Saturday morning, September 03, 2005 -- Chris Matthews formed a panel that included a full range of observational angles from liberal all the way to liberal.  ABC ran a special morning edition which featured the opinions of airheaded Smith grads and football players who are not fluent in their native tongue.  The video segment of the man named Jackson, whose wife slipped from his hand at the flood's peak, has been repeating for days.  Three corpses are filmed beneath their temporary shrouds at the overcrowded football stadium -- and I wonder if you selected any group of 20,000 souls anywhere in America at any time, how many would die on average during any five day period?  Three doesn't seem like an unreasonable number. 

One "journalist" said, "Perhaps finally we are seeing here the beginning of the end of that man."

Which man?  President Bush, of course. The liberal press hatred of Bush borders on the pathological.. 

Another "journalist" said that the ineffective reponse of the Bush White House has peeled back the fake cover of security and revealed the rotten structure of our defense against terrorism. (A storm proves that Bush's perfect post-911 defense of our shores is a fraud?)  Another "journalist" listed Hollywood actors and television stars who are supposedly leading the charity effort.  Pure baloney.  Religious organizations always have taken the lead in these things.  One "journalist" asked an "expert" for the names of the relief organizations -- saying, "If you have problems with the Red Cross, there are options."

Problems with the Red Cross?  Other than atheists and Moslem terrorists, who has trouble with the Red Cross?

What this all boils down to is that the MSM, or mainstream media, has been trying to get Bush and the Republican congress for years, but the public hasn't bought the message.  Now, with hurricane Katrina, America's liberal press is once more circling Bush.  Some have blamed the hurricane, itself, on Bush's failure to support the global warming treaty called the Kyoto Accords.  (Since the treaty is a money redistribution scheme and doesn't eliminate anything, by definition Bush's rejection didn't stop anything but the bleeding of the U.S. Treasury.)

Watching this press feeding frenzy, I am left with disgust for what has been done to the profession of journalism. And, I have a question, too.  These scurrilous scribes are playing every card in their deck on this one. I heard Eleanor Clift, a national news magazine flack, speaking on PBS's McGloughlin Report.  She said that the hurricane would stop the attempt in congress to get rid of the Death Tax on people's estates because  we will be needing that money to pay for rebuilding down South.  Her voice was like the hissing of a poisonous snake who has been trod upon.  Her narrow face was bitter and she repeatedly shook her finger at the camera.  People are evil to demand that taxation cease with the end of life.

I wonder how many Americans are going to buy this extravaganza of liberal effort to reclaim their dominance over the flow of information, and control of the halls of political power.

Will the blood in the floodwaters reinstall the kingmakers, or will the people of America see this feeding frenzy for what it is?  We shall see in a little more than a year from now.  

(LL). 

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