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Last updated on July 24th, 2017 at 12:46 pm
Dan Rather wishes he could have joined the post-Katrina Bush assault:
Rather praised the coverage of Hurricane Katrina by the new generation of TV journalists and acknowledged that he would have liked to have reported from the Gulf Coast. “Covering hurricanes is something I know something about,” he said.
“It’s been one of television news’ finest moments,” Rather said of the Katrina coverage. He likened it to the coverage of President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.
“They were willing to speak truth to power,” Rather said of the coverage.
That phrase has never sounded emptier than when spoken by Dupeweasel Dan. Actually, US ABC News network recently had truth spoken to it:
Reporter Dean Reynolds found a dozen people—all African-Americans—who’d been evacuated from the flooded streets of New Orleans, sat with them outside the Houston Astrodome and interviewed them as soon as the president’s speech ended.
Reynolds’ first question was to a woman named Connie London: “You heard the president say you are not alone . . . Do you believe him?”
“Yes,” she said, “because here in Texas they’ve been truly good to us.”
“Did you harbor any anger toward the president because of the slow federal response?”
“No, none whatsoever,” London replied, “because I feel our city and state government should have been there before the federal government was called in. They should have been on their jobs.”
“And they weren’t?” Reynolds asked.
“No, no, no, no, Lord, they weren’t,” she stated. “They had RTA buses, Greyhound buses, school buses that were just sitting there going under water when they could have been evacuating people.”
Reynolds asked a woman named Mary if she gleaned hope from the president’s words.
“Yes,” she replied.
“Why?” he asked.
“Because I really believe what he said.”
He turned to Brenda Marshall and asked, “What did you think of what the president said tonight?”
“I think the speech was wonderful.”
“Was there anything you found hard to believe? You know, that’s nice rhetoric but the proof is in the pudding?”
“No, I didn’t,” she answered, with an apologetic shrug.
“Well … good,” Reynolds fumbled. “Very little skepticism here.”
More on that broadcast here.
- Posted by Some0Seppo on 09/20 at 07:56 AM • permalink
Dan Rather’s approach to power has always been wildly uneven. He has alternated from practically knitting booties for power (Exhibits A and B: his interviews with Bill Clinton and Sadam Hussein), to popping himself in the face from shooting misfired spitballs at power (Exhibits C and D: his disastrous interview with Bush Senior, and the whole memogate imbroglio). The liberal (leftist) bias has always been clear; however, although there are very intelligent leftists in the U.S., Rather is quite obviously not one of them. In fact, in terms of sheer intellectual firepower, I would venture to say that Rather is one of the lowest calibres ever seen in the history of TV journalism. There are talking heads more obnoxiously left-wing, more dishonest, and more duplicitous; I challenge anyone to name one more stupid.
Rather wasm’t just praising the media for the heavy coverage of Katrina in New Orleans. He was also thanking them for taking some of the heat off of him for his dim witted attempt to smear a good president. I can read between the lines. Could you not see. “thank you, thank you, thank you, for being as stupid as I was”. He may not have said it but I bet he was thinking it. ABC is owned by Disney and the people of ABC hate it when Disney makes them broadcast Beuna Vista productions. I know this which is why there is a good blend of shows that are and are not politicaly correct. Compare them to the politically correct WB and you will see what I mean. Disney is not in it for the power they are in it for the money and that means they will turn coat on other stations reporting stories like that just to catch the ratings points. That is why I like Disney. They are one of the biggest capitolistic companies in America despite their high percentage of queers and liberals in the work force. You should listen to the employees complain when Disney rolls in a big ass profit for the quarter. They use their sorry assed unions to try and re-distribute the wealth within the company. Where have we heard that term used? I used to work for Disney and I used to have Babara Walters on my e-mail address book. I also had John Stosel on it. Now there is a liberal turn coat who went against the grain in the name of truth and fairness. He has a great piece about price gougers that will surprise you on Townhall.com dated Sept7, 2005. Kudos to John Stosel and his liberal dragon slaying reporting.
Posted by wingsndagger on 09/20 at 08:49 AM • permalink
Crap at least I can laugh at that.
Cindy Sheehan-…. Essentially George Galloway to Hitchens called her son a participant in massacres. George Galloway called Casey Sheehan a mass murderer.
Do you think she would DEFEND her DEAD son, who can no longer defend himself against such a SLIMEBALL attack?
Hell no! She’d rather get in front of the kleig lights and hurl obsenities about the National Guard in New Orleans.
And she’d do it with George Galloway-no problemo.
Posted by madawaskan on 09/20 at 09:26 AM • permalink
- unions call strike at Canadian Broadcasting Corp says radio national’s Kelly this a.m.
They are getting help from the B.B.C.They are being bombarded with American t.v. programmes.English language radio has a ferociously loyal audience of ten percent.
Fran “ah o.k.”
A national survey found that only ten percent of the prospective audience described it as an inconvenience.Twenty seven percent a minor inconvenience.A lot (of Canadians) watch American t.v.
Fran “well how did your coverage of Katrina go?”
Not managing very well, an accountant is reading the news.The newsreader is OUT in his BLUE jeans.
Michael Moore is protesting.
Guest- Prof Paul Thomas.
Whenever I’ve seen or read a story in the news that was about something that I had knowledge of, it was always wrong. I don’t mean interpretations or conclusions, I mean huge factual errors. I do not trust the MSM to get anything right.
The hurricane victims and the reporters were in the same place. They apparently saw two different things. I’ll go with the victims.
