Thursday, September 01, 2005
Just when you think you've seen it all! Following the deadliest hurricane in my memory to ever come ashore here, when half or better of New Orleans is underwater and five hundred thousand Americans are now homeless, human nature is again displaying its worst side. In the sweaty Metrodome, armed gangs are targeting helpless civilians. In the mainstream media, the press is targeting President Bush. The two are, I think, not dissimilar.
What are the gangs doing? They are using people's tragic circumstances to advance their own agenda. When people are homeless and hurting and helpless, these homegrown terrorists are stalking and harming them. Their agenda is to advance their own power and position and to hurt innocent people into the mix.
What is the press doing? They are politicizing a great tragedy, the greatest natural disaster I have ever known, in order to blame it on a President they hate. American Morning host Miles O'Brien tried to nail the blame for the devastation on President Bush, demanding of Mississippi governor Haley Barbour whether or not the administration had "dropped the ball" in reporting on the hurricane and whether the army was to blame for not "doing more" to evacuate people. The governor quite correctly replied that Katrina was a category 1 hurricane when it came ashore in Florida and nobody could predict the level of devastation it would wreak in New Orleans. The federal government had done quite well, he insisted. But O'Brien continued his harangue, relentlessly pushing his theory that somehow, someway, Bush must be to blame for this tragedy. I'm surprised he didn't bring up global warming.
Connections, anyone?
What are the gangs doing? They are using people's tragic circumstances to advance their own agenda. When people are homeless and hurting and helpless, these homegrown terrorists are stalking and harming them. Their agenda is to advance their own power and position and to hurt innocent people into the mix.
What is the press doing? They are politicizing a great tragedy, the greatest natural disaster I have ever known, in order to blame it on a President they hate. American Morning host Miles O'Brien tried to nail the blame for the devastation on President Bush, demanding of Mississippi governor Haley Barbour whether or not the administration had "dropped the ball" in reporting on the hurricane and whether the army was to blame for not "doing more" to evacuate people. The governor quite correctly replied that Katrina was a category 1 hurricane when it came ashore in Florida and nobody could predict the level of devastation it would wreak in New Orleans. The federal government had done quite well, he insisted. But O'Brien continued his harangue, relentlessly pushing his theory that somehow, someway, Bush must be to blame for this tragedy. I'm surprised he didn't bring up global warming.
Connections, anyone?
// posted by The Pendragon @ 10:22 PM 
