Europe knows the photo-ops were staged

[donsu]

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/002485.html

If he could go to Baghdad, why didn't Bush go to the New Orleans Superdome or the Convention Center? It was bizarre for all of the country and much of the world to be watching those scenes for days on our TVs and news reports, and for Bush's photo ops to be in areas that were far less critical. I know there are security considerations but his visit seemed extraordinarily hollow even by this administration's standard of ultra-stage managed events.

Dutch viewer Frank Tiggelaar writes:

There was a striking dicrepancy between the CNN International report on the Bush visit to the New Orleans disaster zone, yesterday, and reports of the same event by German TV.

ZDF News reported that the president's visit was a completely staged event. Their crew witnessed how the open air food distribution point Bush visited in front of the cameras was torn down immediately after the president and the herd of 'news people' had left and that others which were allegedly being set up were abandoned at the same time.

The people in the area were once again left to fend for themselves, said ZDF.
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[illflem]

1. U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu said

“But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment."
http://www.fromtheroots.org/story/2005/9/3/19542/97952

[SledDriver]

2. Was *'s Thanksgiving surprise visit to Baghdad also staged?

All of this fake photo-op stuff and I'm now wondering if that too was staged. Maybe they just setup a tent in Crawford with some actors wearing uniforms??? :shrug:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Plastic turkeys and staged tear-down of Saddam's statue

where individuals were bussed in for the event and camera angles were set to give a false impression of the number of people present. And then there was the phonied-up capture of Saddam and the Jessica Lynch travesty. And then there were Bush's 2004 campaign ads where actors were hired to pose as firefighters.

The fakery of the photo-op Presidency marches on.