This storm is a fucking SHAM!!! This wall to wall television coverage is a

[LaPera]

fucking sick joke!!! 1.8 MILLION people evacuated???

Bush came out looking good though...had to get him out of DC for the anti war marches and protests...Rove changed the story and the news is scrambling to find some huge damage...This media coverage is shameless wall to wall coveage...They'll find something for you to believe in...look at all these defenders, who are only getting their info from the television media!!!

This tropical storm is a joke!!! Some rain water and mud on the ground....Rove did it again...No protest marches will be on the news...Fuck my power goes out four times a year when it rains here in Northern CA This was a joke...Houston and Texas have seen far worst every year...what a fucking Sham!!!!

The tropical storm is over...with very little damage...Oh dear, some power outages and some broken windows, oh yeah, I saw a sign blown down down....Geee...We get power outages here in CA every year when a storm comes through...keep watching the news they'll find somewhere or something to convince the people who want to believe this was more than just a lot of rain and winds and nothing more than a huge tropical storm .

This incredible "killer" storm HaHaHa (some hard rain & wind) was perfect to knock the anti-war protests off the news...I've seen worst storms in northern California in February...get fucking real!!!

Keep watching the bullshit news...They'll make it seem like the end of the world...and people are eating it up!

While ignoring the very real and important anti-war marches and protests, all around the country and the world!!

[AX10]

1. Rita is NOT another Katrina and IS NOT worthy of the....

same coverage as Katrina was. This is all a sham to take attention away from the Protests.

[goclark]

4. It's a sham...they could stop this BS! keep calling the MSM

[bluestateguy]

2. We often forget one thing

Hurricanes usually don't live up to expectations. They usually fizzle out or turn at the last minute toward a sparsely populated area. Often thousands of people end up evacuating who probably don't need to. Katrina was different in that it did not fizzle, it hit a populated area and the evacuation was bungled. But that was the exception, not the rule.

[jim3775]

3. This was a category 3 hurricane, moran

People here on DU have family in the path of the storm, I doubt they will want to hear how the hurricane is a media invention. It wasnt a sham.

Edit: Ok so i got a number wrong.

[AX10]

6. Rita has not caused anywhere the damage that Katrina did.

Rita has lost alot of power. Katrina = $200+ billion in damages
Rita = $5 billion in damages

[jim3775]

9. That is because of the unique situation in New Orleans

This hurricane is still serious and is not a "sham".

[AX10]

16. A Category 5 storm in the middle of the ocean is NOT...

a threat to anyone. The most powerful part of Rita his a sparsly populated area. The damage was not that great.

No one denies that damage was done by Rita, but worse has happened.

And let's stop calling Rita, "Katrina". Katrina was just horrific.

[marions ghost]

30. 5 billion in damages is not a "fizzle"

there will be large areas of devastation even though Rita was not a Katrina, which it could easily have been.

Although the same amount of attention may not be warranted on TV, this was still a very large disaster to the people involved (not the least of which were the evacuees stuck on the highway). To those involved you can be sure, Rita will NOT be seen as a fizzle.

[Name removed]

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[jim3775]

14. When has the media ever covered a protest?

Go tell the people that used to live in Port Charles LA (a city which is now under 20ft of storm surge) that this was a minor nuisance.

[Field Of Dreams]

33. I agree

I'm glad the protest is happening ... but I have been to two in D.C. over the past few years and I can never remember them garnering much media attention. I have heard some coverage on WTOP radio out of D.C. but most of that has been local traffic updates regarding road closures because of the march.

While the minute-to-minute coverage of the aftermath of Rita may be excessive, I still think the situation warrants close coverage given all the rain that may get dumped down there in the coming days.

[nadinbrzezinski]

35. Bravo some people undersatnd

oh and what it will take for the DC protests to garner attetion is for them to ccurr in large numbers every week and actually close down the city... kind of what happened in the 1970s

[geomon666]

12. Katrina was a CAT 4.

I think it's extremely insensitive and in my personal opinion, disgusting, to suggest that this storm was nothing and no attention should be paid to it.

I'm sure these are the same people that were saying everything was great in New Orleans because the worst of the storm had missed them.

[txindy]

21. The entire thread is nothing but flamebait n/t

[nonconformist]

No, Katrina was a strong CAT 4 at landfall. nt

[jim3775]

20. Oh sorry, so cat 4 means serious, cat 3 means minor fake sham.

Thats bullshit.

