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Fox News Tries Misdirection on Katrina Tapes To Hide Bush Lie
March 02, 2006
http://www.newshounds.us/2006/03/02/fox_news_tries_misdirection_on_katrina_tapes_to_hide_bush_lie.phpSomehow, Fox News managed to miss the point of the video of pre-Katrina briefings in which George Bush was warned about the possibility of levees around New Orleans being breached by the oncoming hurricane. Instead, two news shows tried to direct the spotllight away from Bush to other people.
On "Your World with Neil Cavuto" on Thursday (March 2, 2006), Cavuto tried to make the issue of the video tapes into a question of whether ex-FEMA Director Michael Brown was owed an apology for his handling of the disaster. "He was saying and doing all the right things," Cavuto insisted.
Cavuto never noted the discrepancy between Bush being told that the levees might be swamped by the storm surge and his later statement that "no one could have anticipated the levees would break." As Marie Therese pointed out in her post from Wednesday, that statement was a complete lie as he was warned of the possiblity during the briefing.
Later, on "Special Report with Brit Hume," Mike Emanuel also left out the discrepancy between what Bush was told during the briefing and what he later told the American people. Instead, Emanuel focused on Senatre Democrats seeking an independent probe into the federal response to Katrina and with Brown blaming the Department of Homeland Security for the problems.
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