Physician tells Cheney to *uck off, and Fox News lies again
One mild warning: the second half of this post contains an uncensored post from the DailyKos which contains profanity. Then again, I doubt if any language can be as profane as the pefromance of the sorry excuse of a president that the United States is stuck with.
First, about the lies on Fox News:
First, the fact that Fox News regularly tells blatant lies is nothing new. Remember their "whoa, we found weapons of mass destruction.....well...maybe not this time...But we will reporting from Iraq? I can recommend either reading the book or seeing the DVD Outfoxed by Robert Greenwald and Alexandra Kitty. They show that Fox News is part GOP propaganda spin machine, part entertainment for woefully ignorant, brain-dead right wing morons.
So imagine my horror when someone that I have respect for (yes, I still do) sent me some of their nonsense; this time they were saying that it was the Louisiana governor who kept the Red Cross units from reaching New Orleans.
I was furious. No, I don't think that Governor Blanco was blameless; far from it. The state really botched communications with the federal government. In my anger, I fired off a couple of Media Matters links back; unfortunately these links weren't directly related to what he sent me. But here is the correct link, along with part of the story:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200509090002
Fox touts misleading Red Cross account to blame Blanco
Fox News and other conservative media, including nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh and popular weblogs, have loudly and repeatedly touted statements made this week by American Red Cross president and CEO Marsha J. "Marty" Evans that Louisiana state homeland security officials blocked Red Cross efforts to enter New Orleans to deliver food, water, and other critical provisions to victims of Hurricane Katrina because the state officials did not want to provide an incentive for people to stay in the city. But a review of public statements by Red Cross officials -- who originally agreed that requests or directives by state and local officials that Red Cross relief workers stay out of the city were made because the city was not safe -- shows they have subtly shifted their rhetoric regarding who was responsible for barring the Red Cross, whether it was an outright bar or a request, and what the reason was for the authorities' not wanting Red Cross relief workers to go into the city, undermining the Fox News report.
This shift neatly complements Bush administration efforts to re-direct blame for failures in the relief effort on state and local officials, particularly on Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco. Also notably absent from Fox News' reports was any mention of the fact that both the Red Cross' charter and the federal Department of Homeland Security's December 2004 National Response Plan clearly indicate that ultimate decision-making authority rested (or should have rested) with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), not with any state agency.
Last week, the Red Cross, which by law works under FEMA during national states of emergency, agreed that officials on the ground in New Orleans were taking the correct course of action in requesting or demanding that relief workers not enter the city before and after the storm. In a September 2 interview, Evans explained to CNN host Larry King that the Red Cross was not in New Orleans because "it was not safe to be in the city, and it's not been safe to go back into the city ... We were asked -- directed -- by the National Guard and the city and the state emergency management not to go into New Orleans because it was not safe."
Moreover, the frequently-asked-questions (FAQ) section on the Red Cross website includes an item, apparently posted on September 2, suggesting that military, state and local authorities were coordinating security and the relief effort. The FAQ noted that "Access to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities"; "The state Homeland Security Department had requested -- and continues to request -- that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans following the hurricane"; and "We will continue to work under the direction of the military, state and local authorities."
But in a September 6 appearance on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor -- by which time the administration's documented efforts to place blame for the relief fiasco entirely on Blanco were well underway -- Evans changed her tune. Although she had acknowledged in her Larry King interview that state and city officials had asked relief workers not to enter the city due to safety concerns, she told Fox News host Bill O'Reilly that Red Cross workers had been poised to go in but were blocked -- and specifically by the state homeland security authorities -- "because they [state authorities] were trying to evacuate the city." Gone on September 6 were references, such as in the FAQ, to "requests" that the Red Cross stay out -- Evans was now saying categorically that the organization was "not allowed to go in." Gone was her noting that "it was not safe to be in the city, and it's not been safe to go back into the city." By the O'Reilly interview, Evans had shifted her rhetoric to suggest that the authorities were motivated only by "trying to evacuate the city." In an interview that aired on the September 8 edition of Fox News' Special Report, she said, "We understood that the thinking was that, if we were to come in, that, one, it would impede the evacuation." Only after prompting from O'Reilly did Evans agree that "a lot of it has to do with your security of your people." Finally, while the FAQ had mentioned both the state department of homeland security, and, more generally, "the military, state and local authorities" -- in her September 6 interview, Evans was more specific in naming "state homeland security authorities" as the culprits who barred the Red Cross from entering the city.
