Reuters: FEMA accused of censorship:
“It’s impossible for me to imagine how you report a story whose subject is death without allowing the public to see images of the subject of the story,” said Larry Siems of the PEN American Center, an authors’ group that defends free expression.
Brian Williams’ MSNBC Nightly News Blog:
While we were attempting [...]
Posted September 9, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: brian williams, bush, bushh, catastrophe, censor, censor this, censorship, dead bodies, death, fema, george bush, george w bush, government, government censors, government censorship, hurricane, hurricane katrina, joshua micah marshall, katrina, louisiana, media, msnbc nightly news, national guard, new orleans, nola, pen american center, shame, talking points memo, w. 2 Comments.
DefenseTech’s Noah Shachtman writes:
Organizing thousands and thousands of people, in hellish conditions and in a hurry, is tough work. Let’s take that as a given. But still: We’re now a work week into a natural disaster that had been forecast for years, and New Orleans “is being run by thugs,” the city’s emergency [...]
Posted September 2, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: bush, defensetech, dhs, disaster, donations, emergency, fema, flood, george bush, george w bush, gulf coast, homeland security, hurricane, hurricane katrina, katrina, louisiana, new orleans, pat robertson, shame, w, wtf. 3 Comments.
Two items from the blogosphere about Rove’s Leak-and-Covergate at Tikun Olam and AlterNet.
tags: alternet, bush, coverup, george bush, george w bush, karl rove, rove, tikun olam, w, white house
Posted July 24, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Politics & Controversy. Tags: alternet, bush, coverup, george bush, george w bush, karl rove, rove, tikun olam, w, white house. One Comment.
First Lady Laura Bush speaking at the White House Correspondents Association gala noted:
George’s answer to any problem at the ranch is to cut it down with a chain saw. Which, I think, is why he and Cheney and Rumsfeld get along so well.
The quote is all over the net now, but I found it in [...]
Posted July 18, 2005 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Politics & Controversy. Tags: chain saw, cheny, cut it down, dick cheney, donald rumsfeld, first lady, george, george bush, george w bush, laura bush, president, problem management, rumsfeld, vanity fair, w, white house, white house correspondents association. One Comment.
On the heels of “There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in” comes a story from Alternet: “Bush has failed the military on almost every level — marking the difference between being militaristic and pro-military.”
Discounting that he sent American troops into Iraq on false pretenses, a real commander would fight for [...]
Posted October 28, 2004 by Casey
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: bush, george bush, george w bush, militaristic, support our troops, w. One Comment.