{"id":471,"date":"2005-09-23T15:11:16","date_gmt":"2005-09-23T20:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=471"},"modified":"2005-09-23T15:11:16","modified_gmt":"2005-09-23T20:11:16","slug":"telling-it-like-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"Telling It LIke It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good for Joe Scarborough of MSNBC for ripping off the sanctimonious shrouds of FEMA and the Red Cross.<br \/>\nMr. Scarborough&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8791344\/#050923a\" target=\"_blank\">September 13 column <\/a>recounts two incidents in which civilians like himself were turned away by so-called relief agencies when they tried to help some of the Katrina evacuees.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nAs Mr. Scarborough put it: <em>There is a level of arrogance.  All of these groups are like rival gangs.  I have seen it first-hand.  Every politician on the ground has seen it first-hand.  These people would rather have people in their areas suffer than not get the credit for helping them out.<\/em><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve run into this recently myself, on a much smaller scale.  I call it the same as Mr. Scarborough: an unbecoming display of petty jealousy and territorialism.<br \/>\nAnyway, I&#8217;m glad I passed on Senator\/Mrs. Dole&#8217;s old organization and donated to the Salvation Army instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good for Joe Scarborough of MSNBC for ripping off the sanctimonious shrouds of FEMA and the Red Cross. Mr. Scarborough&#8217;s September 13 column recounts two incidents in which civilians like himself were turned away by so-called relief agencies when they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=471\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}