The Crooks and Liars video clip site has really been the place to be online this past week, although it is always a treasure trove of amazing things. I watched "Face the Nation" and "Meet the Press" live today, and both had elements in the shows that kept me just glued to the screen.
Perhaps this Shieffer transcript sums it up best, tho. I think Crooks and Liars is getting swamped lately, cuz I can't get videos to play, but at least there was a helpful transcript.
Link: Crooks and Liars.
Bob Shieffer Blasts the response to Katrina
Bob wrapped up Face the Nation today with this:
SCHIEFFER: Finally, a personal thought. We have come through what may have been one of the worst weeks in America's history, a week in which government at every level failed the people it was created to serve. There is no purpose for government except to improve the lives of its citizens. Yet as scenes of horror that seemed to be coming from some Third World country flashed before us, official Washington was like a dog watching television. It saw the lights and images, but did not seem to comprehend their meaning or see any link to reality.As the floodwaters rose, local officials in New Orleans ordered the city evacuated. They might as well have told their citizens to fly to the moon. How do you evacuate when you don't have a car? No hint of intelligent design in any of this. This was just survival of the richest." (hat tip BJ for the transcript)"
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