NAGIN: "FAKE but ACCURATE! April Fools!"
Posted on 09/27/2005 11:36:58 AM PDT by andyk
NAGIN: "FAKE but ACCURATE! April Fools!"
And many many people bought it.
But, but, but Chrissy Matthews said that the media has done a fabulous job of reporting with Katrina...-sarc
From: http://www.radioblogger.com/#001017 - Hardball transcript
Matthews (Speaking to Congressman King): No, no, no. Let me ask you. Weren't you dismayed as a Republican Congressman, that the President of the United States didn't watch television for all those 48 hours? That he had to be shown a picture of what we'd all been watching? One of the reasons these people are volunteering is because of what they saw on television. I'm very proud of the media this last couple of weeks. We're not always perfect, but I've got to tell you something. The latest polling shows almost 80% of the American people say the media has done a fabulous job in handling this hurricane, because it's the pictures that people have seen on television, in their homes, that have alerted them to this tragedy. And maybe to a large extent, push the politicians to move a little faster.
related FR thread - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492089/posts
"You get so hung up as a reporter on what the big picture is that you use generalizations that become untrue," McBride said.
Pure crap. The MSM doesn't give a rat's a$$ about big pictures or they'd be showing us the Big Picture in Iraq.
Or Afghanistan. Or NOLA (because the Big Picture there would show that the dems, the Great Society and LBJ are far more culpable for what happened in Katrina than the GOP, an Ownership Society and GWB.
The MSM delights in finding offbeat, oddball, quisling aspects of a story (true or not) and then presenting them as the Big Picture That Only People Like Us Can See. And when it turns out that picture is a forgery or a fraud, they blame their circumstances...never their bad judgement.
The MSM believes anything worth doing is worth overdoing, and for Katrina they all jumped overboard. Now they're embarrassed to find people saying they're all wet. Duh.
Big Picture? Don't trust the MSM. Ever.
The entire Superdome thing was severely exaggerated, yet that is what led to the MSM rioting. In the first place, there is no way 25,000 people can overcrowd it, it is friggin' HUGE. It holds 72,000 for football and hundreds more in the luxury suites. There are huge kitchens, locker rooms, storage areas, etc. in the place. But the news reports made it look like people were sitting and lying on top of each other and gigantic piles of filth were everywhere. And there was food and water there, enough for at least a couple of days, as well as 300 National Guardsmen. It wasn't pleasant being in there for 3 days without air conditioning or lights, for sure, but it was far from the death trap the MSM portrayed, and probaly hundreds of people are alive today because they went to the Superdome instead of staying home.
The MSM lied, and many people died needlessly.
Is this a subtle reference to JFnK?
Oh, thank goodness there were ONLY two murders. Well then it was an experiment in human kindness and generosity at the super dome.
Sure did! At FR and elsewhere, bought it hook, line, and sinker.
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They're going fast!
Is this a subtle reference to JFnK?
No one benefits from distortion. No one.
That is why Hillary wanted "her commission" so they could twist the already exgaggerated stories. You could see all the reporter tripping over themselves looking for death and destruction that could be used to blame the Bush Admin.
I recall when Rita hit Texas and no reports of looting, Diane Sawyer kept asking "are you sure". Good thing we have Free Republic to put them in their place get the real news :)
I conversed with Navy Patriot about this very thing last night on another thread. And believe it or not, I'm not pointing this out to use as a bludgeon to hit anyone over the head.
My point is that since we all are normally circumspect on what comes out of the MSM, we should be this way consistently. But it appears that if the MSM report confirms one's worldview here, it's automatically legitimate. No questions asked.
Remember a month or so ago when those thugs in Seattle attacked two servicemembers? The automatic assumption was that the thugs were black, and the victims, who were servicemen, were white. The threads were humming at full speed, until... it was found out that the servicemen were black. Then it virtually died.
See how that works?
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WestTexasWend:
Very well said. The great majority of the MSM are defacto representives of the DNC. Many show up for work and with their coffee tear off DNC talking points from their fax machines. That's where they get the "news". ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NPR, PBS, and many, many newspapers are dedicated not to the truth, but to their socialist agenda.
EXELLENT POINT! I have to wonder...why were the media so eager to believe these terrible things about the poor, Black inhabitants of the Superdome?
Who ARE the racists here???? hmmmmmmmmmmmm?
So these PROFESSIONAL journalists simply reported the gossip and rumors instead of getting the story straight OR at least waiting to report these statements until they could be proven true or false.
They don't call 'em media whores for nothing
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