Bush's "mea culpa" no longer news. Did it happen?

[underpants]

While putting together a thread on whether W's qualified responsiblity soundbite (sorry Karl everyone left the qualifying preface on it) I went looking for the whole quote to copy and paste.

Guess what, it doesn't seem to have happened. No mention of it any where on Yahoo news


Yahoo news home page
http://news.yahoo.com/

Yahoo news (national)
http://news.yahoo.com/i/718

Yahoo news (politics)
http://news.yahoo.com/i/703

Or ABC
http://www.abcnews.go.com/
Or ABC WNT (but there is a story about a Dem. Congressman using Nat.Guard troops to save some stuff at his house)
http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/
Or the Today Show
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032633/?ta=y
Hey! NBC News has the video!!!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/
CNN- Nada
http://www.cnn.com/
CNN's special Katrina page-it's there, see it?
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/katrina/
Good old liberal CBS.......No!?!?!?
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/home/main100.shtml

And finally.... Fox News....come on I know you have it.......
http://www.foxnews.com/
DAMN!!!


Was it really a mea culpa (as ABC lead with last night)? Mmmm sorta...
me·a cul·pa (m klp, m)
n.
An acknowledgment of a personal error or fault.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mea+culpa

Your Query of 'mea culpa' Resulted in 1 Matches
From The AND Dictionary
noun
interjection
1. literary or facetious
As an acknowledgement of one's own guilt or mistake: I am to blame.
Etymology: 14c: Latin, literally ‘by my fault'.
http://www.allwords.com/word-mea%20culpa.html

[rocktivity]

1. It happened, all right

the real problem is that it was three weeks late and a resignation short.

:headbang:
rocknation

[SpiralHawk]

2. Bush's "responsibility" is an LHS (Limited Hangout Strategery)

eom

[zanne]

3. Well, it did happen and now we know why

I know that most of us wathcing him accept the blame on national television were wondering "What is he up to"? This morning, we find out that he wants more power in federal emergencies. True to Republican form, when people start objecting to this, he'll say "But look at what happened in New Orleans"! These people have humdreds of lawyers and political strategists advising them on how to turn their shit to gold. It happens every time--they'll try to turn their gross imcompetence to their advantage.

[underpants]

7. More or less never better or worse

so is the move for more power. Very good point. They don't think in terms of doing better with the same resources (gubment can never do better*) only whether it should be an all consuming power sucker or completely disbanded.

It's all or nothing....decisiveness... gut feeling......etc.

*please ignore the professionalism and efficiency overhaul compeleted in FEMA (and many parts of government) by the previous administration.

Does not apply to anything military contractors or any of the BIG _____s. Void in Puerto Rico, Guam, and anyone that no one pays attention to anyway. All rights reserved for Orwellian background banners. You should watch what you say and do.

[jus_the_facts]

4. there's supposed to be an official proclamation made nationally.....

.....Thursday night LIVE from New Orleans...or so I thought I heard last night on the news after the clip shown of him stating he was *responsible*. :evilfrown:

[underpants]

8. Bite on that CBS

I checked the TV schedules and CBS unveils the new survivor and a two hour season premier of CSI that night. All the other networks have reruns or movies.

Not that this is really directed towards CBS* but that pisses me off. I will of course watch W to see how the focus groups crafted his message.

*-if CBS doesn't show it it is a perfect set up for the noise machine to attack them again. Lots of time filler there.

[jus_the_facts]

10. I'm not absolutely positive there will be a press conference.....

....but I swear that's what I heard 'em say after showin' * stutter an admission of *guilt* over the gov'ts response...I guess we'll have to wait and see...sigh. x(

[calimary]

12. It was an "interesting" presentation, to say the least. Did you notice

when he slouched over the podium, he couldn't even look his questioners in the eye? He looked down and to the side as sheepishly as could be, probably hoping that it'd all just go away if he didn't get himself too deeply into the moment.

ASSHOLE. His behavior is something I used to see at my kids' pre-school among some of the young miscreants. The poster child for arrested development. And THIS is what we have running our country.