While Media Matters for America has found no evidence that Evans or the Red Cross was working with the White House to project a uniform message, Evans's rhetorical shift is consistent with the Bush administration's efforts to to blame and impute the motives of Blanco and other state and local officials. As Fox News general assignment reporter Major Garrett noted, because of the close relationship between FEMA and the Red Cross, the Red Cross has a direct interest in how FEMA looks to the media and the public: "When FEMA is tarred and feathered, the Red Cross and the Salvation Army are tarred and feathered."
The Red Cross has political ties to the Bush administration as well. Evans donated $500 to the Republican National Committee in September 2004, while Red Cross chairman Bonnie McElveen-Hunter has donated more than $100,000 to Republican candidates and political committees since 1999. Media Matters found no record of any donations to Democrats by either Evans or McElveen-Hunter. President Bush, in fact, appointed McElveen-Hunter ambassador to Finland in 2001, a position she held until 2003.
Red Cross president Evans shifted emphasis from safety to evacuation incentives
In her September 6 interview on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Evans emphasized that the Red Cross was "ready" to enter New Orleans immediately after the storm, but was "not allowed" by "state homeland security authorities." This account stands in contrast to statements the prior week by Evans and other Red Cross officials.
Evans explained to CNN host Larry King during her September 2 interview that the Red Cross was not entering New Orleans due to concerns about personnel safety, as well as a desire not to provide survivors an incentive to stay in the dangerous conditions of the city:
KING: Joining us now in Washington is Marty Evans, the president and CEO of the American Red Cross. She traveled with the president today. The Red Cross is not in New Orleans. Why?
EVANS: Well, Larry, when the storm came, our goal was prior to landfall to support the evacuation. It was unsafe to be in the city. We were asked by the city not to be there, and the Superdome was made a shelter of last resorts and, quite frankly in retrospect, it was a good idea because otherwise those people would have had no shelter at all.
We have our shelters north of the city. We're prepared as soon as they can be evacuated, we're prepared to receive them in Texas, in other states, but it was not safe to be in the city, and it's not been safe to go back into the city. They were also concerned that if we located, relocated back into the city, people wouldn't leave, and they've got to leave.
[...]
EVANS: Well, Larry, we were asked, directed by the National Guard and the city and the state emergency management not to go into New Orleans because it was not safe. We are not a search and rescue organization. We provide shelter and basic support, and so we were depending, we are depending on the state and the agencies to get people to our shelters in safe places."
Next, we turn to a story which tells about the person whose voice was caught on camera telling Vice President Dick Cheney to *uck himself. (yes, the fat, insipid, loathsome reptile who said something similar to Senator Leahy). This person has something in common with "Dr. Andy": he is a medical doctor.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/9/153413/7797
Physician who told off Cheney lost home in Katrina, detained, selling video on eBay by jacksonthor [Subscribe] Fri Sep 9th, 2005 at 12:34:13 PDTBy Jackson Thoreau
This originally ran on OpEdNews.com here.
Dr. Ben Marble, a young emergency room physician who plays in alternative rock bands and does art on the side, needs our help. Since he was the one who told Dick Cheney to "go fuck yourself" on Thursday, that's the least we can do.
Marble is a complex guy, to say the least. Some of the lyrics he writes can be considered harsh by some - personally what I've heard is very much on target - but he has a softer side as an organizer of breast cancer fund-raisers, not to mention an ER doctor.
When he, like thousands of others, lost his home due to Hurricane Katrina last week, it was the single most traumatic week of his life. That led to his confrontation with the man who best represents the worst of the most callous, heartless, shittiest administration in U.S. history on Thursday.
jacksonthor's diary :: :: As Marble explains, he was driving to his destroyed house Thursday in Gulfport, Ms., when military police refused to allow him to cross a barricade that was about 200 feet from his home. They forced him to drive an extra 20 minutes and spend even more on gasoline.
"Thanks to Dubya Gump and Mr. Cheney, gas is really expensive and extremely hard to get anywhere Katrina has destroyed," Marble wrote. "So needless to say, I was extremely aggravated that they wouldn't let me pass."
Suddenly a long line of dark cars pulled up, and they honked at Marble to back up to let them through the barricade that supposedly no one could drive through. That only made Marble madder so he did what most of us would do - or at least consider doing.
