Newsview: Rhetoric Not Matching Reality

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050903/ap_on_go_pr_wh/katrina_happy_talk

Newsview: Rhetoric Not Matching Reality

By RON FOURNIER, AP Political WriterFri Sep 2,11:11 PM ET

The Iraqi insurgency is in its last throes. The economy is booming. Anybody who leaks a CIA agent's identity will be fired. Add another piece of White House rhetoric that doesn't match the public's view of reality: Help is on the way, Gulf Coast.

As New Orleans descended into anarchy, top Bush administration officials congratulated each other for jobs well done and spoke of water, food and troops pouring into the ravaged city. Television pictures told a different story.

"What it reminded me of the other day is 'Baghdad Bob' saying there are no Americans at the airport," said Rich Galen, a Republican consultant in Washington. He was referring to Saddam Hussein's reality-challenged minister of information who denied the existence of U.S. troops in the Iraqi capital.

To some critics, President Bush seemed to deny the existence of problems with hurricane relief this week. He waited until Friday to acknowledged that "the results are not acceptable," and even then the president parsed his words

Republicans worry that he looks out of touch defending the chaotic emergency response.

"It's impossible to defend something like this happening in America," said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

"No one can be happy with the kind of response which we've seen in New Orleans," said Republican Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts.....

[truthisfreedom]

1. "He waited until Friday to acknowledged" ok yahoo, where is your editor?

asleep at the switch?

rate this article up!

woohoo!

[pinniped]

2. Are they just figuring this out?

Bizarro World.

[JoFerret]

3. Bring it on

CNN has a similar piece re Katrina - matching quotes from officials with the words of the witnesses.
The mask has slipped. And now we said that rare and wonderful thing: the Truth in all its ugly wonderful form - people actually telling the truth and speaking out.

[Massachusetts]

4. "Bring it on"

The TRUTH will set US FREE!

Bu$hco will keep "slip sliding away" from this point on.

The Ultimate penance for this slime bag is that his family name Will forever be linked to the WORST administration in our Nations history.

[rodeodance]

5. it talks 'spin'--and how "and the ..WH..has perfected the shady art." YES

......Bush got himself in trouble by trying to put the best face on a horrible situation. The strategy is so common in Washington that operatives have a name for it, "spin," and the Bush White House has perfected the shady art.

This is what the president had to say about the relief effort earlier in the week:

_"There's a lot of food on its way, a lot of water on the way, and there's a lot of boats and choppers headed that way."

_"Thousands have been rescued. There's thousands more to be rescued. And there's a lot of people focusing their efforts on that."

[rodeodance]

6. recommended

[Behind the Aegis]

7. This is a GREAT article!

Must read!

[Lindacooks]

8. Yeah, anybody who's happy with the response is mentally ill.

or has their priorities so out of whack they're psychopaths.