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Katrina Tape Transcripts Show Media Hack Job
Captain's Quarters ^ | captain Ed

Posted on 03/02/2006 6:10:47 AM PST by slowhand520

March 02, 2006

Katrina Tape Transcripts Show Media Hack Job For those who want to see the transcripts themselves of the video conferences, the New York Times has them for the August 28th and August 29th briefings. The transcript for the 29th makes one garbled mention of the levees around New Orleans (page 6). After making the point that the storm surge would cause the greatest devastation in the Gulfport area of Mississippi, going as high as 21 feet, Max Mayfield then turns to New Orleans:

MAX MAYFIELD: ... The rest of the track we have 10 to 15 feet, in a few areas up to 16 feet. At least glimpsed it out, and Louisiana can talk a little bit more about this than I can, but it looks like the Federal levies [sic] around the City of New Orleans will not have been (incomprehensible) any breaches to. That certainly doesn't sound like a warning -- and this was on the day the levees broke. That transcript clearly shows that the conference considered the storm surge and precipitation runoff to be the major threats of flooding in New Orleans. The possibility of breaches, even on the 29th, had been discounted.

The transcript from the August 28th meeting talked more about levees, but in the same vein, and this time no one mentions the word "breach". Starting on page 5, Max Mayfield again talks about the dangers of Lake Pontchartrain, but only in the context of the winds created a surge that could overtop the levees:

One of the valleys here in Lake Pontchartrain, we've got on our forecast track, if it maintains its intensity: about 12 1/2 feet of storm surge in the lake. The big question is going to be: will that top some of the levies? And the currrent track and the forecast we have now suggests there will be minimal flooding in the city of New Orleans itself, but we're -- we've always said that the storm surge model is only accurate within 20 percent. If that track were to deviate just a little bit to the west, it would -- it makes all the difference in the world. I do expect that there will be some of the levies over top even out here in the western portions where the airport is. We've got valleys that can't overtop some of the levies.

The problem we're going to have here -- remember, the winds go counterclockwise around the center of the hurricane. So if the really strong winds clip Lake Pontchartrain, that's going to pile some of that water from Lake Pontchartrain over on the south side of the lake. I don't think any model can tell you with any confidence right now whether the levies will be topped or not, but that's obviously a very, very grave concern.

Again, the entire briefing that related to levees only focused on the effects of the wind on Lake Pontchartrain and its effect in pushing water over the top of the levees. Mayfield never even addressed the possibility of breaches in the levee walls. And in fact, the storm track shifted eastward in the final hours before Katrina hit, which eliminated much of the predicate for even the worries Mayfield expresses in this transcript.

The media got it wrong yet again on Katrina. The notion that the experts warned of levee breaches is nothing more than a hack job initiated by the AP and continued by the rest of the Exempt Media even after the source material has proven it false.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: associatedpress; blamegame; bushhassers; dnctalkingpoints; getbush; liberalelites; lyingliar; massmediabias; mediabias; neworleansaftermath; powerghraib; propaganda
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1 posted on 03/02/2006 6:10:48 AM PST by slowhand520
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To: slowhand520

But they used the word "levee"...this proves they knew about it! In the same manner that use of the words "Al Qaeda" and "Bin Laden" by members of the bush adminstration (including Condoleeza Rice!) prior to 9/11 proves that they knew an attack was coming on that very day!


2 posted on 03/02/2006 6:13:56 AM PST by Skip Ripley
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To: slowhand520

How many re-treads on this story now?


3 posted on 03/02/2006 6:16:36 AM PST by Arm_Bears (You are the New Day.)
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To: slowhand520

The drive by media doing their usual.


4 posted on 03/02/2006 6:17:09 AM PST by Notwithstanding (I love my German shepherd - Benedict XVI reigns!)
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To: slowhand520

These AP reports and katrinagate tapes etc etc are so stupid that what intelligent, thinking, individual would consider those tapes a scandal?

Much to do as usual about NOTHING!


5 posted on 03/02/2006 6:18:07 AM PST by stopem (The Good Lord gave you two ends to use, one to sit with and one to think with.)
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To: slowhand520
MAX MAYFIELD: ... The rest of the track we have 10 to 15 feet, in a few areas up to 16 feet. At least glimpsed it out, and Louisiana can talk a little bit more about this than I can, but it looks like the Federal levies [sic] around the City of New Orleans will not have been (incomprehensible) any breaches to.

"That certainly doesn't sound like a warning..."

Let's be honest here -- that second sentence really doesn't sound like anything. "Will not have been..." -- what?

6 posted on 03/02/2006 6:20:10 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Skip Ripley

Was the words "dynamite the levees" in the tapes?

