TWEEDLE DE & TWEEDLE DUM IN CHARGE OF STIFFLING THE MEDIA & SMILING & JOKING IN THE FACE OF DISASTER & INCOMPETENCE
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FLOOD VICTIM NEW ORLEANS WHAT BUSH DOES NOT WANT THE WORLD TO SEE - HIDE THE BODIES SO EVERYONE WILL FORGET ACCORDING TO " THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH OF AMERICA "
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Anyway here are a couple of articles & links to other articles & BLOGS pertinent to the Bush administrations policies & attitudes especially in regards to its slow & inept response to Hurricane Katrina.
LATIMES.com
Bush's Hurricane Response a Disaster
September 5,2005
Nearly five years ago, the Bush administration rode into office bearing its cynicism about government high, like a banner.
It promoted a massive tax cut as a way of "starving the beast" of federal government. President Bush traveled the country telling us that we were overdependent on the government for help with healthcare and retirement. To those wondering what resources might see them into old age, he advised: "a conservative mix of stocks and bonds."
New Orleans is, or should be, the graveyard of the conservative ideology that government is useless. An American city is reduced to Third World desperation as people who own nothing scrounge for necessities in a sea of waste and federal officials offer lame excuses about how their disaster plans would have worked fine had there not been, you know, a disaster. The president, at the head of a global power that can't get its own troops or supplies off their bases to reach the needful, whines, "The private sector needs to do its part."
AND FURTHER REGARDING THE USE & ABUSE OF THE MEDIA FOR PROPAGANDA PURPOSES:
See Frank Rich’s (who does op-ed pieces for the New York Times ) speech on Tuesday sept. 6, 2005 at Oberlin Convocation series of speeches
also see other articles by Frank Rich on BUSH & THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT & THE CREATION OF A THEOCRACY IN AMERICA
as reported in THE OBERLIN REVIEW SEPTEMBER 9, 2005 by Emma Dumain
as she says:
“ In his(Frank Rich’s) eyes, America is a divided country not exclusively between “red and blue, but between fiction and reality.”
And further:
Rich stated that “the brilliance of the Bush administration is that it has figured out what’s going on [and how] to exploit it, [that this is a] 24/7 media web we live in.”
The news media has stopped asking the “hard questions” altogether in favor of a story that can be easily “packaged.” President George W. Bush did not have to work hard to tell the fictions that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction or that Hussein was involved in the Sept. 11th attacks and in league with Osama bin Laden.
News channels also did not ask questions when the administration arranged for a “sanitized” view of the war. Rich used the bombing blitz on Iraq during the first stages of the U.S. invasion as an example. “ ‘Shock and awe’ was a marketing term,” he said. “But, to this day, we still don’t know what was going on or how many Iraqis were killed.”
“ ‘America’s new war,’ kind of like ‘America’s new Coke,’ ” Rich mused bitterly.
Rich offered even further examples of the Bush administration’s narrative-conscious policies: a 48-hour ultimatum for Hussein which lent itself inevitably well to a “countdown clock” graphic; the staged “mission accomplished” speech aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln; and the deliberate romanticizing of football hero Pat Tillman’s death in combat so that it could be more compelling on the evening news.
“This is a news culture where everything is up for grabs,” he said. “Jon Stewart’s slogan [on The Daily Show], ‘the most trusted name in fake news,’ actually means something!”
He acknowledged the faults of even the most respected news sources such as The New York Times and The Washington Post for reporting the fictions put forth by the Bush administration, and said in a softer, sadder tone about the disaster in New Orleans, “We’ve realized in four years that the number one goal of the government is protecting homeland security, and now we know that that was a sham. ”
www.oberlin.edu
Ah well so there you go.
But even if all of this is true it probably won’t matter to the BUSHITES who are true believers in an ideology which has no real place for compassion except for simple organisms like a human fertilized egg or some poor soul in a vegitative state with no chance of recovery completely dependent on machines.
AND for more:
September 8, 2005
latimes.com : National News
KATRINA'S AFTERMATH
Navy Pilots Are 'Counseled'/reprimanded & demoted After Unauthorized Rescues in New Orleans # During supply mission, they helicoptered 110 survivors to safety.
And more & more etc.
John Kass
Changing words, pictures won't change reality
Published September 8, 2005
www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion
Chicago Tribune
Who do we blame? Frankly, it's obvious
Molly Ivins, Creators syndicate
Published September 8, 2005
/www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion
Chicago Tribune.com
www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/
GULF COAST CRISIS: GUN PURCHASES
Fearful Southerners buy firearms at torrid pace
ALSO SEE regarding Barbara Bush’s remarks
CBSNEWS.com
The Roots of Bush's ' Compassion'
/www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/06/opinion
And further:
See website by Daniel Kurtzman
Stupid Quotes About Hurricane Katrina - Stupidest Hurricane ...
20 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes About Hurricane Katrina And Its Aftermath ...
–Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the ...
politicalhumor.about.com/od/currentevents/a/katrinaquotes
also see various archival bits on Bush for instance:
The 50 Dumbest Things President Bush Said in His First Term etc.
Chicago Tribune.com
www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion
Sick minds use Katrina to justify hatred
By Leonard Pitts
Published September 6, 2005
By Stephen J. Hedges
CHICAGO Tribune national correspondent
Published September 4, 2005
Navy ship USS BATAAN nearby underused
Craft with food, water, doctors needed orders
The role in the relief effort of the sizable medical staff on board the Bataan was not up to the Navy, but to FEMA officials directing the overall effort.
SEE YOU LATER,
GORD.
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