Tucker the Fucker

9/21/05



In the aftermath of Katrina, here are some quotes from some important people in the federal government. They reveal a serious lack of competence, compassion, responsibility, accountability and leadership.

I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did anticipate a serious storm, but these levees got breached and as a result, much of New Orleans is flooded - and now we're having to deal with it, and we will.

President George W Bush - September 1, 2005
On ABC’s “Good Morning America”
Showing off his knowledge of the situation.

So we planned for it two years ago. Last year, we exercised it. And unfortunately this year, we're implementing it.

FEMA Director Michael Brown - August 31, 2005
On CNN’s “Larry King Live”
Discussing FEMA’s pre-hurricane preparation and response.

Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.

President George W Bush - September 2, 2005
In Mobile, Alabama
Congratulating Michael Brown on his job performance.

This is a city built on the coast in an area that has hurricanes in it that is built below sea levels and that is a soup bowl. People have talked for years about, you know, whether it makes sense to have a city like that.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff - September 4, 2005
On NBC’s “Meet the Press”
Evidently trying to blame the unfolding natural and bureaucratic catastrophe on New Orleans itself for existing in the first place.

We just learned of the Convention Center,we being the federal government, today.

FEMA Director Michael Brown – Sept. 1, 2005
On ABC’s “Nightline”
Trying to explain why the lack of support for several thousand people stranded at the Convention Center with no food and water for two days was not HIS fault.

I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water."

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff – September 1, 2005
On NPR’s “All Things Considered”
Explaining why HE is not to blame for the misery at the Convention Center.

What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them.

Barbara Bush - September 5, 2005
In the Houston Astrodome
Trying to cause an armed revolt in 2005, just like there was under the first George Bush in Los Angeles in the early 1990s.

If these statements do not immediately enrage you and you are still holding on to the pipedream that this administration gives a shit, this piece of writing appeared in the The Times-Picayune in 2002. The New Orleans based newspaper were not the only media outlet that had written about this scenario (Pieces also appeared in National Geographic and CNN among others) but this article seems to be the one that was the most accurate.

Tim Russert read it out loud on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on September 4, 2005:

...A major hurricane could decimate the region, but flooding from even a moderate storm could kill thousands. It's just a matter of time. ... The scene's been played out for years in computer models or emergency operations simulations... New Orleans has hurricane levees that create a bowl with the bottom dipping lower than the bottom of Lake Pontchartrain. ...the levees would trap any water that gets inside-- by breach, overtopping or torrential downpour--catastrophic storm. ... The estimated 200,000 or more people left behind in an evacuation will be struggling to survive. Some will be housed at the Superdome, the designated shelter for people too sick or inform to leave the city. ...But many will simply be on their own, in homes or looking for high ground. Thousands will drown while trapped in homes or cars by rising water. Other will be washed away or crushed by debris. Survivors will end up trapped on roofs, in buildings or on high ground surrounded by water, with no means of escape and little food or fresh water, perhaps for several days.

Given all that is known about the performance of this administration during this crisis. After watching this administration allow one of the most important global cultural centers in the western hemisphere turn into a den of anarchy and chaos. After viewing the sickening images of American citizens, stranded on rooftops and cavernous hellholes for days, begging for food and water and not receiving it. After learning that this administration knew that upwards of 100,000 American citizens were stranded in hip high sewage sludge and chemical waste, hot temperatures and unbearably humid air, surrounded by decaying corpses and debris, and still did not get off their asses, this is what Tucker Carlson had to say to his guest Bill Maher on the MSNBC show "The Situation with Tucker Carlson" on September 20, 2005:

One serious doushbag.

"Aren't you repulsed by Clinton's never ending self-righteousness? The other day, over the weekend, he says essentially, I would have done a better job responding to Katrina because I am a better person, great guy, look at me, great administration. Doesn't the constant bragging make you want to throw up?"





Bill Clinton's performance during this disaster makes Fucker want to throw up?

What do the other guys make him feel like doing? Does he get aroused watching Bush fuck up yet again and start rubbing his hand up and down his shaft until he produces an ejaculation?

How can anybody take anything any of these pied pipers of fecal matter say seriously?

I am reminded of the time I was getting a ride home with a self-described “somewhat conservative” guy back in the late 1990s. It was around the time the Republican Party was outraged about the behavior of Bill Clinton and were pushing full speed ahead with an impeachment proceeding because President Clinton “disgraced the office of the President…”

I’m sorry. I had to pause for a minute after writing that sentence because it is just so ridiculously funny!

Anyway, this is when right wing talk radio was really in full gear. All of the shit heads (Rush Limbaugh, Et. Al.) were in full gear. I personally never listened to them during this period for two reasons:

1) I had a decent job which required my full attention to perform. I’ve noticed, over the years, there is a direct correlation between the quality and quantity of my employment status and which party the President of the United States belongs to.

2) I found most of the point of views spewed were just childish variations of the angry white guy spiel which I found personally uninteresting because, after all, I was no longer in High School, either physically or intellectually. You know the kind of themes I am talking about: Fear of women; Fear of Immigrants; Fear of Minorities; Fear of Homosexuals; etc. You get the point, the key word was fear which, as we all know, easily develops into Hate or vice-versa.

So my friend has one of these guys on (Could have been Savage, but I really don’t remember, nor care for that matter) and for the last thirty minutes of the ride I was subjected to caller after caller yelling about Hillary Clinton (Who was the only the First Lady at the time) followed by passionate ranting and raving by the host agreeing with and egging on the listeners.

Like I mentioned before, I never listened to these shows before so I was finding out interesting information like, Hillary was a murderer; She was a lesbian; She was a Con woman; A thief and of course she was evil incarnate.

Do you see the recurring theme?

Although the language differed slightly, every caller, and the ringleader host himself, all said the same thing,

Shut your fucking mouth you uppity bitch and get back in the kitchen. And if you don’t shut that pie hole the fuck up, learn your place and get pregnant, we’ll shut it for you.

I thought these primitive “talking points” were coming in loud and clear and, to be perfectly frank, I was dismayed, disgusted and disturbed.

As we arrived in front of my house I felt so dirty and appalled that I deemed it necessary to say something. I told my friend that I was just subjected to at least 30 minutes of hate and bile and I did not find it, nor could I possibly find it anywhere near entertaining which seemed to be his take on this idiot’s rants.

At that point, with a deadly serious facial, he told me:

I am so pissed and fed up at what’s going on right now and what this guy and the Democrats are doing to this country. And I’m not alone.

He was very serious.

It was just that I had no idea what he was so mad about:

The great economy?
The years of peace?
The President’s general intelligence and charisma?
His own cock size?

I really had no idea.

I just wonder sometimes, after watching this administration in action for the last five years, a real bunch of responsible problem solvers, on whose watch we have seen:

The economy tank

The World Trade Center, the symbol of our prestige, attacked and destroyed

The Pentagon, the symbol of our security, attacked

The invasion of Iraq with no plan, victory or exit strategy, that has cost thousands of lives and counting

The price of gasoline hit $3 a gallon

The price of low grade meat hit $5 a pound

The price of milk go over $1 a quart

The destruction of one of the cultural mother lodes of North America

The abandonment of thousands of US citizens in unconscionable situations

…just how pissed is he now?

As plain as the nose on your face
Sixth Army