If You Can't Trust Stars and Stripes, Who Can You Trust?
So here's an interesting snippet. There was a Republican talking point that the media was to blame for the administration's slow response to Hurricane Katrina. According to Michael Chertoff, Joint Chiefs Chairman General Richard Myers, and recently, President Bush himself, news headlines on the Tuesday after Katrina battered the Gulf Coast misled the government, since the news was reporting that New Orleans had "dodged a bullet." The Wall Street Journal [link], Wonkette [link] and others have ably debunked this, but none that I have seen focused particularly on General Myers.Here's what the General said, ably repeating the talking point:
The headline, of course, in most of the country's papers on Tuesday were "New Orleans dodged a bullet," or words to that effect. At that time, when those words were in our minds, we started working issues before we were asked...
[snip]
And we started that before the magnitude of this tragedy was even understood by anybody at any level. And so that movement was moving -- working.
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I don't mean to be a stickler, but if the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff can't read any other actual newspapers out there, is it too much to ask that he at least read the house organ?
3 Comments:
Wow, Dan Labovitz has his own public affairs blog. Good work, Dan.
--Murray
Not that I'm prying, Murray, but how did you stumble across it?
Don't remember exactly, but by following a few links that ran through some politics blogs. Yours was linked. It's a smaller world than you realize.
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