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Media connect dots on one side, ignore gaping holes on other side

This is beginning to be predictable from that bastion of “long since gone” credibility, the New York Times. They’re getting all hot and bothered over FEMA no-bid contracts, because presumably, it is better to take time and bureaucracy to bid out aid contracts? You think the bitching is loud now about how long the federal government took? What if they didn’t do fast-track bidding or no-bid contracts? The same MSM would be aghast at the delay. Damned if you do, yada-yada-yada. Anyway, from the Godfather:

There aren’t too many people that do this kind of work, there aren’t too many companies. Halliburton is one, Bechtel is one, and there’s another group that does this called the Shaw Group. Now, one of the people coming under fire for these no-bid contracts is a lobbyist by the name of Joe Allbaugh. Now, Joe is from southeast Missouri like I am. Joe was one of Bush’s campaign managers in 2000, was the first head of FEMA in the Bush administration. And as MSNBC reports, it’s the same thing the New York Times said, “At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President Bush’s former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast. One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root. Vice President Dick Cheney is a former head of Halliburton.”

Notice that the Slimes mentions the Bush connection (Allbaugh) to corporate clients who received no-bid contracts to clean up battered Gulf states; and they mention the obligatory “Halliburton, who Cheney used to work for” line. What they leave out about the Shaw Group, though, is damned telling.

Yeah, we all know that Cheney headed up Halliburton, but we don’t know anything about the Shaw Group. Well, now we do. “J. M. Bernhard, Jr., is the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of the Shaw Group, a Fortune 500 company offering a broad range of services to the power, process, environmental, infrastructure, and emergency response markets.

(snip…)

Now, you know where I’m reading this from? I said all you have to do is go to the website. I didn’t say the Shaw Group website, because I’m not reading from the Shaw Group website.

You know what I’m reading from? The Louisiana Democratic Party website. And you know what the headline is over the details I just read to you, “about our chairman.” Turns out that J. M. Bernhard, Jr., founder, chairman, chief executive officer of the Shaw Group is the chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party. Now, why couldn’t the New York Times tell you this? Why couldn’t NBC tell you this on their website? Why couldn’t Chris Matthews tell you this on Hardball last night? Why can’t Katie Couric tell you this? Why can’t anybody at CNN pass this on to you? Why doesn’t anybody at any of these networks or newspapers, the Washington Post, tell you who this Shaw Group is?

(snip…)

Well, they’re going to be pretty embarrassed when they find out that Joe Allbaugh, evil Republican crony of Bush and lobbyist, gave one of these no-bid contracts to the chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party.

Repeat after me: “Nope…no liberal media bias.”

September 27, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

The French were targets of Islamic terror attack?

Yes, the French foiled an Islamofascist terror attack today. Story:

Authorities fear that a suspected Islamic terror cell broken up in France was plotting attacks on the Paris subway, an airport and an intelligence agency’s headquarters, newspapers said Tuesday.

Police arrested nine people Monday in the sweep, including an Islamic militant previously convicted on terrorism charges and freed from prison two years ago, officials said.

So how’s that appeasement working for you, Chirac? I wonder if the Boston Globe still thinks we need to negotiate with al Qaeda, in light of the plan to attack a nation that was capitulating to Islamic terrorism and wasn’t trying to offend those poor little killer weird-beards. After all, haven’t the bloodthirsty camel jockies been telling us that if we just leave them alone, they’ll leave us alone?

Looks like they…gasp!…LIED! Who knew?

September 27, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

al Qaeda in Iraq’s #2 terrorist killed

Bad news for the Sheehanistas: one less “freedom fighter” to advance the cause of Islamic terrorism. Story:

U.S. and Iraqi authorities said Tuesday their forces had killed Abdullah Abu Azzam – the No. 2 official in the al-Qaida in Iraq organization – in a weekend raid in Baghdad, claiming to have struck a “painful blow” to the country’s most feared insurgent group.

Oh, well, until our “evil, imperialistic, murderous” troops kill or capture bin Laden or al Zarqawi, the Sheehanistas still have someone to cheer for. Plus, they can take comfort in knowing that Azzam is partying his turban off with his 72 new virgin wives, now that he’s taken his eternal celestial sand nap…courtesy of the red, white, and blue!

September 27, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Sheehan’s protest "backers"

Neal Boortz best describes She-man’s backers:

Sheehan’s protest was organized by International A.N.S.W.E.R. I’ve told you about this group before. One of the moving forces behind International A.N.S.W.E.R is a cuddly little group called the Worker’s World Party. That’s a communist organization, in case you didn’t know. The Worker’s World Party supports governments like those of Kim Jong Il in North Korea and Fidel Castro in Cuba. The Worker’s World Party and other like-minded organizations formed International A.N.S.W.E.R following the Islamic terrorist attacks of 9/11 in an attempt to forestall any U.S. military response to those attacks. In the leadership of International A.N.S.W.E.R you will find people who have been supporting communist causes and working for the weakening of America for many many years. The groups behind International A.N.S.W.E.R have also called for the abolition of private property. This is the group that Cindy Sheehan, for now, at least, has adopted as her own. She sure knows how to pick her friends.

By the way, for those of you who are so naive as to think that the protest is all about Iraq, how about these gems, signs from the “anti-war” rally? Thanks to Jason Smith at Generation Why?

“From New Orleans to Iraq: Stop the war on the poor.”

“Free the Cuban Five.”

“We need to make a strong connection between Katrina and the Antiwar Movement on September 24.”

“End Colonial Occupation: Iraq, Palestine, Haiti, Afghanistan and Everywhere”

“Support the Palestinian People’s Right of Return”

“Stop the Racist Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Labor Offensive”

“U.S. Out of the Philippines”

But hey…just because she fraternizes with a gaggle of 1960′s retreads trying to recapture their glory days much like the balding 50-year-old driving the Corvette convertible trying to score with chicks half his age, doesn’t mean that she is advocating all of that other loony excrement, does it?

Uh, yeah…it does. She’s demanded our “occupying troops” to get out of Afghanistan and…New Orleans. Yup. Let the looters and snipers run roughshod like the streets of the Wild West, just so long as none of those horrible troops (of which her son was one) are there!

Plus, she’s getting damned tired of the cameras not having been all in her grill for a while now. The blog best described (by me) as the bastard child of Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich, the Daily Kos, was graced by Mother Moonbat’s presence yesterday with this screed: “I am watching CNN and it is 100 percent Rita …. even though it is a little wind and a little rain … it is bad, but there are other things going on in the country today .. and in the world.” Day after day more and more liberals are discovering that this woman is the barking rabid moonbat we’ve been saying that she is.

But no…she’s just a griefstricken mother whose son was killed by Islamic terrorists George Bush. Nothing more, right? Right…and Ted Kennedy is sober and monogamous.

September 27, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment