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Sunday, September 18, 2005 |
Scotsman: "Tony Blair has sparked another furious row with the BBC after claiming the corporation's coverage of the hurricane Katrina disaster was anti-American.
According to remarkable claims by Rupert Murdoch, the world's most powerful media baron, the Prime Minister was so shocked by the BBC's reporting of hurricane Katrina that he described it as 'full of hatred of America'.
Murdoch made his explosive revelation at a seminar in the city on Friday evening, held by former President Bill Clinton, who also attacked the BBC's coverage.
Murdoch's revelation was backed up by Clinton, who said there was nothing factually inaccurate but reports were 'stacked up' against the government."
Comrade Tony,
As Liar-in-Chief you know the value of a good lie and of passion and hatred (against the Iraqi people). Reality is your problem. If you don't like what you see, always blame the messenger. Following the example of Comrade Stalin, eh? The BBC should never mention anything about the really existing capitalist world.
With a friend like Murdoch we know where you stand. What you want is a Ministry of Truth.
What you need is a kick in the derrière. And your friend Bill as well.
1:26:15 PM 
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Scotsman: "US President George W Bush has said he will not raise taxes to pay for the cost of the massive relief effort on the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast.
He said the programme, which White House officials say could cost up to £110 billion, would not be funded by taxes, but indicated that the recovery cost might be partially funded by spending cuts in other areas. He said: 'You bet it will cost money, but I'm confident we can handle it.'"
You bet George is not going to let the rich or the corporations pay for the recovery. So the money will come from the poor and the middle-class, maybe even from funds earmarked for the protection of the American citizen.
The Bush administration would rather see people die, especially if they are black and poor. He is after all a war criminal. His carnage in Iraq continues.
2theadvocate: "In the midst of administering chest compressions to a dying woman several days after Hurricane Katrina struck, Dr. Mark N. Perlmutter was ordered to stop by a federal official because he wasn't registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency."
TimesOnLine: "The United States held up British emergency rations worth £4 million for five days because of fears about the safety of European meat." In the meantime people were dying.
Bill Maher: "Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you any more. There's no more money to spend - you used up all of that. You can't start another war because you used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people. Listen to your Mom. The cupboard's bare, the credit cards maxed out. No one's speaking to you. Mission accomplished.
On your watch, we've lost almost all of our allies, the surplus, four airliners, two trade centers, a piece of the Pentagon and the City of New Orleans. Maybe you're just not lucky. I'm not saying you don't love this country. I'm just wondering how much worse it could be if you were on the other side."
OldAmericanCentury: "The last few weeks have been irrefutable proof that America is being wrecked and mismanaged by the most incompetent, dangerous and out of touch boobs ever to obtain power. Any American with even a tiny amount of conscience who watched those images from New Orleans shook their heads with disbelief and shame that something like this should happen within our own borders in these modern times."
The only thing the Bush cabal is doing is damage control. And control of the media:
LAWeekly: "CNN's parent company, Time Warner, announced the hiring of DeLay's chief of staff as a top Washington lobbyist. This news, and its timing, prompted Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy to tell the L.A. Weekly: 'Time Warner aligning itself with the right-wing DeLay machine should send shudders [down] CNN and HBO. Clearly, TW wants DeLay insurance so it won't have to face cable-ownership safeguards, à la carte rules and broadband non-discrimination policies.'
For the first 120 hours after Hurricane Katrina, TV journalists were let off their leashes by their mogul owners, the result of a rare conjoining of flawless timing (summer's biggest vacation week) and foulest tragedy (America's worst natural disaster). All of a sudden, broadcasters narrated disturbing images of the poor, the minority, the aged, the sick and the dead, and discussed complex issues like poverty, race, class, infirmity and ecology that never make it on the air in this swift-boat/anti-gay-marriage/Michael Jackson media-sideshow era. So began a perfect storm of controversy."
But the neocons don't have to worry, the media moguls are keeping a tight rein again, to rewrite history.
11:53:56 AM
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