Dutch viewer: Bush's completely staged New Orleans mercy mission

[swag]

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/002485.html

Dutch viewer Frank Tiggelaar writes:

There was a striking dicrepancy between the CNN International report on the Bush visit to the New Orleans disaster zone, yesterday, and reports of the same event by German TV.

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.

[demo dutch]

1. I knew it!

[Jade Fox]

2. Of course it was a completely staged event.

[wli]

3. This doesn't surprise me in the least. n/t

[anarch]

4. everything that fucker does is a staged event

He is a fake human being.

[IndyOp]

17. At this point, I am waiting for the alien to erupt from

*'s chest - just like in the movie.

:grr: :nuke: :grr: :nuke: :grr: :nuke:

[Spazito]

5. Yep, I am totally sure of it as well

The people at the Convention Center STILL have not been evacuated, the buses, relief trucks arriving, repairs on the levee were all, coincidentally, suddenly appearing so they could be shown on a split screen with bush's arrival. It is beyond despicable.

[joemurphy]

6. Potemkin villages... n/t

[swag]

7. Apt description.

[susu369]

8. I've been calling bu$h* The Potemkin Village Idiot for over four years

and now we have the earsplitting sound of that Potemkin Village falling apart.

[wellstone dem]

9. kicked and nominated!

[katinmn]

10. I am just waiting for the world leaders to condemn Bush

Just like after the 2004 election fiasco, we need their help!

[cthrumatrix]

11. the whole world has seen ANOTHER bush PR moment - this time it cost lives

[Im with Rosey]

12. How can we prove it?

It is one thing for all of us to know that he continues to do crap like this, but how can we prove to EVERYONE that this is the case. We need to strip every bit of sugar coating from this monster.

[katinmn]

14. Ask ZDF News for their video. Contact their reporters.

Maybe they have video of the Bush lackeys disassembling the stage.

[DrDebug]

21. The link to the story

Pasted the following link into your media player. It is in German, but is all documented

mms://213.254.239.51/tagesschau/msmedia/2005/0902/TV-20050902-2032-4601.wm.hi.wmv

[liveoaktx]

25. At what part is the It was staged? The side shot of Bush in front

of a stand?

[DrDebug]

26. The woman reporter talked about it

It was the third or fourth story. It was at the end of her report.

About 5:00 into the story.

[wake.up.america]

32. Sehr gut. Ich habe zugehört und ic habe es sehr interessant gefunden.

[DrDebug]

33. I know enough German to understand it. Transcript (english) + MP3

But talking with the whole der/dem/den stuff is waaay too difficult for me.

Nevertheless - Translation of the Transcript:

From the last report. Now live from Biloxi, Christina Adelhard (sp?)

Two minutes ago the President has passed here in his convoy, but what has happened here in Biloxi during the day is unimaginable. Suddenly salvage troops appeared. Suddenly clean up crews appeared . That was something the people had not witnessed here before and that in an area where it was not necessary to clean up on a grand scale, because nobody lives here anymore. The people have moved on into the city. Nevertheless the President travels here. The press therefore can take wonderful pictures which is supposed to suggest that the President where there and the help will also arrive. The scale of the natural catastrophe has shocked me, but the level of choreography has also shocked me. With this we return to Hamburg.

German State Television ARD and ZDF. News bulletin 20:04:34-20:05:23 Sept 2nd 2005.

MP3 file of the interview:
http://rapidshare.de/files/4684828/01-_tagesschau_de_-_tagesschau__20_00_Uhr__02_09_05.mp3.html

I couldn't convert or cut and paste the video file, so I made an MP3 clip out of it.

[Zodiak]

15. well,

there seems to be emerging information on this board that the two girls picked for Bush's photo-op were, in fact, foreign nationals (exchnge students) that lived 17 miles from Biloxi and were there only to salvage clothes. In their town, only the electricity is down.

However, this information is sketchy, but proof is emerging. Looks like they slapped this one together so fast that they forgot to erase a paper trail from the internet.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

16. I saw that clip of him talking to them...

and the interview with them that followed. It was absolutely sickening, the feeling I got. They were somewhere else during the storm, I want to see him talk to some of the people at the dome.

[MADem]

20. They definitely did not have regional accents

They sounded like Aussies or New Zealanders. They were sisters. I heard them say they were there to get clothing to a talking head who interviewed them for their reaction to meeting the monkeyboy.

What, he couldn't meet with any LOCALS? Too afraid of any REAL interaction? Fucking wuss!

[LunaSea]

13. So was this one..

[MADem]

22. That is the "WTF were you doing on the AF1 flight, ya douche" photo

Pulling his pud, maybe? You take your briefing ENROUTE--you land and you have the bubble. Instead, he stands around, thanking and appreciating, and getting info he should have gotten while in the goddamn air enroute to the location. And all the while, trucks full of food and water and medicine are held up so he gets a jazzy "split screen" from the media.

