Why is Rehnquist getting pope-like coverage now?

[Catchawave]

With all due respect, of course.

[arwalden]

1. Great Analogy.

[Skidmore]

2. A desperate ploy to change the subject from Katrina.

[MADem]

3. The media has been ordered to cut into Katrina

Look over HERE, look OVER HERE!!!

Pay no attention to the dead behind the levee...look over HERE!!!

[pepperlove]

6. Exactly right! n/t

[JHB]

4. Because he's dead and Republican...

...and anyone who's inclined to point out his failings won't be given air time.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. Death has a way of turning people into Popes.

Human nature. Just like it's human nature for people to slow down on the freeway to get a good look at an accident.

Just like a dog instinctively sniffs another dog's hind end.

Instinct.

We like to turn people into Popes when they die.

[Bill McBlueState]

7. Eh, he was the chief justice.

I expect there to be some level of pomp & circumstance for a chief justice, regardless of how anyone feels about his politics. This will pass pretty quickly, though.

[Catchawave]

16. Oh, I don't deny him the ceremonial pomp and respect....

...but live t.v. coverage of every step of the procession? Sorry, if I sounded selfish, he's in a better place now and probably why my heart and mind are with those who are not right now, in NOLA :( I can't depend on my government anymore, I'm more dependent on live news coverage.

[_ed_]

8. Remember when

Reagan died? It's the same thing. People tend to forget a person's sins after they die.

[Catchawave]

21. It was a slow news week too ....

And I am more forgiving of what it means to honor a President....ok, here we go, back to Katrina....and Roberts hearings ::sigh::

[xultar]

9. I hope they don't drop the guy.

[WiseButAngrySara]

10. Everytime his name is mentioned, his role in the NOLA disaster as a

regressive racist should be mentioned. I had no idea of the extent of this man's elitist philosophy until I read some articles yesterday which put it all together quite clearly.

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. Because soon, he'll have as much power as the pope.

[peekaloo]

12. Easier to look at the rotting corpse of one white man than thousands

of N.O. residents.

Harsh, you bet.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. It might because I have Mars in Virgo, but the flag on the casket has to

be fixed. It has to be pulled down on one side, and it's bothering me.

[leftchick]

17. It is is bugging me too

I am turning it of. All of this respect for a racist pig is revolting.

[meti57b]

14. Question: Who is the woman pallbearer?

Thanks in advance.

[Catchawave]

18. ....and why was she wearing heels ?

Low ones, but she was struggling. She did look familiar, at first glance I thought it was Sandra Day O'Connor.

[MO_Dem]

15. They have to show us the "other America"

the one where a dead man gets their total attention. Meanwhile, here in "our America", dead are scattered everywhere, while rescuers are still trying to find and save some lives. The differences can't much more stark than this.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

19. There is nothing the repugs do better than "eulogizing" their

dead. They could take a sweat sock and make it a national hero with a state funeral and non-stop media coverage. And have.

Besides, if the camera is focused on a flag draped coffin of a Supreme Court Justice the "people" aren't worrying about flag draped coffins coming into Dover AFB, or of drowned and dying people on the Gulf Coast or that they are paying ungodly amounts for a gallon of gas.

This is Karl Rove's forté.

[Catchawave]

20. ...another Bush faux pas....lower the flag, but not for NOLA victims

...until someone nudged him?

[malaise]

22. How ironic

that the death of the man responsible for this entire mess has been totally eclipsed by a disaster made worse as a result of neo-con policies. I'm mourning for the victims of the disaster.

[oasis]

23. It's time to catch up on Turner Classic Movies or NFL reruns.

[NJmaverick]

24. Distract from republican screw ups like Kitrana and Iraq

need we say more?

[yurbud]

25. Karl Rove made the phone call--mourn the champion of Jim Crow

or else.

[tabasco]

26. Beause the corporate media serves only the corporations.

Rehnqist was a tool of the corporate elite, so they ill treat him like a god.

Don't expect anything but propaganda from your mass media.