Bush is NOW BLAMING THE MEDIA

[berni_mccoy]

In the Press Conference today,

Scott McClellen just said when asked what Bush meant by "No one expected the levees to break" that "Bush was referring to the news stories that reported N.O. had dodged a bullete and the city was ok because no levees broke. That's what Bush was referring to when he made that comment..." <quote not exact>

But the levees BROKE DURING THE STORM... the flooding began during teh storm...

Their telling me Bush's only source of information was the NEWS?!?!?!

I thought Bush didn't listen to /read the NEWS?

[killbotfactory]

1. I think Scotty meant to say

"Bush was talking out of his ass"

[daninthemoon]

2. Anything they think works for them, any port in a storm.

[noonwitch]

3. They really have to stretch when they can't blame something on Clinton

Although I'm surprised they haven't tried to blame Bill.

[mzmolly]

4. The best of "spin"

:crazy:

[smoogatz]

5. English Professor to the rescue

In my experience, the expression "no one" means "nobody," or "not one person," or "no single sentient being in the entire fucking universe." It does NOT mean "none of the Fox News paid Republican party ass-lickers."

[LostinVA]

8. This ex copy editor and English major agrees n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. This "Dodged a Bullet" Headline Misdirection (Lie) has been Exposed

[berni_mccoy]

7. Apparently, they didn't get the memo!

[mikeytherat]

9. This is THE talking point -- courtesy of "Brownie" and Chertoff

They have ALL trial-launched the "media reported N.O. dodged a bullet, so it's not our fault" meme -- Brownie and Chertoff got beaten like pinatas by the media for even attempting it.

Desperate they are.

mikey_the_rat

[redqueen]

10. Just yet ANOTHER load of bullshit from these professional liars.

Elected officials don't get disaster-related information from news... they get it from NOAA and other experts.

So much bullshit... can the dumbass bootlicking bush-lovers really buy all this spew? Seriously?

[txaslftist]

11. Scotty, that's been debunked.... Hello? Enterprise to Scotty?

[madame defarge]

12. Talking Points...

Al Franken just did a piece on this about 45 minutes ago..."Who got the memo?" The talking points by Chertoff, Gen. Myers, et al said "ALL the headlines said that 'N.O. dodged a bullet...'" Franken did the research and found that a right wing news site (I can't remember the name) had that headline as did the Grenada newspaper. All other newspapers across the US told the real story.

So apparently, Scotty got the memo...

ON edit: just found this DU posting with the website I was referring to:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4711466

[txaslftist]

13. And now the talking heads at FOX are are re-editing broadcasts...

...to include the "dodged a bullet" line.

We'll see the tapes soon.

[melnjones]

23. Oh, but it gets better...

It is bad enough that they seem to have gotten all their info from a news source, possibly not even a great one, but even worse is that they must have ONLY READ THEY HEADLINE because the second paragraph says this-

"Katrina, which hit land this morning with winds in excess of 145 miles an hour, has caused a number of levees to break in New Orleans, leading authorities to fret over the POTENTIAL FOR WIDESPREAD FLOODING, though, at the same time, popular areas of the city such as the French Quarter are free from rising water for the time being." (emphasis mine)

amazing. truly.

[kitkat65]

14. Oh, that pesky little thing called interpretation.

One thing that could bite them in the ass with this statement though is that they were saying that they were in contact with people in the affected areas. Which people? Who?

Did these people in the affected areas also tell the FEMA folks about the Superdome and Convention Center crowds as well? Before FEMA claimed they knew about it?

[flordehinojos]

15. every one of those bastards from bush on down is a liar!

[pointblank]

16. They really are...

it is uncanny isnt it?

[pointblank]

17. Didnt he once say that he didnt listen to the news or read newspapers? nt

[flordehinojos]

22. he did.

and, whoever is reading the news or reporting it to him must be deaf and blind...or a liar, or bush is lying once again. but what else can we expect from him? truth? never from him. that is for sure.

[mikeytherat]

18. "N.O. dodged a bullet (which left only 14 rounds left in the clip)"

n/t

[samsingh]

19. and yet the media really loves bush.

[Garbo 2004]

20. they're like kids that pop out one lie after another when busted, one lie

doesn't work, they try another.

[bluedawg12]

21. "no one expected" is the key

Everyone expected- and had he said, we did not expect it that late maybe it would have passed muster.

but, still it was raining after the full strom passed and isn't that when the levee's broke?

This was thier gambit at seperating out the storm from the flood.

[meow2u3]

24. Never make enemies of those who buy their ink by the barrel

Keep on blaming the media! Bring it on, Smirk!

[texpatriot2004]

25. I thought they said they didn't want to play the blame game. n/t

[Zynx]

26. That wasn't even good or creative spin. That just sucked.

[ET Awful]

27. So far, NOBODY has actually shown anyone a paper in which

the headline mentioned New Orleans dodging a bullet. Al Franken was able to locate one from GRANADA, but somehow I doubt that Chertoff and his cronies were reading the Granada Times on Tuesday morning.

Every paper I've looked at from that morning screams DISASTER, CATASTROPHE, etc.

There was NO NEWS STORY about New Orleans "dodging a bullet." It never happened.