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- IrishJoe, on 10/29/2007, -4/+128The White House has now apologized saying they'll never do it again. That's only because they got caught. Just like my 4-year-old only these children are running our country.
- cywar, on 10/29/2007, -5/+76All of government is just for show, Like wrestling, only not as harmless.
- fairley7, on 10/29/2007, -2/+49I work in local government and, granted, we aren't always totally forthright. But we would NEVER fake being reporters. This is something out of 1984. Democracy simply cannot function with the level of dishonesty exhibited by Bush and his gang of liars.
How much more crap must we take before our "representatives" impeach that son of a bitch Bush? - JoJoMoMo, on 10/29/2007, -6/+51Bush is probably going to apologize and try to fix the credibility problem by creating an official "Ministry of Truth"(1984)
- Groovemaster, on 10/28/2007, -0/+34How long are you going to watch them fail to represent you before you stop calling them your representatives?
- Homet, on 10/29/2007, -1/+33If your 4-year old was running our country things would be a lot better.
- dabears1218, on 10/27/2007, -2/+27Well clearly FEMA has learned from their mistakes in Katrina. Now they know to at least _try_ to cover up their *****!
- totorototoro, on 10/28/2007, -7/+30http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN2 ...
Reuters link for those who gag at the Crooks and Liars site :p
Seriously ***** up. - totorototoro, on 10/28/2007, -2/+23speaking of seriously ***** up..so was my link :p
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N26366100 ... - Terr01, on 10/28/2007, -2/+23It really pisses me off when people who say something like: "Thinkprogress/Crooks-and-Liars/Rawstory, not credible" when they are articles based on main stream actual-paper publications that they could click a link to or find on Google in five seconds flat.
Now, if it's the story of an "anonymous source" known only to C&L/TP/Whatever, then sure, but laziness is not a rhetorical virtue. - pintomp3, on 10/27/2007, -3/+23ever watch a white house press conference? the reporters might as well be staffers, otherwise we might not have gone to iraq.
- wakananda, on 10/29/2007, -2/+16California is an evil planet - a BUG planet. Do you want to know more? Service guarantees citizenship.
- Frostman3D, on 10/28/2007, -2/+15This is pretty ***** up, but I'm not surprised. Our government has been stolen by these Elite power hungry politicians. It's not something new, this has been going on since LBJ.
We're going to have to have a revolution to ever get our government back. - Terr01, on 10/27/2007, -1/+13Slightly off-topic, but the Bush administration is definitely unique in certain negative ways.
What prior US Administration has claimed the legal right to imprison US citizens in solitary confinement for the rest of their natural lives without charges, trial, lawyer... - inactive, on 10/27/2007, -0/+12you're seriously comparing a government agency's press conference to a show on the Comedy Channel?
- oilcan, on 10/27/2007, -0/+10comedy show....reality...comedy show...reality....
and yet, even still, the comedy show delivers more of the goods than reality...
that is what the big deal is. - chiggah, on 10/27/2007, -1/+11It reminds me how Bush sends important national security issues proposals to Senators like hours before they have to vote, and scare the ***** out of them meanwhile, which are often upon closer examination afterward, (like having someone actually read the whole thing and validates the info), proven to be false, inaccurate, if not fake. I'm glad to see more government agency adapt such tactics to efficiently mock the people.
- tubeblender, on 10/29/2007, -0/+10Afternoon nappy naps for everyone!
- Terr01, on 10/27/2007, -1/+9Please tell me you're being sarcastic and just stepped over the line, because that's like saying that the Bush Administration isn't so bad because of events in "24".
- unorginalityftw, on 10/28/2007, -0/+8That would be awesome.
- asaone, on 10/27/2007, -1/+7This is your government. This is your government at work, and this is your government pretending it cares and feeding us more Comcast (Comcast = *****).
- dicerandom, on 10/27/2007, -1/+7Yes, I'm surprised something like this didn't happen sooner.
- inactive, on 10/27/2007, -0/+6The fake reporters at the Daily Show fully acknowledge they're fake reporters. If only the same could be said for the fake reporters at all of the "real" news channels. And the really sad part is that people who watch the Daily Show tend to actually be more informed than the people who watch the news channels.
- ReturnToFreedom, on 10/27/2007, -1/+6These fascists ***** are just going to learn from their mistakes and do a better job of making the next fake press conference seem legitimate. My guess? They're going to use Fox "News" and their fake journalists. They're a right-wing pro-fascist propaganda channel as it is.
- geneticlemon, on 10/27/2007, -0/+5"who aren't even smart enough to use Digg. A bunch of idiots just like you and I"
... you do realize that you and I are using Digg. Like right now. - wakananda, on 10/27/2007, -0/+5Don't believe in or trust anything the American Federal Empire says or does. Invest in your own survival, get involved in your local community - especially local, organic food production and security. The less accountable the AFE becomes, the greater the danger they lead us into. Be prepared for the worst.
- Swift2, on 10/27/2007, -0/+5RawStory does some independent reporting, but most of our "news" sites, like Digg, are aggregators of information from other places. The editor does the selection of stories, writes part of the prose that accompanies it, and opens it to comments. So Crooks and Liars is just a handy place to look for news from its angle -- which is fine with me. The clips, in particular, come from elsewhere, but they're documents, like it or not.
Yeah, I'm sure this is what they "learned from Katrina." Get the PR campaign going sooner.
