Posted on 08/29/2006 11:45:59 AM PDT by bray
The Stone Age Press is facing a disaster of historic proportions and do they strengthen their failing levies of credibility? Of course not, they report this natural disaster as if it were Abu Grabass as their George Bush billy club of the Month. This was by far the worst case of news reporting in the history of this country. Within 24 hours of the breaking of the levy the Samestream press were reporting this as President Bush was willingly killing New Orleans.
They are like skydivers w/o parachutes who rather than flap their arms they have decided to do a delta tuck into the deck and make a dramatic splash of self importance. There could not been a more cut and dry story about a natural disaster than hurricane Katrina, yet they could not put away their extremist politics for a day. Most people wanted to see the disaster and witness as much of the rescue as they could possibly see. Nobody expected to have the worst hurricane to hit America be without suffering but we knew that Americans would come together to help the victims. It was a very simple story to report yet from the minute the levy broke it became a story about the reporters raging hated of President Bush.
The only question left with PravdABDNC is whether they are getting their marching orders from HilaryCare’s or the DNC’s war room? Anyone who is in business knows that if you are offering a product to the consumer you must make it attractive or useful. They obviously know that you must put attractive people in front cameras, but that has not translated into the actual product which has become unwatchable.
Most people would rather spend a night in the Super Dome than watch Spitball or Shepard Sheep & Georalldo. While watching Smith and Whereswaldo’s metrosexual hissy fit we were waiting for a chair to come flying across the stage. Did Whereswaldo get divorced and married again while he was down there? The only people who were not going nuts were the people in the stadium who kept nervously looking for the Rubber Truck to take these 2 Crackpots away. And they were the best of the reporting.
When there was a Big 3 monopoly these clowns could get away with their agenda, however those days are long gone. Now, Rush is America’s anchorman while he and Drudge reach tens of millions of Americans who are sick of the liberal diet of hatred. We can go to the same sources the reporters have and get the information that would have never seen the light of day. The Dinosaurs’ time has passed and this story was the final nail in their glass coffin. From Franken to Russert they walked lockstep with a message that was so far removed from the story as their credibility is from reality. In their world you have the execution before the investigation, when all we want are the facts since there will be plenty of time for reflection. They want everyone who made a mistake wired, well ok; look into your well used mirrors.
Finally, these knee jerk; heavy on the jerk reactionaries had to go to the race deck. President Bush is trying to kill Blacks because everyone knows that Republicans are racist, sexist, xenophobes as opposed to the all loving Democrats. You know that they are running out of evidence when they have to drag a Blackman behind a pickup again. Prove to us you are not a racist! Well since I am a racist, although not as racist as most Blacks, Hispanics or Democrats; I will say that this hurricane was not a racist hurricane. No it didn’t hit Boston, it hit Louisiana and Mississippi which are predominately Black. You could make an argument that God is a racist yet since he made Blacks it is a hard one to make. We know much of the rescuing was of Blacks by Whites in the hurricane that should mean that this was a non-racist event. If they were using dogs, batons and water hoses to push them back into the water, THAT would be a racist event.
The fact is that there were thousands of Whites risking their lives and reaching out to these people because they were people who were suffering. This was a colorless disaster where people didn’t ask who was who, but are you hurting? America is the most caring and giving Country in the World no matter which part of the racial gumbo you are. Why anyone would bother to reach for this card just a desperate an attempt to damage a story of inspiration and courage that will last throughout the ages. It will be up to The Space Age Press to report the truth, while the Stone-age levy pours over it’s sodden banks of hatred once more. Enough braying.
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And they play right into the hands of the likes of Spike Lee and Louis Farrakhan when they asserted that President Bush (apparently all by himself in the dead of night) blew up the levees in NOLA to drive all the black people out.
The MSM is a true enemy of America and a comrade of those who would destroy this country.
Good post!
Good rant.
"And they play right into the hands of the likes of Spike Lee and Louis Farrakhan when they asserted that President Bush (apparently all by himself in the dead of night) blew up the levees in NOLA to drive all the black people out."
You think THAT's bad? Every first of the month, I see George Bush driving down the street taking old people's social security checks out of their mailboxes! Then he drives away a high speed, laughing!
Thank you Bray, you hit the nail on the head.
The only thing that compounds the mess is that now, a year on, they all are doing their hyterical finger pointing at Bush all over again and not a word about the irrisponsible, false reporting they did last year. The real story of of Katrina was the total lack of truthful reporting by the media, all of it, including FOX (with dear little Sheppie spiting the dummy on H & C.
