ABC stands for All Bad Crap all the time. It is so busy pleasing the Bushie propaganda machine that there is little time left for real news.

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The word “sanitized” is a euphemism for censored.

I wonder how long it will take for Americans to realize that every word we hear on corporate TV is “sanitized.”

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ABC News programs- I can respond with just two words: John Stossel He is a cultural icon for ABC. He embraces Ayn Rand and is a LIberterian. As far as they are concerned, it the people's fault for the Katrina Disaster. Read Atlas Shrugged, it will give you a romantic "overman responce" the ideal person.

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I was encouraged to hear the unedited version. Thank you for offering this powerful contrast, between the two versions, so we can see clearly how we Americans are being manipulated and controlled.

I, too, could not see the purpose of President Bush's extended observation of the disaster in New Orleans after Katrina from the safe distance of helicopters. He was shown later ceremoniously riding on tank, dressed stylishly in military fatigues. However, meanwhile Americans did not receive urgently needed help, for several days, and emergency responders were not allowed in the devastated area.

The elderly, and the very young were seen day by day dying in wheelchairs, on chairs, and lying down to die on the sidewalks. People walked in polluted waters. Pets ran about drinking poisoned water, and then dying. And, weeks later the dead bodies of Americans were everywhere left to rot in the water and the sun. We suffered weeks of this chaos and disorder, death and devastation, on American soil.

Many days later President Bush stated that "he took responsibility" for the problems. Well, of course it was his responsibility! What was achieved by stating the obvious, and then continuing to do nothing? He also made sweeping statements as to how the people in New Orleans would not be abandoned, and they would get the help they needed to rebuild the city. But, nothing happened.

President Bush talked alot about how we need to help others in need, and this gave me a glimmer of hope the proposed Medicaid cuts would happen. But, Medicaid was cut mercilessly anyway. And, worse, Vice President Cheney stated openly that it was his intention to "eliminate all Entitlement programs" before 2008. Meanwhile, we are in Iraq at tremendous expense to America with the excuse of "helping Iraqis." And, New Orleans has not been rebuilt, or helped, and no plans to rebuild have been offered to the American people by President Bush.

At the same time, huge unsustainable tax cuts are showered on President Bush's "base," ruling out any possibility of a balanced budget, now or later. And cutting off any possibility of continuing necessary social programs including such things as: aid programs for college students, foster care, child support enforcement, long term care for the elderly and disabled, and so on. And, still nothing is done for the people in New Orleans.

There was an unforgiveable level of confusion in New Orleans, after Katrina. People died for lack of water, food, and sanitary or safe conditions. People languished for lack of timely or effective help. Disorder flared in good part because the people were left without any kind of vital emergency aid or assistance. Alot of finger pointing went on afterward that this agency, or that, and that this branch or level of government, or that, was most responsible for the total lack of response.

However, our President is the one who is in the ultimate position to take over in such an emergency. Had he not been so intent on hiring his friends to important posts, regardless of qualification and ability, perhaps there would have been a different result. Days into the disaster, with the area in a state of dire emergency, President Bush joked on television that his "Brownie" was doing a heck of a job of taking care of things. And, meanwhile the people in America died on American soil.

This was all particularly offensive to me as someone who has experience with emergency response. In such cases time is of the essence. Quick, and appropriate, action often makes the difference between life and death. Bush did not act in a timely or intelligent manner, and because of this Americans died.

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In an NY Times Editorial today, Nicholas Kulish opines,

"There are two Spike Lees. One is an artist capable of directing exceptional films, the other a public personality who suffers from flare-ups of foot-in-mouth disease and a fondness for conspiracy theories. "

AKA, one is the well-behaved, blockbuster darling Spike, one is the outspoken activist Spike we just can't quite understand, goshdarnit!

Kulish goes on to confuse two dead children in the film, conflating two women's unique stories of loss into one, saying the funeral scene is for Kimberly Polk's 5 year old daughter Serena. It is not.

I saw the entire four hours aired last week at the New Orleans Arena and was most impressed by Lee's comprehensive look at the tragedy--he interviewed people from many neighborhoods and backgrounds. But you wouldn't know it from reading Times-Picayune reviewer Dave Walker's piece, which ignorantly stated the film told "only half the story. Or, rather, 67.3 percent of it."

Can white media please get the stick out of the arse and stop crying "bias!" whenever Spike does something more controversial than Inside Man?

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(AND I AM WHITE), AND I SEE NO " REVERSE RACISM" IN IT.

ALL ONE HAS TO DO IS TO OPEN HIS/HER EYES AND EARS,

& TO HAVE LIVED LONG ENOUGH, TO UNDERSTAND THE

RACIST UNDERPINNINGS OF THIS COUNTRY. THERE IS NO

QUESTION AS TO ITS EXISTENCE!

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