[TimeStar] Rescue ticket & Mama Bush putting silver foot in Bush's mouth

[Frank Blazquez]

FYI...Just in case you all missed the remarks by Mama Bush this past 
Monday. She has only demonstrated the complete ignorance held by many on 
the upper rungs of the rich, privileged community and only adds more fuel 
to the already out of control fire. This is only the beginning....the 
potential civil, racial wars that will occur in many of the urban areas of 
this country. The US military already has urban war games that they 
undergo. It's not because we are bad people. It's because the masses have 
been led (duped more the case) by "bad" people and even this is an 
oversimplification of the matter.

Here in Chicago, Mama Bush's remarks are getting a lot of air play on the 
black radio stations and black community. We have a very deep artistic, 
cultural and historical connection with New Orleans and Mississippi and 
everyone knows of the Mississippi delta blues pipeline to Chicago in the 
20s, 30s and 40s....

Mitakuye Oyasin!
Frank Tekpatzin


Mother's remark puts silver foot in Bush's mouth
Chicago Tribune
John Kass
Published September 7, 2005

I was all set to defend President Bush as a guy who really doesn't want 
poor black people in Louisiana and Mississippi to die of starvation and 
disease, no matter what the Democrats say.

But then Barbara Bush, the president's mom, went and dusted off the Bush 
family silver foot Monday. And she used it.

While touring the Houston Astrodome, where thousands of Hurricane Katrina 
refugees have been huddling, Barbara Bush said they didn't have it so bad 
because, heck, they were poor to begin with.

"What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in 
Texas," she was quoted as saying in an interview on National Public Radio.

Thousands of hurricane refugees were sitting on or near their green army 
cots, perhaps thinking of lunch, presumably waiting to be fed something hearty.

Anything but cake.

"Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality," Barbara Bush said. And 
here comes the fastball over the middle of the Democratic plate:

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were 
underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

At least she didn't ask them to sing and dance. But I'm sure it's working 
out very well for them. How often does something nice like a hurricane come 
by and change your life so you can hang out with thousands of others in the 
Astrodome and have Barbara Bush say it wasn't so bad, because you were poor 
anyway?

By my calculations, Barb's foot is about a 10 1/2 EE, but by the time you 
read this on Wednesday, after Leno and Letterman get through with her, 
she'll have an EEEE at least. There should be some back teeth stuck to the 
pinky toe when the surgeon general finally pulls it out.

You've got to figure that somewhere, former Texas Democratic Gov. Ann 
Richards is smiling. It was Richards, or perhaps one of her pointy-headed 
ghostwriters, who came up with the devastating line about former President 
George H.W. Bush.

Richards said the former president couldn't be blamed for his 
misstatements, because he was born with a silver foot in his mouth. Now it 
turns out Barbara was in charge of the silver. She polished it up good and 
shiny. And in political terms, she put her foot in her son's mouth and 
knocked loose a few teeth.

I'm sure Barbara won't be able to fix things up just by bringing a lime 
Jell-O mold (with floating chunks of pineapple) over to the White House at 
suppertime.

"Son?"

"What, Ma?"

"I'm sorry what I said about those people. However, I did make Jell-O to 
cheer you up."

"With the chunks?"

Most of us have moms, but if we're lucky, they never made Jell-O with or 
without the hideous chunks. But most of us don't have moms who could start 
a war with China or overturn the Republican's Southern Strategy with a few 
choice words, like Barbara Bush just did.

Please don't get it into your head that my constant exposure to people in 
the mainstream media--many of whom are still peeved that Al Gore isn't 
president--has changed my political views. It hasn't.

But what Barbara Bush said can't be ignored. She's the former first lady, 
the current first grandmother, and she's no political cream puff.

Even though she's got that soft white hair and those crinkly blue eyes, she 
also has that deadly string of pearls and probably rattled them at Laura 
Bush when they first met, and Laura got flustered and blurted out that her 
two hobbies were reading and smoking.

Who wouldn't get flustered? I'm scared of her, too, and I've only seen her 
on TV.

Like the president, my mom's a Republican, so I called to warn her about 
what Barbara Bush said.

"No!" she said. "That can't be true."

I could hear her fingers typing on her laptop, frantically trying to get to 
The National Review Online, where she could find ammunition to refute such 
a heinous story created by the liberal mainstream media.

But it is true and she knows it now, and I had to remind her of something 
that all reporters and editors remind their families, particularly moms: 
Don't talk to reporters, ever.

It has nothing to do with journalists thinking we're famous or popular or 
that anyone cares what we say. It does have to do, however, with the 
ancient fear held by most humans (except for the Jerry Springer set) that 
anything our moms say may be embarrassing, that the women who brought us 
into the world can take us out of it with one foolish statement, a la 
Barbara Bush.

And, besides, we're reporters. We know what we're like.

So, what did I say about reporters?

"Never to talk to them, ever?" said my mom, who was a reporter once, but 
repeated this to humor me.

Exactly.

jskass at tribune.com




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>The black population was overwhelmingly democratic.  Whites were bushies.
>Dona
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>I rest my case.  This CNN article testifies to my observations of the New 
>Orleans area early in the Katrina rescue effort.  The people who required 
>rescue were voters deep in Bush country.
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>I hope these people see what their votes bought for them.  These are the 
>wages of neglecting the education, by giving landowners exemption, in a 
>democracy.
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>Krsanna
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>Rescue 'ticket'
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>Posted: 6:24 p.m. ET
>CNN's Drew Griffin in New Orleans, Louisiana
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>I am stunned by an interview I conducted with New Orleans Detective 
>Lawrence Dupree. He told me they were trying to rescue people with a 
>helicopter and the people were so poor they were afraid it would cost too 
>much to get a ride and they had no money for a "ticket." Dupree was shaken 
>telling us the story. He just couldn't believe these people were afraid 
>they'd be charged for a rescue.

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