Mike you are a jagbag...

for comparing the worse natural disaster in 100 years to a damn flood. 30,000 people are still missing from a HURRICANE.. Mike North you are a jagBAG

The man is dangerously stupid. There were corpses floating down the street in New Orleans, people were trapped without access to fresh water, and this dipshit is making comparisons.

Mike will tell you and tell you he isn't a racist, but make no mistake, that is what is happening here. The stoic Whites of middle America don't whine when nature hands them a lemon, unlike those cry baby blacks down in New Orleans, who can't help themselves. THAT is the subtext of this moron's statements.

Oh, and to make matters worse, he's freaking cribbing from Rush Limbaugh, who basically said the same thing a few days ago.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/17/rush-limbaugh-attacks-black-katrina-victims-and-praises-whites-as-the-floods-hit/

He's not the first or only one to make the comparison

I'm sure there are others, and they are just as off based as North is.

People in Iowa first used the comparison to try to draw attention to the seriousness of their plight. Monday's headline in the Trib: "This is our Katrina". It may not be the same thing in terms of loss of life or in terms of financial disaster, but try telling that to someone who has lost everything.

Spending my summers in Iowa as a kid and while in college and knowing those areas, I can say for sure that the $$ impact will be plenty. Any crop of anything is now gone and it will be at least the end of July, if they are lucky, before they can get back to farming, which at the end of crop year, that money loss will be very, very bad. Is it Katrina, no, but it could go down as one of the worse this country has seen.

For example one farmer who has 5000 acres lets say he grows corn. He has one crop for the year he has lost it. They might be able to reseed and regrow if the weather holds long enough, but thats assuming the fields will be dry enough or there wont be more flooding. So that means if they dont reseed they have lost their crop, paid overhead for nothing and of course there is always the fuel they wasted on this. We will all feel the impact pretty soon when we go to the grocery store and are paying more.

I switched the station from 1000 during a commercial break this morning just to take a listen and find out if his show had improved. I caught him rambling on about the floods and that you do hear the people in Iowa whining like the people in New Orleans. A caller got on and tried to call North on it and he (North) kept screaming and talking over the guy asking if him if he was "outta his mind". His flunky kept agreeing with North sounding like Ed McMahon or something. A comment was then made if Spike Lee was going to do a documentary about it, North said no but if it was in Dolton he would. This guy is a racist and his comments continue to support everything that is being said negativiely about him. I was appaled at the comparison he was making between the two events (flood and hurricane). This guy is unreal!!!!!!!

This isn't just a little water in someone's basement, this flood is pretty major. Yeah, there weren't as many lives lost because of this, it is comparing apples to watermelons, but don't sell the people in the flood regions short. They lost a lot, and will probably lose more, as RV says.

I don't think Mike was trying to compare the different tragedies. What Mike was focusing on was the behavior of the Iowa/Illinois residents as compared to those in New Orleans. Im not sure he is right and I think he is essentially implying a backhanded, racist comment towards the people of New Orleans. It was a horrible tragedy and its human nature to act the way people from New Orleans did. I could never blame them for having those feelings after what they went through. Its a two way street and both sides had their failures. Im sure if you really start talking to a lot of people from Iowa, you may start to hear the same reactions you heard after Katrina.

I think people learned alot from Katrina they learned that the Federal Government can't help and the only thing state and local governments can do is tell you to leave or open a shelter.

And I also think that people have accepted the danger of living in an area where a natural disaster is possible. There is little man can do against nature.

As for North who knows what the man is thinking besides where his next job will be.

That just about sums things up Dikaia. +1

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Let me be clear about this. The flooding IS a tragedy, and there is no doubt people have lost EVERYTHING. A person who lost a home in Katrina is NO worse off than a person who lost a home in Iowa or Illinois.

The problem is, the "whining" from people had almost NOTHING to do with property or financial loss (that came later, some justified, some not). It had EVERYTHING to do with the fact that these people were trapped, were dying, had no access to fresh water, had almost no access to food, and had almost no access to rudimentary sanitation. And it went on for DAYS. In the most powerful country in the world, it took 3 days to get some people a bottle of water. In this regard, the 2 situations are in no way comparable.

This cosmically stupid idiot keeps making fun of the people going to the Superdome, as if they had a choice. THEY WERE TRAPPED. His ignorance, is at times, overwhelming.

Nort acts like the poor people in New Orleans were supposed to just pack up the Range Rover and get out of town.

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North's stupidity reaches new heights everyday. As soon as I heard this ass clown talking about the flood, I turned the station. Do I turn on all all-sports talk station to hear some fucking illiterate tool give me his uneducated opinion about Katrina or a flood? Fuck no. Same with his talk about race or politics. He has a hard enough time discussing sports. When he ventures outside of sports, he is way out of his league.

When he talks about sports, he is way out of his league...

The midwest flooding probably effects more area than Katrina, the flooding is easier to deal with than the geographically constrained New Orleans. That problem is what cut people off from rescue and aid. Fortunately for midwesterners they have plenty of exits and areas in which to stay dry.

They also benefit from the fact that this occured 15 years ago in 1993. So there was predictable patterns of flooding and local and state officials knew what to do.

With Katrina no one knew what to do the local and state governments had no idea that it would be that bad and weren't able to get people out. And the Federal goverenmnet was slow because of these geograpphic issues.

Mike has a point that there have been no cases of looting in the midwest because everyone there is calm and know what to do for the most part.

While it doesn't excuse the people of New Orleans for looting they were cut off and were thrown into a life in which they had no context of living in.

Mike if you could be a little more thoughtful in your political commentary (or any part of your show really) maybe you wouldn't be on the chopping block that said I don't look to anyone in the world of sports radio for political punditry.

Just not their job, but they are entitled to their opinions as I am entitled to the tuning knob.

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North is a absolute buffoon , GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!!

The flooding is terrible no matter where you are. If you lose a house, it doesn't matter where you are, but the sudden rise of water in New Orleans and the concept of being stranded was what made things terrible in New Orleans.

I do not think the people in Iowa would have looting and raping if put in the same situation though.

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