[Howlin]

The "feel your pain" reference was a direct slap at President Clinton, who had irked administration officials by beating Bush to the punch with comments on the disaster - and stealing the media limelight in the process.

This is pure conjecture (surprise, surprise) on the part of Newsmax; of course, Carl hates Bush, too.

[cwb]

I agree. In fact, this entire article looks like an effort by Newsmax to create a story rather than report one. I've seen all these stories in context throughout the day...and newsmax seems to be selectively choosing from them to form their own opinion of events.