RANT MODE ON.
ABS, whose employees were second only to AFL-CIO in contributions to Dems in 2004, has THE answer. It's all the fault of "the government."
Koppel was shouting at a FEMA rep last night. Why didn't the feds evactuate NOLA? "You knew !! there were x people who could ! not ! get !out!!! Why wasn't there a convoy of trucks or flatbeds to get them out?!"
Why didn't the 101st or the 82d go in to restore order because they would have been faster that the NG MP units being sent in? (IF THEY DID: "Why did you send COMBAT troops into an American city instead of law enforcement. Oh the humanity!")
I guess Mr K. never heard that there is state and local govs who have primary responsibility. Oh, wait. They're all D's. Sorry. My bad. Must be the feds fault.
Gee, let's not talk about 1000's of public buses, school and otherwise, sitting under water rather than having been used to evac the poor and old.
Let's not talk about a police chief saying force would not be used on looters. (And looters shooting at rescue personnel!?)
Let's not talk about a very tardy evacutoin "suggestion" with no provision for the 112,000 households that do not own vehicles.
The unspoken subtext to ABS Nightline for the last 72 hours: "the government" failed. Bush failed AGAIN. He should have built those levees higher in 1927. And his decision to locate the city there in the first palce was typically dumb. The poor? His fault. IT"S ALL BUSH. No cure for poverty, cancer, hickups. DAMN HIM.
Phew!
Enough blame to go around, but the medja just piss me off and Koppel leads the list.