CNN's Dana Bash says Whitehouse looking for "bullhorn" moment

[SlowDownFast]

like 9-11...

Volf asks why were flags flying half mast for Renquist but not for the thousands in NO...

and I'm VERY CONFUSED RIGHT NOW as to what the fuck MSM is doing...

[Dem Agog]

1. seems to me

their moral compass keeps spinning around like a whirlygig...

if they want a bullhorn moment perhaps they can dress up Boy Hitler in some hip waders, hand him a bullhorn, and send him out into the sludgy watery streets of new orleans so he can shout encouragement to the rotting bodies floating by...

probably the only way he wouldn't be in danger of retaliation from the victims...

[Blue Belle]

10. Speaking of dressing people up....

Now I have a cold, so this could be just the Nyqil talking... but why are Clinton, Bush I, Bush II, and the Secret Service all dressed in the same short-sleeved silk shirts (only in different colors)? Is that their "walking among the huddled masses casual" apparel??

[Dogmudgeon]

13. Probably because the temperature is around 95F

It's ungodly hot along the Gulf Coast at this time of year -- that's one of the problems the survivors have had, as well. A lot of people have died from dehydration accelerated by heat stroke.

--p!

[Cassandra]

2. Pardon me while I....

:puke:

[MadeinOhio]

3. They're talking about how Bush has done everything for photo-ops.

Nailing into them hard, for trying to save face by raising and lowering the flags first for Rhenquist and then a while afterward for New Orleans.

It's great to see them all grilling!!! :argh:

[Bluebear]

4. CNN's Dana Bash: Everything is "carefully choreographed"!

I never thought I would see the day that they criticize this monkey.

[Grateful for Hope]

19. I sent an email to CNN yesterday

pointing out how bush photo-op'd on Friday and how disgusting I thought it was that he couldn't bring himself to demonstrate genuine compassion for the sake of the victims instead of feigning compassion for his political image.

I also commended them on their coverage this week.

If enough people emailed them, perhaps they listened.

[etherealtruth]

27. I think CNN has done a good job covering the horrors ...

of the aftermath of Katrina ... Made worse by the complete incompetence at the federal level.

I also emailed CNN to congratulate them on their honest and compassionate coverage ... I guess it's all perception; I was very surprised to see a thread calling for people to contact CNN for their poor/jaded coverage ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4646373

I turned CNN to check it out and found Christianne Amanpour harshly criticizing the federal response ...???

[MadeinOhio]

30. They need to keep being mailed!

[e-mail]

[madaboutharry]

12. It sounds like she is

dissing him. They are pointing out that he is a fake.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. To Which, A Weary World Replies:

"SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DO YOUR JOB"

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/09/what-will-it-take-to-get-you-people-to.html

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. MSNBC GAVE HIM ONE two days ago...

I posted a thread, but DU was on "level 3," which means I'll never find it unless I go thread by thread in GDP (and I won't do that)...

BUT: They had a juxtaposition of two photos, one of the "bullhorn" and one of Bush sitting next to a guy in Biloxi whose home had been destroyed.

I was FURIOUS. I posted the thread and pic on DU and asked folks to e-mail MSNBC. They did. Within a VERY short period of time the pic was gone, but I truly believe that MSNBC was "testing the waters."

[Demoiselle]

7. Shall we all suggest to MSM where he can shove his bullhorn?

eom

[etherealtruth]

22. I think the point to her statement was ...

...that he's looking for a moment to make him "look good" and hadn't found anything that has made him look strong or in control ... I didn't think the segment was at al positive r/t the chimp

[ima_sinnic]

8. even with a bullhorn nobody would pay any attention to him

useless and irrelevant

[HysteryDiagnosis]

15. Remember this??

[Pithy Cherub]

9. Didn't they recognize guitar and cake eating events as their

vainglorious moments. NOTHING after being at a 5 star resort fundraising and giving platitudes will rescue bush from the tides of angry public opinion. But he can keep trying (doing hard work) cause like Social Security privatization he can't make it happen.

