Dan Froomkin in the Post makes a really, really good point:
Diane Sawyer's rare live interview with President Bush this morning on ABC's Good Morning America exposed one of the president's greatest weaknesses: He doesn't have the answers to some of the most important questions.
The White House press corps is sort of used to that by now, but the American public -- clamoring for answers in the wake of the horrific Gulf Coast disaster -- may be less sympathetic.
We all cheered when the WH Press Corpse went after Scotty on the Plame investigation, because they were personally affronted about being "lied to". Even now they are still letting the 1600 Crew spin them like fat little dredles, to be played with and then shelved until the next time they're needed for the amusement of the skilled 1600 Crew spinmeisters.
As Americans suffer and die along the Gulf Coast, some in the press are allowing "unnamed" spokesmen to threaten those who would dare "play politics" with the raging incompetance of Preznit Dickless Vacationer and his merry little band of 'unnamed, but highly placed' ragtag fools and jesters.
posted by Jo Fish on 09.02.05 at 12:26 PM
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And where are the 101st fighting keyboarders, to call anyone that questions the preznit a dirty traitor?
After all, such disloyal comments will only encourage the hurricanes.
posted by: Satan luvvs Repugs on 09.02.05 at 01:33 PM [permalink]
As of the second of September 1885 soldiers have been killed in Iraq. Who knows what the death toll in LA and MS will be. The National Guard, our homeland security force, is quartered in horrible conditions, far away. Will the media corpse ever, ever be able to say that what the government fails to do correctly is, in fact, political. Katrina should not have been a disaster of such horrifying magnitude. This preznit failed to do the basic work. So what about your "unprecdented post 9/11 powers", Bunnypants? You still fail us all.
posted by: Nina on 09.02.05 at 02:50 PM [permalink]
I just don't understand these WH presstitutes. Five frickin years they carry the malAdministration's water, very happily serving as stenographers, copying down the day's lies and refuse to even consider the reality of life on Planet Earth. But as soon as the wheels of justice start grinding on one of their own, the eyes pop open and they start to bitch.
Are they that selfish and lazy? That disinterested? Maybe we just need to tear $100 bills in half. Mail one half to a mattressback in the press pool and explain that reporting the truth for a change will cause the second half to magically appear.
posted by: Lurch on 09.03.05 at 08:31 AM [permalink]
This is part and parcel with the so-called "professionalization" of the media, along with the consolidation of newspapers, television, radio, etc., into corporate mouthpieces for Big Business. With the willing connivance of Big Media, the BUSHEVIK criminals can say just about anything they want and get away with it, because Big Media is obsessed with missing slim blondes. The young lady from Philadelphia who disappeared and was found later in North Carolina was an anomaly, because Big Media realized that their obsession with missing blonde ladies was beginning to look suspicious.
So, Big Media covers ONE story about a missing lady of color, and goes right back to the Aruba and missing bride/bridegrooms obsessions. I've gotten to the point where I'm damn near obsessive myself about folks who watch 'reality' shows, that %$%&(*@&%^(*&# Nancy Grace show on CNN (I've never been able to stand more than 15 seconds of that WHORE - who has been disciplined by her state courts for prosecutorial abuse!) or any other crap that blurs the line between entertainment and news.
posted by: smaug on 09.03.05 at 10:02 AM [permalink]
