Fox interview brings much desired answer
Published on September 8, 2005 By Baub In Current Events
On the Hannity and Colmes show, Jesse Jackson explained that the reason the school buses weren't used to evacuate the citizens of NO, was due to a lack of destination. Unfortunately, since there was no place for the buses to go, there was no reason to use them. Jesse didn't explain where he came across this information.
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on Sep 08, 2005
Destination? Just follow the mayor, he didn't seem to have any problem getting his butt out of New Orleans.
on Sep 08, 2005
Exactly. Jesse's explanation ranks up there with Nagin's demand to forget the school buses and bring in Greyhound buses.
on Sep 08, 2005
" Destination? Just follow the mayor, he didn't seem to have any problem getting his butt out of New Orleans."

Nor, it is alleged, did he have any problems taking tourists from the hotel near his office, putting them in the front of the line at the convention center, and then telling the people who had been there that there waiting that there was no room. I think if it can be proven he made that decision directly, he should be held responsible for every ill or elderly person who died there that was take pushed aside for tourists. At least as many as would fit in those buses that were chartered specifically for the tourists.

on Sep 08, 2005

Surely he can't be taking himself seriously? 

I suppose that the greyhound buses that Nagin wanted to commandeer didn't have a destination either, and that's why they didn't all rush down there?

This is going from the sublime to the ridiculous....

on Sep 09, 2005
Surely he can't be taking himself seriously?


I'm sure you've seen Jesse before; he takes himself very seriously. The impression I came away with was that there was supposed to be an engraved invitation or something? After all, isn't it demeaning to be a refugee, who is fleeing to parts unknown, versus a citizen who's been invited to visit another city?
on Sep 09, 2005
WHere did Jesse get that information?  Where the sun dont shine, but the rest of the fertilizer do.
on Sep 09, 2005
That's the new unanswered question. It's probably the same place he found the claims about racism in the hurricane response effort.
on Sep 09, 2005

It's probably the same place he found the claims about racism in the hurricane response effort.

I thought she was sexist?  You know, taking out all those SOB men and leaving the women unscathed?

on Sep 09, 2005
Darn, I'm getting my targeted populations mixed up!!! Sorry, I'm losing track...