Liberals, despite their vaunted scientific atheism, seem mostly to be long on personal attacks and short on facts.
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The attacks on the Bush administration, in the case of New Orleans, are largely fantasy. The media and liberal politicians are simply following the path blazed by Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels: tell a Big Lie often and loudly, and lots of people will believe it.
To get a more rounded picture than the liberal media are projecting, read the following:
* City Journal’s Will New Orleans Recover?, by Nicole Gelinas
* Masques of Death, by George Neumayr , published on The American Spectator website.
* Don’t Blame Bush for Katrina, by Christopher Ruddy on NewsMax
And, courtesy of Warren “Bones” Bonesteel,
* The Post Chronicle’s Why The Katrina Coverage Made Me Switch To Fox News!, by Lee Ellis
Mr. Ellis’s article makes one point that has been too little noted:
“Why did it take five days for Bush to help?” is the mantra constantly voiced by all the “Talking Heads” on TV. Here are the reasons:
“(1) It is against the law for any President to order troops into a city or across state lines without a request and permission from the Governor of that state.
“John Armor, a First Amendment lawyer and one of my favorite writers, told me, “Federal law prevents the President from sending in the National Guard until the Governor gives the order. It is little known, but the Commanding General of the National Guard in every state reports to the Governor, not the President, until the Governor says otherwise. U.S. military units (regular Army, not the Guard) cannot be used because of the Posse Comitatus law, until the Guard has been authorized.”
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Various news sources have reported that Louisiana Governor Blanco not only did not ask the President to send National Guard troops to New Orleans, but actually refused to have him do so for several days.
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