Don't Mess with Ray Nagin- He will Cold Cock You!!!

Ahh Ray Nagin. By the way I supported him in the New Orleans Mayor's race when he ran against Mitch Landrieu. All for valid reasons.

However boy does he give some quotes. The Dead Pelican has this WWL link.(see link for the vid too. Its wild. It goes beyond the transcript. lol). I generally like Ray Nagin but sometimes he goes into bizarro land. My comments are in the red


Nagin: I am sick of this
10:23 AM CST on Thursday, February 21, 2008
WWLTV.com
The following is a transcript of the second half of Mayor Ray Nagin's Morning Show interview with Eric Paulsen and Sally Ann Roberts.

Paulsen: 2008 started out with a boom. Do you feel you get the kind of credit you deserve for that?

Nagin: My disappointment is the way some in the media are handling me personally…Our local newspaper for example had me pointing a gun at the police chief, this got all over the internet, all over the nation, and is now sitting on the most racist web sites in America, hate groups now have that picture, so now I am personally more at risk, my family is more at risk. (Let me say I follow white hate groups and they are a serious thing. However I feel pretty confident that Nagin is not high on their list)And I’m a little upset with this station cause you advertising about the ratings, about what’s getting ready to happen with my schedule, you put my personal schedule out there, I am coming back to the station and me and your news director are going to be out in the parking lot having a good one on one.(So now the Mayor of New Orlean's public schedule can not be talked about? I mean goodness we broadcast the Presidents but we can't Nagins?)
You do not put my family at risk.

Paulsen: This was a schedule from last year.(LOL)
Nagin: I don’t care. That schedule has formal stuff on it. It has patterns on it and now you have these Aryan race people focused on me and you have some mental cases out in this community and you’re getting ready to put my schedule out there. Where are the other elected official’s schedule? ( The Aryan Nations does not care about Nagin for Goodness sake.) Are you going to do a follow up on that? This has gone beyond the point of reasonableness.


Paulsen: You have to understand that you’ve been a lightning rod.
Nagin: I am sick of this. I have busting my butt bringing this city back. We’re getting ready to get into 2008 and it’s going to be more than a tipping point. This city will go to the next level. This is ridiculous. It’s personal. It’s vindictive. The election is over. If you supported somebody else, get over it.

Paulsen: Would you do anything different, looking back?
Nagin: I don’t know. Nobody has ever done this. Nobody has taken a city from being totally devastated to where we are now. I don’t know. All I know is that I’ve alienated some people who have significant influence in this community and they are relentlessly trying to destroy and undermine me and I don’t appreciate it. ( I have no idea what brought this episode of paronoia on)

Roberts: People who are listening to you speak, people who care about you, may be worried about you because of your emotional state. ( we have a winner)
Nagin: Because it’s crossed the line Sally, it’s gotten personal now. I don’t appreciate the fact that I’m being exposed and my family is being exposed now. That was not part of this deal.

Paulsen: You’ve gotten a lot of heat over the past couple of years. I’ve never seen you this emotional.
Nagin: Well because, your newscast, the local newspapers, are feeding these awful, ugly talk shows that are feeding these blogs. If you go look at some of these blogs out there and some of the stories that come from the paper and you read the comments, it’s some of the most vile, angry, people that I’ve ever seen in this community.

Paulsen: Are you concerned about your safety.
Nagin: I’ve got coverage. If somebody approach me wrong, I’m going to cold cock them. That’s the bottom line. You can come with that foolishness if you want, but you’ll see a side of Ray Nagin that you haven’t seen.

Roberts: There are people who are in the hot seat all over the country and they may have complaints about how they are perceived, because as a public official, as the leader of this city, you’re going to get some complaints. That goes with the job.
Nagin: You don’t take a position where I’ve got a gun pointing up to the roof that has total safety control and I move it to put it down and you put a picture of me looking like I’m going to shoot the doggone police chief and say I’m getting ready to do something to him.