posted on September 14, 2005 11:35:54 AM new
THE DEMOCRATS' KATRINA PROFITEER
By Michelle Malkin · September 11, 2005 02:19 PM
From the "Bias? What liberal bias?" files...
On Saturday, CNN.com had a piece [9/12 clarification carried by Reuters] titled "Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts:"
Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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.
The Baton Rouge-based Shaw Group, CNN tells us, is a major corporate client of Joe Allbaugh, President Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Among its Katrina-related contracts are this one valued up to $100 million from FEMA; and this one also valued up to $100 million from the Army Corps of Engineers.
But in their zeal to embarrass the Bush administration, CNN overlooks one very fat and inconvenient fact--and embarrasses only itself.
The Shaw Group, a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate, is headed by Jim Bernhard, the current chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party. Bernhard worked tirelessly for Democrat Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco's runoff campaign and served as co-chair of her transition team. Another Shaw executive was Blanco's campaign manager. Bernhard is back-scratching chums with Blanco, whom he has lent/offered the Shaw Group's corporate jets to on numerous occasions.
So, why was none of this mentioned in CNN's Bush-profiteers-are-evil narrative?
Send them a clue here.
Fortunately for CNN, they weren't the only ones guilty of this glaring omission:
UPI failed to note that the CEO of the Shaw Group also happens to be the Louisiana Democratic Party chairman and beleaguered La. Gov. Kathleen Blanco's most influential crony.
So did the London Observer.
And Reuters/MSNBC. And the CBC.
And the NYTimes (reprinted in the Minnesota Star Tribune, the Houston Chronicle, the Scotsman, and scores of media outlets around the world).
posted on September 15, 2005 03:09:42 PM new
cmsspu,
First:
Get off your azz and get a job. That would be the a major improvement in the right direction.
Second: Look around you and grab some of the opportunities that are available to all of us.
If these (2) Two things are too much for you. Cash your welfare check, get drunk and cry to someone else.
posted on September 15, 2005 04:22:23 PM new
cmsspu
You have to understand conservatives like Bear and the O SO HOLY Colin are under a lot of pressure.
These CON-servatives and others like them were given their chance to run the government and have failed. That is why they are so nasty when people like you challenge them.
If you really want to set them off ask them about the record trade inbalance with China or ask them how much money the CON-servatives have put America in DEBT.
Another issue the CON-servatives right to lifers don't like to hear, is when you ask them how many people their CON-servatives law makers have killed because people do not have affordable health insurance.
Somewhere in Texas a small village is missing its VILLAGE IDIOT.
posted on September 15, 2005 05:29:16 PM new
I ruptured a disc in my neck 3 months ago. I'd just left a job I'd only worked at for a couple months.
I thought the health insurance would cover me but they screw me. Still fighting about that.
With the new job I had to wait 3 months for health insurance... Now I have it.
In th mean time I ran up a couple, three grand in expenses.
Guess what.. I have to pay it out of pocket.
No welfare for the Reverend.
Quite bitching you lazy, pinko, welfare sucking, cry babies. Get a job.