By the way, "SAMESTREAM MEDIA" I love it!!!
"While watching Smith and Whereswaldo’s metrosexual hissy fit..."
So true and nice rant. I cannot see Shep now without being disgusted. He needs to be gone from Fox.
And the most successful propaganda campaign of our time. The federal response to Katrina was massive and quite heroic. Hundreds of lives were saved by extraordinary efforts, many rescuers risking their own lives in the process. The historical corruption and stupidity of local officials was a hindrance, but by and large, once the Feds got in, they handled the emergency quite well.
Now, billions of dollars are being sucked up by crooked La. officials and the grifters who have punched their Katrina ticket for a lifetime on the Federal dole.
Despite all of these facts, the media was able to create a 'universal truth' that the government's response was lame, inept and racist.
Yep, the most successful propaganda campaign of our time. To this day, I blame the Bush Administration for failing to properly confront the media blitz. The day the first administration official gave the slightest credence to some 'shortcoming' in the response, the publicity war was lost.
I agree completely.
Damn good post Bray.
For those of you that don't know, TR was a Democrat party official and activist before becoming a "journalist" at NBC. Total Loser!
Thanks, glad you liked it.
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Lauer: U.S. 'Achingly Divided by Race,'
Pushes Katrina Conspiracy
On Tuesday's Today, NBC's Matt Lauer opened by asserting that Katrina was responsible for "laying bare an America still achingly divided by race and class and battering the image of an administration." He soon asked New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin to address the conspiracy theory that the levees were intentionally blown up to protect white neighborhoods at the expense of African-Americans
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20060830.asp#2
Bush Damned for Spending and for Not
Spending Enough on Katrina
NBC's Norah O'Donnell filling in for Chris Matthews on Monday night's Hardball. O'Donnell, determined to deny the administration any successes, asked the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson: "A year later and less than half of New Orleans residents have moved back. There have been, according to government watchdog groups, at least $2 billion in fraud and waste, scams, et cetera. Can Bush claim that there's any success in what's happened in the Gulf Coast in the past year?"
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20060830.asp#3
Williams Hits Bush with Dyson's Charge
He's Uncaring 'Patrician'
NBC anchor Brian Williams featured, as his sole expert of the impact of race in the Katrina disaster, left-wing professor Michael Eric Dyson who charged that Barbara Bush's suggestion -- that many victims were better off in their new cities -- "reinforced the reputation of the Bushes as clueless patricians," Williams confronted President George W. Bush Tuesday with the insult, as if Dyson is some sort of authoritative figure.
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20060830.asp#1
Facts On PBS's 'NewsHour' Refute Byron Pitts' Hyperbole on '60 Minutes'
Posted by Michael Rule on August 30, 2006 - 16:39.
This past Sunday on "60 Minutes," CBS correspondent Byron Pitts interviewed New Orleans Mayor, Ray Nagin, about New Orleans’ recovery since hurricane Katrina. Pitts’ hit Nagin with statements full of hyperbole, claiming there are "few visible signs of recovery" in New Orleans, and that there is "tons of debris still scattered about," yet, Pitts offered little in the way of facts and figures to back up his claims. However, a anyone viewing Tuesday’s "NewsHour" on PBS would have heard hard facts that contradict Pitts’ gloomy assertions. For example, Pitts claimed:
"Today, in one of the few visible signs of recovery, the 220 miles of levees damaged by the storm have been repaired by the Army Corps of Engineers."
http://www.newsbusters.org/
ABC's Raddatz: Katrina a 'Political Disaster'...Just For Bush
Posted by Tim Graham on August 30, 2006 - 16:04.
On ABC's World News Tuesday night, a story on President Bush's day in New Orleans aggressively underlined the liberal theme that the response to Hurricane Katrina is a scandalous, indelible black mark on Bush's legacy. Reporter Martha Raddatz told viewers "the slow response was indeed a political disaster for the President, from which he is still trying to recover." Raddatz ended the story with an anecdote about a waitress joking to Bush that he wasn't going to turn his back on her, and Bush reportedly replied: "No, ma'am, not again."
Anchorman Charles Gibson began the segment, the second story after a general recounting of how New Orleanians commemorated the one-year anniversary, with a brief mention of responsibility at all levels of government. But as usual, ABC had no time for the Democratic mayor or governor and their failures, even as Raddatz highlighted the Democratic senator slamming the federal response. Gibson theorized: http://newsbusters.org/blog/16
Amazing how much they hate GW!
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