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Brian Williams: from Musketeer to Mouseketeer

And the goshdarn Liberal Wrote: Sep 02, 2010 12:43 AM
You people all ignore the obvious. La. has a history of political incompetence. What Katrina showed was that there was Federal incompetence. Even if the governor of La. did not ask for help properly, she eventually did get it right, 2 days after the hurricane hit. And the federal response led by the guy who sits at the desk where the buck stops was totally incompetent. Stooges like Bozell and Brown try to rewrite history with the help of the racist right, but the internet has a way of saving the facts. We all saw what happened. Poor blacks who could not afford to leave and dumb blacks who thought they didn't have to leave were stranded in NO after Katrina and the Federal Government was absolutely incompetent in its response.
The fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina recalls a horror show on two levels. There's the actual disaster, which killed hundreds of people, and then there's the media smear job on the Bush administration and first responders. No one should forget pompous grandstanders like "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams signing off three months after the floods from the Lower Ninth Ward: "This is a neighborhood that's been left to die."

How those network anchors loved hurricane hyperbole! Williams, for one, lectured the nation that the hurricane should "necessitate a national discussion on race, on oil, politics, class, infrastructure, the environment...