js7a's Journal: The Photo-Ops: What Could They Have Been Thinking?!?

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.

James, you are

[Philip K Dickhead]

worth your weight in AU, correlating these sources.

seriously disgusting

[zogger]

reminds me of that photo op they had where the made in china stickers on the crates were replaced with made in the usa. Or that rally where they told all the men there to remove their ties, so they would look more like "the common folk".

Potemkin villages

[ces]

how utterly disgusting.

Also when he was in New Orleans they stopped all the trucks and busses coming into the city as well as all rescue and supply flights. I'm sure something similar happened at the other stops he made.