Newt: Katrina Victims Too "Uneducated" To "Get Out Of The Way"

Crooks & Liars March 4, 2007 09:30 PM

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How can you have the mess we have in New Orleans, and not have had deep investigations of the federal government, the state government, the city government, and the failure of citizenship in the Ninth Ward, where 22,000 people were so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane. (emphasis original)

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Hurricane Newt Blows In

03.04.2007 Harry Shearer

In case Newt hasn't been reading up, the folks in the Ninth Ward weren't caught by a hurricane. They were surprised by an eighteen-foot-high wall of water as their federally built flood protection structure failed.

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