Fool Me Twice: Anti-Bush Bias From New Orleans to Baghdad

You're not getting the truth.

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
-- Old adage

"Well, there you go again."
-- Ronald Reagan

by Rod D. Martin
November 18, 2005

There they go indeed. And shame on anyone for believing them anymore.

I mean, of course, the elite liberal media, who will stop at nothing to topple the Bush presidency. Not even if it means manipulating the news about war and natural disasters.

Remember all those New Orleans horror stories, the ones that could've given Attila the Hun goosebumps?

An Editor & Publisher headline that screamed, "Mortuary Director Tells Local Paper 40,000 Could Be Lost in Hurricane"?

CNN reporting shots being fired at rescue helicopters?

CNN's Paul Zahn decrying "bands of rapists, going block to block?"

Oprah Winfrey telling her wide-eyed audience that "gangs banded together and had more ammunition, at times, than the police?"

Eager-beaver media scribes dutifully reporting Randall Robinson's lunatic claims of people "eating corpses to survive?"

It turns out they were all…