Admittedly, I wasn’t expecting “fair and balanced” journalism, especially in an editorial, but this makes it sound like the cold war was still raging by the tone.
George W. Bush abandons Americans – President George W. Bush pays back the good Christian Americans who elected him despite his illegal act of slaughter in Iraq by sitting in his Texas ranch for two days after the most horrific suffering was visited on the area around New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
George W. Bush will go down in the annals of history as the worst president this country has ever had and the worst leader the international community is unfortunate enough to have been forced to rub shoulders with.
The unfortunate thing is, as over the top as this column is, Bush himself simply does and says things that lead Americans – especially many survivors in Louisiana right now – to feel the same way.
It’s probably worth noting that Pravda hasn’t been a State-owned newspaper for 14 years. it’s passed to Greek investors, back-and-forth to different groups of Russians — and the website is a separate entity [physically and politically] from the company producing the print version.
If anything, Pravda Online is the voice of Russian nationalism, nowadays.
The sad thing is that the article is completely accurate.
I believe that the way President Bush II is handling the situation is unacceptable and insane!!! He needs to go and spend a couple nights in the dome! More over New Orleans’s own mayor and I are on the same page as far as us thinking what Pres. Bush is doing is very wrong! Greta and Aaron Brown can talk all they want but Haroldo Rivera is the only one brave enough to actually STAY in the dome and for that I solute him! That’s all for now
You may be surprised, but what Pravda says, most incredibly, is exactly the opinion of the rest of the World about George Bush! I am no communist, in fact I have an American flag in the wall by my side! And I have to say that president of yours is the worst thing that happened to you!
Amen.
I meant about the story not whatever comment appears above mine.
Let Them Eat Spam!
I wonder what Provda would have to say about our Secretary Of State who cut her shoe shopping, Monty Python going, vacation short.
http://www.gawker.com/news/condoleezza-rice/index.php#breaking-condi-rice-spends-salary-on-shoes-123467
I’m sure Bush would offer them all a new free tent home in Iraq to supplement our existing troops.
I see nothing to disagree with in this article.
A reminder
“If anybody still thinks Pravda is a newspaper of record, it’s your last chance to adjust to reality. Privately owned since the early 1990s, Pravda belongs to a class of Russian newspapers that mix second-rate reporting with second-rate tabloidism, and even in that category, they are second-rate, which their limited circulation reflects. The fact they run a web site in funny English does not change that but serves to perpetuate the impression that Pravda is actually something important.
Businessmen and people with good jobs in the capitals read Vedomosti and Kommersant. My mother in law reads Izvestia. Truly common people read KP and MK, leaders in the half-tabloid class. I haven’t met anybody who reads Pravda yet.”
http://therussiandilettante.blogspot.com/2005/02/reminder-if-anybody-still-thinks.html
This is going to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back – the camel of course being the American public. These incompetent, greedy good ‘ol boys have been revealed to be just that – petty, uncompassionate, and only concerned with their own comfort.
I watched sound bites of Bush last night and he sounded completely clueless to what these poor people are enduring. He just recycles the same pablum he’s been shoving down the public’s throat for years. The problem (for him) is that no one seems to be buying it this time. There’s no “bad guys” for him to blame this time – only his own incompetent administration and reckless fiscal, social, and environmental policies.
I haven’t been this ashamed on my president since Nixon.
Worst president THIS country has ever had? Is the author reporting from the US , or is he saying that Bush is the worst presidfent Russia has ever had?
I just took a look at Watching America
http://www.watchingamerica.com/
and pravda is not the only critic of Dubya out there.
Like the Netherlands editorial:
“These are scenes that we expect from third world countries, but not from the last remaining superpower, America.”
Everyone seems to be complaining about the Federal leadership in helping people in this disaster but no one seems to be talking about how New Orleans got into this mess in the first place. Where is the New Orleans leadership?! On 9/11, it was the New York leadership that took the reins and helped people first; not the Federal government. It was the New York Police and Fire departments that worked day and night to help get people out of the rubble. Instead, in New Orleans, they lost a substantial percentage of their civil servants who left before the storm and many more walked off after the real trouble hit. What we see now is the fruit of neglect for decades in New Orleans.
Is it somehow the Bush administration’s fault that 28% of the people living in New Orleans are below the poverty line and thus did not have the means to exit the city? Is it the Bush administration’s fault that 47% of the schools in New Orleans are ranked “academically unacceptable”? Is it the Bush administration’s fault that during the 1990’s over 50 police officers were convicted of crimes including murder, rape and robber and that two were/are on Death Row? Is it the Bush administration’s fault that the murder rate in New Orleans is 10 times the national average. This has been going on for decades.
Had New Orleans worked on eliminating corruption in their own local politics, using city and State resources to improve the levees and found ways to help people help themselves to improve their lot in life, much of effects of this hurricane might have been averted. Instead, they went beyond looking for handouts and went right to depending on them.
There is no question that we should do everything we can to help the people that suffering in that region. We need to get clean water, food, shelter and medical care to those that need it. However, afterwards, a serious discussion must be broached as to whether we expend millions (billions?) of dollars to allow New Orleans to repeat the same mistake.