And in the midst of the overwhelming Republican hackery, some of the Democrats are finding ways to embarrass themselves as well. Consider Landrieu, who tried to bullshit CNN's Anderson Cooper with the following spin:
Her condescending filibuster continued: "Anderson, tonight, I don't know if you've heard—maybe you all have announced it—but Congress is going to an unprecedented session to pass a $10 billion supplemental bill tonight to keep FEMA and the Red Cross up and operating."
"Unprecedented" session? What, like this emergency session:
President Bush has signed a bill designed to save the life of a severely brain-damaged woman, after lawmakers passed the measure at a late-night emergency session of Congress.
The president cut short a visit to his ranch in Crawford, Texas and returned to the White House for a chance to sign the measure, which he did at 1:11 a.m. EST.
Apparently, "unprecedented" is in the eye of the beholder.
BONUS SNARK: Not surprisingly, the conservative media are all up in arms about how those nasty liberal media members are bending things all out of proportion. Like here, a hard-right conservative "news" site populated by even bigger assholes than these folks (if that's even physically possible).
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"newsmax" may be a shameless Bush cheerleader, but one of it's columnists doesnt mince her words about his latest ineptitude:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/9/2/93521.shtml
One of the things I think we need to do in the weeks/months to come, as we discuss this whole thing with people still on the fence and over the fence, in response to their "Well, that's just the Democratic/leftist media spin." Our response: "Actually, I heard that on Fox/MSNBC/CNN" with the name of the newscaster if possible. Can't hurt. These are their government-identified channels, after all.
I think it will be sufficient to be able to, unemotionally and indisputably, refute the lies by providing inarguable evidence to the contrary.
When someone claims that no one expected the severity of the storm, point to government releases of the week before already categorizing it as a Cat 5 storm.
When someone claims that no one could have known the levees were going to break. refer to numerous articles pointing out how many people described exactly how this was expected. And so on.
A good model of this is Media Matters, who eviscerate (mostly idiotic right-wing) claims by pointing readers clearly at their refutations.
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