" CNN's Chris Lawrence in New Orleans, Louisiana "
He about had a nervous breakdown and almost brought Kyra Phillips to tears.
CNN and MSNBC are portraying the Superdome as a mini Rwanda- babies dying, bodies stacked like cordwood.
It's a refugee crisis. Which it may well be.
Since it appears that Gov Blanco is incapable of handling this, she must be removed from the chain of command.
She has clearly botched her assets - the fine men and women of the Louisiana Nat Guard.
No matter how vile the situation at the Superdome , the media is making it worse by their hysterical reporting.
Blanco has lost control of the situation -I know that Posse Comitatus prevents this, but,it may be time to seriously discuss the legalities of federalizing this situation.
And the media has also lost control the past few hours.
They are all having a collective nervous breakdown.
Jack Cafferty on CNN is trashing President Bush up and down for being AWOL during this crisis.
The WH press corps was asking why the Bush administration was not pleading for international help.
By nightfall, expect the situation- as reported by the media, to have devolved into every 3rd world disaster comparison- possible.
What worries me about this is that even today, the public still gets most of its news from the MSM, especially during crises such as this one. The more the MSM loses it, the more it's going cause the public to turn against Bush, Congress and government in general (but especially Bush himself, of course). All this will do is dilute Bush's political power and thus make it even harder for him to fix this mess.