While trying to fake the usual corporate media "nonpartisan bias." But look at the difference in the way the two lists below are produced. One is presented as politically astute, and the other as politically ludicrous. I think you'll figure out very quickly where The Note's real bias lies.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/print?id=156238&cacheKill=312813The Note: Red Versus Blue, Part XXXII
The Absence of the Color Purple
By MARK HALPERIN, DAVID CHALIAN, TEDDY DAVIS, SARAH BAKER and KELLEY PREMO
Sep. 7, 2005 - WASHINGTON, Sep. 7
NEWS SUMMARY
What the White House thinks it knows about the politics of Katrina:
1. "Federalizing" the response to a natural disaster in advance or immediately after the fact is not politically or legally feasible, especially when state and local officials of the other party resist such an effort.
2. Most of the TV-picture-generating problems of the last week were caused by the rank incompetence of the New Orleans and Louisiana governments, whose mayor and governor both publicly and privately behaved abominably, regarding evacuation, health care, law enforcement, civil order, etc.
3. The national media and the people of New Orleans do not care one iota about (1) and (2), and, for now, the White House has to largely accept that.
4. Decrying the "blame game" and focusing practically and rhetorically on helping people now -- whether poll tested or not -- is the lynchpin of the best-available strategy.
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