"I waved a middle finger at the caravan," Marble wrote.
After driving the extra 20 minutes and filming video of destruction along the way, he made it to his home. Marble overheard a neighbor say that Cheney was down the street talking to people. That's when he got the idea to go meet Dr. Evil himself.
"I am no fan of Mr. Cheney because of several reasons," Marble wrote. "For those who don't know, Mr. Cheney is infamous for telling Senator [Pat] Leahy 'go fu** yourself' on the Senate floor. Also, I am not happy about the fact that thousands have died due to the slow action of FEMA, not to even mention the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time, i.e. Iraq."
So Marble, who was wearing an old Mr. T "I Pity Da Fool" t-shirt since he was sifting through the wreckage, asked a couple of police officers if he and a friend could walk down to Cheney. They told him Cheney was "looking forward" to talking to "the locals."
"So we grabbed my Canon digital rebel and my Sony videocamera and started walking down the street," Marble wrote. "And then right in front of the destroyed tennis court I used to play on Dick Cheney was giving a pep rally, talking to the press. The secret service guys patted us down and waved the wands over us, and then let us pass."
As he stood about 10 feet away from Cheney and his friend and some camera operators from CNN and other media filmed the scene, Marble suddenly yelled, "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney! Go fuck yourself, you asshole!"
Hey, at least Marble was polite. After all, he referred to Cheney as "Mr. Cheney."
"I had no intention of harming anyone but merely wanted to echo Mr. Cheney's infamous words back at him," Marble wrote. "At that moment, I noticed the Secret Service guys with a panic-stricken look on their faces, like they were about to tackle me, so I calmly walked away back to my former house."
His friend videotaped a little bit longer and then came back to Marble's house. As they were salvaging a few things from Marble's home, two military police waving M-16's showed up and said they were looking for someone who fit Marble's description who had cursed at Cheney.
"I told them I was probably the person they were looking for, and so they put me in handcuffs and 'detained' me for about 20 minutes or so," Marble wrote. "My right thumb went numb because the cuffs were on so tight, but they were fairly courteous and eventually released me after getting all my contact info. They said I had NOT broken any laws so I was free to go."
So let's get this straight: A physician with a newborn baby loses most everything he owns in the hurricane, does what most of us WANT to do and "echoes" Cheney's words he spoke on the god-damned Senate floor last year, walks away harmlessly, mission accomplished, and then once the media cameras leave, he is treated like a foreign terrorist as Cheney's goons waving M-16s handcuff him in front of his destroyed home? Had it not been for the media cameras filming the initial scene, I doubt Cheney's goons would have just let Marble go after 20 minutes.
America, land of the free?
Marble and his family have been in the media spotlight before, including his wife, Lisa, and baby, Sofia Grace, who was born shortly after the storm, on CNN. Marble has also been interviewed in art magazines and the Biloxi Sun Herald about his concert fund-raisers and musical success -- one of his bands, dR. O, has had at least 20 No. 1 songs on the MP3.com charts.
"The truth is even with all our losses, we are still luckier than many people down here because at least we didn't die," Marble wrote. "But I thought I could try to raise some awareness to the bad policies of the Dubya Gump administration and also possibly raise some money to replace the many things we lost, and so I decided I would auction the videotape my friend shot of the event. I will also grant an interviewto the winner if so desired."
So go to eBay here and place a bid for this important video to help Marble raise some needed funds. I have done so and was at least at one time the high bidder.
Marble also has an Internet site with photographs of some damage in his town at http://www.hurricanekatrinasucked.com/. A photo of him is at http://www.theharbinger.org/xix/000919/smith.html and you can also email Marble at clone9@yahoo.com.
Dr. Ben Marble, you rock. May we all return the favor.
UPDATE: Late Friday, Sept. 8, eBay, which is owned by strong Bush-Cheney supporters, took down Marble's site. In an email to me, the company said it was taken down due to violating one of the rules. The email did not say which rule, and I suspect it was related to profanity, even though Marble bleeped it out.
I have contacted Marble again and hope to hear back on his plans. I suspect he will put it up again without the profanity at all or put it on another site. I suspect we haven't heard the last of this story.
Jackson Thoreau is a Washington, D.C.-area journalist/writer. The latest book to which he contributed, Big Bush Lies, was published by RiverWood Books of Ashland, Ore. He is working on another book called "Thou Shalt Not Cheat: How Bush and Rove Broke the Rules, From the Sandlot to the White House." He can be contacted at jacksonthor@gmail.com.
