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...radio talk-show host in Los Angeles asked Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice if it was true that President Bush does not care about black people. (She said no.) A man standing in the ruins in Gulfport, Miss., told the Vice President, "Go f___ yourself." (He smiled.) And the mayor of New Orleans secretly decamped for much of the week to Dallas to install his family there, refusing most media interviews, although the bodies had only begun to be counted in his drowned city. Even as soldiers swarmed into the Gulf Coast and residents scattered onto dry land around...
...accused preferred a cleaner narrative. The President's supporters put out the word that the mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana had botched the response, and the feds were only cleaning up their mess. The locals seemed flabbergasted by such claims, insisting that the crisis had immediately overwhelmed their capacity and that the feds had failed to step into the vacuum...
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...want to see anybody do any more goddamn press conferences...Don't do another press conference until the resources are in the city." RAY NAGIN, New Orleans mayor, complaining in a radio interview about the slow pace of relief efforts...
...Thursday night, the mayor of New Orleans had had enough and vented his spleen on a local radio station, WWL-AM. "This is ridiculous. I don't want to see anybody do any more press conferences," said Nagin. "We authorized $8 billion to go to Iraq lickety-quick. After 9/11, we gave the President unprecedented powers lickety-quick to take care of New York and other places," he said. "You mean to tell me that a place where you probably have thousands of people that have died and thousands more that are dying every day, that we can't figure...