Katrina Coverage

Analyzing the news reports and politics of the New Orleans hurricane.

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2008 Democratic convention in New Orleans?

November 9th, 2005
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From Some Democrats Touting New Orleans For 2008:
A Maryland congressman is urging his fellow Democrats to hold the party's 2008 presidential nominating convention in New Orleans as a signal of national support for the city after its devastating losses from Hurricane Katrina.
Representative Elijah Cummings made the suggestion after party officials announced that their 2008 convention […]

"Bumblers, Not Bigots: The post-Katrina racism bunk"

September 8th, 2005
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Deroy Murdock has a long discussion of the race-baiting coming from "liberals", starting with Randall Robinson's infamous cannibalism post:
…Like New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, and FEMA director Michael Brown, President Bush must explain why, for three to four days, no one could manage at least to air drop bottled […]

"The Mayor Who Failed His City"

September 6th, 2005
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FPM has a link-rich rundown of the left's attempts to politicize the disaster:
IT'S OFFICIAL: THE AMERICAN LEFT NOW BELIEVES GEORGE W. BUSH IS GOD. Bellowing leftists such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cindy Sheehan have blamed Hurricane Katrina – something insurance companies classify as an act of God – on President Bush’s "killing policies" […]

Wolf Blitzer: "They are so black", plus Elijah Cummings

September 5th, 2005
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From Sep. 1's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer:
"You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals, as Jack Cafferty just pointed out, so tragically, so many of these people, almost all of them that we see, are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of […]