"Don't Get Stuck on Stupid!"

If you haven't already heard, listen to General Honore, the man in charge of New Orleans and the one now responsible for evacuating New Orleans again if needed.

In a conversation with reporters Honore is trying to explain the evacuation procedure for the city, so that reports can relay this info onto the general public. However, the reports don't care about the public welfare: they want to reminisce in the failures of the initial evacuation. They want to talk about that great bad stuff they have been bathing in for the past few weeks. And General Honore will have none of it:

Honore: We are not going to go, by order of the mayor and the governor, and open the convention center for people to come in. There are buses there. Is that clear to you? Buses parked. There are 4,000 troops there. People come, they get on a bus, they get on a truck, they move on. Is that clear? Is that clear to the public?

Female reporter: Where do they move on...

Honore: That's not your business.

Male reporter: But General, that didn't work the first time...
Honore: Wait a minute. It didn't work the first time. This ain't the first time....

...You're asking last storm questions for people who are concerned about the future storm. Don't get stuck on stupid, reporters. We are moving forward. And don't confuse the people please. You are part of the public message. So help us get the message straight....

Male reporter: General, a little bit more about why that's happening this time, though, and did not have that last time...

Honore: You are stuck on stupid. I'm not going to answer that question. We are going to deal with Rita. This is public information that people are depending on the government to put out. This is the way we've got to do it. So please. I apologize to you, but let's talk about the future. Rita is happening. And right now, we need to get good, clean information out to the people that they can use. And we can have a conversation on the side about the past, in a couple of months.

Hehe. If only the General could talk to a few more reporters...