The White House is furious by recent comments made by congressman Charlie Melancon in the Times Picuyunne, Rogers has learned.
Melancon told the paper that the secret service closed the airspace for the President's visit, so no rescue helicopter could rescue while he was there. Well placed insiders claim that this is patently false, and that reporters traveling with the President can corroberate this.
The White House has repeatedly asked the Times Picayunne to racant, but they have not.
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September 04, 2005
If that had been the case, all the reporters on AF1 would have filed it and the MSM would have been screaming it from the rooftops.
WOOHOOOO!!!! I just now talked to someone in Canada (Nova Scotia) and they are taking up collections like we are to help the hurricane victims. She told me a Canadian navy guy had to leave for 80 days to help down here. I told her to thank everyone there. she said it is awful. I said I blamed the local govt. for falling down on the job. I gve a few reasons why. She said she agreed and they were all just saying that! Her boyfriend is a police officer there.
Proof that any earlier visit by the President would have led with the headline "Early Bush Visit to Remove Cindy Causes Hundreds to Die".