[buff2]

22. It wasn't a sham

it was a SHAME....a shame that the whore media dwells on one subject 24/7 while the rest of the news worthy of attention is snuffed out. I hate this media we have. They are worthless.I think it's a total waste of time to go to DC and march or to demonstrate. The media doesn't cover it,so the people who stay home and don't get involved in politics will never know how huge this march is because when they turn on the evening "news" it won't be there. Phuck this so called media,phuck the politicians who sit on their asses and put up with the bu$h nazis and their bullshit, and PHUCK THAT IDIOT IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!! :argh: :grr: :thumbsdown:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

27. I'm with you...

That's totally true...every time I think of that, I have to suppress the urge to break my computer... :argh:

And I admit, it does seem futile sometimes to demonstrate, but I think it still must be done.

[buff2]

38. Yes,I would have been there myself if I had a way to get there

I won't drive that far by myself...not in bu$h's America.It should have been covered on every channel....local,cable or satellite. But no....they would rather show the same footage over and over and over and over.....let us see the same flying shingle come off,the same stop light on the ground. Hell's fire....These bastards get stuck on one subject and they won't let loose of it. Phucking bastards.

[datasuspect]

37. evacuee right here

left the area (i live near pt. arthur) and it took almost 24 hours to make it out of texas and louisiana.

[justiceischeap]

5. And Blanco is live on C-Span talking about how Rita

Has pretty much decimated southwest LA.

[Quixote1818]

7. I totally lost interest in the storm as soon as I found out it fizzled

Since then all I have been focused on is the protests. I would think most of the country feels the same as me.

I am hoping the media will talk about the protests for the next week since the storm fizzled and hit in an are of little population.

[fasttense]

10. They did need to cover the hurricane but

they didn't need to cover it ALL the TIME. Even with hurricane Katrina, we got the story about the plane landing without full landing gear. This is deliberately orchestrated by Rove and corporate whore media. We got more coverage from the fake freedom march paid for by defense contractors.

[mourningdove92]

11. Katrina was a knock out blow to Bushco....so

talking about Rita is hand in hand with talking about Katrina. Reminding everyone of how bad he FU.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

13. Well...

I actually happen to agree with you. Though I do not take hurricanes lightly, I have to admit that WALL-TO-WALL coverage of Rita gets very annoying. This is not like Katrina, but you'd think it is, with what the MSM is making of it.

One thing that got me about was Katrina was how NBC Nightly News became ALL KATRINA, ALL THE TIME for at least a week afterwards. I mean, sure, I could understand a day or two, but a WEEK? There were other things going on, and if I wanted to know 'em, I had to go online.

Heh; I just realized this is my first post on DU. :party:

[CountAllVotes]

24. welcome to the DU WritingIsMyReligion!!

:hi: and Welcome to the DU! :D :D :D

:kick:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

34. Thanks...

...it feels so good to have a voice, finally, on the Internet.

DU rocks!

[EFerrari]

15. Tell those hundreds of thousands of people

ALL OVER THE WORLD

that what they are doing somehow doesn't count

because of Karl Rove?

:rofl:

Don't worry. They can't shut this down. :hi:

[salin]

17. perhaps you mean the media coverage of the storm

rather than the storm itself (and thus demeaning of those who had losses or horrible attempted evacuations related to the storm).

[AX10]

19. That's what we mean.

Talking about the damage from Rita is fine. Talking about how the storm is moving along is another story. There is no need to talk it to death.

[jim3775]

25. Maybe thats what you mean, but the OP said:

"This tropical storm is a joke!!!some rain water and mud on the ground"

"The tropical storm is over...with very little damage...Oh dear, some power outages and some broken windows, oh yeah, I saw a sign blown down"

"This incredible "killer" storm HaHaHa (some hard rain & wind)"

^That is insane bullshit.

[Name removed]

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[Missy M]

26. The media could cover both the storm and the protest.....

and also the forgotten WAR!

[maddezmom]

28. CNN International is coveing it

:shrug:

[Missy M]

31. Thank you maddezmom, I am going to turn it on now.

[TahitiNut]

23. Texas has become Trent Lott's Porch.

Lake Charles, Louisiana was, by far, the hardest hit by Rita, followed by Port Arthur, Texas. Nonetheless, the GOPhers just love to strut and posture on their porch.

[meisje]

29. Wahhhhh,,, the huricane did'nt kill enough people wahhhhhhhhhh

[Zinfandel]

32. Yeah, keep watching your TV....maybe they'll dig some up for you!

But you sure as fuck won't see any the millions marching all over the country marching and protesting Bush's war...No, your television news finds this storm so much more important!

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. It is a problem of balance

the TV should be covering some of the march, they won't until they happen every week and they close down the city... kind of what happened in the early 1970s... what you think the media was on our side then?

[Moderator]

39. Locking

The original post seems insensitive and inflammatory.

Thanks for your consideration.