First, about the lies on Fox News:
First, the fact that Fox News regularly tells blatant lies is nothing new. Remember their "whoa, we found weapons of mass destruction.....well...maybe not this time...But we will reporting from Iraq? I can recommend either reading the book or seeing the DVD Outfoxed by Robert Greenwald and Alexandra Kitty. They show that Fox News is part GOP propaganda spin machine, part entertainment for woefully ignorant, brain-dead right wing morons.
So imagine my horror when someone that I have respect for (yes, I still do) sent me some of their nonsense; this time they were saying that it was the Louisiana governor who kept the Red Cross units from reaching New Orleans.
I was furious. No, I don't think that Governor Blanco was blameless; far from it. The state really botched communications with the federal government. In my anger, I fired off a couple of Media Matters links back; unfortunately these links weren't directly related to what he sent me. But here is the correct link, along with part of the story:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200509090002
Fox touts misleading Red Cross account to blame Blanco
Fox News and other conservative media, including nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh and popular weblogs, have loudly and repeatedly touted statements made this week by American Red Cross president and CEO Marsha J. "Marty" Evans that Louisiana state homeland security officials blocked Red Cross efforts to enter New Orleans to deliver food, water, and other critical provisions to victims of Hurricane Katrina because the state officials did not want to provide an incentive for people to stay in the city. But a review of public statements by Red Cross officials -- who originally agreed that requests or directives by state and local officials that Red Cross relief workers stay out of the city were made because the city was not safe -- shows they have subtly shifted their rhetoric regarding who was responsible for barring the Red Cross, whether it was an outright bar or a request, and what the reason was for the authorities' not wanting Red Cross relief workers to go into the city, undermining the Fox News report.
This shift neatly complements Bush administration efforts to re-direct blame for failures in the relief effort on state and local officials, particularly on Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco. Also notably absent from Fox News' reports was any mention of the fact that both the Red Cross' charter and the federal Department of Homeland Security's December 2004 National Response Plan clearly indicate that ultimate decision-making authority rested (or should have rested) with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), not with any state agency.
Last week, the Red Cross, which by law works under FEMA during national states of emergency, agreed that officials on the ground in New Orleans were taking the correct course of action in requesting or demanding that relief workers not enter the city before and after the storm. In a September 2 interview, Evans explained to CNN host Larry King that the Red Cross was not in New Orleans because "it was not safe to be in the city, and it's not been safe to go back into the city ... We were asked -- directed -- by the National Guard and the city and the state emergency management not to go into New Orleans because it was not safe."
Moreover, the frequently-asked-questions (FAQ) section on the Red Cross website includes an item, apparently posted on September 2, suggesting that military, state and local authorities were coordinating security and the relief effort. The FAQ noted that "Access to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities"; "The state Homeland Security Department had requested -- and continues to request -- that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans following the hurricane"; and "We will continue to work under the direction of the military, state and local authorities."
But in a September 6 appearance on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor -- by which time the administration's documented efforts to place blame for the relief fiasco entirely on Blanco were well underway -- Evans changed her tune. Although she had acknowledged in her Larry King interview that state and city officials had asked relief workers not to enter the city due to safety concerns, she told Fox News host Bill O'Reilly that Red Cross workers had been poised to go in but were blocked -- and specifically by the state homeland security authorities -- "because they [state authorities] were trying to evacuate the city." Gone on September 6 were references, such as in the FAQ, to "requests" that the Red Cross stay out -- Evans was now saying categorically that the organization was "not allowed to go in." Gone was her noting that "it was not safe to be in the city, and it's not been safe to go back into the city." By the O'Reilly interview, Evans had shifted her rhetoric to suggest that the authorities were motivated only by "trying to evacuate the city." In an interview that aired on the September 8 edition of Fox News' Special Report, she said, "We understood that the thinking was that, if we were to come in, that, one, it would impede the evacuation." Only after prompting from O'Reilly did Evans agree that "a lot of it has to do with your security of your people." Finally, while the FAQ had mentioned both the state department of homeland security, and, more generally, "the military, state and local authorities" -- in her September 6 interview, Evans was more specific in naming "state homeland security authorities" as the culprits who barred the Red Cross from entering the city.
