New Orleans Mayor, Ray Nagin stated that hopefully New Orleans will become a “chocolate” city once more and claimed “God was mad at America”. Those two remarks got little attention in th main-stream media. When the Islamic clerics blamed Katrina on God’s vengeance against the United States, again little was found in the media on this remark.
But Pat Robertson’s remarks concerning 9/11:
We have insulted God at the highest level of our government. Then, we say, "Why does this happen?" It is happening because God Almighty is lifting His protection from us. Once that protection is gone, we are vulnerable because we are a free society. (Source: PatRoberson.com)
Pat’s remarks refer to the fact that because America has become lack in it security and has allowed terrorist to freely enter our country. A fact that could have been prevented. But Nagin’s remark “God was mad at America” was reference to a natural catastrophe that could not have been prevented. But the loss of life could have been prevented if Nagin heeded the warning and instituted the evacuations when he had the chance.
As posted today on Times Watch:
After all, post-9-11 the Times ran three news stories devoted to televangelist Pat Robertson’s inflammatory comments suggesting the ACLU and other liberals shared some blame for the terrorist acts, and Robertson’s remarks cropped up on several occasions in the paper in the months afterward.
Nagin’s words, by contrast, have so far merited just today’s 90-word squib from the Associated Press, hanging off the end of a Times reporters story from New Orleans. It took a Nagin apology for the Times to notice.
Pat Robertson’s post 9/11 remarks more truth in it that Nagin’s post Katrina remarks. Nagin was obviously covering up his own deadly mistakes.