Letters to the Editor
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Office of Impression Management
Oh, that's priceless. This administration doesn't even want the usual lickspittle press corps around, doesn't want to leave that to chance, in case some of the lapdogs start barking and yipping, so they put fake reporters in there to ensure there's no troublesome wrongthink introduced in the process.
Must be why the government's been busy hiring Public Relations Specialists across the board. Get those people out there to spread the Good Word, all the great stuff this administration's been doing.
Man, if they only spent the time, attention, and money to actually govern well, instead of trying to game the system, cover their asses, contract everything out, and then spin the predictably bad consequences of bad administration every which way they can to duck responsibility, maybe the country wouldn't be in such a mess right now.
But, sorry, I'm being an extremist, I know.
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Playing Dress-Up
Uh, don't FEMA staffers have something else they should be doing besides playing reporter?
This is grotesque. If FEMA merely wanted to address the questions they'd already gotten from numerous reporters (as they hint at), they didn't need to plant their own "reporters." They could merely have said, "we've been asked these questions repeatedly thus far and here are the answers."
Oh, FEMA, as competent as ever. Or, sadly, more competent now than it's been the entire Bush Administration.
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Hi I'm Jeff Gannon from United News Service
Same old same old.
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The Real Acronym
Federal Ethical and Moral Abandonment
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FEMA: We're not really reporters, but we did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night....
So what if FEMA employees can masquerade as reporters and no one really notices? What does that say about the public's attitude about journalists?
Perhaps a more charitable interpretation is that FEMA employees are awesome actors, man. And not that journalists and reporters have become so vapid and stupid that no one even notices when they've been replaced by simulated reporters.....
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Burning Questions.
The only thing I'm surprised about (considering this is the Bush administration) is that the FEMA representative didn't stand in front of a fake photographic backdrop depicting beautiful forests and sunny skies and say "Fires? What fires? There are no fires in California!"
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Simply put,
their saying they were disturbed is a lie. If they were they would have done something about it.
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Jesus H. Christ.
Christ.
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Lower and lower they go...
There seems to be no depth to which the snakes in this administration will not sink. They're an insult to real snakes everywhere.
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If FEMA is going to use phony reporters...
they could at least hire the ones from The Daily Show!
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FEMA, for the record
From the FEMA website, under Media Info:
"For the Record--A section that provides FEMA the opportunity to respond to recent inaccuracies and/or misconceptions in the media."
Uh, what?! They have a whole section dedicated to this? At the top of their media info page?
I guess FEMA got tired of "correcting" the media so they just decided to become the media.
http://www.fema.gov/media/index.shtm
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re: they could at least hire the ones from The Daily Show!
Actually, I hear Fox News' "1/2 Hour News Hour" folks are in need of work.
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These guys would make Joseph Goebbels proud
Still any "news" organization that put this out without identifying it for the propaganda it is would be just as complicit. Your can't be innocent if you are enabling these jokers
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G.O., In Memorium
The term "Orwellian" is bandied about awfully easily these days, and as such has lost some of its scary connotations. But seriously, every time I think this administration has hit a new low, they go and top themselves with something like this. (And Dana Perino provides daily amazement.) Can any word other than Orwellian describe this kind of thing? And coming so close on my reading about John Tanner of the Justice Department, who thinks that Voter ID laws are unfair to whites.
I continue to be surprised at my own surprise.
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What does it say that the Republican owned and operated media wasn't softball enough for them?
So the Republicans have their own White House, their own covert intelligence, their own army and now their own press. And we think they're actually going to allow an election in 2008 because why?
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What gay porn has Dana Perino done?
Just asking what the rough outlines of the job description entail
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Phony
The reporters may have been phony, but they did a heckuva job.
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Perino: The White House doesn't approve of phony reporters
"At the White House, Press Secretary Dana Perino said that the White House didn't know about the phony briefing before it happened and does not approve of the concept."
Really? Two words: Jeff Gannon.
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Hard to spot
Interesting that the real reporters could not distinguish themselves from the FEMA administration shills.
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@voice of reason
Good point!!
And Dana Perino "wouldn't have condoned"? Like SHE has any judgment of such matters?
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Why is anyone surprised?
When you're this bad at your job, and this stupid, why not try faking it? It's not like anyone is going to get fired over the illusion of truth. I mean, no one specifically asked during the conference if they were FEMA plants, so in effect, it wasn't a lie, right? WMDs, anyone?
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Anybody still remember
the Potemkin villages?
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white house press corpse
and true to form, the milquetoasts who had planted themselves in the white house media room could barely be roused to question yet another big honking spitball in their faces.
ho hum.
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How Many Times?
That's at least twice this administration has been caught doing that, and I can't help thinking there was a third, but I don't remember for sure. Twice can be dismissed as a coincidence, but three times is a deliberate policy, right? When officially asked they officially deny that it's policy - so far.
How long until they re-define it a la torture? "Oh, we don't do fake press conferences, but that wasn't, according to our lawyers, a fake press conference."
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WHY did they do it?
What in Gods name do they have to hide in relation to the fires? The response? The cause of the fires?
What the hell is going on here? This is the type of thing that makes you wonder if the government STARTED the fires for some reason. Providing cover for themselves?
What should we be left to believe? Answer: just about anything.
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What? Me Worry?
The continued unethical and sometimes downright illegal and corrupt mentality found from the White House to the Pentagon to Bush's Cabinet to the Justice Department to Larry Craig's restrooms is just absurd! Hey, they are NEVER wrong about ANYTHING they do. Just ask them. We are sick of them. Like cockroaches frantically running for cover everytime the light comes on, Washington, D.C, needs exterminating.
No one has done more singlehandedly to threaten democracy inn America than Bush and his merry band of morally, ethically,and legally corrupt incompetents.