'Katrinagate' fury spreads

thus open to the same uncaring hypocrisy as those unfortunates that they report on each night. Knocks them down a few notches, doesn't it...

beginning to call into question. This whole thing brings up the question: wouldn't we be better off without governing and media elites?

. . . has there been such a merciless questioning of the president and his administration by the US media."

Where was this writer during the Clinton years?

otherwise our credibility would come into question.

I'm waiting for the press to ask Bush what colors the freckles are i=on his penis. Then it would get up to the level of what they did to the last elected president.

"are you blind" is a question that should have been
asked at almost every press conference for the last 5 years.

Perhaps "reality-based" news is gonna get back on it's feet.
We can only hope.

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Save the Gulf:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=106&topic_id=22507&mesg_id=22507

Then save the nation!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/electionreform.htm

:cry:

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050906/when_the_saints_dont_go_marching_in.php
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You want moral values? This government doesn't have them. That lack is visible in the fetid Third-World swamp we've all been watching in horror. What we're watching is not the consequence of a corrupt government or even an incompetent government. It is the consequence of an immoral government.

Morals, in case Bush et al. have forgotten, grow from the central commandment to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Caring for others in extreme distress is the most basic tenet of morality. Doing so requires a decision to act. Our federal government decided instead to abandon those in need.

Yes, decided. Bush’s government decided—in advance—not to protect an American city from an inevitable disaster, despite years of warnings from tediously fact-based sources. Our government decided—in advance—to cut the funding that the New Orleans Corps of Engineers had requested to forestall precisely this flood.

they're a little too gun-happy for me, but besides that they REALLY pull no punches when frankness is called for.

That's a good one!

She's been on her knees since this whole thing started. I can't wait for her hard-hitting report on why Smirk's golf game last week was the right response to this tragedy.

Aren't the "gates" getting a little tiresome?

that supposedly predicted that a woman would create a scandal that would bring down Bush. I think we now know her name is Katrina.

let's hope either/both bring him down.

Gawd! I wish someone today in the United States professional media would have an original thought in their heads. The only time they have a breaking headline it's stolen from a foreign source or a blog.

I support their efforts, but they cheapen the efforts by not calling it what it is...The Katrina Scandal.

"Never before, say some observers, have US reporters been so emotionally involved in a story to the point of being enraged.

They are not just telling a story, they have become part of it.

"Has Katrina saved the US media,?" asked BBC reporter Matt Wells who sees the shift in tone as a potentially historic development.

A number of US journalists who cover federal politics, especially television presenters, had become part of the political establishment, says Wells.

"They live in the same suburbs, go to the same parties. Their television companies are owned by large conglomerates who contribute to election campaigns."

It's a "perfect recipe" for fearful, self-censoring reportage, he says, but thinks "since last week, that's all over".

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and the neo-con ideology will be drowned in the cesspool they created.

who is responsible!
BUSH GOTTA GO!