Salon: Bush Images No Match for Images of Misery

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8CCD4807.html

By FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer

September 02,2005 | NEW YORK -- President Bush's show of reassurance as he traveled to the Gulf Coast on Friday competed with TV coverage of raging fires, gun-wielding thugs and throngs of distraught evacuees, as "chaos" remained a frequent description for Hurricane Katrina's dire aftermath.

Video showed Bush hugging storm victims during a walking tour in devastated Biloxi, Miss. "We had nowhere to go," one woman sobbed. "I know, I know," Bush consoled her. Other images told another story.

"I just can't believe what I'm seeing," declared Fox News Channel correspondent Steve Harrigan from a New Orleans street. "This looks like the Wild West here. We've got guys riding around in pickups with automatics drawn, in broad daylight, in downtown New Orleans, as buildings burn in the background."

"We're a very powerful country," said Rep. Bobby Jindal, R-La., during a phone interview with MSNBC anchorwoman Lisa Daniels. "We're a country that has shipped aid halfway across the world, surely we can rescue people in our own backyard, in our country --" "You would have thought so, right?!" Daniels cut in. "You would have thought so! We're a superpower, but you're looking at pictures where people are saying, `We need food, we need water for our babies!'"

[wake.up.america]

1. A huge part of the problem is a lack of character at the top...

at the top including Bush, Cheney, Falwell, Rice business leaders, etc.

There is very little real "leadership" at the upper echelons.

Cheney steals like a "Weltmeister" then bitches about someone taking cases of cola in New Orleans.

Bush steals an election the bitches about someone taking
cases of cola in New Orleans.

Survival of the fittest is the law of the land for many.

[Hidden Stillness]

2. Reality is Finally Not Covered Up by Image

This horrible group of manipulative liars was finally forced to face, and deal with, reality. They couldn't spin it, "frame" it, smear it, yell at it, or laugh derisively at it--they had to show what they were made of, and respond to it, solve it and help....So, of course, total disaster.