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NBC’s Williams Seemingly Endorses Racism Explanation
After insisting that “I don’t do opinions,” on Thursday’s Daily Show on Comedy Central, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams seemed to come dangerously close to endorsing the view that racism was behind the slow rescue of residents in New Orleans as he approvingly relayed how, a “refrain” he heard from “everyone watching the coverage all week,” was “had this been Nantucket, had this been…
Red Cross and Salvation Army Barred by Louisiana Officials, and the MS
For two days now Fox News' Major Garrett has reported on first the Red Cross, and then the Salvation Army, being denied entrance to New Orleans by Louisiana State authorities. According to Garrett and the Red Cross website, officials didn't want the food, water and sanitary supplies to get to the Superdome and Convention Center because it might encourage others to come to those sites rather than…
CNN: What Should Be Done With the People Who Refuse to Leave New Orle
On this evening’s The Situation Room, CNN’s Jack Cafferty ran a poll asking the following question concerning ongoing rescue efforts in New Orleans: What should be done with the people who refuse to leave? “Officials want everybody out of town because the health risks of the contaminated water are simply too great. But not everybody wants to leave.”This raises an interesting question that…
Assuras Notes Negative Numbers on Bush's Katrina Response
A day after CNN reported poll numbers which show a small minority of Americans blame President Bush for a slow response to the disaster in New Orleans, CBS News today reported their new polling data, which were considerably more negative for the Bush administration. The poll, unlike CNN’s, doesn’t deal with “blame” for the New Orleans disaster but rather focused on the adequacy of the…
Cutting Taxes One Minute; Raising Them the Next
CNNs American Morning says raising gas taxes might be a better move than cutting them.
Times Cites U.N. Report Blasting U.S. as Cheap
Foreign aid story ignores U.S. charity and socialist aspects of U.N. analysis.
AP Still Finds a Way to Criticize Bush
A couple of weeks ago, I addressed a piece from the AP's Jennifer Loven. Loven, the wife of a former Clinton administration environmental official, found it necessary to write, as gasoline prices were rising, about how George W. Bush was probably the greatest consumer of gasoline. Well, after almost two weeks of absolutely relentless criticism of the President for not taking Katrina seriously,…