Noron O'Donnell and Jim Van De Hei (Politico) **lie** to the viweing public

[Stinky The Clown]

(On Edit: This discussion was about Katrina and NoLa)

Noron and a representative of that subversive fake news organization, Politico, just lied.

Noron did the straight man role and Van De Hei did the comedy. They were talking about Idiot Son's presser and his assertion that 30,000 people were save from rooftops (by helicopter "drivers"). She asked the professional LIAR, Van De Hei about the facts. Van De Hei says that in fact 12,000 were saved by boat, 9,000 by helicopter and 10,000 were actually evacuated from hospitals. (The exact numbers don't much matter for this particular lie to be evident.)

They blather on about whether or not he should have landed AF1 .... whatever.

What they FAILED to mention is that the USCG said they didn't need no stinkin' orders and just did what they did. Meanwhile, all the NorthCom assets sat there waiting and waiting and waiting for some orders for Commander AWOL.

More lives could have been saved if Fuckwad McChucklenuts had just DONE HIS FUCKING JOB.

But there they are. PROFESSIONAL LIARS Noron and Van De Hei acting as if they're straightening out the record. Misdirecting Motherfuckers.

[Robbien]

1. Standard for GOPers. Argue about nonsense details while ignoring

the big glaring elephant of a lie in the middle of the room.

[Peregrine Took]

2. SHe's very pretty but she knows it and uses her looks to increase her power.

To my mind she is not bright or well informed and the only reason she has her smug little puss on tv is because sh is good looking.

[AndyA]

3. Par for the course.

Why let trivial little things like the truth spoil a beautiful mind? :eyes:

[TacticalPeek]

4. Of course.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

Hence, Jim and Nora will never 'understand' it.

[LaydeeBug]

5. I take it this is about Katrina?

The OP did not say :shrug:

[Stinky The Clown]

6. Yes, Katrina .....

my bad.

[Doctor_J]

7. Sadly, these two will likely be casualties when we finally bring down Big Media

I will miss Whorah's pretty face, but there are many faces to take her place.

[MagickMuffin]

8. Facts: from ThinkProgress

The federal response to Katrina was nothing short of a disaster. A 2006 report compiled by House Republicans slammed what it called “a failure of leadership,” saying that the federal government’s “blinding lack of situational awareness and disjointed decision making needlessly compounded and prolonged Katrina’s horror.” The report specifically blamed Bush, noting that “earlier presidential involvement could have speeded the response” because the president alone could have cut through bureaucratic resistance.

There is no question that the federal response was slow — deadly slow. Katrina made landfall on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, and the New Orleans levees were breached that morning. Despite the numerous warnings he had received about the storm’s severity, Bush spent that Monday traveling to Arizona and California to promote his Medicare drug bill. It was characteristic of the entire federal response:

– National Guard troops did not arrive in the area until two full days after the levees were breached.

– Bush did not leave his vacation home or assemble a task force until Wednesday, two days after the hurricane made landfall and the levees were breached.

– By Thursday, three days after landfall, FEMA had yet to set up a command and control center.

– FEMA Director Michael Brown said he had not heard about the more than 3,000 evacuees stranded in the convention center until Thursday. Many evacuees had been there since Tuesday morning.

– On Friday morning, Bush praised Brown: “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva job.” He also said he was “satisfied with the response.”

– FEMA did not finalize its request for evacuation buses until Sunday, six days after Katrina hit. The buses “trickled into New Orleans, with only a dozen or so arriving the first day,” noted the Wall Street Journal.

– The Superdome was finally evacuated on Sunday, a full seven days after 30,000 evacuees had arrived there.

“Despite a FEMA official’s eyewitness accounts of breaches starting at 7 p.m. on Aug. 29,” the Bush administration “did not consider them confirmed” until 11 hours later. In fact, FEMA did not order the evacuation of New Orleans until 1:30 a.m. on Aug. 31, two full days after Katrina made landfall.

In one area, however, the Bush administration did move quickly: pinning the blame for Katrina on its political opponents.

[madokie]

9. Wasn't some navy hospital ships told to leave the area shortly after

like within a few days, a week maybe.