I agree with you Dave S. The problem is the media is so arrogant they do not believe even the victims are able to describe for themselves what happened. The liberal media believes if it wasn’t for them we would all be stupid. The problem is they are right. Thanks to them there are alot fo stupid people out there but we are able to see through it. They are left in disbelief when victims are able to think for themselves like on the ABC report.
Posted by wingsndagger on 09/20 at 11:35 AM • permalink
“It’s been one of television news’ finest moments,” Rather said of the Katrina coverage. He likened it to the coverage of President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963.
When I read this, all I can think is that Rather and the rest of the MSM believe television news’ finest moments consist of breathless vaporing over the prospect of thousands dead, billions in damage, and a politician they hate in the line of fire. If that is the main measure of quality in news reporting, then they are slime indeed.
“It’s been one of television news’ finest moments,” Rather said of the Katrina coverage.
I always thought Dan’s finest moment was giving the news in the midst of Hurricane Hugo while strapped to a palm tree. His hair blowing, his body swaying, his voice screaming about the Dow Jones average, it made for great fun.
I kept on saying to myself “more wind, more wind”.
Posted by wronwright on 09/20 at 04:38 PM • permalink
“Was there anything you found hard to believe? You know, that’s nice rhetoric but the proof is in the pudding?”
That’s THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING IS IN THE EATING. God, why is that even the people who are supposedly the ones in charge of the safekeeping of the English language—the ones who are paid to speak it to millions on a daily basis, whose sole point of hireability is an ability to enunciate—can’t even speak it properly?
Posted by Brian Tiemann on 09/20 at 04:39 PM • permalink
Reporters: “Don’t get stuck on stupid.”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 09/20 at 07:11 PM • permalink
#18 Amen, Brian, these people are like the ‘Biff’ character in Back to the Future who keeps scrambling idiomatic expressions (“Make like a tree and blow”, etc.) Often they’re scrambling two different idioms – I suspect the pudding people are thinking of ‘the devil is in the details’, another one they like to screw up.
Here’s an email I sent to 60 Minutes on the 12/09/05, after their Katrina story and their little chat with New Orleans Mayor, Ray Nagin.
President Bush declared an “impending disaster for New Orleans” on the Friday before Katrina struck. New Orleans Mayor, Ray Nagin, waited just 20 hours before the storm to issue an evacuation order. As Mayor, evacuation is HIS responsibility!
Mayor Nagin had 550 municipal buses and hundreds of school buses at his disposal, as well as an offer from Amtrak to assist in evacuating people with no means of transport.
Providing food, water and security at the Superdome was also the Mayor’s responsibility.
When hurricane Andrew struck in 1992, it was 4 days before Federal authorities showed up and until then local and state officials did what they were supposed to do.
With the government official who had the MOST to answer for, right there in front of you, instead of playing judge and jury Mr. Carleton (by placing ALL blame on Bush), why didn’t you try a little JOURNALISM to get some REAL answers?
The reason most of the victims of hurricane Katrina were black is because at least two thirds of New Orleans is black. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s just common sense!Thanks.
ps…Mayor Nagin’s incompetence strikes again with his now retracted ‘return’ proclamation!
Local Detroit TV proudly trotted out a new reporter (looked like he’d just graduated Communications B.A.) who was ‘embedded’ in NO with police, so he said. He managed to be both incredibly serious and incredibly breathless at the same time.
They managed to use film of drivers of some sort (cops? what cops?) who repeated the goriest rumors on video, and it was freaking YESTEDAY!! How can they not know that they were rumors? Where’s the sourcing? They had the raped, throat-cut 7 year old and the castrated, beaten to death rapist *twice*!!
And they expect us to pay attention to them?
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 09/20 at 10:19 PM • permalink
- #19 A “stuck on stupid” award for members of the media? Wow! That’s gonna be one tight competition. There’s a quality field out there:
Phat Phil the phoney (the grand old man of stupidity – possessed of a natural ineptitude honed over a life time);
Alan Ramsey (the professor of stupidity – entirely self-taught)
David Marred (prodigious stupidity – overcame all the disadvantages of privilege and education to achieve it),
Margo Kingston (stupefying stupidity – can best any man on her day, provided jooos don’t nobble her).
Fark.com ran the Rather story with this headline:
Dan Rather fights back tears as he denounces “new journalism order.” Says he longs for halcyon days when journalists relied on forged documents for their stories
Beautiful.
Posted by ArtVandelay on 09/21 at 12:39 AM • permalink
# 26 does the fact that the Evil Count Rupert and Darth Packer are capitalists seeking to maximise their profit hold any significance to you. Their media properties lean in the direction where they maximise their readership/viewing audience. If they could make more money out of pandering to left wing loonies than right wing death beasts they’d do so.
Don’t forget that early in his career Murdoch was known as “red rupert”. Rupert’s business plan has always included a fair degree of swimming against the tide.
“Journalism’s finest hour”? I was in “Scotland and had to watch the first week of Katrina coverage courtesy of the BBC. I have never seen such a shocking display of America/Bush bashing. The BBC reporters worked themselves into an orgiastic frenzy as they assured us that they were reporting the final downfall of America and the evil idiot. The only possible comparison to their unrestrained glee would be the street dancing Palestinians firing Kalashnikovs into the air after 9/11.
When I got back, I found that, as suspected, the Mayor and Governor had screwed the pooch big time and the Feds were slow on the uptake when the locals were a no show. But it did make the BBC reporters so happy to “let it all hang out.” (Another hoary phrase, redolent of hippy patchouli oil)
Posted by billy hank on 09/22 at 04:44 AM • permalink
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