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AP FRIDAY NIGHT CLARIFICATION ON BUSH/KATRINA VIDEO ('OVERTOPPED' NOT 'BREACHED')
The AP via The Drudge Report ^ | March 3, 2006

Posted on 03/03/2006 4:51:36 PM PST by new yorker 77

Clarification: Katrina-Video story ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) _ In a March 1 story, The Associated Press reported that federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees in New Orleans, citing confidential video footage of an Aug. 28 briefing among U.S. officials.

The Army Corps of Engineers considers a breach a hole developing in a levee rather than an overrun. The story should have made clear that Bush was warned about floodwaters overrunning the levees, rather than the levees breaking.

The day before the storm hit, Bush was told there were grave concerns that the levees could be overrun. It wasn't until the next morning, as the storm was hitting, that Michael Brown, then head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Bush had inquired about reports of breaches. Bush did not participate in that briefing.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Palladin

MSNBC is #3 because there isn't a fourth and fifth cable news station.


61 posted on 03/03/2006 5:30:23 PM PST by new yorker 77 (FAKE POLLS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO REAL VOTERS!)
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To: norwaypinesavage
True.

That is why I used 'overtopped' in parentheses.

I did not see 'overrun' which is also the wrong word in the Friday night dump correction.
62 posted on 03/03/2006 5:32:10 PM PST by new yorker 77 (FAKE POLLS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO REAL VOTERS!)
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To: tomahawk
I'm starting to think there are a lot of little egomaniacs in the AP who don't want to be just journalists and writers, but instead they want to be kingmakers and big-time political players. They want to write the stories that they think will decide presidential elections and determine who will be in the White House and who will control congress. MSM journalists are out of control now and have turned "mainstream journalism" into this incredibly political business where everything except the sports news is written with a political bias.

I see this political bias (among other factors) causing a rapid fragementation of the news media into a wide spectrum of media outlets on TV, radio, print, and the internet covering the entire political spectrum. The four big liberal networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN) will continue to decline and lose viewers are they become left-wing media along with the NY Times and Wash Post. Center-left news media will evolve, along with an attempt at unbiased centrist media, and then you'll have center-right news media with Fox News and voices like Hugh Hewitt and Michal Medved. New cable channels, radio shows like Rush Limbaugh, and numerous websites will broadcast to people who are staunch conservatives. The liberal networks and the AP don't understand it yet, but their market has already fragmented and they've already lost half of their audience with another 25% about to be lost in the next ten years. I'm ready for more professionally written conservative websites right now....anything but the AP and its obvious left-wing slant.

63 posted on 03/03/2006 5:33:12 PM PST by defenderSD (¤¤ Wishing, hoping, and praying that Saddam will not nuke us is not a national security policy.)
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To: new yorker 77
citing confidential public (perFoxNews) video footage
64 posted on 03/03/2006 5:33:48 PM PST by SouthTexas
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To: new yorker 77

Bush blew up the levees. Louie told me so! /sarc


65 posted on 03/03/2006 5:36:45 PM PST by Normal4me
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To: pissant

It usually takes longer with liberals. It works a little better for me if I talk real slow and use very small words. Most importantly don't give too much information at one time, it takes them longer to absorb it. Just go real slow and keep up the good work.


66 posted on 03/03/2006 5:40:07 PM PST by scratcher
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To: new yorker 77
That is why I used 'overtopped' in parentheses. I did not see 'overrun' which is also the wrong word in the Friday night dump correction.



67 posted on 03/03/2006 5:40:28 PM PST by ForYourInformation
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To: new yorker 77

Obviously they did this to embarrass the president, whether careless or deliberate misinformation.


68 posted on 03/03/2006 5:43:18 PM PST by newzjunkey (All I need is a safe home and peace of mind. Why am I still in CA?)
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To: Brilliant

Levees were not breeched! The CANAL WALLS broke. This from the Times-Picayune.

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1133336859287360.xml


69 posted on 03/03/2006 5:43:39 PM PST by Mr Cobol (We know how many seeds are in an apple, but only God knows how many apples are in a seed.)
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To: new yorker 77

The AP has its own agenda, and it's called Bush-bashing.


70 posted on 03/03/2006 5:46:26 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: new yorker 77

Olbermann's a moron, but he works hard at it. He wants the 20% of the American public who might charitably be called moonbats.


71 posted on 03/03/2006 5:48:55 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: pissant
I'm not saying Bush himself has to say it, but someone, maybe even the WH press secretary should make a huge fuss about this. This is one of my biggest pet peeves about this administration--they spend too much time trying to be nice. Sometimes they just need to 'throw down' and take on these weenies.
72 posted on 03/03/2006 5:54:53 PM PST by rottndog (WOOF!!!!)
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To: new yorker 77

Of course they wait until Friday night to issue a lame 'correction' which will never ever receive the same attention as the original fraudulent story. Of course the MSM continues to practice the "fake but accurate" form of fraudulent 'journalism'........


73 posted on 03/03/2006 5:59:16 PM PST by Enchante (Democrats: "We are ALL broken and worn out, our party & ideas, what else is new?")
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To: new yorker 77

A correction of a drive by shooting. Wonder if the MSM will do the same on the Sunday shows.


74 posted on 03/03/2006 6:00:58 PM PST by Brimack34
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To: new yorker 77

Seriously, if you rely on the MSM for your facts, you are now officially a moron, or a Democrat. Or both.


75 posted on 03/03/2006 6:08:00 PM PST by jsk10
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To: new yorker 77

Bump and bookmark crAP story


76 posted on 03/03/2006 6:19:08 PM PST by demlosers (Kerry: "Impeach Bush, filibuster Alito, withdraw from Iraq, send U235 to Iran, elect me President!")
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To: new yorker 77
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77 posted on 03/03/2006 6:22:44 PM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (Undocumented border patrol agent.)
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To: All

Has anyone else found another source for this other than Drudge?


78 posted on 03/03/2006 6:22:50 PM PST by COEXERJ145 (Pat Buchanan lost a family member in the holocaust. The man fell out of a guard tower.)
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To: newzjunkey
Obviously they did this to embarrass the president, whether careless or deliberate misinformation.

The MSM does not practice in writing bias articles anymore they now commit journalistic fraud.

79 posted on 03/03/2006 6:33:43 PM PST by demlosers (Kerry: "Impeach Bush, filibuster Alito, withdraw from Iraq, send U235 to Iran, elect me President!")
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To: COEXERJ145

Here:

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013316.php


80 posted on 03/03/2006 6:38:25 PM PST by demlosers (Kerry: "Impeach Bush, filibuster Alito, withdraw from Iraq, send U235 to Iran, elect me President!")
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