Brian Williams just reported about the lights coming on temporarily

[Stephanie]

for Bush's speech, and then going out again once he was gone. Good for Brian putting that on the Nightly News.

[Horse with no Name]

1. They could care less about the people that are still

remaining in NO.
They are living in luxury on a cruise ship.
They have what they need.
Fuck everyone else.

[aion]

15. If they could care less, then they must care some (n/t)

[TerdlowSmedley]

2. How long will we will seeing staged recovery efforts that

then disappear back to the scene shop?

[spanone]

3. It looked like a Hollywood set.

The selling of a failed president.

[applegrove]

5. Looked like the Hollywood Set of "PSYCHO" actually.

[Pirate Smile]

4. He is covering the Fema ice trucks after the commercial. Thanks, Brian.

[gratuitous]

6. On the air? On the network?

That is indeed good news. Will Williams keep it coming, or will this new candor last only for as long as his outrage over what he saw in New Orleans stays fresh in his memory?

You know that outrage and disgust you're feeling right now, Mr. Williams? Some of us have been feeling it for five years now. Glad to see someone in a position to broadcast it feeling that way.

[Stephanie]

8. yes, network news

now he is reporting that hundreds of trucks full of ice are sitting in MD, GA, MS, driving around for two weeks - truck drivers don't understand what FEMA is doing - ice companies just driving their trucks around in circles - one truck went from LA, to GA, to SC, to MD at a cost of $9000

[AspenRose]

7. I don't know what Anderson Cooper put in Brian Williams' Wheaties....

but this is great.

[applegrove]

13. Having reconnected to the priviously passionate adult reporter they

once were - it will be impossible to mess with their minds. They know.

[regnaD kciN]

9. Might the lights be coming on in Brian Williams's head?

Or will he revert to his friend-of-Rush self as quickly as the lights were extinguished after Captain Crotchsock's speech?

[Stephanie]

12. now he's visitng underground curfew-violating blues clubs in NOLA

I think he's turned.

[Lancer]

10. Katrina may have been a wake-up call

for a lot of journalists. High-profile TV journalists and anchors live well. . . I think their eyes have been opened. May they stay that way.

A report on "Charles" is coming up -- if you haven't seen this little boy, grab the Kleenex. If there's been a thread about him, accept my apologies.

[applegrove]

11. I knew there was something about the speech last night - Psycho!

[liveoaktx]

14. Vid Clip-He also mentioned it last night to Joe Scarborough

as well as talked about the stagecraft of it.

Bush's Speech Excerpts with comments