"Keep the animals at bay"

Some bastard on CNN just said, and I quote:

"It was like lighting a fire in the wild, to keep the animals at bay."

He was describing what happened as night fell in New Orleans and they turned on all the lights on their news truck. A man had offered to pay him $30 for a gallon of gasoline so he could get his family out of the city.

What the fuck??

How the hell have news trucks been able to move about the city to utter racist bullshit like that? Why not scoop some of those people up and take them somewhere? Because they are afraid of "the animals?"

A reporter just asked Laura Bush, who is far more articulate than her husband by the way, what the world thinks about the fact that poor blacks were left behind as others were able to flee before the storm. She said, "That's what happens. The poor are the most vulnerable to natural disasters." At least she's honest. Emergency planners in New Orleans gaming "Hurricane Pam" last year estimated that 112,000 people in the city of about a half million don't have cars. That's about 20% of the city. They knew that these people, poor and mostly black, would be unable to evacuate the city in the case of an emergency evacuation. That's what happened. The poor were left to fend for themselves.

Laura just referred to her husband as "The President." I wonder if when she's at home, she says, "Mr. President, could you please pass the salt?"

...we've got to get to Wolf Blitzer in the situation room.