Media's ways to save W- anticipate and be prepared

I won't write much now as I'm at work, but I feel like this is important:

There's no doubt in my mind that the RWCM will do whatever twisted, dishonest thing they can to save Bush even now, despite this obvious disaster on his part.  And that they will try to demonize anyone who tries to expose him.

They have every time we thought we had him down.

Please comment by brainstorming the MO's they could try to use to save him so we can think up our talking points ahead of time.

One obvious way is to try to get us to rally around him and to ignore (and label "crazy conjecture by some dems") the facts about the cut funding for levees.  

What are the others?

If you think we shouldn't be giving them ideas, feel free to say that too... I just wanted to at least bring up the fact that this will likely happen so people can expect it.  We're always expecting him to be finished due to every horrible revelation from Abu Ghraib to Enron but the media always saves him.

•  Well, one thing they're already doing...

  ...IS TRYING TO HIDE THE DEATHS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS. Sure, the cable news networks are covering it. But why, in the name of GOD, are the broadcast networks showing "The Bold and the Beautiful," "The Price is Right" and "Judge Judy" WHILE THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE DYING OF THIRST ON THE STREETS OF NEW ORLEANS?!!?!?!!?

  by MeanBoneII on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 11:14:49 AM PDT

•  well there was Scotty's crack

  about the design of the levees being at fault.  About the only thing wrong with their design was they were designed for Cat 3 hurricanes.  And Bush's admin didn't even want to help pay for that!  So if a levee system was designed to withstand a direct hit by a Cat 5 hurricane, the Bush administration wouldn't have funded it anyhow.  (I can't even imagine the price tag for that!)

  The meme for Katrina is that this was foreseeable and predictable.  It was the government's responsibility to be prepared to deal with it.

  by Fabian on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 11:22:34 AM PDT

•  That's exactly what I was thinking.

  What talking points are they going to come up with next?  So far, they're just giving bogus press conferences jam-packed with lie after lie.  Don't think the media is biting though, at least not the cable news media.  Not even Fox.  I wish I was a fly on the wall in that White House.  I wouldn't put it past them to be in there yucking it up over this.  Gas shortages will just result in their already bulging pockets to absolutely overflow with cash.  I guess all we can do is keep speaking truth to power.  Call our congress people and let them know how disgusted we are.

  by joodleboodle on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 11:24:20 AM PDT

•  I'm not so sure

  Kyra Phillips(?) on CNN is obviously pissed about lack of federal assistance.

  by Casper46 on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 11:25:27 AM PDT

•  Poor PrePlanning means Piss Poor Performance

  Its already starting "FEMA and Federal authorities have launced a massive and well coordinated effort to assist with rescue and recovery"

  Too damned late fellas:  With a massive event predicted days in advance to impact a well populated area; how about some, any effort to mobilize rescue and recovery needs prior to the storms impact.  Establish your command system, stage resources (outside the impact area), activate search swift water rescue teams, activate whats left of the national guard. Why are rescue teams just NOW leaving California? What a clusterfuck.  
  

  by omw on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 12:07:40 PM PDT

•  what the nice folks at The Corner think

  The regulars of National Review's online blog The Corner [ http://corner.nationalreview.com/ ]seem to have settled it among themselves that the fault lies with the Army Corps of Engineers, a wasteful, redundant, incompetent, and hopelessly "fragmented" bunch of scoundrels. The Cornerites like to post emails they get; Rich Lowry posted the following, whicht expresses the gang's feelings about Bush's N.O. debacle--that Bush is a "victim" and is going to be crucified for the sins of others--the Corps of engineers, the city of N.O. and the state of Louisiana. The following is a blogpost excerpt:

  THOUGHTFUL E-MAIL [ Rich Lowry]

  [email text follows:] Agree that really the only political angle on this is the loss of order, and perception that Bush had the power to stop it yet did not.

  I quibble with the idea that he actually had the power to stop it. In situations like these, local authorities are the 1st responders. This arrangement is inherent to our federal structure. State and local governments need to hold the line until help can arrive from other states, as coordinated via FEMA and inter state compacts. Instead, MSNBC had video of NO cops looting a Walmart.

  Politically, Bush is a victim of decades of incompetence by NO and LA municipal and state governments. The breaching the levees was a predictable disaster yet, as far as I can tell, there was no disaster preparedness to speak of. No posted evacuation routes, no marshalling of public transportation assets to empty hospitals and collect the elderly, infirm or indigent.

  by revbludge on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 12:11:56 PM PDT

  •  They're against the ARMY corps of engineers?

    THE REPUBLICANS HATE THE ARMY, HATE OUR TROOPS, AND HATE AMERICA.

    by DemDachshund on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 12:15:07 PM PDT

•  The

       republican party is a complete and total disgrace to this country. With their phony pretensions to family values and their hypocritical christianity, they have caused more death, more misery, more despair, and more grief than any group in this country that I can think of.

  by lyvwyr101 on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 12:34:23 PM PDT