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In the "Roll My Eyes At Anyone Who Watches FOX News" catagory - They actually used the term "terrorist fist jab" in connection with the Obamas' bumping fists during his victory speech last week. At least the guest put it into perspective. How Blondie could actually say it with a straight face is beyond me.
Clinton suspends campaign, endorses Obama. It was the most gracious, warm, exciting, and personable I have seen her in many months (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4), and I have no doubt that the Democrats will take back the White House this fall. Thank you, Hillary, and GO OBAMA!
New article on Salon - How Karl Rove spun Katrina. It is an excerpt from a new book called Machiavelli's Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove. It made me sick to my stomach. Not only because I recalled those days after Katrina hit and the vile, disgusting way I saw it play out politically (from the view of an ordinary citizen many miles away from New Orleans), but because this proves that my gut reactions were correct and more vile and disgusting than I could wrap my head around.
A snippet from that article:
Clinton suspends campaign, endorses Obama. It was the most gracious, warm, exciting, and personable I have seen her in many months (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4), and I have no doubt that the Democrats will take back the White House this fall. Thank you, Hillary, and GO OBAMA!
New article on Salon - How Karl Rove spun Katrina. It is an excerpt from a new book called Machiavelli's Shadow: The Rise and Fall of Karl Rove. It made me sick to my stomach. Not only because I recalled those days after Katrina hit and the vile, disgusting way I saw it play out politically (from the view of an ordinary citizen many miles away from New Orleans), but because this proves that my gut reactions were correct and more vile and disgusting than I could wrap my head around.
A snippet from that article:
"So George [Stephanopoulos] and I went up in the helicopter and for three hours his jaw was dropping. Then I said, 'George, before we finish I have to show you one positive thing because I can't send you back to Washington to produce a story that shows nothing but devastation and disaster.' So I told the pilot to tack right so I can show George the 17th Street Canal and the work that was going on there. I swear as my name is Mary Landrieu I thought that what I saw with the president was still there -- people working, trucks, sandbags, everything. Then I looked down and saw one little crane. It was like someone took a knife and stabbed me through my heart. I lost it." There, in the cabin of the helicopter, as they flew above the breached canal below them, Landrieu sat devastated.
"I could not believe that the president of the United States, staged by Karl Rove himself, had come down to the city of New Orleans and basically put up a stage prop. It was like you had gone to a studio in California and filmed a movie. They put the props up and the minute we were gone they took them down. All the dump trucks were gone. All the Coast Guard people were gone. It was an empty spot with one little crane. It was the saddest thing I have ever seen in my life. At that moment I knew what was going on and I've been a changed woman ever since. It truly changed my life."
by MG at 3:03 PM
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I posted a link to this article about Bush's "mission accomplished" photo-op few weeks back, but in light of that snippet about Katrina, I thought it might be worth another look. And I quote:
The event itself had more planning than a Superbowl half-time show. The former ABC television producer, Andrew Sforza, who had become Bush's Leni Riefenstahl, arranged all of the details: the multiple camera angles, the lighting, the staging of the sailors, the direction of each shot, the mise en scène, nothing was left to chance. Sforza had a team of nearly one hundred production technicians on the ship preparing (or "advancing") for the President's triumphal landing. Sforza, who is famous for contracting expensive lighting rigs from Europe set on barges that bathed the Statue of Liberty in light as a backdrop for one of Bush's photo-ops, hired associate producers, set builders, grips, lighting and sound specialists, assistant directors, and managers who worked with the major television networks to provide direct feeds and other accommodations. Sforza's set designers dictated the specific colors each of the lines of sailors would wear, the colors of the air deck smoke that was used, the monumental music played. They also made sure there were plenty of black, Latino, and female faces in the frame.
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