27 Eylül 2005 Salı

Fun with DU

Well, I know it's been a while since we've had an installment, but the mods at DU have slipped and not gotten around to censoring...er, I mean editing the boards today and so I present a few nuggets of insanity from the DU on news of widespread mis-reporting of the situation in New Orleans by the media:
I think the point a lot of media were trying to say...
The people of NO had been left with no proper shelter, protection, medical care, or food and water. It was the media who alerted FEMA that there were people at the convention center in the first place. They had no idea. It was the media who alerted the world to the fact that the people of NO had been abandoned by their own country.

Were rapes and murders exaggerated? Who knows? The press were not allowed into the superdome or the convention center. Oprah didn't even go that far in herself. We have no record of what went on there. We never will. The only thing we do know for certain is that NO was abandoned for several days. We know for certain that the rest of the country let that city down. Why? I don't know.
Yes, we should forgive the absurd exagerations becuase the MSM had a good heart about it...really!
YES, the reports of rampant rape, murder and mayhem were
exaggerated. And these very exaggerations gave a criminal administration cover for its murderous inaction, conned a bunch of people who should know better into thinking that it made sense to restrict the Red Cross from aiding the hungry, thirsty and sick until the city was secured by the military like a foreign enemy, and cost HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN LIVES.

To conflate this (purposeful?) suspension of ALL journalistic standards with the courageous, truthful reporting of those journalists who saw what was happening firsthand serves only to muddy the waters.

I guarantee you it was part of a F.U.D. strategy encouraged by Republicans
The frame determines the soultions.

They didn't want to help people. They want to take away more freedoms so that the wealthy can get wealthier.

The exaggeration of the Superdome/Convention Center violence was key to:
1.) Shifting the blame for the fate of the victims from authorities to the victims themselves.

2.) Enlisting the help of neighboring police in trapping the victims at these locations so that they could later be dispersed to FEMA controlled sites around the country.

3.) Justifying the extreme amount of military/paramilitary presence that we now see in NOLA.

In short, it was vital for this administration and their plans for NOLA.
Of course, no post at DU would be complete without an attempt at blaming the White House for the crisis again. So now the logic is obvious, the purposefully made the situation look worse, and hurt their own public standing, just to get at those pesky black people! Becuase we all know that George Bush doesn't care about blacks! And as for their "plans for NOLA," well who knows what those might be. It must be a DU secret. Ah yes, the joy of life among the reality based community.

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