Looks like Washington found its scapegoat

"Disaster chief's biography overstated record"
Time magazine

I worked in public relations for five or six years, so I find it fascinating to watch the Bush regime at work. Bush was playing when all his advice was that a city was going to be destroyed.

(Shee-yit, I live in a one-horse, one general store outpost called Sandy Beach somewhere on the east coast of Australia, and while Shrub was playing gee-tar, even I was hearing on the radio about the tragedy. How does this clown get so much time to play gee-tar and golf? I wish I had a few leisure hours a week, and five-week holidays.)

My job -- any PR officer's job -- was to get reporters in the door, or to keep them away from the door.

Crisis management Rule 39: When caught out, you must run and hide. If caught hiding, scapegoat someone. Even if it means sacrificing one of your own.

Note, too, that the Iraq-bash clique in the Administration are now working under cover of media darkness, and no doubt upping their ante in Iraq ... for them, as for John Roberts, Katrina was a balmy zephyr from the Lord. All politicians and public officials pray for something to blow up in the media when they're having a bad media day themselves, or when they need a cover for what they're doing in the back rooms -- a good disaster keeps reporters away from the door.

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