The other difference from Katrina? Well, these are generally well-off people who live out in suburban or rural areas. They generally went to the city for refuge, and aside from smoggy conditions, everything was just fine. They've lost their homes, in many cases, but largely they're just temporarily homeless, and their insurance is paid up. Of course it went better than the storm and flood that rendered most of New Orleans uninhabitable. - subxero37, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4It could well be said that it would never happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theor ... - Kcaj, on 11/02/2007, -4/+8Picture this... the Country is run by a bunch of guys who aren't even smart enough to use Digg. A bunch of idiots just like you and I, are sitting around trying to think of ways to get more money, FASTER. Everything else, *****, propaganda, lies, distortions, blah blah, I don't even feel like bashing the huge machine today, it beats itself up enough as it churns out *****.
- pintomp3, on 10/27/2007, -0/+3securing the border isn't FEMA's job. FEMA used to be decent until this administration broke it up, placed it under homeland security, and staffed it with cronies.
- inactive, on 10/27/2007, -0/+3http://www.theonion.com/content/video/poll_bullshi ...
- acidbass, on 10/27/2007, -0/+3CHIMPEACH!
- Swift2, on 10/27/2007, -2/+5From the very beginning, Bush has been all about the press conference. I knew we were in trouble when I first saw him give a news conference in front of Mount Rushmore, and always with the ***** slogans repeated a thousand times in case you didn't get it from what he was saying. "Message of the day: I give a *****. I'm a Christian. I'm powerful." And then you notice that whatever he said was going to happen didn't actually happen. Jon Stewart was really on to something the other night when he said that Bush never DOES anything. He just stands up and says "Why I'm here." Of course, we know why he's there.
The classic was the Jackson Square speech in New Orleans. A church behind him, floodlit, gorgeous. (The lights brought in by military aircraft for the speech, and the generators removed right after they tore down the set.) Promises? He frickin' sounded like FDR and Churchill and JFK. But then what happened? Well, basically, s.f.a. Now coordinated effort to build the city back. No plan with any vision to repair the terrible ecological hole that New Orleans is in: you've got to build levees, yet levees are part of the problem. In 100 years, at the present rate, there won't be a New Orleans, because of the problems of silting and subsidence, that levees only make worse. They need new wetlands; they need more natural barriers between the Gulf and the city. No real words from the president, no real commitments except: he made Karl Rove the coordinator of Kartina relief. No *****. So, they just elected a Republican governor, blacks haven't come back to the city because their houses are gone, the schools are privatized -- but man, that press conference in Jackson Square will go down with Goebbels as great visuals! - TheSkunkMonkey, on 10/27/2007, -0/+3This was simply a testing of the waters. They are working on ways to control press conferences so that only administration propaganda will be disseminated. This particular method did not work and they got called out on it, so it's back to the drawing board to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. Expect more ***** of this type from the government until they perfect it and we have NO way of knowing the difference.
Why am I reminded of the Star Trek episode where they kept the leader a drugged up figurehead and the place was run by Nazi's? Damn, the more I think about that episode, the more it feels like I am living it! - DangerCollie, on 10/27/2007, -0/+3There are probably five people here who get that reference.
- lasenorita, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2Since this is the U.S., we'll probably call it something like the "Department of Anti-Terrorism Propaganda".
- elvisv, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2The video in question for those who wanna watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=071nO9V22jA - nitrojunky24, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2I agree heads should roll over this I mean come the ***** on!
- uknowwhoibe, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2No, lots more than just five. Everyone's seen S_ _ _ S _ _ _ T _ _ _ _ _ _ S
- totorototoro, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2Terr01, most people who whine about it never bother to click in the first place, and don't want to accept the "bad" news regardless, so they just attack the source. Thats why its good to provide alternate media outlets for them to ignore :p
- random12345, on 11/16/2008, -0/+2New Orleans has been there quite some time. I fail to see how its 100% Bush's fault. I'm sure (just like the environment) Clinton had just as much of a chance to correct many things, but he didn't. Everything from the past politicians and their screwups are crashing down on Bush and hes paying big time. Now, don't misinterpret this for defending him because I'm not- I'm just saying its retarded to put 100% of the blame on a guy who was only in for 5 years with a problem thats been around for decades.
- bobbknight, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2FEMA fake press conference, Impeach Bush!!!!
- yakski, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2Me thinks thou doest not know of the history of FEMA.... FEMA, prior to Homeland Security, was a VERY effective organization with an extremely professional staff that worked to improve emergency coordination through out the country. Since the political hacks were appointed to the Homeland Security and FEMA, many, many professionals LEFT FEMA because they could not stand the loss of qualified superiors and the reduction both in their importance and budget. In other words, the Bushies radically screwed up a very competent organization for no other reason than sheer incompetence.
- DirtySnachez, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2 ...
- pintomp3, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2you mean doing it or getting caught?
- Observant1, on 10/28/2007, -2/+3uhh, like "el busho" the illegal immigrant amnesty pusher wasnt there? excuuuuse YOU.
- rimmel, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1I'm glad our congressmen have the balls to begin impeachment proceedings against the worst and scariest presidency in history
- Observant1, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1maybe no, but 35 million illegals just might be national emergency maybe..
- AngelaQ, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1http://thinkprogress.org/207/10/26/fema-softball-p ...
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