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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (4825)	8/31/2005 12:20:28 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

In their world, Facts=Lies;-)

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (4825)	8/31/2005 12:38:36 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

Imagine the uproar if Bush had said this?.....from the liberal Livingstone: London mayor carpeted over Nazi jibe September 1, 2005 smh.com.au London: The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, is to face a disciplinary hearing for comparing a Jewish journalist to a Nazi concentration camp guard. The local government watchdog, the Standards Board for England, said on Tuesday an investigation into charges that Mr Livingstone "failed to treat others with respect and brought his authority into disrepute" had concluded that the issue should be dealt with by a hearing. The Adjudication Panel for England, which will conduct the hearing, could bar him from office for up to five years, censure him, order him to apologise or force him to undergo training. Mr Livingstone said the investigation had cleared him of the more serious charge of failing to comply with the Greater London Authority's code of conduct. "The tribunal will now consider the issue of whether I treated a journalist with respect," he said in a statement. The panel generally holds hearings 15 weeks after receiving reports of alleged misconduct, but announced no specific date for Mr Livingstone's hearing. The outspoken Mayor has refused to apologise for the comment, which drew calls for contrition from Holocaust survivors, the Government's race-relations watchdog and even the Prime Minister, Tony Blair. Mr Livingstone said he had not meant to offend the Jewish community when he asked the Evening Standard reporter Oliver Finegold whether he had been a "German war criminal". Mr Finegold, who had approached the Mayor for comment after a reception for gays and lesbians in February, replied that he was Jewish. Mr Livingstone told the reporter he was "just like a concentration camp guard. You're just doing it because you're paid to, aren't you?" He referred to Mr Finegold's employer as "a load of scumbags and reactionary bigots". Mr Livingstone, a staunch left-winger, has long had a testy relationship with sections of the British media.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (4825)	9/1/2005 12:22:13 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 9838

- "In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said was needed for Lake Pontchartrain, according to a Feb. 16, 2004, article, in New Orleans CityBusiness." - "On June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; told the Times-Picayune: “It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us.”" - "The 2004 hurricane season was the worst in decades. In spite of that, the federal government came back this spring with the steepest reduction in hurricane and flood-control funding for New Orleans in history." - The levee board noted in October 2004 that the feds were also now not paying for a hoped-for $15 million project to better shore up the banks of Lake Pontchartrain. - "One project that a contractor had been racing to finish this summer: a bridge and levee job right at the 17th Street Canal, site of the main breach on Monday." - "The Newhouse News Service article published Tuesday night observed, "The Louisiana congressional delegation urged Congress earlier this year to dedicate a stream of federal money to Louisiana's coast, only to be opposed by the White House....In it's budget, the Bush administration proposed a significant reduction in funding for southeast Louisiana's chief hurricane protection project. Bush proposed $10.4 million, a sixth of what local officials say they need." Local officials are now saying, the article reported, that had Washington heeded their warnings about the dire need for hurricane protection, including building up levees and repairing barrier islands, "the damage might not have been nearly as bad as it turned out to be." [Emphasis added.] editorandpublisher.com .