Showboating on the Gulf Coast

It's an old newspaper ploy in a situation such as this: if the politicians don't visit, criticize the pols for not "caring"; if they do visit, criticize them for "showboating". Either way, the newspaper gets a headline. And in this case, the added bonus: the reporter gets an excuse to pass along yet another partisan Democrat attack.

No wonder the American people don't trust reporters.

And Bruce..I see thats only a democratic ploy Huh? Thats fair and balanced

Bruce,

Fact is, there isn't much GOOD news coming from this administration. So quit carping about the coverage of it.

Back to message, off messenger, were you pleased with the Federal response to Katrina and the follow-up? Did you think "you're doin' a heckuva job here, Brownie" was a good display of management, leadership?

Even Bush eventually admitted where the buck stops. The media and the voters should hold him to it.

Hey Bruce.what did Sean Pansy,Bill O'Really and Rush Limprod say about this visit.

I'm interested to hear what real reporters have to say.

I would have thought this bunch of tough hombres are on their way to the Middle East to free the Fox people!

A French engineer, Adrien dePauger designed the city of New Orleans in 1718. The Indian tribes living in the Mississippi Delta warned him to not build there because it floods.
**** a note to tin foil hat dems, water seeks it's own level, so N.O. being 6' below sea level floods*****
But, now we know that after 288 years a tribes warning , a French engineer and a city built below sea level it all turned out to be George Bush's fault.
Thank god, that last year N.O. had a great dem mayor,govenor, an altruistic police force and a very lberal media to divert attention from their foibles.
Paulo

Paulo...I guess your answer to starvation in Africa is.....Move!

It wasn't Bush's fault the city flooded. It was the lack of preparedness and coordination that has been criticized. This was declared a Federal disaster area before the hurricane even hit land. I must be naive to think if the federal government steps in and declares a disaster they would take the lead and coordinate effective relief.

I know this is off the subject,but Loon hit on something.

Usually,I would say please release the journalists,They are neutral,and have no political agenda other than to cover the story.
But since these guys are from Fox News............Political agenda..Fox News Political agenda.....Fox News..I guess the Palastinians watch cable news too.

As far as Katrina is concerned, I have never scene a natural disaster spawn so many freeloaders in my life. A women given shelter at a church for FREE for nearly a year is asked to leave, and complaigns to the press. "What am I supposed to do?" Get your act together and pull yourself together. I thnik she got plenty of assistance and charity. I lived through 2 "100 year floods" on the Mississippi in the 90's. Entire communities were obliterated, but nobody went to the press complaining about not being given a free ride. Now as the anniversary approaches, politicians will be leeching all aspects of this to expand their own ego's.

Paulo,
I have one everlasting soundbite from your beloved Dubya,

"HECK OF A JOB BROWNIE!!"
Now that will go down in history.

How about a soundbite from the first mother of the Commander in Chimp.

While standing outside a relief shelter in Houston,Barbara Bush said,

"These people can't stay in Texas"

I guess stupidity runs in the family.

Paulo-

...That section that the French engineer designed, now called the "French Quarter" did not flood, it was above the flood plain...

...back to the drawing board...

Paulo, stop bringing facts, history, perspective, thought, clarity and intelligence into these debates with the deranged Loony Left. They can't handle those things and by bringing to the debate facts, history and all is just plain mean!!

Paulo:

Great job knocking down the straw man. You've convinced us that it was not W's fault that New Orleans was built where it was.

Next step, go back and get your elementary school diploma, as it's obvious that you missed third grade grammar.

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No surprise to see John D. echoing you. The two of you combined barely make half a moron.

New Orleans wasn't the only place affected directly by Katrina.
John D.,
Go down to New Orleans and Missippi and tell the relatives of those who died how proud you are of Bush's response to Katrina. It was declared a federal disaster prior to landfall. Last I checked the FEMA is under the executive branch which is headed by the President.

Oh my God, John E., are you really that insensitive? People's lives are on the line here! The reporters and editors of Fox News have no more political agenda than any foreign correspondents and camera crews. Try and tell me Christiane Amanpour doesn't add her own perspective to her stories and I'll direct you to her "Great Moments in Crossing the Line of Objectivity" series.

