Posted on 09/12/2005 6:00:49 AM PDT by Quilla
Thanks for the ping OWF...
Must read article!
I think of them more as hysteria from someone who has never before dealt with anything in the G-d awful range (i.e. a disaster).
Thanks for the ping!
I bet there were some periods of contraflow that conveniently were not filmed. I noticed a pattern in last week's video. As soon as a rescue effort was operational, the agony channels switched focus to a new threat or failure. For example, when the helicopters and buses were clearing out NO, instead of a few reports on the scope of the rescue, show producers started hyping up the threat lurking in the floodwaters.
For another example, the VA hospitals were successfully evacuated. Did we ever hear about that on TV?
Excellent point.
That was a great read.
Bears repeating that FEMA's response was actually the best ever, despite MSM propaganda to the contrary.
And folks just don't seem to understand that FEMA is NOT the first response team!!!
After Hugo they pretty much just came in and distributed checks.
I am a bit surprised that Condoleeza Rice has not stood with the President and told the press and Jesse Jackson and Algore and CNN to shut the hell up about all this racism crap.
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You forgot, for a moment, the focus of this thread - the criminal mendacity of the DNC media. Dr Rice HAS made statements and ---- [media blackout] --- you will have to check the Daily Dose thread for any reporting of them.
It is a habit of a lifetime to believe that the news media are actually giving us the news. We all have to keep reminding ourselves that they are actively in opposition to President Bush and his Admin. to the extent of suppressing important remarks of anyone supporting him.
Same in Maryland after Isabel.
Not surprising because it's mostly made up of the same people who threw the temper tantrum of all national temper tantrums back in the Sixties.
Which is why -- right now! -- our side should be publicly asking why the Dems are shy about investigating, creating grist for the Sunday shows, etc. We should be taking the PR high ground. Has anyone seen any signs of that? I thought not.
Ben Stein nailed it again ~ Bump!
Ben Stein is a Reagan-style Republican. He used to work for the old Los Angeles Herald-Examiner before it went out of business in the early 1980's. Stein wrote a regular op-ed syndicated column for that newspaper. He is a brilliant writer who was and remains solidly Reaganesque in his opinions.
After the H-E folded, Ben went on to a career in films, TV commercials, and other ventures.
Among other things, he loves dogs. I know, because he once wrote a very touching article about one of his beloved dogs who passed away. I spoke to Ben about it and offered him a puppy out of a litter one of my German Wirehaired Pointers was expecting at the time.
I doubt very sincerely that he would ever run for political office.
I wonder if she offered and he said, no. Hey are you a bay native of S.F. Bay area or New Orleans Bay Area.
I keep hearing Bay Area on the news in relation to New Orleans and think they're talking about CA then realize they're talking about NO.
Great strip ~ Bump!
Ain't that the truth....as if W had anything to do with the racial makeup of N.Orleans. The MSM is worse than lame....their dangerous.
Where do you live? I live in Winters - about 12 miles north of Vacaville, and 12 miles west of Davis (right by Lake Berryessa).
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