Fox Whore Gibson: Bush is "backstop for the governor and the mayor"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

More Karl Rove talking fpoints, courtesy of Fox and John Gibson.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,169303,00.html

There is the question about who is to be most embarrassed by all this. Obviously the president is teed up. After all, when the French president presided over the deaths of 15,000 elderly in a Paris heat wave, he took the international derision, not the mayor of Paris.

But there is the question of what you expect a president to do. Generally, the president of the United States has the role of backstop for the governor and the mayor. He is supposed to render aid, and he is empowered to ask the governor for the right to take over the National Guard and take over the whole rescue operation. Evidently, the governor in Louisiana was asked by the president and she refused to relinquish that control. That suggests she thought she could handle it. It also suggests she should answer the question about how all those people died.

It also suggests the mayor had an obligation to have a plan that would have focused on the most helpless in New Orleans and would have pushed help through the storm to them in order to get them out. That didn't happen.

I'm not just blowing smoke for the president. He bears the responsibility for what didn't happen when the feds were supposed to be on the scene. He has fired his FEMA (search) director. He has marshaled admirals and generals to mobilize the troops into the disaster zone.

[zbdent]

1. And when Fox was reporting on Chirac's "negligence" on the deaths of

the 15000 Parisians (and reporting on the actual deaths of said Parisians), the Fox reporters were reporting this with shit-eating grins on their faces.

"Look at those stupid French!"

:eyes:

[Skittles]

2. they can spin all they want

the sight of suffering and dying people on live TV makes them ALL responsible