I heard via Al Frankin yesterday that apparently there were not 2000 busses of any kind on NOLA. This number, which has been repeated by so many people on both sides by now, seems to have come out of the thin air that wingers often fly in.
Media Matters story:
ABC's Stephanopoulos repeated school bus falsehood spread by Pruden, Hannity, and Gingrich
...dramatically overstated the number of New Orleans school buses. As of 2003 ... New Orleans' public schools, owned only 324 school buses. In addition ... RTA owned 364 public buses, bringing the total of the city's public transit and school buses to fewer than 700 (assuming the fleet of school buses has not been dramatically increased since 2003), far fewer than the 2,000 Pruden claimed."
The 2000 busses talking point is echoing through water cooler conversations and email debates and soforth all across the country. It is being used as one more way to shift blaim to the local level*. And it is B.S.!
Please recommend so we can at least get the thousands of Kossacks aware of this lie!
If anyone knows that this has been diaried, let me know.
Of course, this doesn't take the heat of Nagin completely nor should it, but the truth should be known.
THERE WERE NEVER 2000 BUSSES IN NEW ORLEANS!!!
I REPEAT:
THERE WERE NEVER 2000 BUSSES IN NEW ORLEANS!!!
probably not even once in the entire history of that city.