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Underserved Shelter
Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott’s house — he’s lost his entire house — there’s going to be a fantastic house. And I’m looking forward to sitting on the porch. (Laughter.)
President Arrives in Alabama, Briefed on Hurricane Katrina, Sep. 2, 2005
The White House yesterday confirmed, that even four weeks after Katrina hit the gulf coast there are still underserved shelter where people are in dire need of everything from mattresses to pants and unskilled labor is in short supply.
Because FEMA can not solve the problem and the Bush administration is unable to deliver the needed supply, the press staff of First Lady Laura Bush stepped in. It is sending her to help deliver Sears sponsored items to those in need. TV cameras, and the associated advertising dollars, will be rolling.
Laura Bush will travel to storm-damaged Biloxi, Miss., to film a spot on the feel-good, wish-granting hit "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." Mrs. Bush sought to be on the program because she shares the "same principles" that the producers hold, her press secretary said.
In its standard format, the popular ABC series finds hard-pressed but deserving families, sends them away for short vacations and then, in a whirlwind of carpentry and appliance-shopping, gives them new homes. This time, though, the show will broadcast from an underserved shelter near Biloxi, where a convoy of trucks stocked with everything from mattresses to pants will arrive, courtesy of Sears, one of the show’s sponsors.
Laura Bush to appear on "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition", Sep. 27, 2005 [emph. added]
When Dan Froomkin had a bit on this yesterday, I though he was joking.
Bush’s remark cited above was already over the borderline and certainly not received well by the press.
Now why would the Bush PR machine come up with something like this?
They never had decency but now the seem to have even lost the last touch to reality.
President-select George Bush, just before he goes into the
intial presidential debate in 2008, speaking at Shea Stadium
to a select crowd of Young Republicans, against a backdrop
of the Statue of Liberty (9/11) draped in red, white & blue
bunting, and flanked on each side by rugged firemen and police, dressed in their field gear, among camo’d elite Army Rangers:
[… as he gazes out over the adoring crowd, kept all the
more adoring by total media blackout of Iraq, NYC and NO…]
[ANNOUNCER: The President … of the United … States,
George … Dubyah … Bush!] [APPLAUSE SIGN FLASHES 11.3cps STROBE]
“Thank you! Today … [today, today], I am the luckiest …
[luckiest, luckiest], man in the world … [world, world].”
[Super PIP, shows Crown Prince Faisal wildly clapping]
“And for that … [that, that], I have to thank …
{thank, thank], my devoted Secretary … [Secretary, Secretary],
Condi Rice! [leans away from mic] Condi, come up on stage!
[Super PIP, shows Former SoS Colin Powell openly weeping]
[CiC wraps arms around SoS as flash bulbs glow a 1,000 suns]
“I am announcing my new Vice President here today, Condi Rice!”
[APPLAUSE SIGN FLASHES UNTIL SMOKE STARTS COMING OUT OF IT]
Crowd goes wild with applause, cheers and Hoo- Hoo- Hoo- ‘s.
[Camera #2 accidentally frames Dick Cheney in his FDR wheelchair,
gone apoplectic, his fist shaking like Dr. Strangelove in rage]
[President’s wife Laura joins George and Condi on stage, as
the White House band tootles up into the Stars and Stripes]
Bum, bum, bummm, bummm, bummmm, *BUUMMMM* . . . . . . . .
[President’s lapel microphone accidently left on catches him
singing, “We are the world, we are the children” until Condi
catches him a stiff elbow in the floating rib. Laura smiles]
[Video PIP’s into super over Brit Hume’s talking head]
“There you have it folks, the next President of the United States.”
Posted by: Lash Marks | Sep 27 2005 19:44 utc | 7
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