Pray for W and Our Troops


7 posted on 03/02/2006 6:20:19 AM PST by bray (GW protects Americans while DinocRats protect Al Queda)
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To: Notwithstanding

I saw the Headline story on Drudge this morning...I Knew right away the MSM was up to their usual tricks and that Tony Snow would have to " clean up the potty mess they left"


8 posted on 03/02/2006 6:22:49 AM PST by divine_moment_of_facts ("Liberals see what they believe... Conservatives believe what they see")
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To: slowhand520

To be Honest I am "Sick To Death" of the Katrina Story - the Media has played this sideways, backwards and insideout. GET OVER IT MEDIA!! Let New Orleans & Mississippi rebuild and get on. You would think this was the only hurricane this country ever had that was devastating!


9 posted on 03/02/2006 6:23:38 AM PST by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: stopem

The morning rag here in Maryland is playing this to the hilt. The big line is that "Bush didn't ask any questions" when told of the situation in NO.


10 posted on 03/02/2006 6:24:12 AM PST by ANGGAPO (LayteGulfBeachClub)
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To: slowhand520
The reporter claimed that Bush's statement that "nobody could have anticipated that the levees would be breached" seems to contradict the briefing. Well, I guess it would seem that way if you are too big of a F***ing IDIOT to know the difference between a "breached" levee and a "topped" levee.
11 posted on 03/02/2006 6:24:18 AM PST by VRWCmember (You are STILL safer hunting with Dick Cheney than riding in a car with Ted Kennedy!)
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So what! So they talked about the possibility of the levee's being breached. What was Bush supposed to do - go down there and physically hold them up himself.

Bush's mistake was in assuming that Blanco and Nagin had made adequate plans for the safety of their own people. The Feds are never going to be first responders to something like this

How long did it take Fema to get to New York after 9-11?


12 posted on 03/02/2006 6:29:16 AM PST by The Lumster (USA - where the innocent have nothing to fear!)
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BTTT : GREAT ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION.

Bloggers are now doing the work of journalists.

"Journalists" are doing the work of Democrat party brochure and press release writers.

Democrat party press release writers are doing the work of sucking up to the leftwingnuts of the party.

And the circle of life continues.

13 posted on 03/02/2006 6:31:20 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: areafiftyone

I totally agree! Yesterday on Fox all they talked about was N.O.! Get over it! Or at least tell the truth about how the lazy bums that live there are just sitting around and waiting for government money! I've read so many stories that business's can't hire anyone because the "poor" are getting so much in government money they don't want to work!


14 posted on 03/02/2006 6:32:16 AM PST by JLGALT (Get ready - Lock and Load!)
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To: VRWCmember
The reporter claimed that Bush's statement that "nobody could have anticipated that the levees would be breached" seems to contradict the briefing. Well, I guess it would seem that way if you are too big of a F***ing IDIOT to know the difference between a "breached" levee and a "topped" levee.

This is exactly what I said when I saw the first report about this! Good God, the MSM are really freaking desperate to bash the President, aren't they?? They out and out LIED about the breaching of levees!!

15 posted on 03/02/2006 6:32:53 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

well said


16 posted on 03/02/2006 6:33:45 AM PST by cvq3842
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To: slowhand520
The media ATTEMPTED to get this wrong. They INTENDED to misinterpret this as badly as possible. This was studied and premeditated point-missing.
17 posted on 03/02/2006 6:36:58 AM PST by .cnI redruM (Spreading liberal beliefs is as wrong as spreading AIDS.)
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To: JLGALT

I have a manufacturing plant and have found it difficult to fill the occasional opening. A gent who works with me explained that between Aid for Dependent Children, Welfare, and Food Stamps, I'd have to start off a new employee at $10/hr to compete.


18 posted on 03/02/2006 6:38:08 AM PST by Quilla
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To: The Lumster
So what! So they talked about the possibility of the levee's being breached.

No they DIDN'T. They talked about the possibility of the levees being TOPPED. To illustrate the difference: Imagine you are running water in your bathtub and the phone rings so you step out to answer the phone. When you return to the bathroom you find the water is starting to run over the edge of the tub onto the floor, so you turn off the water and perhaps you open the drain. Then the water is no longer running over the edge of the tub. This is an example of your tub being TOPPED. On the other hand, imagine that the side of your tub splits apart so that all the water pours out onto the floor. Now, even if you turn the water off, the water continues to pour out until the level is below the lowest point of the split or possibly until the tub is completely empty. This is an example of your tub being BREACHED. Now, when you went to answer the phone with the water still running, you should have anticipated the possibility that your tub would be topped if you talked on the phone too long. But there is absolutely no reason that you would have anticipated that your tub would split in two and be breached. See the difference? If you do, you are smarter than the average MSM reporter.

19 posted on 03/02/2006 6:41:00 AM PST by VRWCmember (You are STILL safer hunting with Dick Cheney than riding in a car with Ted Kennedy!)
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To: slowhand520

First the media destroyed Brownie, now they've resurrected him for their own end.


20 posted on 03/02/2006 6:42:54 AM PST by OldFriend (HELL IS TOO GOOD FOR OUR MAINSTREAM MEDIA)
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