It is starting to look like the media of truth is fading
away again to the media of Bush.

Last week we heard reports of firefighters furious over
their lack of allowed involvement in the Gulf Coast. One report talked of over
1100 firefighters feeling used because they were sent down there to act strictly
as public relation tools for FEMA. Instead of going straight to ground zero,
they sat a couple hundred miles away taking public relations and sexual
harassment courses in Atlanta.

Another story told of about 600 firefighters from Illinois
who had been sitting there doing nothing since the day after the storm hit. They
were being blocked by FEMA from going in and providing the rescue and aide they
are so well trained at.

Now we here stories about Bush’s latest visit to the area
and everyone seems to echo this same
paragraph:

After arriving in New Orleans Sunday, Bush traveled through
the nearly deserted town to visit “Tent City,” the campus of the Our Lady of
Holy Cross College that is now the massive staging area for hundreds of weary
and dirty but enthusiastic firefighters from around the country. They included
New York City firemen who brought back a truck that the state of Louisiana and
private donors gave after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Seems the old Rove spin cycle is getting back on track.
More important than getting a strong hold on terrorism or insurgents in Iraq is
having that controlling arm in what the Media is reporting.

I hope the reporters that witnessed first hand the anguish
and suffering caused by a bureaucratic breakdown have not forgotten that which
they so passionately reported.  There are far too many stories of suffering and
incompetence to keep focus on rather than Bush talking points. Please come back
media and stay with us. We value the first hand view that you gave us last week.
We need that kind of oversight in a government that is so determined to destroy
its self.