{"id":6746,"date":"2006-03-02T09:31:57","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T14:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6746"},"modified":"2006-03-02T09:31:57","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T14:31:57","slug":"a-few-comments-in-need-of-further-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-few-comments-in-need-of-further-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"A few comments in need of further explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night, NBC Nightly News reported that the White House did not necessarily consider the new Katrina video as a political problem. NBC reported, “Tonight a White House official says the tape does not contradict anything the Bush Administration has said.”<\/p>\n

I suspect the Bush gang went from 1 to 10 on the damage-control meter as soon as the story hit the wires yesterday afternoon, but this defense needs a little work.<\/p>\n

For example, the president’s “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees<\/a>” from Sept. 1 hasn’t exactly escaped the public’s attention. And the new video does show Max Mayfield telling the president<\/a>, “I don’t think any model can tell you with any confidence right now whether the levees will be topped or not but that is obviously a very, very grave concern.”<\/p>\n

Let’s also not forget what Bush told ABC News<\/a> just two days ago.<\/p>\n

“Listen, here’s the problem that happened in Katrina. There was no situational awareness, and that means that we weren’t getting good, solid information from people who were on the ground, and we need to do a better job. One reason we weren’t is because communications systems got wiped out, and in many cases we were relying upon the media, who happened to have better situational awareness than the government.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In context, Bush seems to be referring to the communications between emergency workers in New Orleans and the chain of command, but his comments nevertheless reflect a disconnect between White House spin and a video that shows plenty of “situational awareness” and ample “good, solid information.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night, NBC Nightly News reported that the White House did not necessarily consider the new Katrina video as a political problem. NBC reported, “Tonight a White House official says the tape does not contradict anything the Bush Administration has said.” I suspect the Bush gang went from 1 to 10 on the damage-control meter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}