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Ahem.

Do it, George. Good riddance!

P.S. Rove was indicted, under seal, agreed to turn states' evidence against Cheney, and the indictment was withdrawn.

Fitzgerald Collecting Cheney's Smoking Guns -- see Cheney jot some questions in the margin of his copy of Joe Wilson's Times op-ed.

Perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment.
-- Senator Mary Landrieu

ARD correspondent Christine Adelhardt, who witnessed Bush's visit to Biloxi, was shocked about the extent to which the event was staged. The President brought with him vehicles to cut though the debris and rescue search teams, for which Biloxi had waited for days. But they did not go to work where the victims were, but only served as photogenic background props in remote areas of the town, she reported.
-- German news agency ARD

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, said ZDF.
-- Dutch news agency ZDF

How would you like to have the job of following Bush around tearing down disaster relief sites to get them ready for his next photo-op? That has got to be fairly low on the job satisfaction scale.

Geraldo Rivera and Shepard Smith are reporting that the authorities have just locked everyone in the convention center with no escape, and a checkpoint is stopping people from leaving New Orleans. They set up a check point at the bottom of the bridge out of New Orleans, it's the only way out, per Shep Smith, and if you go the checkpoint they turn you around and send you back to New Orleans.

-- Americablog

Wha...!?! I hope this is grandstanding.

Seriously, what have we come to when the police are kinder to nominal criminals taking essentially abandoned property to survive than the so-called liberal news media?

Via jwz, who has more crap news for your crap distaster viewing crap pleasure.