If I Close My Eyes, Does It Go Away?
Can Bush Censor His Shame Away?

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 [...]

Things Go To Hell

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 [...]

Karl Rove’s Leak-and-Covergate

Two items from the blogosphere about Rove’s Leak-and-Covergate at Tikun Olam and AlterNet.

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It’s Funny ‘Cause It’s True

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 [...]

Warmonger ≠ Support Our Troops

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 [...]