[AnAmericanMother]

Amen!

As a radio amateur, I have had some experience with disaster relief (in a very small way). Our club does Field Day every year, the idea being to set up a portable emergency radio station in the middle of nowhere, with generators and everything necessary . . . just for practice.

I can tell you that even with a SMALL operation, it takes time to get things set up and on the road. You don't get your personnel assembled, supplies gathered, trucks gassed up, and on the road with a snap of the fingers.

And that's without the time constraints, the time pressure, and all the problems they had here with all the usual forward staging areas being blown away or under water, or obstructed by washed-out bridges and thousands of fallen trees across the roadways . . .

Frankly, I am amazed at how quickly this is all coming together.

Even more frankly, I am convinced that the major media KNOW that, they just can't resist the temptation to attack Bush yet again . . .

[Tarpon]

What, you think the media is camped on a bridge showing the same film loop over and over again instead of going where the action is? They could have shot some tape at the staging areas and broadcast those over and over, it would have communicated an entirely different message -- Like one of hope for the people of NO, help is on the way.

You are so right, the media knows you can't mobilize this level of effort over night. The hurricane left Monday night and it's Friday.

Shep Smith is a camera clown. The more I see of him the less I like.