While Media Matters for America has found no evidence that Evans or the Red Cross was working with the White House to project a uniform message, Evans's rhetorical shift is consistent with the Bush administration's efforts to to blame and impute the motives of Blanco and other state and local officials. As Fox News general assignment reporter Major Garrett noted, because of the close relationship between FEMA and the Red Cross, the Red Cross has a direct interest in how FEMA looks to the media and the public: "When FEMA is tarred and feathered, the Red Cross and the Salvation Army are tarred and feathered."
The Red Cross has political ties to the Bush administration as well. Evans donated $500 to the Republican National Committee in September 2004, while Red Cross chairman Bonnie McElveen-Hunter has donated more than $100,000 to Republican candidates and political committees since 1999. Media Matters found no record of any donations to Democrats by either Evans or McElveen-Hunter. President Bush, in fact, appointed McElveen-Hunter ambassador to Finland in 2001, a position she held until 2003.
Red Cross president Evans shifted emphasis from safety to evacuation incentives
In her September 6 interview on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, Evans emphasized that the Red Cross was "ready" to enter New Orleans immediately after the storm, but was "not allowed" by "state homeland security authorities." This account stands in contrast to statements the prior week by Evans and other Red Cross officials.
Evans explained to CNN host Larry King during her September 2 interview that the Red Cross was not entering New Orleans due to concerns about personnel safety, as well as a desire not to provide survivors an incentive to stay in the dangerous conditions of the city:
KING: Joining us now in Washington is Marty Evans, the president and CEO of the American Red Cross. She traveled with the president today. The Red Cross is not in New Orleans. Why?
EVANS: Well, Larry, when the storm came, our goal was prior to landfall to support the evacuation. It was unsafe to be in the city. We were asked by the city not to be there, and the Superdome was made a shelter of last resorts and, quite frankly in retrospect, it was a good idea because otherwise those people would have had no shelter at all.
We have our shelters north of the city. We're prepared as soon as they can be evacuated, we're prepared to receive them in Texas, in other states, but it was not safe to be in the city, and it's not been safe to go back into the city. They were also concerned that if we located, relocated back into the city, people wouldn't leave, and they've got to leave.
[...]
EVANS: Well, Larry, we were asked, directed by the National Guard and the city and the state emergency management not to go into New Orleans because it was not safe. We are not a search and rescue organization. We provide shelter and basic support, and so we were depending, we are depending on the state and the agencies to get people to our shelters in safe places."
Next, we turn to a story which tells about the person whose voice was caught on camera telling Vice President Dick Cheney to *uck himself. (yes, the fat, insipid, loathsome reptile who said something similar to Senator Leahy). This person has something in common with "Dr. Andy": he is a medical doctor.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/9/153413/7797
Physician who told off Cheney lost home in Katrina, detained, selling video on eBay by jacksonthor [Subscribe] Fri Sep 9th, 2005 at 12:34:13 PDTBy Jackson Thoreau
This originally ran on OpEdNews.com here.
Dr. Ben Marble, a young emergency room physician who plays in alternative rock bands and does art on the side, needs our help. Since he was the one who told Dick Cheney to "go fuck yourself" on Thursday, that's the least we can do.
Marble is a complex guy, to say the least. Some of the lyrics he writes can be considered harsh by some - personally what I've heard is very much on target - but he has a softer side as an organizer of breast cancer fund-raisers, not to mention an ER doctor.
When he, like thousands of others, lost his home due to Hurricane Katrina last week, it was the single most traumatic week of his life. That led to his confrontation with the man who best represents the worst of the most callous, heartless, shittiest administration in U.S. history on Thursday.
jacksonthor's diary :: :: As Marble explains, he was driving to his destroyed house Thursday in Gulfport, Ms., when military police refused to allow him to cross a barricade that was about 200 feet from his home. They forced him to drive an extra 20 minutes and spend even more on gasoline.
"Thanks to Dubya Gump and Mr. Cheney, gas is really expensive and extremely hard to get anywhere Katrina has destroyed," Marble wrote. "So needless to say, I was extremely aggravated that they wouldn't let me pass."
Suddenly a long line of dark cars pulled up, and they honked at Marble to back up to let them through the barricade that supposedly no one could drive through. That only made Marble madder so he did what most of us would do - or at least consider doing.
"I waved a middle finger at the caravan," Marble wrote.
