Great show, I loved the one from Iraq with the lady talking to people from that prviate security company.

NPR does an incredible job in documenting the valient efforts of the state and local governments and the dismal failure of the federal government. The stories, "Katrina Timeline", is in two parts and is found through the following links:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4839666 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4839669

I think it is important for everyone to know exactly what happened in order to sludge through the lies and informations spat out this administration. NPR also has a large collection of amazing and informative aritcles on www.npr.org.

did they speed this up, or does he really talk that fast? slow down, dude. :)

A great audio track related to Katrina would be the song Kanye West sung at the Red Cross telethon. Powerful stuff. Perhaps too Jesus-y for onegoodmove, though.

Wow, listening to Act 1... the gang bangers organized to help people and prevent rapes.

It's amazingly sad to hear those in fear. It is hard to tell who the good guys are at this point in time! You have to remember that police officers are not the highest and brightest people in the USA.

We live in a time where the poor and uneducated fight our wars and protect our nation. They are lead by elitists who give orders which the poor and uneducated must obey. It is a bit of a generalization but only those with no thought process follow orders directly.

We will continue live in despair because we expect so little of those at the top of the chain of command. This will not change because those that work from 9am-5pm will not have time or the resources to see the world around them. This creates a steady lack of reality. This is not because they do not care, but because they do not have the time.

I believe that our problem is not so much one person, (Mr. Bush), but our own thoughts or better yet lack our lack of thought is the true problem. Please do not pray for people in harms way! Instead read a book. Sit and think on your own. Use thought and not prayer. We are being swallowed up by a national catastrophe (Hurricane Katrina) and missing that we are allowing this problem to continue by listening to elitists and charlatans.

I feel sad that our country and its people are drained of hope.

We select our national leaders not because they can lead but because they have power. This power will not be used towards us, but instead towards themselves. Very few national leaders listen to a person's soul because a majority can only hear the screams of a person's bank account.

More Ira at: http://www.thislife.org

I appreciate what you're saying, Dr., but after listening to the audio I think the Gretna Sherrif's Dept. will be facing criminal charges.

The segment about the people being refused to cross the bridge made me sick. Just get the transciption of this tape, replace "New Orleans" by "concentration camp" and "Gretna county police" by "SS" and that is all the changes it needs to transfer the events of 2005 to Poland of the year 1942.

In listening to "Forgotten But Not Lost" I cried at the end. It occurred to me that the same scenario happened in Nazi Germany - where people with the right credentials lied about family ties to get others out. I never thought I would see this in my own country. I am sick.... We are sick... The woman who speaks in the piece "The Convention Center" - her mother is a nurse and she is exmilitary. Would her story be as strong and credible if she was a nobody. This woman is me - same type of work, we both have degrees, most likely the same socioeconomic demographic - except she is black and I am white. She was stranded. As were the paramedics on vacation. Which blows a hole in Bill O'Reilley's theorey. Note the white paramedics got out - also showing this was not just about class. WE as Americans - as a people - have to do better than this.

While I was writing my comment "guyfromoldeurope" was writing his. The correlation and the timing is striking. By the way - It is September 11th I feel as sick now as I did that day.

BTW, Thanks, Norm, for posting the audio links in addition to the video clips. I usually catch the Daily Show and Bill Maher, but not always, and I certainly can't keep up with all the information out there. Thanks for putting it all together.

I really have a sickening feeling in my stomach after listening to all the audio clips. I knew it was bad, and I certainly suspected it was worse than even I imagined, but really, after hearing all the heart-breaking testimony from sensible people, I realize I had no idea.

Again, Norm, thanks for the links. Heartbreaking, heartwrenching stuff.

thank you for posting this.

If you call the Gretna, LA police (1-504-366-4374)and ask about the story, first the police operator says "I have heard those stories and they are absolutely ridiculous. Let me transfer you to someone who can clear this up." Then you get someone named Shmidt who says "I am not allowed to make public comments and if you would leave your name and number the Cheif will get back to you if he has time." I smell a coverup, with bodies underneath!

Arthur Lawson (chief of police of the Gretna Police Department) needs to be fired for closing the only exit out of New Orleans during the flood. Call his office at 504 366 4374 and demand his resignation.

So according to O'Reilly, the GOP is a party dedicated to trying to get the public to elect people--who believe the government can't be relied upon--to run the government. So when we actually elect them, they are forced to choose between proving themselves right or doing a competent job.

I'm not sure what O'Reilly means by the lesson that the government cannot be relied upon, especially if you're poor. But if you look at what actually happened, he must mean that you can't expect the police and the legal system to be anything more than a private security force for the affluent and their property. It seems to mean that there is not such thing as equality before the law. I don't believe that these things are true, by and large, but when we hear this we're getting into the sort of Ayn Rand nightmare world where the right wing and the radical left basically agree on the way the world works. Only difference is that the right wing thinks it's great.

Thanks for posting. I missed the show. I will catch a repeat tonight...thanks for reminding me to set my alarm clock.

The bit about the closed bridge was unreal. Sounded like "Escape from New York" a very old movie. But on this one there was no escaping Mr. Arthur Lawson. How I wish someone had a camera at the time...

You know, if one person in America deserves the tar and feather treatmet, it's Bill O'Reilly.

What a repugnant, ignorant, arrogant, bullying, and self-satisfied prick. He's the avatar of the ugliness that infects the right-wing with great virulence.

I imagine Nazi Germany had a whole host of shitbird bully demagogues like O'Reilly during its rise. Replace the word 'liberal' with 'Jew' in some of O'Reilly's tirades and tell me there isn't a congruency with the more vile Nazi rhetoric of the 1920's and 30's.

The thing that is most apalling about this entire situation is that I find myself forced to agree with Bill O'Reilly. Truly, the world is coming to an end.

Like the comment from Barbara Bush, we stand shocked and awed by their audacity; but the giant elephant in the room is that they are right. It's difficult for us to accept that, because we believe that acknowledgement somehow equals resignation.

It doesn't.

Once we overcome our conditioning (come on, you don't really think that neocons are the only ones out there brainwashing their followers, do you?) and realize that we must acknowledge it and accept responsibility for our part in it (and anyone who has ever partied on Bourbon St. has a share the size of their hangover), we can work to fix it.

But like recovering addicts, we have to first admit the problem.

As much as I don't want O'Reilly to be right, he is. Calling him an asshole won't change that. In fact, we' re the assholes for letting him claim the high ground on this one.