MSM COVERAGE OF THE KATRINA VIDEOCONFERENCE

THE BREATHLESS MSM COVERAGE OF THE KATRINA VIDEOCONFERENCE IS PURE BDS BS - AND ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A BOGUS BUSH SCANDAL BASED ON "THE BIG LIE."

Much of the MSM and all of the Left are breathlessly reporting on the AP-released copy of PRE-KATRINA videoconference which shows that Bush was warned about Katrina.

CNN and others are TOUTING this to show that when Bush said - FOUR DAYS AFTER KATRINA - that "no one expected the levees to be breeched" - he was lying.

The fact is that the tapes actually PROVE HE WASN'T LYING!

Here's the TRUTH: I watched the video and the chief hurricane forecaster says specifically that the "levees MIGHT BE TOPPED." TOPPED. NOT BREACHED. Here's how CNN reports it:

However, transcripts from video conferences on August 28 and 29 show that National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield expressed concern that Katrina might push its storm surge over the city's levees and flood walls.

"I don't think anyone can tell you with confidence right now whether the levees will be topped or not, but that's obviously a very, very great concern," Mayfield says in one.

In a September 1 television interview, Bush said, "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees," a statement Chertoff agreed with three days later.

Is the MSM so stupid that they don't know the difference between topped and breached!? NOPE. They are delibeately dissembling (by conflating the two terms) in order to SMEAR Bush.

They are lying scum. ABC NEWS (and COUNTLESS others - I'm just using them as an example) are lying scum. The blogosphere once again gets it right - as usual, CAPT'S QUARTERS gets it VERY VERY right - and has complete transcripts.

[POSTSCRIPT/ASIDE: the Left LOVES to use conflation to smear Bush.

The WHOLE "ports deal brouhaha" was caused by deliberate premeditated use of conflation: instead of reporting that Dubai Ports World was buying a British comapny which owned leases for about 25 out of 830 container TERMINALS within six major ports, the MSM reported that Dubai was "TAKING OVER OUR PORTS", or "GOING TO CONTROL OUR PORTS" or that we were "surrendering the SOVEREIGNITY OF OUR PORTS."

They reported this as if managing a minority of stevadoring container terminals within a half-dozen ports was tantamount to CONTROLLING OUR PORTS, as if they were the same thing. THEY ARE NOT.

The people in the MSM - and Hillary and Schumer et al - KNOW that they're conflating the two terms (PORTS AND TERMINALS); they LIE this way deliberately - in order to smear Bush. They're nothing more than lying scum, than dissembing fear-mongering demagogues, and the MSM lies with them and for them. They have no shame.

The fact that the WH communications team couldn't get this simple fact out there BEFORE the false Left-wing meme blew up in their faces - (and, as a result, Bush has taken a tumble in the polls) - is more proof that this team has got to go - and go NOW! See below.]

MORE ON THIS "LEVEE LIE" HERE AND HERE.