Wonkette heard it, too.

Wolf Blitzer on CNN, just now: "You see that picture [of people stranded on roofs or wading through water] over and over and over again but no matter how many times you see that picture, you simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals ... almost all of them are so poor, and so black..."

Right. If only they were a little less poor. Or a little less black. (Maybe there's a connection?)

At least I know I'm not crazy now.

while CNN has been really good on the whole, Blitzer has sucked as usual. He's been clueless about everything, even tho he's been there as the reporters are speaking. Their people in the field have been great, and MSNBC's too.

It's very true, and a damning indictment of all of us, that this wouldn't have gotten to this level of desperation if it was white suburbanites being affected instead of poor blacks.

You mean where told the truth? Yeah, he totaly must have 'misspoke'...

Help me with this - is Mr Blitzer really saying blahblahblah ?

When I become a porn star, I'm going to use the name Blitz Wolfer.

I might not ever say this again, but I have really liked a couple of the "in the field" guys on Fox News during this mess. One guy has been on that overpass calling people and bitching about how nobody was coming to help and every five minutes he was telling the location and making them show how many people were stuck there.

I should point out I mean day before yesterday and early yesterday, as I have not watched any of the coverage last night or today.

Help me with this - is Mr Blitzer really saying blahblahblah ?

I remember seeing that happen earlier, the blahblahs are placeholders for whatever the hell he was saying. Might as well have been "blah blah blah"

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"You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals, as Jack Cafferty just pointed out, so tragically, so many of these people, almost all of them that we see, are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story
unfold."

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"Oh my god, Becky, look ... at ... her ... butt."

A video! My prayers are answered.

[plays video]
hears voice: "...they are {{{soooo}}} black"
sees screen: black man waiving a white flag for distress
Think the commentator could have said something better at the time.

Hmmm… wtf can “so black” mean when you first report about the person being the poor of the poor, no subtracting to this status. Answer, none needed since the people being discussed are humans with names.

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Jack Cafferty, "It's embarrassing"

...and this is going to raise lots of questions for people who are watching this story unfold...

Doesn't that provide the context to understand what he was saying? It seems to me that he's saying that here we have people that were clearly abandoned in a way that it's impossible not to be terribly ashamed off. And the images we see underline over and over that these people who were abandoned are poor and black.

Maybe the problem is with the "so". But that makes perfect sense, too. There's poverty and blackness that is palatable to white America, and there's poverty and blackness that makes them uncomfortable. The latter is in the "very prominant" category. Remember the complaints about The Cosby Show that, well, of course America loved that family, they might as well have been a white family?

I think this is what Blitzer was saying, and I think he's right. It's impossible not to see that there's a reason these people were abandoned, and it's because they are "so poor", and "so black". It's why it's so easy for so many to blame them.

This is the true underclass, and they've been abandoned for a long, long time. In any given policy matter, they don't count. They don't count when plans are being made to evacuate the city, and they don't count when people talk about education, and they don't count when people talk about unemployment or health care.