"Katrina Is Neither A Metaphor Nor A Meme "

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"...I'm watching This Week as the panelists discuss whether the oil spill is "Obama's Katrina." Frank Rich wrote a piece this morning about whether this is "Obama's Katrina." It's a line of discussion that's been ongoing for a couple of weeks now -- revived after an initial bit of discussion when the spill began.

Enough!

Hurricane Katrina was a terrible natural disaster and a human tragedy. But now it's being hacked to bits and regurgitated by media people who evidently can't come up with a better way to describe their inchoate, inexplicable position on the president's response to the oil spill. In this process, the meaning of Katrina is being lost in lieu of turning it into the present day hack equivalent of the over-used "gate" suffix following every scandal.***

Furthermore, there's a multitude of issues surrounding this spill that ought to be covered by the very serious Villager set. Corporate malfeasance. Corporate lobbying. Corporate incompetence. I would love to have heard the This Week panel discussing how BP is lobbying the Canadian government to eliminate the regulation mandating backup wells. I would love to have heard the This Week panel discussing whether BP has been more focused on harvesting the oil than simply capping the well.

Instead, it's this self-conscious effort to find some sort of specious "both sides" balance between the incompetence of the Bushies and the Obama administration.

At this risk of falling into the same trap, any writer or reporter or pundit who uses this ridiculous line -- it's their Katrina. Totally incompetent."

http://www.bobcesca.com/

*** This is the crux right here..the punditheads are so busy waxing smartass about "Obama's Katrina" that they don't have time or the will to delve into the corporation BP's involvement.

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1. BP must really be enjoying the Media Mafia because

their little Howdy Dowdy's are saying just what they want them to say and what they want us to believe.

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2. That's apt..Howdy Doody's ..their pathetic

little puppets. Fortunately, we have the internet..

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"A document obtained by The Daily Beast shows that BP, in a previous fatal disaster, increased worker risk to save money. Are there parallels with the Gulf explosion?

"This is a story about the Three Little Pigs. A lot of dead oil workers. And British Petroleum.

From the minute the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig exploded, BP has hewed to a party line: it did everything it could to prevent the April 20 accident that killed 11 men and has been spewing millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico ever since. Some critics have questioned the veracity of that position.

Now The Daily Beast has obtained a document—displayed below—that goes to the heart of BP procedures, demonstrating that before the company’s previous major disaster—at a moment when the oil giant could choose between cost-savings and greater safety—it selected cost-savings. And BP chose to illustrate that choice, without irony, by invoking the classic Three Little Pigs fairy tale.


EXCLUSIVE: This internal BP document shows how the company took deadly risks to save money by opting to build cheaper facilities for workers. The company estimated the value of a worker's life at $10 million."

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-05-25/shocking-bp-memo-and-the-oil-spill-in-the-gulf/full/

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3. BP's not liking this quote from President Obama..

"The American people should know that from the moment this disaster began, the federal government has been in charge of the response effort. As far as I’m concerned, BP is responsible for this horrific disaster, and we will hold them fully accountable on behalf of the United States as well as the people and communities victimized by this tragedy. We will demand that they pay every dime they owe for the damage they’ve done and the painful losses that they’ve caused. And we will continue to take full advantage of the unique technology and expertise they have to help stop this leak."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=388x21693

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4. Excellent!

I woke up this morning to a CBS Early Show puppet saying....

"President Obama is getting a lot of criticism for the Oil Spill Situation ~ and now to our Break."


That was it,no explanation at all.

Puppet! :puke:

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5. That's all they have to say..

and some accept it as a fact that it's all President Obama's fault and that's exactly what they're after.

My money is still on the President and his Team to beat the corporatemediawhores at their own deadly game.

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6. My money's on Obama's Team too

Seems he will give them enough rope to make THEM look real crazy.

Then when America wakes up and realizes how easily they were fooled, he goes in.

Hope this works in this case ~ if he had rushed in and tried to take over BP, we all know the MediaMafia would have said he is taking over Private Industry.

So ~ behind the scenes he was playing Columbo, and he is coming out swinging.

They think he was "doing nothing" all this time ~ .

That is not his style at all, he has enough energy and intelligence to outsmart them at least 95% of the time.

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7. It's BPs Katrina

It's appalling how little the media seems to cover BP!

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8. It's predictable but while it's happening..it's

still incredulous that the US "media" could be such BLATANT WHORES.