Posted on 03/04/2006 7:47:05 AM PST by shortstop
This was in this morning's St. Pete Times. I can't find it on their website, as their corrections run a day behind. Using their search, the last correction was 3/3/06. The lower right hand corner of page 1, Section A reads as follows:
CLARIFICATION, SECTION A
A March 1 Asssociated Press story reported that federal disaster officials warned President Bush before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees in New Orleans, citing video footage of an Aug. 28 briefing. The story should have made clear that Bush was warned about floodwaters overrunning the levees, rather than about the levees breaking.
Fake but accurate,
unless we really get caught in one whopper of a big stupid
lie. Then we`ll confess.
True lies.
This is the paper that ignored Dubya's visit to St.Pete, but did manage to cover Hitlery's fund raiser....It is, indeed, the bastard child of the NYT...even if owned by a 'charitable/non-profit' foundation that enables it ignore practically any pressure from anywhere...
These people are playing on technicalities that don't really matter. What would the President have done differently? Would he have posted troops, machinery and other assets to Orleans Parish where they would have been destroyed or rendered useless by the storm? Now that would make a lot of sense, wouldn't it?
These people have convinced themselves that if you keep throwing crap at a stone wall, some of it will eventually stick.
We need to keep hammering the lamestream media, just as they keep hammering Bush. Maybe we can be as successful against them as they appear to be against him.
The New Orleans flood was a disaster and a tragedy. But the only focus for the news media has been to lay blame on the Bush Administration.
What did Bush do?
1) President Bush coerced the Governor and the Mayor to declare a mandator evacuation of New Orleans before the storm.
2) President Bush declared a "Federal Disaster Area" before the storm even hit.
They conveniently leave out these facts to try give the mistaken impression that Bush took no actions before the storm.
3) We had the largest, most comprehensive and fastest hurricane response ever.
st pete times: delivered daily to your place in hell.
"This is the paper that ignored GW's visit to StPete,but did manage to cover Hitlery's fund raiser.."Good point.I'd like to note that this is the same paper that has supported Sami Al Arian(USF professor/Terrorist fund raiser)from day one.
Imagine that...a Lib newspaper prints something wrong on boldface, above the fold of Page 1, but prints the correction in tiny font at the bottom of the page.
Agenda, anyone?
We don't need no stinkin' clarification. We all know the true story. The rest of the opposition will catch up eventually. In the meantime we move onto something else while they still wait for the miracle they think will bring down President Bush. Heh, heh. Rope a doped all the time.
I am surprised that it is even on page 1. This is a step (tiny) in the right direction. Unfortunately, the left will continue to hammer President Bush quoting from the articles written before the retraction.
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UPDATE II: CQ reader and frequent source River Rat notes that the AP still engages in some dishonest vocabulary in its clarification:
They are replacing the verb "breach" with the verb "overrun" which means: 1 a (1) : to defeat utterly and occupy the positions of : OVERWHELM, OVERPOWER, CRUSH (2) : to invade and occupy or ravage b obsolete : to run over destructively or harmfully : run down c : to spread or swarm over The word used in all of the briefings was "overtop" or "top" as a diminutive form thereof. Overtop means. 1 : to rise above the top of exceed in height : tower above
Definitions are Merriam Webster Unabridged. They are still using misleading language and really should be renamed, Agitprop Pravda.
Good point.
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