Friday, September 09, 2005

Back In The USSR

You may have seen the following E-mail floating around.

There was a striking discrepancy between CNN International coverage of the Bush visit to the New Orleans disaster zone, yesterday, and reports of the same event by German TV. ZDF News reported that the president's visit was a completely staged event. Their crew witnessed how the open air food distribution point. Bush visited in front of the cameras was torn down immediately after the president and the herd of 'news people' had left and that others which were allegedly being set up were abandoned at the same time. The people in the area were once again left to fend for themselves.

It is factually incorrect. A correct translation from ZDF News is as follows:

"Along his [Bush] travel route aid units removed debris and recovered corpses. Then Bush left and along with him, all aid troops left too. The situation in Biloxi remains unchanged, nothing has arrived, everything is still needed."

This comes from a GSL viewer remembering the story and mixing up some of the story. The story did mention New Orleans earlier but contained nothing about food distribution points.

It brings up an interesting question though. Is Karl Rove using FEMA assets to protect us from the news, or to protect George Bush from the news? This is reminiscent of a late '70s KGB operation. By 1978 Leonid Brezhnev had pretty much lost his mental faculties and the KGB pretty much ran the Soviet Union. Brezhnev died in 1982. Is Karl Rove the American KGB? This may explain the prominence given the neocons in the administration. Are the neocons so learned in Soviet history to destroy them, or to emulate them.

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