I saw this clown on FoxNews emoting live—unfortunately—exemplifying everything I said here and here about able-bodied men expecting others to be the man in their place.
[Bob] Sellers: Could you ask him what he wants? What is he looking for?Read the entire transcript and/or watch the video.[Alicia] Acuna: Sure, hold on one second.
The anchor in New York would like to know--his name is Bob--he would like to know what it is that you would like to happen. What do you want?
Man: What I would like to happen? I would like for them to give us at least $20,000 apiece so we can, you know, get our life together. You know, we didn't ask to come on that bus, slave. It's like a slave ship. It's just like, you know, back in history, you know, they put us on a slave ship. They separated us from our family. They did it--you know, just modern-day slavery, you know? Just give us what the f--- we deserve.
You've heard of people expressing the desire to do damage to their TV when remarkable stupidity/cravenness/venality is displayed. Well, I finally had that impulse. (No, I didn't act upon it.)
There’s so much dreck in the whole last statement, it’s pointless to fisk it—it’s self-fisking. Many stories are emerging from other sources, however; stories of good men and women in bad situations and of bad men—in other words, stories of real people. I concede that they aren’t all stories of irresponsible men. (Those losers aren’t off the hook, however. Apparently I’m not the only one who noticed all those man-less women with children among the evacuees.)
From an email I received:
Two of our small [state omitted] towns have accepted 175 refugees from the hurricane. They are to stay at a local {organization omitted]. Rumor, not substantiated by official comment but by someone who was there, is that three were arrested before they got off the busses. Apparently some of the others reported to nurses on the bus that they were criminals or troublemakers and the nurses called ahead for the Sheriff to meet them. Once those three were arrested the other refugees were visibly relieved. This is being kept quiet but I know someone who was there.
It was heart breaking to hear their stories on the local TV. One man needed only one more years work to retire, one was a chemical factory worker (hired instantly by a local factory), one worked for the city, I believe one was a merchant, you get the idea. This is the opposite of what the MSM is telling. These are not poor, black, poverty stricken, non working, welfare expecting people. These are black Americans who consider themselves working middle class and who by natural disaster have lost all they have spent their lives working for. They arrived at 1am Sunday morning and some went to work this week. One man cried on camera in shame of not being able to take care of his family and having to accept charity. He also cried when he showed three handwritten pages of phone numbers and job offers he had received in a couple of days.
Why don’t the MSM—even FoxNews—stick microphones under such people? Because gratitude is boring and pontification about being a slave engenders outrage--and ratings.
(Thanks to James Taranto, who will catch a lot of unwarranted flak for that white woman remark.)