:grr:

[jus_the_facts]

14. Indeed.....

.....not lookin' forward to any more of his photo-ops down here either...if there is one tomorrow night...I don't know if I'll have the intestinal fortitude to watch the weasel give another one. :(

[calimary]

15. Actually, I'm kinda hoping that he'll be in one of those situations where

another MD or some other person of excellent karma strolls by and hollers "Go Fuck Yourself, mr. bush!"

I'm sure they're gonna keep him hermetically sealed, but one can hope...

[jus_the_facts]

16. That's enough to give me the guts to stomach watchin'...just in case.....

...there's a possibility of a lucid comment made by someone else?! :applause:

[Demit]

5. Well, Yahoo has it, buried in its "Bush administration" section

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050913/ts_nm/katrina_bush_responsibility_dc_3;_ylt=ArSBPh2yvP.uGgCdq2Kk5u5qP0AC;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

"To the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility"--this is, I guess, the mealy-mouthed quote you meant?

[underpants]

6. Yes 2 1/2 qualifiers

so now apparently they loves them some qualifiers.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. "And to the extent that..." (White House Web Site):

PRESIDENT BUSH: Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government. And to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility. I want to know what went right and what went wrong. I want to know how to better cooperate with state and local government, to be able to answer that very question that you asked: Are we capable of dealing with a severe attack or another severe storm. And that's a very important question. And it's in our national interest that we find out exactly what went on and -- so that we can better respond.

One thing for certain; having been down there three times and have seen how hard people are working, I'm not going to defend the process going in, but I am going to defend the people who are on the front line of saving lives. Those Coast Guard kids pulling people out of the -- out of the floods are -- did heroic work. The first responders on the ground, whether they be state folks or local folks, did everything they could. There's a lot of people that are -- have done a lot of hard work to save lives.

And so I want to know what went right and what went wrong to address those. But I also want people in America to understand how hard people are working to save lives down there in not only New Orleans, but surrounding parishes and along the Gulf Coast.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050913-5.html

Also check these:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=Bush+I+Take+Responsibility&btnG=Search+News

[calimary]

11. Strictly speaking, it wasn't a "mea culpa" of any kind.

My husband turned to me after hearing the "to the extent that the federal government didn't get its act together, I take responsibility" and said "that sounds like somebody saying "I'm sorry you were offended by what I said." He also added that it sounded to him as though it was a statement someone was FORCING him to say - like when you push your pre-schooler up to the kid he just punched out and force him to say "I'm sooooooooooooooooooooorry, OKAY! THERE, I SAID IT ALREADY." My husband is very perceptive.

Yeah, okay. TECHNICALLY bush issued an "I take responsibiity" statement, but it's thoroughly couched, inferring by the very word choice that "whatever SMALL little errors the federal government MIGHT POSSIBLY have committed... "

It was bullshit. He "took responsibility" - BARELY. A coupla cans short of a full six-pack. Just like he is.

Negligent homicide is what he should be taking responsibility for, just like those people who ran that nursing home where dozens died. That jackal Michael Chertoff, too.

[underpants]

18. That's Durbin-esque

"I'm sorry you were offended by what I said."

Dick Durbin is the new Ted Kennedy of the RW noise machine for stating out loud what a letter from someone inside Gitmo said.

[Norquist Nemesis]

13. It happened, but the echo chamber's shouting a modified message

From what I'm hearing, they're are saying, "Well! Now that President Bush has accepting responsibility, will Mayor Nagin accept responsibility? Will the Governor of the State of Louisiana accept responsibility? How about those Congressional representatives like Mary Landreau?"

Oh, and there's another one going with it hand in hand. They are pushing the idea that if those nursing home owners are going to be charged with negligent homicide, well...shouldn't Nagin and Blanco be charged with homicide? Let's discuss your thoughts! Call us at 1-800-ASS-HOLE!"

[underpants]

17. So they extend one line and retract the other

Since W did it the mayor and the governor should too ..... BUT .....

the governor and mayor should be charged but NOT the President.

Uh okay.

I am not listening to any talk radio this week (self imposed) mainly to see what I can shoot out of the sky what is posted here on DU. Wow that was easy.