POLLS: BUSH BLOWS

The Katrina Blowout Edition  Katrina blew in and blew out.  George Bush's response just blows

Seventy Percent Say Bush Sucks  Rasmussen Poll numbers (via Echidne).  Bring Out Your Dead The Story on What Bush Doesn't Want Us to See from Attaturk (via Watertiger)

Spin Dentist/ All Spin Zone: This tragedy in New Orleans and throughout the South is brought home to us most forcefully in pictures. Images are what feed our outrage, what let us know that something has gone far wrong. Well, clearly the Bushies don't want us outraged, and they want to pretend this was all just an accident.

Columbia Journalism Review: Sensitivity for the dead and their family members is paramount, no question. But the press also needs to be careful that the administration doesn't take political advantage of this sensitivity in order to shroud from the public the most tangible -- and tragic --outcome of governmental ineptitude.
FEMA's demand seems frustratingly similar to the Pentagon's directive, at the start of the war in Iraq, that "there will be no arrival ceremonies for, or media coverage of, deceased military personnel returning to or departing from Ramstein [Germany] airbase or Dover [Del.] base, to include interim stops."
It took the work of a lone blogger, The Memory Hole, to get the ball rolling on releasing the images of those flag-draped coffins, and a lawsuit, settled only this past April, to keep those photos coming.
Let us not let years go by before we see, firsthand, the ramifications of this cataclysmic catastrophe.

THE SHORT AND NOT SO SWEET Pam says: If the U.S. media goes to sleep under pressure from FEMA, the only real reporting that will hit the airwaves and the 'Net is going to come from foreign sources willing to show the horror.

THE HERETIK FINDS it absolutely appalling that Bush is working to manipulate again how we respond by censoring what we see.  Actions have effects and consequences. Those consequences affect us all, some forever.  If we cannot see the consequences, error unfairly gets its chance to repeat itself endlessly.

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[Neil Shakespeare's Dog]

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[pissed off patricia]

be sure and check out Crooks and Liars and hear the voice of god as he yells, Fuck you, dick cheney. Okay maybe it wasn't god, but it might have been. I second his statement.

[Rook]

Speaking of hugh, potential disasters, I managed to avoid mine and am still employed. Hell, I even got a hint of support from my Ex. D. (executive director) when he commented about the games my fellow co-workers play.

[ol cranky]

Rook:

Glad to hear it :)

[Goss]

I guess,then,you could say that Bush has had his own "oral" experience with a girl named Katrina?