[shortstop]

How difficult was this to be able to report it properly? No agenda there. Nope.

[Para-Ord.45]

Fake but accurate,

unless we really get caught in one whopper of a big stupid

lie. Then we`ll confess.

[Rennes Templar]

True lies.

[davisfh]

"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."

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.

[westmichman]

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.

[popdonnelly]

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.

[the invisib1e hand]

st pete times: delivered daily to your place in hell.

[JRios1968]

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?

[cubreporter]

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.

[Lecie]

March 03, 2006

captainsquartersblog.com

Ed Morrissey

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.