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Sawyer Hits Bush with Liberal Spin, Iraq or Aid Katrina Victims?
Media Research Center ^ | 9-1-2005 | By Brett H. Baker

Posted on 09/01/2005 7:47:06 AM PDT by johnny7

Live from the White House in the 7am EDT half hour of Thursday's Good Morning America, Diane Sawyer pressed President George W. Bush to respond to a series of liberal talking points, starting with how "people have worried that the National Guard is stretched too thin" with "so many overseas" in Iraq. Later, she demanded: "Do we have to make a choice, at some point, between what we're doing in Iraq and what is needed, right now, to funnel massive amounts of money" to the hurricane victims? She also wanted Bush to "guard against price gouging" and wondered: "Is this a time to call on Americans to simply pull back, not use the gas? Pull back and stay at home and save the gas for those who are in dire need." Sawyer forwarded how "some people have said that the oil companies, themselves, should simply forfeit some of their profits in this time of national crisis."

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BUSH... BUSH... BUSH!!!!
1 posted on 09/01/2005 7:47:17 AM PDT by johnny7
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To: johnny7

Dear Diane,
Shove it. Less than 1/10th of the US's total force is in Iraq.

Aft_lizard


2 posted on 09/01/2005 7:48:54 AM PDT by aft_lizard (This space waiting for a post election epiphany it now is: Question Everything)
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To: johnny7

Hey Sawyer, why don't YOU get off your prissy tush and go down there and do something? You got a hell of a lot more money than most Americans. Share YOUR wealth!


3 posted on 09/01/2005 7:49:36 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Islam is not a religion, but rather a means of world conquest" - ALAN BURKHART.COM)
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To: johnny7

It seems to me that the MSM should consider forfeiting some of the profit they're making on this disaster.


4 posted on 09/01/2005 7:50:30 AM PDT by Schnucki
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To: aft_lizard

Sorry, I have to agree with Diane. She should step up to the plate and stay home. Don't go into the studio until New Orleans is back up and running.


5 posted on 09/01/2005 7:50:45 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze
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To: johnny7
She also wanted Bush to "guard against price gouging"

In other words, impose price controls? Yeah, those have always worked. (to the benefit of bureaucrats, that is)

6 posted on 09/01/2005 7:50:58 AM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: johnny7
Don't worry about it people. The whole reason the Bush haters like the NY Slime are in such a tizzy is they KNOW that Bush is knocking it out of the park. Bush comes across as one of us, the Bush Haters come across as hysterical bigots. The commentary from the Left is doing more damage to them then it is to President Bush. People will remember who rolled up their sleeves and went to work and who grandstanded. Same way the banSheehan did more to help Bush, this is just more of the same.
7 posted on 09/01/2005 7:51:11 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
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Just imagine the different line of questioning if kerry or gore had been on the other end of the ''inquisition'' by this hag.
8 posted on 09/01/2005 7:54:29 AM PDT by shadeaud (Liberals suffer from acute interior cornial craniorectoitis)
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To: MNJohnnie

Diane got her talking points memo from Hillary as she has already been opening her piehole and clammering for the Bush admin. to push for price controls. Do any of the media (except FOX news) think at all for themselves or is every news copy direct from the DNC and Hillary's office?


9 posted on 09/01/2005 7:55:44 AM PDT by princess leah (\)
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To: johnny7

I saw that, briefly before I could dive for the remote: MSM at its very best! :-(
Lefty axiom #9: anything good that happens during a Democratic president's tenure, give him credit e.g. the sky is especially blue, but anything bad, must have been a subordinate's fault e.g. Waco, Somalia, and on-and-on
But anything bad while there's a Republican prez:
"Bush's fault". (And of course nothing good happens.)
(And I noticed there was no blame apportioned to the Crescent City or its feckless governor, `Huckleberry Hound')


10 posted on 09/01/2005 7:55:48 AM PDT by tumblindice
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To: princess leah
Do any of the media (except FOX news) think at all for themselves or is every news copy direct from the DNC and Hillary's office?

Thing about journalists is they are basically lazy. It is easier to rewrite a DNC press release then actually DO their job.

11 posted on 09/01/2005 7:57:30 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
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To: MNJohnnie

I really don't know what the political fallout will be from this, but what I AM observing is who has a political agenda even in times of crisis and who does not. This includes conservatives as well as Liberals that are rapidly all getting on my list as despicable or fanatical in their ponderings.

Meanwhile the President is concentrated on rescue and relief and isn't one damn bit concerned with PR, and THAT is what is impressing itself on me as worthy of respect. Certain Governors not playing politics and ahead of this are gaining my respect rapidly. Politicians grandstanding are not. Talking heads and pundits who's only contribution is critique and critisism are showing me only one thing. THEY are not FIT to lead this country.


