Friday, August 25, 2006

Republican Katrina Survivor Praises Bush. That's Creole For "Job Hunting"...

If you want the facts on Katrina watch When The Levees Broke -- all six hours.

Then of course watch this for the propoganda:
CNN provided forum for Katrina survivor to praise Bush on Katrina, omitted that he's a Republican: "On the August 23 edition of CNN's Live From..., host Kyra Phillips allowed Katrina survivor Rockey Vaccarella to repeatedly praise or deflect blame from President Bush over his handling of Hurricane Katrina, yet failed to note that Vaccarella once ran for local office as a Republican or challenge Vaccarella's various attempts to excuse the federal government's slow response. As Philadelphia Daily News senior writer Will Bunch has reported, Vaccarella ran in 1999 for the St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, commission as a Republican, according to a October 15, 1999, candidate profile in the New Orleans Times-Picayune. While Phillips noted that Vaccarella 'ran for office in the past in St. Bernard Parish,' she failed to mention his party affiliation. Later, on The Situation Room, CNN White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux did note his Republican Party affiliation while reporting that the White House denied having known it.

Vaccarella -- who, as Bunch reported, was listed in his 1999 candidate profile as director of operations for a company that operated 31 Pizza Hut restaurants -- towed a 'mock but realistic-looking' version of the trailer issued to him and his family after the hurricane by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from Louisiana to Washington with the intention of cooking a meal of 'shrimp and redfish and other good food' for Bush inside the trailer. According to the Times-Picayune, Vaccarella instead met with the president in a private session."