After driving the extra 20 minutes and filming video of destruction along the way, he made it to his home. Marble overheard a neighbor say that Cheney was down the street talking to people. That's when he got the idea to go meet Dr. Evil himself.
"I am no fan of Mr. Cheney because of several reasons," Marble wrote. "For those who don't know, Mr. Cheney is infamous for telling Senator [Pat] Leahy 'go fu** yourself' on the Senate floor. Also, I am not happy about the fact that thousands have died due to the slow action of FEMA, not to even mention the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time, i.e. Iraq."
So Marble, who was wearing an old Mr. T "I Pity Da Fool" t-shirt since he was sifting through the wreckage, asked a couple of police officers if he and a friend could walk down to Cheney. They told him Cheney was "looking forward" to talking to "the locals."
"So we grabbed my Canon digital rebel and my Sony videocamera and started walking down the street," Marble wrote. "And then right in front of the destroyed tennis court I used to play on Dick Cheney was giving a pep rally, talking to the press. The secret service guys patted us down and waved the wands over us, and then let us pass."
As he stood about 10 feet away from Cheney and his friend and some camera operators from CNN and other media filmed the scene, Marble suddenly yelled, "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney! Go fuck yourself, you asshole!"
Hey, at least Marble was polite. After all, he referred to Cheney as "Mr. Cheney."
"I had no intention of harming anyone but merely wanted to echo Mr. Cheney's infamous words back at him," Marble wrote. "At that moment, I noticed the Secret Service guys with a panic-stricken look on their faces, like they were about to tackle me, so I calmly walked away back to my former house."
His friend videotaped a little bit longer and then came back to Marble's house. As they were salvaging a few things from Marble's home, two military police waving M-16's showed up and said they were looking for someone who fit Marble's description who had cursed at Cheney.
"I told them I was probably the person they were looking for, and so they put me in handcuffs and 'detained' me for about 20 minutes or so," Marble wrote. "My right thumb went numb because the cuffs were on so tight, but they were fairly courteous and eventually released me after getting all my contact info. They said I had NOT broken any laws so I was free to go."
So let's get this straight: A physician with a newborn baby loses most everything he owns in the hurricane, does what most of us WANT to do and "echoes" Cheney's words he spoke on the god-damned Senate floor last year, walks away harmlessly, mission accomplished, and then once the media cameras leave, he is treated like a foreign terrorist as Cheney's goons waving M-16s handcuff him in front of his destroyed home? Had it not been for the media cameras filming the initial scene, I doubt Cheney's goons would have just let Marble go after 20 minutes.
America, land of the free?
Marble and his family have been in the media spotlight before, including his wife, Lisa, and baby, Sofia Grace, who was born shortly after the storm, on CNN. Marble has also been interviewed in art magazines and the Biloxi Sun Herald about his concert fund-raisers and musical success -- one of his bands, dR. O, has had at least 20 No. 1 songs on the MP3.com charts.
"The truth is even with all our losses, we are still luckier than many people down here because at least we didn't die," Marble wrote. "But I thought I could try to raise some awareness to the bad policies of the Dubya Gump administration and also possibly raise some money to replace the many things we lost, and so I decided I would auction the videotape my friend shot of the event. I will also grant an interviewto the winner if so desired."
So go to eBay here and place a bid for this important video to help Marble raise some needed funds. I have done so and was at least at one time the high bidder.
Marble also has an Internet site with photographs of some damage in his town at http://www.hurricanekatrinasucked.com/. A photo of him is at http://www.theharbinger.org/xix/000919/smith.html and you can also email Marble at clone9@yahoo.com.
Dr. Ben Marble, you rock. May we all return the favor.
UPDATE: Late Friday, Sept. 8, eBay, which is owned by strong Bush-Cheney supporters, took down Marble's site. In an email to me, the company said it was taken down due to violating one of the rules. The email did not say which rule, and I suspect it was related to profanity, even though Marble bleeped it out.
I have contacted Marble again and hope to hear back on his plans. I suspect he will put it up again without the profanity at all or put it on another site. I suspect we haven't heard the last of this story.
Jackson Thoreau is a Washington, D.C.-area journalist/writer. The latest book to which he contributed, Big Bush Lies, was published by RiverWood Books of Ashland, Ore. He is working on another book called "Thou Shalt Not Cheat: How Bush and Rove Broke the Rules, From the Sandlot to the White House." He can be contacted at jacksonthor@gmail.com.
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