Plus, it's not like this was O'Reilly or Anderson Cooper that got kidnapped. These were two rank-and-file employees (a reporter and a cameraman) who were just trying to do their jobs, report what's happening in the war!

The fact that some people on the left can't put aside their politics when two people's lives are at stake shows how sickeningly polarized this country has become.

I will pray for the Fox news crew's safe return because I am an American. Period. The same way I prayed for Jill Carroll and Daniel Pearl's safe return. All of these people, no matter what political persuasion they might come from, were out there risking their lives to bring me the story.

You can disagree with what Fox News reports. You can turn it off, watch another channel or get your news some other way. That's your right. But when you say these reporters, who were volunteering to work in a war zone to serve you, are somehow undeserving of release AND KEEPING THEIR LIVES because of their employer's "political agenda," then you cease to be an American.

After watching Washington Journal Monday and Tuesday morning on C-Span I was amazed at the lack of progress in New Orleans. I thought they'd at least have the piles of debris cleared out. There is so much to do and not just in New Orleans. And now all these politicians are "touring" for votes and to show how much they "care"? If I lived there I'd tell them to leave unless they brought a work crew and some drywall.

JohnD, The tin foil hat crowd seems to be upset today on all the blogs. I think they were scolded by the mother ship last evening.
Paulo

Saint Bill,don't try and twist what John E was saying.He was obviously taking a shot @ Fox.

Nobody wishes any ill of the reporters.And what gives you the right do decide who's an American and not.

Your the biggest backer on this blog of "WAR WHORE"Cheney,and your going to preach about losing lifes.Start praying for the 135,000 soldiers your nut ball party has in Iraq,they need help to.

If you want to prove your such a great American,wrap yourself in an American flag and join the fight in Iraq.

Loon, Bill could wrap himself in an American flag, but John Kerry isn't finished using it yet!

Just kidding Bill,
That shot at Fox was right there for the taking,I couldn't resist...sorry.....

I do hope that they are safe,and that they are released soon.

Dave,did you serve in Viet Nam with John Kerry?

Were you with him when he had to shoot the cong in the head?

Na,didn't think so.

The blogosphere is rife with hateful mouth breathers. That just goes with the territory. I come here to engage a very small handful of decent, thoughtful people in an exchange of ideas and simply ignore the troglodytes.

It's curious though, that in this particular corner of the blogosphere it seems that the most vicious of the utterly mindless goons align themselves with the Democrats. I mean no offense to Democrats in general, but in The Swamp that certainly to be the case.

This is the only time I will break more own Ignore-the-Troglodytes rule. In case anybody is wondering about the creature who signs himself "Raving Loon" (he thinks that's clever for some reason) -- he did not serve. Plus he is as stupidly offensive in real life as he is here.

The day seems to be never complete unless there are bunch of inane postings from perhaps the grandest loony tune there is: Raving Loon!

I'll bet Loon spends most of his day with etheryag and Illusion dude discussing how magic was used to make the world think airplances flew into the World Trade Towers, huh?

It's hard to have any sympathy for a city that would re-elect a simpleton like Ray Nagin. It was his city. Did he need George Bush's permission to pick up dead bodies from the streets? Let's not forget, the illustrious mayor bugged out when things started looking bad. And hey, A Blinkin, you're just as sorry a fool as the rest of those who blame Bush for not building a sea wall around New Orleans. Didn't the brain trusts of that city know before last year they were living on borrowed time? Or maybe the plastic beads around their necks have stopped the oxygen from getting to their brains.

Loon, I served in Vietnam but not with John Kerry.

I didn't have a nice swift boat to bug out in when things got ugly.

And, Loon, I still have my medals.

I didn't come back and turn on my buddies the way your hero did.

Dave,
You did turn your back on your buddies when you came home,because you continued to support a fake war,kind of like your hero Dubya has us in now.

Am I the only one who wonders why New Orleans just sat there for over a century and did nothing about their bowl situation. Galveston lost about 10000 in 1900. They scrimped and saved and got a seawall built. This paid off in 1915 when another storm came and took about 200 lives. New Orleans knew this yet apparently did not have the sense to apply it to their own situation. If Galveston lost 10000 at 8 ft above mean sea level, what did New Orleans think was to happen to them at 10 ft below?