[McGavin999]

If that was who it was aimed at both CNN and FOX messed up bad, because both were giving the impression that it was the feds who had failed. Over and over, these two never mentioned the city or state just "government" which 90% of the people associate with Bush.

They did a real disservice to those who were working their butts off by implying they did nothing to help people.

The general impression, as shown by how the rest of the media climbed on the bash Bush bandwagon, is that it was a failure of FEMA and G W Bush personally.

[conservativebabe]

Cavuto just did a great show where the blame was most definitely be placed on the mayor and government of LA.

[SE Mom]

Trent Lott now on FOX...said this is no time to be whining and complaining..

[ohioWfan]

Just a word on Homeland Security, FEMA and the leadership of this President.

Our hospital here in Ohio........in fact, every hospital in the country..........is being involved in the medical side of this rescue effort.

This interconnection and organization has only happened SINCE 9/11, and due to the leadership of President Bush in getting HS in gear.

The infrastructure is now in place to deal with all kinds of disasters. But it depends on the local and state authorities to do what they are instructed to do to prepare.

And in this case, tragically, the local and state authorities did not do so.

[GOPrincess]

A brief postscript to our discussion about the media in this thread last night and this morning, Fox News just had a tour of the emergency command center. They had huge screens on one wall with 8 different TV news channels playing, including cable and local news channels.

The military gentleman giving the Fox reporter the tour praised the media saying that it was thanks to the news they had the initial situation reports from the "front" and they could see where help was needed, or words to that effect.