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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
When this story was posted yesterday on the WaPo site, the headline was "White House Shifts Blame," which accurately summarizes the PR offensive. Nice that the WaPo's reporters see their job as to pass along Karl Rove's bon mots without fact checking -- re the bracketed point above, the WaPo later had to add a correction:
[list]CORRECTION TO THE ARTICLE
A Sept. 4 article on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina incorrectly said that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) had not declared a state of emergency. She declared an emergency on Aug. 26.
That's not reporting, that's stenography.
And Newsweek's reporters were given the same disinformation as well. The real story is that Karl Rove is spreading mistruths.
And for Bush's visit to New Orleans, they through together sham relief operations. This is from a statement put out by Senator Landrieu:
- "But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment.
If the WaPo and Newsweek are too busy being gulled by talking points, at least foreign reporters are describing the on-the-ground spin operation.
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this and a few other posts stand as the high water mark for me in the "regrets" catagory. When the time machine software first came out in beta version, I took an early rough cut and tried to delete the Tyrone posts from this time period using what I could remember of the codes I had. The early version was imprecise, and I overshoot the deletions both as to time and scope. Do you remember a few years ago when the entire Politics board got dumped? Well that was me trying to simply delete the last dozen or so Ty posts.
Talk about bugs to be worked out. I also blocked Ty from re-registering for a few weeks, but then my license ran out.
