Great satire: Katrina and People Like Us

[drscott]

This is the funniest skewering of the self-important I've seen in a long time, and applies to a lot of the posting here recently as well as to HuffPo.

I knew if I restrained myself from writing about it, somebody else would do it better.

In a related note, Yahoo put together a meta-list of "missing people" sites, and when I put Volney's name in, it turned out he was being sought by several people. I transferred the info to Volney via Bear411, and he swore he'd have gotten around to them eventually. :-)

Comments

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Well, one interesting factoid, sourced from many places but even in the Daily Kos:

The Red Cross has been saying for a while now that the state DHS was preventing them from entering New Orleans. Since the Superdome is a subset of New Orleans, I don't see how this is new information or in any way capitulation to the Bush Spin Machine.

Believe it or not, the two aren't mutually exclusive. Just because FEMA, Brownie, Chertoff and Dubya really really royally fucked up doesn't mean that the Lousiana or New Orleans authorities may not also have fucked up. If, in your desire to see Bush blamed, you turn a blind eye to the facts then you're really sinking to the level of the Bush Spin Machine.

That's the point at which the average news consumer reasons, "I can hear Republicans spouting their talking points or Democrats spouting theirs, so I may as well conclude the truth is unknowable and tune out." Very postmodern, but not conducive to what we all want to see -- Bush held accountable. Don't contribute to the spin vs. spin scenario -- don't rewrite history to make the Red Cross a Republican propaganda pawn when in reality, they've been saying for days that the Louisiana authorities kept them out.

There will be more than enough to blame Bush for while letting this one pass in the name of truth.

It appears a great deal of the fuckup was in corrupt and incompetent local governments. As this quote says, the only charges that will stick are the ones that are true.

[abearius.livejournal.com]

I'm not making the point that you refute, so I agree with you. :-) The Republicans have not cornerd the market on lazy, corrupt politicians.

Still, the fact that Cuba does this better than us is, well, rich.

And Furthermore. . .

[abearius.livejournal.com]

Charles Dean is an embarrassment.