted half the residents of New Orleans to leave so that the Republicans could win the state in future elections," and blah blah blah. I reached my boiling point listening to Al Gore bring this up, especially now with what's going on in Iowa. |
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| mezzir |
the media got tired of it
duh |
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| nefardec |
| obv. the government can't help too much or risk being accused of favoritism (and at the worst, racism) by katrina survivors :p |
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| diggerz |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
obv. the government can't help too much or risk being accused of favoritism (and at the worst, racism) by katrina survivors :p |
racist |
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| tubularbills |
Look. you cannot compare the iowa flooding and the new orleans flooding at all. these are TWO SEPERATE PLACES caused by TWO DIFFERENT METEOROLOGICAL EVENTS.
the flooding in Iowa has been due to thunderstorms and MCS's over and over and over and over and over and over...day after day after day after day after day. the levees that are breaking in Iowa/Missouri are because of heavy rains that are flowing day after day after day.
the flooding that occured in New Orleans was because of a Hurricane that overflowed 30ft waves into Lake Ponchatrain which then put a massive amount of force in a short amount of time, causing the already degraded levees to break. it happened in ONE DAY.
the media coverage on this of COURSE is going to be different because you've got two totally different scenarios. the idiots that stayed in new orleans are all complaining because their entire city was literally destroyed. the people in the midwest are complaining because their FARM was destroyed (plus a moderately sized city of Cedar Rapids).
there is no way to compare a 400k+ city in the south to 400+ 1k cities in the midwest. you just can't do it.
also, the flood waters have subsided in Iowa already. the floodwaters in new orleans stuck around for over a month.
you also have different coverage simply because of what Katrina did to the rest of the southern gulf states. from Slidell to Mobile, near billions of dollars of wreckage occurred. from a large-scale massive weather system that people were watching for nearly a WEEK before it hit. and the damage was to BUILDINGS, not just farmlands.
I realize that more than just farms were destroyed. look at Cedar Rapids, IA. but that's just not media-fancy.
no one ever cares about regular thunderstorms that happen night after night. it's just not news. nor will it ever be, unless there's tornadic activity. think about Manhattan, KS and K-State that got hit by a tornado. nearly leveled the campus. that's much more horrific looking than just a lot of flooded farms.
in the eyes of the average joe american, Iowa is just a farm state. that's it. just nothing but farms.
in the eyes of the average joe american, New Orleans was a metropolitan city that had culture, background, heritage.
no one gives a about iowa; and no one ever will. i bet half of you s can't even pinpoint iowa on a map. or get it confused with ohio.
weather and the media piss me off.:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :whip: |
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| diggerz |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
weather and the media piss me off.:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :whip: |
now that's ironic! |
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