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Bill O’Reilly: Wanker

I just ran across this link from Bill O’Reilly (because I avoid Faux News like the plague). In it Bill writes:

The Most Ridiculous Item of the Day

Our great ally France has offered the following in the wake of Katrina: 600 tents, 1,000 cots, some kitchen kits, 60 generators and 12 experts to advise the American Red Cross. --I hope they speak English.

Now I believe the 4-H Club of Bangor, Maine, has topped that offer.

Really? I work for a subsidiary of EADS. EADS donated the A300-600ST Super Transporter, nicknamed the Beluga, to transport the tents, cots, generators, and miscellaneous Hurricane Katrina aid equipment. I guess the 4-H Club of Bangor Maine has all that just sitting around, right?

Superfrenchie lists all the items donated:

- 20 25m2 tents, 20 4x4 meter tents, and 200 8x6 meter tarps
- 1,000 food rations (for 24 hrs)
- 6.1 tons of freight
- 4 autonomous personnel (Armed Forces et Civil Security) for 5 days
- 1 Airbus Beluga cargo plane loaded with 12.7 tons of freight (9 25m2 tents, 50 4x4 meter tents, 40 rolls of tarp, 170 8x12 meter tarps, 300 flexible jerry cans, 1,000 bars of heavy-duty soap, 500 cooking kits)
- 200 kg of phone and Internet equipment for reestablishing lines
- The municipality of Orléans is offering to welcome 50 students from Loyola University
- The French Red Cross is offering 18 staffers, and supplies to cover the immediate needs of 1,000 families (5,000 persons)
- Medical personnel (6 people) and water purification unit (1,500 liters of water per hour)
- 25 autonomous personnel (sniffer dogs, electronic equipment, chainsaws, winches, motorized pumps, drills) + medical team
- Medical staff that can care for 2,000 people for 10 days
- 2 doctors, 2 firefighters, 1 nurse, with resuscitation equipment and medicine
- 2 helicopters
- Water transport trucks (from the Houston branch of Veolia Corporation)
- The Total oil company has given $1 million to disaster relief

Bill O’Reilly is so obsessed about bashing France that he even denigrates the donations they are offering. Thankfully, France is ignoring him. France, the United Kingdom, and Germany all donated items to be transported to aid in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

I am glad Bill O’Reilly is not my neighbour. I can see it now… Bill’s house burns down flames and is a total loss. Being neighbourly, I would offer him and his family a room, warm food, and a place to shower. He would then yell at me that the Girl Scouts could have topped that offer. That is basically what he did to the French offer.