[Garbo 2004]

26. Yeah, playing a guitar and eating cake while americans were drowning were

his "bullhorn" moments, absolutely emblematic of his Administration's concern for American people in distress.

[kentuck]

11. "We know who brought all this water to New Orleans..."

and they will hear from all of us soon!

[MojoXN]

14. "and I'm VERY CONFUSED RIGHT NOW as to what the fuck MSM is doing..."

I'm not. Falling into lockstep with our "courageous" leader is what they're doing.

MojoXN

[MadeinOhio]

16. They are doing the opposite of that right now...

Thank goodness. But the polls are getting spinned.

[blonndee]

24. I was encouraged that Blitzer mentioned the "outrage" they're getting

from viewers and they went to a few blogs...started out with ones that are asking for Chertoff and Brown to be fired, pointing out lies of the RWers. Then they had Malkin's which blames Nagin and Blanco, unsurprisingly. But to me it seemed like a small victory.

Maybe they ARE reading our emails.

[Tesibria]

17. Flags ARE at half mast for Katrina ... and Rehnquist

See http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/2005090...

September 4: Proclamation by the President: Honoring the Memory of the Victims of Hurricane Katrina

As a mark of respect for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and on all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, Tuesday, September 20, 2005.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/2005090...

Proclamation by the President: Death of William H. Rehnquist
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America

As a mark of respect for William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including section 7 of title 4, United States Code, that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and on all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, Tuesday, September 13, 2005. * * *

[Bumblebee]

28. Did they edit it? I am sure I heard it was just for Rehnquist first.

[Ms. Clio]

29. It was just for Rehnquist first, then somebody in this tin-ear

administration realized how it might look to the public. It was a huge slap in the face to all Americans, especially since Rehnquist worked to suppress black voting rights early in his career.

[Rex]

18. Not bullhorn, bullshit moment.

They just can't pull it off with all the dead bodies floating face down in the floodwater. He has a SPOT to stand on after 911, on top of the dead. NO and that whole region is like a 911 - nothing but dead bodies and people soon to be dead from any number of things. Do big an area for a photo-op.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

20. I found it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2056241&mesg_id=2056241

and the MSNBC article:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9176877



"Three days after the terror attack on the World Trade Center, President Bush stood atop the rubble alongside New York City firemen and New York political leaders. On Friday, the president sat with a victim of Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, Miss."

[WiseButAngrySara]

36. Good! TU; I won't have to look for it....and BARF God I hate him......n/t

[Deere_John]

21. The original bullhorn moment was crap anyway.

Man stood on the bodies of the dead and did a football cheer.

Hell is too good for him.

[librechik]

32. Too right!

and welcome to DU, DJ

:hi:

[qanda]

23. Good luck with that one

That would have only worked if he had acted right away. Unfortunately for the victims of Katrina, this country is already back to Phil, Oprah and the Price is Right. No cancelled games, no song on the Capitol steps and no National Day of Mourning. Only bloated bodies, separated families and national shame.

Well, I guess Bush could pull a bloated body out of the water, but he better make sure it's after the soaps go off.

[durablend]

25. Maybe he should stand on top of the Superdome

Hopefully he'll fall in!

[Gabi Hayes]

31. this it?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4648495

[ClassWarrior]

33. So are they gonna keep dragging him around LA like Reagan's corpse...

...looking for that magic moment?

:rofl:

NGU.

[gkhouston]

37. well, he can't go to the White House

that woman might be there. :scared:

[txindy]

38. **sputter!!**

Too true!!! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

34. It's his Little Big Horn moment

Only difference is, Custer woulda stayed in New Orleans, and rode along the levee.

Not THIS George.

[Bluebear]

35. Someone shove a bullhorn up his arrogant ass. Murderer. nt