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Assuras Notes Negative Numbers on Bush's Katrina Response
A day after CNN reported poll numbers which show a small minority of Americans blame President Bush for a slow response to the disaster in New Orleans, CBS News today reported their new polling data, which were considerably more negative for the Bush administration. The poll, unlike CNN’s, doesn’t deal with “blame” for the New Orleans disaster but rather focused on the adequacy of the…
Cutting Taxes One Minute; Raising Them the Next
CNNs American Morning says raising gas taxes might be a better move than cutting them.
Times Cites U.N. Report Blasting U.S. as Cheap
Foreign aid story ignores U.S. charity and socialist aspects of U.N. analysis.
AP Still Finds a Way to Criticize Bush
A couple of weeks ago, I addressed a piece from the AP's Jennifer Loven. Loven, the wife of a former Clinton administration environmental official, found it necessary to write, as gasoline prices were rising, about how George W. Bush was probably the greatest consumer of gasoline. Well, after almost two weeks of absolutely relentless criticism of the President for not taking Katrina seriously,…
CNN Epitomizes Hurricane Katrina Politics
On last evening’s The Situation Room, CNN’s Ed Henry did a report on the politicization of Hurricane Katrina. One of the first segments was House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) with some rather unkind words about our president:“He chose someone with absolutely no credentials. You know what? When I said to the president that he should fire Michael Brown, he said why would I do that? I said…
Olbermann Compares Bush Supporters to Lincoln's Opponents, Distorts Po
On Wednesday night's Countdown, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, one night after he scathingly attacked President Bush's handling of hurricane relief (see this Wednesday NewsBusters posting), made what seems to be a bizarre comparison between those who approve of Bush's handling of disaster relief and those who voted against Lincoln's re-election in 1864.Olbermann relayed his belief that the current…