Off the cartoon thread. Good morning everybody.
Posted on 12/12/2005 5:46:23 PM PST by Chairman_December_19th_Society
We are currently under a winter storm watch, with 5-9 inches of snow coming in tomorrow morning. High winds as well.
Could get interesting. My wife and I were scheduled to take our daughter to Madison, but that will probably change.
Be careful if you have to drive.
Lynn Cheney to be on FNC this morning to discuss the voting in Iraq; missed the time.
Thanks.
Merry Christmas!
After reading that link about Blanco, it's little wonder that she did nothing but fret and dither. The preoccupation with symbolism over substance while people all around her were suffering loss of life, homes, and safety is beyond scandalous. Shallowness compounded.
Some key segments from the Blanco link and a note:
Blanco and Nagin to testify Wednesday before the House panel investigating the Katrina mistakes.
"The next day, two Blanco press staffers appealed to other senior aides to stop travel that would have had the governor leaving the state on a day when President Bush was scheduled to be there.
Blanco communications director Bob Mann: "White House will be thrilled that she left the state. They will eat us for lunch. She cannot snub potus."
"Gov. Blanco might dress down a bit and look like she has rolled up her sleeves," press consultant Kim Fuller of Witt Associates wrote in a Sept. 4 e-mail to aides including Bottcher, Mann and Kopplin. "I have some great Liz Claiborne sports clothes that look kind of Eddie Bauer, but with class, but would bring her down to level of getting to work."
Former Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown also was criticized for e-mails that showed him discussing his wardrobe during the crisis created by Katrina. Brown resigned amid questions about his disaster management experience.
And the e-mails back up how much the staffers worried about style over substance. And that statement that the WH will be delighted if she leaves town. LOL
With you and so many others being blanketed w/snow and braving extra low temps, the weather here in NC is no big deal, so my lips are sealed.
How is your eye today, Rave?
Madison is a good 2 hours away, and as of now the entire state is under a winter weather watch.
It's been in the upper teens, and the clouds are looking heavier.
Reschedule!
Be careful out there, NY.
'Sounds like a hot chocolate and soup kind of day coming up for you and yours.
I think this monitor is dying...we have another one to sub, but I can't make the switch...
Going to look for links...
Off the cartoon thread. Good morning everybody.
Lebanon: Israel's northern Front Front page mag.
Show of Strength in Iraq Pro-war video from CNN!!...includes link
Taking Chance Home Kleenex alert
Thanks Chairman. Like your opening essay!
"Taking Chance Home" deserves at least a two-kleenex bump. Thanks for posting this.
I'm surprised CNN left in the "Bush, Very Good!" line from the Iraqi soldier. Overall, a positive film from CNN on our training of the Iraqi army.
Will wonders never cease...
They left it in because their ratings are sinking and they know they have lost most of the news audience. What would be more telling would be if CNN-International or the BBC had the film. CNN-I is very anti-america and since that and the BBC are the primary world news organizations it should be no surprise that the US has, as President Bush noted yesterday, a public relations problem. Perhaps we ought to consider taking ads out, maybe even paying to have the correct stories printed?
It seems to me that CNN has seen the hand writing on the wall.
They may have data showing how counter productive the Dean, Reid, Pelosi, and Murtha attacks have been. They may have come to the conclusion that the constant trashing of Bush does not help the Democrats at all and it hurts both the Democrats and CNN.
They will have little way of spinning what is happening in Iraq and what will happen with the elections. If they cover it the coverage will have to be positive. Fox went positive on Iraq last Sunday. I wonder what the ratings were for the "Iraq, the other side of the story" show on Fox was.
Of course it may be more cynical than that. One way to restore credibility with the public is to praise Bush before you trash him. Sort of like Kerry voting for the act before he voted against it.
The media has been in a constant trash mode. Perhaps the new mode is praise 5 and trash 15. That may be about as fair as they will ever get.
When my Dad and others escaped fro mthe prison camp in WWII, they were very close to Luxemburg (within 5 miles of the city limits)before getting re-captured. he said the people there were very kind.
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