[FreedomCalls]

He's right. Compare 14,800 dead from a heat wave versus about ~750 dead from a Catagory 4 Hurricane and the hysteria over the hurricane dead is way out of porportion. I guess that's the price we pay for having an open society and competing 24-hour-a-day news outlets. They world sees our dirty underwear and while hiding their own.

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[The_Media_never_lie]

Wow, this is heavy!

[FreedomCalls]

Oh and I noticed that they are not subtracting out the "natural" deaths from the figure for deaths related to Katrina. Prior to Katrina there were about 20 obits in the Times-Picayune every day. So 20 people a day would have died in New Orleans with or without a hurricane. Those deaths should not be reported as hurricane-related (unless you are trying to inflate the numbers).

[Elyse]

I live overseas and my news sources on TV are the BBC and CNN International. I can tell you that if you have been watching international news during this disaster, all you have gotten is a very distorted Bush/America bashing view with less facts and more rumors/lies than the Americans have gotten.