Black bodies, carrion in US streets & George Bush hides.
Thu Sep 08, 2005 at 08:04:05 AM PDT
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Dan Barry at the New York Times today:
"That a corpse lies on Union Street may not shock....What is remarkable is that on a downtown street in a major American city, a corpse can decompose for days, like carrion, and that is acceptable."
The story of the White House press conferences must become the MSM's inroad to the larger story that Bush is not in charge and takes no responsibility.
Scott McClellan refuses to answer questions. We have watched the tense press conferences for weeks and McClellan continues - brazenly - to stonewall on answers to hundreds of questions. Full stop.
No answers about Plame, no answers about Katrina. Not news to kossacks but the story that Bush is categorically unaccountable to the American people is still not hitting the MSM with enough force. McClellan's blather notwithstanding, the writing is on the wall - in blood. Bush may prance at photo ops but he is de facto in hiding. Bush is afraid of the press, he is afraid of the American people. McClellan tells us this everyday because he will not answer any questions.
The press needs to run this story on its own, over and over. There is such overwhelming evidence of this now that it could be a Sunday magazine review article.
But to read Hulse and Nagourney the White House correspondents in the same New York Times, McClellan-not-answering-questions sounds like a quaint quirk or an isolated incident. Why do they go to work? Why have White House correspondents when there is nothing to correspond? Nagourney and Hulse aren't doing their job. They aren't reading page 1 of the same paper that they write for. Can't they simply report the McClellan-Bush PATTERN of refusal to answer questions and write an article on THAT?
Instead Carl Hulse reports that when asked whether Bush has confidence in the FEMA director, McClellan simply "declined" to answer and Hulse further devotes 8 lines of the paper to Republican talking points (=lies) justifying what is a huge abdication of resposibility
In Hulse and Nagourney, they categorize Scott McClellan's same briefing as a "push back on criticism". More like a lock out of the American people. Hulse and Nagourney should state that EVERY reporter left that news conference with NO ANSWERS FROM THE PRESIDENT about the Katrina disaster. Instead they continue to eat out of the hands of Mehlman, Hastert and McClellan by devoting several paragraphs to reinforcing the right wing frame that they are desparate to sell to airbrush away Bush's dangerous incompetence.
Watch for yourself.
George Bush is effectively in hiding. His spokesman will answer no questions - the White House Press is inaccurate in reporting anything else.
And remember - NEVER ATTACK THE RIGHT WING FRAME!
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