He was trying so damn hard not to repeat Poppy's "split screen" error, which showed caskets arriving from Dover while he was laughing, smiling, and gladhanding, that he put his pathetic, cretinous IMAGE ahead of lives. Asshole!!!!

Push the theme mentioned here yesterday: WHAT CAME FIRST, THE CHICKEN OR THE AID??? Push it hard!!!!!

[CottonBear]

24. Look at Chertoff.s eyes: he has a evil, dead soul look. Chilling. n/t

[RedEarth]

39. Look at the flag in this picture..I think they screwed up on this photo op

lol

[Cha]

41. I didn't notice that before!

Was it photoshopped or is the Country really in TROUBLE?

[Cha]

40. What's bush saying?...

"This is how long my banana stalks are!"?

[bloom]

18. kick

:kick:

[slor]

19. He is a POS n/t

[myrmenki]

23. A link to the zdf article

I don't find any video at their site, because they only seem to work with MS IE. Which I don't have. Here's a link to all their Katrina videos: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/inhalt/16/0,4070,2369104-1,00.html

But here's a written summary of what their correspondents saw:

http://www.zdf.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/23/0,3672,2370967,00.html

But it doesn't talk about actual dismantling of distribution points. It says, under the headline "Räumarbeiten nur für Bush?" (Clearing up only for Bush?)

Wo der US-Präsident das Katastrophengebiet besuchte, räumten Hilfstrupps vorher ordentlich auf - aber nur dort. Aus Biloxi zitierte ZDF-Korrespondentin Claudia Rüggeberg verzweifelte Einwohner, Bush solle in seinen Limousinen statt lauter Bodyguards und Assistenten lieber Hilfsgüter herbeischaffen.

Entlang seiner Route hätte Räumtrupps vor Bushs Besuch Schutt weggeräumt und Leichen geborgen. Dann sei Bush wieder abgereist "und mit ihm", so Rüggeberg, "die ganzen Hilfstrupps". An der Lage in Biloxi habe sich sonst nichts verändert, es fehle an allem.

(My attempt of a translation:

Wherever Bush visited the area of disaster, relief troupes did a proper cleaning up - but only in that place. From Biloxi, ZDF correspondent Claudia Rüggeberg quoted despairing neighbours that Bush ought to bring along relief goods in his luxury cars instead of bodyguards and personal assistants.

Along his route, clearing troupes cleared away rubble and dead bodies. Then, Bush departed and, according to Rüggeberg "all relief troupes along with him". Apart from that, the situation in Biloxi didn't change, and everything is lacking.)

[reorg]

38. direct link to real player file of this report (in German)

http://real.mdcs.dtag.de:8080/viewsource/template.html?nuyhtgwEhAz6wEhAz6lxA6y6ye6mb8l9oC4falmm3f

just copy and open in Real Player, the interview with the ZDF correspondent you quoted begins at 4:30 minutes.

It is from yesterday's (September 2) ZDF prime time news report ("Heute-Journal"). Your translation, BTW, is perfect.

[distantearlywarning]

27. Can someone please find this video and send it to the MSM?

Send it to one of the reporters who actually gives a shit (i.e., not one of the ones with their fat ass behind a desk).

[SittingBull]

28. Second correspondent

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4588981&mesg_id=4588981


Staged interview confirmed...

also with a video, but only in german...

[wake.up.america]

29. It's a kick to watch CNN, then switch over to ARD or ZDF or BBC...

Don't you guys get news coverage from international news organizations? Radio and TV. Some people are, if you are not, switch over.

[distantearlywarning]

31. I don't want to watch foreign news.

I want my own media to report these things to my fellow citizens. Goddammit.

[MellowOne]

30. You know those gut feelings you get

When things don't ring true. That's how I felt when I watched Bush, it just look phoney.

[Mabus]

35. I know I feel like I've been kicked in the gut

repeatedly by this bunch of miscreants. I totally agree, everything this idiot prince does looks phoney.

[Mabus]

34. RoveCo watched "Wag the Dog" once too often

The difference is the pResident is making untoward advances on the American people and not just a particular "Firefly" (or whatever they were) girl. So, staging of anything would not surprise me. This whole pResidency has been staged from his "town hall meetings" to his ranch in Crawford. Why would this be any different?

[WiseButAngrySara]

36. Kicked and recommended, and I'll find the DU links from last night

about the Aaron Brown interview with these 'staged' sisters who weren't even from Biloxi, would have had to travel about 18 miles on non-passable roads, and looked as if they had just stepped out of the shower. No way were these two 'victims.' Just when you think its impossible to be more disgusted with this bfee, something else comes up. We have to impeach this bag of evil.

[Eloriel]

37. I read this and can't shake the image of Hitler that came to mind

I have no idea if Hitler ever did such a thing, but that's sure what flew into my head.

OTOH, that's what the Potemkin Village was all about that others mentioned, isn't it? Just for show for the outside world.