12 posted on 09/01/2005 7:57:55 AM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: johnny7
"some people have said that the oil companies, themselves, should simply forfeit some of their profits in this time of national crisis."

Some people are full of ideas regarding what other people should do.

fix the problem, not the blame.

13 posted on 09/01/2005 8:00:25 AM PDT by oldbrowser (no one is right because no one is wrong)
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To: johnny7
Gee, maybe if Clinton hadn't removed 250,000 from active duty and spent it on do good nothings we would have a bigger Army for times of crisis. Heck we could have taken what we wasted on PBS and built New Orleans a better dike.

You spent the peace dividend is spent, so you Dems are just going to have to live with it.
14 posted on 09/01/2005 8:00:27 AM PDT by Tarpon
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Later, she demanded: "Do we have to make a choice, at some point, between what we're doing in Iraq and what is needed, right now, to funnel massive amounts of money" to the hurricane victims?

I say we start by cancelling that "Live Aid" check for Bono.
15 posted on 09/01/2005 8:01:35 AM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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Dear Newswoman Sawyer,

You've known for several years that the US is going through a natural cycle of increased hurricanes.

You should have been investigating why the elected officials of New Orleans didn't insist that each New Orleans residence had to have enough lifeboats to save its inhabitants.

Owners of buildings should have been required, by the New Orleans housing code, to provide lifeboats for their tenants.

According to a pre-Katrina web page, New Orleans could not be saved from itself.

You might have saved some lives, if you had done real reporting instead of Bush-bashing.

Geography of New Orleans

Most of the floods of the 20th century have been due to sustained periods of heavy rainfall and hurricanes. Yet, as beneficial as this system is to the city, inevitably it will spell New Orleans' doom.

The levee system that has been built along the river, coupled with the canal system to keep the interior of the city dry, prevent the land from being replenished by the annual spring floods. As a result, the land will continue to sink until eventually there will be nothing to stop the waters of the Gulf to rush back upon the fragile land.

In addition, the fresh water that is pumped into the brackish wetlands surrounding the city is creating an ecological disaster. When the Bonnie Carre Spillway is used in order to spare the city of New Orleans from floods, the consequences to the coastal estuary system is profound. As a result, in order to save itself from the waters surrounding it, the city of New Orleans is slowly destroying its own environment.

The final death knoll of the city may very well come from the river itself. Scientists and environmentalists know that the Mississippi is trying to change its course that will bypass the city in favor of the shorter route to the Gulf through the Atchafalaya basin. So far, the Corps of Engineers has prevented the river from doing this. But, one day, it will happen, perhaps following a direct hit from a hurricane. As late summer and early fall approach every year (hurricane season), New Orleans stands with the threat that it will lose its own lifeline. No canal system and no levee system will prevent the disaster that will follow.


16 posted on 09/01/2005 8:02:22 AM PDT by syriacus (The City of New Orleans should've had a housing code that required a lifeboat for every 8 residents.)
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To: Soul Seeker
I really don't know what the political fallout will be from this, but what I AM observing is who has a political agenda even in times of crisis and who does not. This includes conservatives as well as Liberals that are rapidly all getting on my list as despicable or fanatical in their ponderings.

Meanwhile the President is concentrated on rescue and relief and isn't one damn bit concerned with PR, and THAT is what is impressing itself on me as worthy of respect. Certain Governors not playing politics and ahead of this are gaining my respect rapidly. Politicians grandstanding are not. Talking heads and pundits who's only contribution is critique and critisism are showing me only one thing. THEY are not FIT to lead this country.

Good morning, Soul Seeker (and Free Republic).

Yesterday, and at various times since early last year, I have openly wondered why I ever got involved in politics. The sorry-assed (yet predictable) attacks from linguini spined opportunists like Rahm Emmanuel, Frank Lautenberg, Diane Sawyer, and others that are bound to come, have answered that question for me.

If I live to be 100, I will spend my dying breath to campaign and ensure that no Democrat ever sets up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. My message to Emmanuel, Sawyer, Laughingberg and the rest: you and your party can go Leahy yourselves.

17 posted on 09/01/2005 8:05:11 AM PDT by Christian4Bush (The modern Democratic Party: Attacking our defenders and defending our attackers.)
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To: syriacus

Excellent post.


18 posted on 09/01/2005 8:05:20 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And now, little man, I give the watch to you.”)
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To: johnny7
How about Katrina and Iraq but NO MORE PORK for Robert Byrd and his associates on Capital Hill?
19 posted on 09/01/2005 8:05:35 AM PDT by msnimje
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How about this...the Federal government put a moratorium on the GASOLINE TAXES...you'd be AMAZED how low the gas would be!


20 posted on 09/01/2005 8:07:17 AM PDT by t2buckeye
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