Katrina knocks power out of Bush Spin Machine - Village Voice article.

[henslee]

For the Bush spin machine, the dual disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the official response to it presented a rare instance where the facts proved hard to manipulate.

The idea was to push blame away from the White House and toward Louisiana Democrats like Governor Kathleen Blanco. But suddenly, the dog wouldn’t wag. The props, the carefully stage-managed Bush photo opportunities, the anonymous White House quotes smearing local officials, kept unraveling just as fast as the spinners can issue them. And they just keep unraveling. Here are a few examples.

http://villagevoice.com/news/0537,rozen,67724,2.html

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. what an article! a must read.

for ex:
The quote may have revealed a blatant White House effort to steer the "blame game" toward the Democratic governor (all the while directing the White House and its supporters to respond to critics, as if in chorus, with variations of the pious phrase, "Now's not the time to play the blame game.")

Or maybe not. "Should the paper identify the source who provided bad information?" Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz asked. To which the story's co-author Spencer Hsu replied, "We don't blow sources, period, especially if we don't have reason to believe the source in this case actually lied deliberately."

as compared to "mistakenly lied deliberately"?

[henslee]

2. Talk about WH spin. Check out this thread from yest.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4740929&mesg_id=4740929

[henslee]

3. I am kicking.

[pepperlove]

4. LOVE it....

and it would be funny were it not soooo true...

What program allows such flawless graphic combos? I want it.

[henslee]

6. You referring to page design tprogam used by Vill Voice?

I am not to page design savvy. What is good about it? The way it loads?

[pepperlove]

7. I just

have been searching for a program that will allow seamless graphic stuff like that.... not for *, but just for other stuff I do.... do you know the name of the program used?

[henslee]

9. I do not. Sure you can find out but I am curious. What specific qualities

did you like abuot the page? How quick it loaded? I mean, is a page like that so uncommon?

[brook]

11. My guess ...

it's Quark - from Adobe. You can email the webmaster & ask.

[FloridaPat]

5. Thanks.

[MellowOne]

8. The more Bush and Co spins and blames

The more they look guilty.

[applegrove]

10. Now the RW talking point is to make Bush appear to be as dumb

and helpless as an wheelchair bound Alzheimer's patient on the first floor of St. Rita's.

[freemen2005]

12. nice article!

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. A definite must read

Thanks for posting.