argexpat
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aquapub said:New York had no plan for such events, yet because they had LEADERS like Guiliani and Pataki (REPUBLICANS) they did remarkably well. The only difference between the people who responded to 9/11 and the people who responded to Katrina is that everyone who responded to Katrina (besides Bush) was a Democrat. Democrats can't lead. President Bush had record numbers of aid on its way to the region before Katrina even hit. the DEMOCRATS in charge down there can't organize it or handle their business-and they've had FEMA warning them this day would come since the 1970s. It is not media bias to report the obvious. Democrats wouldn't make a mandatory evacuation like BUSH was requesting. Democrats screwed the pooch here.
As usual, those pointing the fingers are most to blame.
argexpat said:This goes out to all "liberal media" conspiracy theorists who like to use anecdotal evidence:
Both the Washington Post and (recent "liberal media" whipping boy) Newsweek obediently, and ineptly, passed on -- and thus gave credence to -- the Bush lie that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco’s hesitancy to declare a state of emergency had prevented the feds from responding to the crisis more rapidly.
The Post, citing an anonymous “senior Bush official,” reported on Sunday that, as of Saturday, Sept. 3, Blanco “still had not declared a state of emergency”… when, in fact, the declaration had been made on Friday, August 26 -- over 2 days BEFORE Katrina made landfall in Louisiana (and while Bush was getting his tire pumped by Lance Armstrong at his "ranch"). This claim was so demonstrably false that the paper was forced to issue a correction just hours after the original story appeared.
Newsweek’s effort to assist the Bush damage control effort was even more egregious. While claiming that “Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Barbineaux Blanco seemed uncertain and sluggish, hesitant to declare martial law or a state of emergency, which would have opened the door to more Pentagon help” the magazine didn’t even bother to cite a “senior Bush official,” choosing instead to report Blanco’s alleged failings as unsubstantiated fact. Wonder where they got that “fact”? You think it might have been from the same “senior Bush official” that snookered the Post?
So, there you have it, proof positive of Republican bias in the media, right? Right? And there's more where that came from. That's the beauty of anecdotal evidence, you can find it anywhere and use it to prove anything.
aquapub said:Between nearly every major journalist in the business having earlier worked as an employee of one Democrat or another
aquapub said:and all the peer-reviewed studies overwhelmingly showing that journalists vote for liberals
aquapub said:and Dan Rather's legacy of DNC maneuvering
aquapub said:the only way someone can peddle this "eye of the beholder" crap is if they are willfully blind or completely clueless.
aquapub said:I'm guessing you think OJ is innocent too.
aquapub said:Newsweek burying the hottest sex scandal story of the century-Monica Lewinsky for weeks until Matt Drudge finally screamed about it?
aquapub said:Dan Rather railroading bogus stories about Bush's National Guard record
aquapub said:with only John Kerry operatives as their source?
aquapub said:Only in the cartoonishly unrealistic, denial-ridden mind of a liberal can plain proof be discarded as "anecdotal evidence."
aquapub said:What a joke.
aquapub said:Oh yeah...Compare Katrina to 9/11. The only difference between the people who responded to 9/11 and the people who responded to Katrina is that everyone who responded to Katrina (besides Bush) was a Democrat.
MiamiFlorida said:I was under the impression that the Washington Post was a pretty objective publication. Weren't they the whistle-blowers in Watergate?
I suppose you consider the New York Times more objective....right?
The Truth-Bringer said:stop always picking on the right wing and look at the left wing bias too. They "report" how Bush is bad in dealing with the hurricane to make people loose support for the goverment or bush.
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