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Boorstin writes, “A pseudo-event, then, is a happening that possesses the following characteristics:

(1) It is not spontaneous, but comes about because someone has planned, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

(2) It is planted primarily (not always exclusively) for the immediate purpose of being reported or reproduced. Therefore, its occurrence is arranged for the convenience of the reporting or reproducing media. Its success is measured by how widely it is reported. Time relations in it are commonly fictitious or factitious; the announcement is given out in advance “for future release” and written as if the event had occurred in the past. The question, “Is it real?” is less important than, “Is it newsworthy?”

(3) Its relation to the underlying reality of the situation is ambiguous. Its interest arises largely from this very ambiguity. Concerning a pseudo-event the question, “What does it mean?” has a new dimension. While the news interest in a train wreck is in what happened and in the real consequences, the interest in an interview is always, in a sense, in whether it really happened and in what might have been the motives. Did the statement really mean what it said? Without some of this ambiguity a pseudo-event cannot be very interesting.

(4) Usually it is intended to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. The hotel’s thirtieth-anniversary celebration, by saying that the hotel is a distinguished institution, actually makes it one.”

I do not need self-proclaimed ‘reporters of the truth’ trying to create their own version it. It is absent of integrity and morality. Anderson Cooper is no hero, just the opposite.

Written by:
Judy Richards
jrichie12003@yahoo.com
Anguilla,MS

Sincerely concerned,

Judy Richards
jrichie12003@yahoo.com

The ACLU setting up a feeding line.

People for the American Way helping in the shelters.

The NAACP doing any work whatsover.

The American Atheist organization serving meals in the shelters.

Jesse Jackson directing traffic at the gas stations.

The gripers in Congress should come on down and get in line to pass the water and the ice. Are you listening and all of the sorry loafers we call Senators and Congressmen. They don’t have a clue as to what this life is all about here on the Gulf Coast.

Since the party you directed your rants to has bothered to answer as of yet…I hope you want mind if I do. I like Bush because he has BALLS…and keeps them in his pants. So very unlike the last embarrassment we had in the white house. I also like him because he doesn’t take any crap. Call him a cowboy…but I LIKE cowboys. Also, he is a man of faith and that make me proud. Not that I agree with everything his administration does. (Namely stem cells, abortion hell, if there was more abortion going on, I doubt if you’d be here) and I do not see eye to eye with his administration on border security.
So what if he finished reading to those kids for 7 minutes. Why scare them to death by jumping up and running off. No President in history has EVER had to deal with what Bush has had to deal with….an attack on on our country plus the biggest natural disaster since Galveston, Texas over 100 years ago. It is horrifying to think what would have happen during the 911 attack if Kerry was our president, he would still be on the phone asking France and Germany what to do next.
As for the New Orleans flood that was screwed up by a dimwitted Gov. who was so afraid to act that she just goofed. Not to mention a mayor that should be hanged for what he did. Do I have to mention what party they each belong? If New Orleans didn’t have the most corrupt political system of any state in the union for the past 50 years or so, the levees would have probably been fixed long ago.
As for him clearing all the Saudis to leave after 9/11: You have got to quit reading the Move On America blogs and other left wing, head case pages. Geeeese!!
Bush, like any other President, can only act on the information received from the CIA and other sources as to what our enemies are doing. Perhaps our information would have been better if Clinton hadn’t done everything in his power to dismantle our Secret Service, & CIA. And by the way….who the hell wouldn’t hate someone who tries to kill your Dad?
That’s about it. I’m sure you will answer with more wild, eyed raves….but that’s OK too. This is what this great country is all about. Even people like you can run down the president and call him every name in the book. Never offer ANY solutions…but just criticism. So….RAVE ON.

“I really should have called for the military,” Blanco said, while chatting with her press secretary in between TV interviews. “I really should have started that in the first call.”

Unbeknownst to Blanco, her bombshell acknowledgment was recorded on a network satellite feed, and by Tuesday the clip was getting wide exposure in Louisiana news broadcasts.

In the early days of the Katrina crisis, disaster management experts repeatedly blamed the failure to send in the National Guard for the city’s descent into chaos.

Most observers blamed the White House for the blunder – a misconception that was thoroughly dispelled by the governor’s inadvertent confession.
Some say Blanco’s blooper was responsible for the abrupt change of tone in her speech Wednesday night to the Louisiana legislature.

Where earlier she and her aides had openly blamed the Bush administration for bungling Katrina rescue efforts, Blanco announced: “The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.”

Just as surprising were Blanco’s words of praise for the White House: “I want the people of Louisiana to know that we have a friend and a partner in President George W. Bush. I thank you, Mr. President.”
Well, Governor…it’s better late than never.

Dean pointed out that the poor got hammered, and that was Bush’s fault because of tax cuts for the rich or some such nonsense. Jackson and Dean ran around grabbing cameras and microphones, howling at the moon.

Here are some very interesting facts: In 1996, the poverty level in the USA stood at 13.7%. In 2004, the poverty level was 12.7%, so Bush beats Clinton here by a full percentage point. To be fair, Clinton did bring the poverty rate down during his administration, while it has been rising slightly since 9/11. But at the halfway point, Bush wins.

As far as entitlement spending on poverty programs is concerned, it isn’t even close. In 1996, President Clinton signed a budget that directed 12.2% of spending be directed toward the poor. In 2004, Bush’s budget kicked 2% more than Clinton to poverty programs, an astronomical $329 billion dollars. In fact, President Bush is spending more on poverty entitlement programs and education than any President in history. But still Jesse and Howard rave on.

In 2006, almost $368 billion dollars will go for Medicaid, food stamps, family support assistance, supplemental security income, child nutrition programs, earned income tax credits, welfare payments, child care payments, foster care and adoption assistance, and child health insurance payments to the states. The truth is that the working men and women of this country are providing the tightest safety net in history for the poor. And our private charitable donations rank first in the world as well.

The race and class baiters will always ignore the fact that some people simply cannot support themselves no matter what society does. The New Testament states it clearly: “the poor, they will always be with us.” But America provides more opportunity for more people than anywhere else on the planet.

I hope the facts don’t startle you too much.