[George W. Bush]

Now that it has, and is even quoting the mayor, now you you want physical numbers to believe this.

I thought the mayor said hundreds dead and feared it was thousands in NO alone.

I'm waiting to see a hard statement from a responsible official. Do you have a source that the NO mayor said he has official reports of thousands dead in NO? Not feared dead, but confirmed dead.

Most of the heated discussion on this thread is about loose reporting and jumping to conclusions. Even if those conclusions are ultimately proven correct, it's still problematic to accept them as news sources.

[nicmarlo]

The point is, GWB, you were rejecting out of hand, MFH's post, simply because the lame stream media wasn't reporting what he posted.

That you would even rely upon the lame stream media to print the truth is also laughable.

Does Dan Rather/cBS come to mind? How about "Bias"
They don't report the truth anymore....unless it serves a purpose...the press are presstitutes....I don't rely upon them for news...I only "use" them as confirmation to what is reported now, mostly through other means, i.e., FR/Bloggers, etc.

[VeniVidiVici]

I told my wife the night of Katrina that hundreds would be found dead.

I know after four hurricanes here in FL last year that folks would neglect to evacuate.

After viewing what pics are coming from the "big" towns of NO and Biloxi, I'm more convinced than ever that casualties will be much higher.

It's not the wind, it's the water.

[papertyger]

Most of the heated discussion on this thread is about loose reporting and jumping to conclusions.

No...the heat comes from people like you trying to treat a second hand report from a reputable FReeper like it was a reporter trying to write a "torpedo" aimed at Karl Rove.

If you hadn't been so busy trying to defend your own analysis while degrading MFH's credibility, you'd have noticed that.