Saturday, August 30, 2008
Ex-DNC Chief's Cruel Comments Caught on Video
Dateline USA....
Get out your vomit bags and hold onto your seats.
RedState is featuring a video of former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler laughing and joking about Gustav, a category 4-5 hurricane that is expected to make landfall in the US in a few days.
Fowler says the hurricane's threat to New Orleans--it could hit the city during the Republican National Convention--demonstrates that "God is on our side."
Fowler made the comment in a conversation with Democratic Congressman John Spratt of South Carolina (5th District) during a flight from Denver, Colorado, to Charlotte, North Carolina, following the Democratic National Convention. A passenger captured the exchange on video and posted it on YouTube. Click below to screen it--an eyewitness video gem.
Click here for a bio of Fowler, and here, here, and here for background information concerning a ... foul ... fundraising scandal in which he was implicated and about which he testified before a US Senate committee.
Fowler is a familiar type to many journalists and pundits, someone who has lived off a political party--in Fowler's case, the Democrats--for most of his adult life.
UPDATE: Gustav, the hurricane that Fowler finds so funny, could be more dangerous than Katrina. It could also deal a devastating blow to oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico, which produce 1.3 million barrels a day of oil--about a quarter of US production, and 7.4 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas, which is 14 percent of the total.. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 closed 95 percent of regional offshore output and, along with Hurricane Rita, idled about 19 percent of US refining capacity. Is Fowler so fanatically anti-oil, so partisan and so fouled up, that he finds this amusing?
Get out your vomit bags and hold onto your seats.
RedState is featuring a video of former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler laughing and joking about Gustav, a category 4-5 hurricane that is expected to make landfall in the US in a few days.
Fowler says the hurricane's threat to New Orleans--it could hit the city during the Republican National Convention--demonstrates that "God is on our side."
Fowler made the comment in a conversation with Democratic Congressman John Spratt of South Carolina (5th District) during a flight from Denver, Colorado, to Charlotte, North Carolina, following the Democratic National Convention. A passenger captured the exchange on video and posted it on YouTube. Click below to screen it--an eyewitness video gem.
Click here for a bio of Fowler, and here, here, and here for background information concerning a ... foul ... fundraising scandal in which he was implicated and about which he testified before a US Senate committee.
Fowler is a familiar type to many journalists and pundits, someone who has lived off a political party--in Fowler's case, the Democrats--for most of his adult life.
UPDATE: Gustav, the hurricane that Fowler finds so funny, could be more dangerous than Katrina. It could also deal a devastating blow to oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico, which produce 1.3 million barrels a day of oil--about a quarter of US production, and 7.4 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas, which is 14 percent of the total.. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 closed 95 percent of regional offshore output and, along with Hurricane Rita, idled about 19 percent of US refining capacity. Is Fowler so fanatically anti-oil, so partisan and so fouled up, that he finds this amusing?
