Like SilentPatriot, I heard about this over the weekend, but actually hearing these words come out of Gringrich's mouth makes it that much more striking.
"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."Video at the link.
I don't care if you like to point the blame for Katrina at Bush, Nagin, or anyone else. But to blame the victims of this disaster for what happened to them, and on top of that, to call them bad citizens and stupid is just reprehensible.
Like after Coulter's "joke," the applause speaks volumes.
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