"There's no pleasing people whose chief desirein life is to bitch"

"Blogs are at the forefront of the tsunami recovery effort," reports Speigel Online [via Glenn Reynolds via wireless in the car]:

While traditional media drags awaiting publication, and government hotlines jam or go unanswered, bloggers have hopped into the fray, providing needed information to relatives desperate to find loved ones and those hoping to join the rescue efforts.

One of the best sites out there is the South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami blog set up by students from New Delhi, a Sri Lankan TV producer and Internet junkies in the region.  It offers everything from fascinating tsunami facts to emergency contact numbers to humanitarian relief organizations. Plus it tells you how to donate money from wherever you are.

MeanwhileThe Powers that Were are frantically trying to pin the blame for everything on Bush. As Hindrocket of PowerLine notes:

All across America, newspaper editors have racked their brains trying to think of ways to blame the tsunami on the Bush administration.

Then, too, there was UN undersecretary Jan Egelend's lame and ill-mannered attempt to trash Bush et al with the "stingy" meme  -- we loved Professor Reynolds's take: "Face it, there's no pleasing people whose chief desire in life is to bitch." The MSM picked up  the stingy-Bush theme and tried to run with it, but it won't fadge. Death throes happen.  Hugh Hewitt's got their number. Check out his "Unified Theory of the Old Media Collapse" at The Daily Standard:

By the time the new millennium arrived, legacy media was populated at its elite levels by as homogeneous a group of reporters / producers / commentators as could ever have been assembled from the newsrooms of the old Hearst operation. Big Media had hired itself into a rut -- a self-replicating echo chamber of left and further-left scribblers and talkers and self-reinforcing head nodders who were overwhelmingly anti-Republican, anti-Christian, anti-military, anti-wealth, anti-business, and even anti-middle class. These new journalists had no tolerance for majoritarian points of view, and the gap between the producers of the news and the consumers of the news widened until the credibility gap between the two made Lyndon Johnson's look modest by comparison.

Speaking of Lyndon Johnson, did you catch what his old Attorney General, Ramsey Clarke, is up to? He's joined Uncle Saddam's defense team. Isn't that nice.

Update:  Jack of TigerHawk explains:

Clark's only purpose is to score a propaganda victory against the United States. He cannot help Saddam, but he hopes to discredit the United States in the eyes of the world. This may not be treason under the law, but it is nothing less than treason in spirit.

Comments

[Rob A.]

Ramsey Clarke has to be at least co-captain on the All-Time Crappiest Americans team.

[Jack]

Thanks for the link, Sissy.

There are any number of people on the All-Time Crappiest Americans team. Indeed, it sounds like an excellent topic for a blog post...