Here's the transcript from part of a press conference with the mayor of New Orleans and General Honore, the one that came in to the area and took over, and has done a great job by all accounts so far. Notice how the General is trying to explain how people can get evacuated fromt he city before the next storm, Rita, hits land, and he keeps getting ignored so people can ask about the last storm. No freakin' wonder no one was prepared. Our society is set up so that the media can get a message to people far faster than the government, so the government tried to use that to tell people how to save themselves, and all the media cares about is trying to blame someoen for the past instead of helping for the future. Anyway, I love Honore's "stuck on stupid" phrase. My boss here at work overuses that phrase, but it definitely has its uses, and telling off an idiot reporter who refuses to acknowledge your warnings to evacuate is one of them.
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There's a guy at my work that uses that phrase too often too. I hadn't heard it anywhere else until now.
He usually uses it on inanimate objects, not unlike most of the mainstream press and LA politicians.
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