From Rush Limbaugh:
The money sound bite is from Lieutenant General Russell "Ragin' Cajun" Honore. He has a press conference. (sigh) I guess I gotta play all of these. I don't want to play all of these. I got four of these things and the money one is the last one. I'll go to the money one. I'll set this up. He's got a press conference. The mayor is getting questions, and Honore gets fed up and takes over the press conference, because he gets fed up with the questions that the reporters are asking.
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So he's getting frustrated because he knows that he's just facing a bunch of people that are confrontational and argumentative and are really not interested in the facts of what he's saying and he's down there trying to help people find their way back out of this town, as Hurricane Rita threatens the area with more flooding. An unidentified reporter says, "Just understand a little bit more about why that's happening this time, though, and did not happen last time. The question here: Why are you doing it this time and you didn't do it last time?"
HONORE: You are stuck on stupid. I'm not going to answer that question. We've got to deal with Rita. This is public information that people are depending on the government to put out. This is the way we gotta do it. So please, I apologize to you, but let's talk about the future. Rita is happening. Right now we need to get good, clean information out to the people that they can use, hooah? and we can have a conversation on the side about the past a few months from now.
RUSH: Yeah, "In which I will give you the riot act is what he's saying."
"You are stuck on stupid." That the line of the day. That the perfect response to any badgering reporter's question: You are stuck on stupid. Yeah, he said it. He said it twice. He said, "Don't get stuck on stupid," and then somebody asked him a stupid question and he said, "You are stuck on stupid." Now, understand what the press conference was about. Here's Honore announcing the plan to get whoever is still left in New Orleans out of town, and they've got the buses lined up this time, and you'll note that the mayor, he's not the one that's ultimately giving these orders. Honore takes over this press conference, and the reporters keep asking him, "How come you're doing it right this time? How come it didn't happen last time?"
"You are stuck on stupid." The person to ask that question to is Mayor Nagin. The person to ask that question to is Governor Blanco. By the way, in the press, do any of you ever see the words "Democrat mayor Ray Nagin" or "Democrat governor, Kathleen Blanco"? No, tell me. I haven't seen it, but others may have. Have you seen it, Mr. Snerdley? Democrat governor once in a while, but I remember "Republican Secretary of State Katherine Harris" all over, Republican Supreme Court nominee, Republican this, Republican that. But hardly any mention of the political party affiliation of the mayor, Ray "School Bus" Nagin and the Governor Kathleen "I should have called the military in sooner" Blanco.
