Hurricane Katrina
To ABC's Surprise, Katrina Victims Praise Bush and Blame Nagin
September 16th, 2005 12:50 AM
ABC News producers probably didn't hear what they expected when they sent Dean Reynolds to the Houston Astrodome's parking lot to get reaction to President Bush's speech from black evacuees from New Orleans. Instead of denouncing Bush and blaming him for their plight, they praised Bush and blamed local officials. Reynolds asked Connie London: "Did you harbor any anger toward the President because…
CNN’s Bill Schneider Equates Hurricane Katrina to Monica Lewinsky
September 16th, 2005 12:40 AM
Last week, Brent Baker reported here that Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” joked about Hurricane Katrina being George Bush’s Monica Lewinsky. Today, CNN’s political analyst Bill Schneider said virtually the same thing on “Lou Dobbs Tonight”…but HE wasn’t kidding (video to follow):“Sooner or later, every leader gets in trouble. President Reagan had Iran-Contra, President Clinton had Monica Lewinsky…
Scorn on the Bayou -- The Political Economics of Katrina
September 15th, 2005 5:31 PM
Newsweek uses gross misinformation to paint grim, untrue picture of New Orleans and U.S. poverty. For two weeks since hurricane Katrina made landfall, America’s media have been presenting startling images of an impoverished New Orleans. Unfortunately, many journalists have been as inaccurate with their economic assessments of this region as they were in estimating how much time it would take to…
AP Corrected Mistake on Bush Responsibility Claim, CBS Didn’t
September 15th, 2005 7:03 AM
Following President Bush's Tuesday news conference in which he took responsibility for federal mistakes following the Hurricane Katrina disaster, some news organizations left out the word federal in their reportage, creating the possible impression that Bush had shouldered blame for state and local failures.National Review’s Stephen Spruiell noticed this later in the day when he spotted a CBSNews…
Is Ex-FEMA Boss Brown’s Hiring Bush’s Fault or Democrats
September 15th, 2005 12:40 AM
In the week leading up to former FEMA director Mike Brown’s exodus, the media spent a lot of time castigating the president for hiring someone with such poor qualifications. Yet, a video report (to follow) from CNN of all places states that the Democrats had a large hand in this appointment. Of course, that hasn’t been the media’s position up to this point. Here is an article from…
Eleanor Clift Finds Good in Katrina -- The Return of Socialism
September 14th, 2005 6:22 PM
Is the Reagan Revolution finally coming to an end? “Progressives” like Newsweek’s Eleanor Clift certainly would like to think so. In fact, in a recent op-ed, Eleanor contends that the wake of Katrina is the death knell for such heinous things as tax cuts and smaller government:“If there’s an upside to Katrina, it’s that the Republican agenda of tax cuts, Social Security privatization and…
