Audacity of Truth
"Change" You Can Believe In:
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
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Hurricane Katrina relief blogging
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Looting: Is it as bad in Mississippi as it is in Louisiana?
All I’m hearing about are stories coming out of New Orleans of chaos and looting but not much out of the devastated areas of Mississippi. Is this an example of the media’s focusing too much on one area (that is historic in nature) or is there another angle that perhaps I’m missing?
Related: Michelle Malkin has updates on [...]
Josh Levin: Mourning My New Orleans
Read this. And then imagine the city he is talking about is the one you live in. Or grew up in.
More: Stephen Green reposts an email Will Collier posted earlier at Vodkpundit that came from a friend of Will’s who knows someone in the New Orleans area. Here’s some of it:
Talked to a friend of [...]
President to tour Gulf Coast area Friday
Via AP:
President Bush will tour the hurricane devastated Gulf Coast region on Friday and has asked former Presidents Clinton and Bush to lead a private fund-raising campaign to help victims recover, the White House said Thursday.
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Bush will survey the hardest-hit areas by helicopter, then tour some locations on [...]
The president gets bad press
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Here’s a snippet from Mr. Stitch’s must-read post about another president who had to deal with press issues similar to what W faces today:
Accused of changing the rationale for ‘his’ war, and hounded for mismanaging it. Derided as an uninspiring public speaker. Belittled as an idiot. Blamed [...]
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