[badpacifist]

"The click here to print this article" is completely different. Is this a common practice. Try it for yourselves.

New Orleans braces for monster hurricane Crescent City under evacuation; storm may overwhelm leveesNEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans braced for a catastrophic blow from Hurricane Katrina overnight, as forecasters predicted the Category 5 storm could drive a wall of water over the city's levees.The huge storm, packing 160 mph winds, is expected to hit the northern Gulf Coast in the next nine hours and make landfall as a Category 4 or 5 hurricane Monday morning.The National Hurricane Center reports that conditions are already deteriorating along the central and northeastern coast.New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declared a state of emergency Sunday and ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city. "This is a threat that we've never faced before," Nagin said. "If we galvanize and gather around each other, I'm sure we will get through this."He exempted essential federal, state, and local personnel; emergency and utility workers; transit workers; media; hotel workers; and patrons from the evacuation order.About 1.3 million people live in New Orleans and its suburbs, and many began evacuating before sunrise. Nagin estimated that nearly 1 million people had fled the city and its surrounding parishes by Sunday night. Between 20,000 and 25,000 others who remained in the city lined up to take shelter in the Louisiana Superdome, lining up for what authorities warned would be an unpleasant day and a half at minimum.City officials told stranded tourists to stay on third-floor levels or higher and away from windows.Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said that New Orleans could expect a complete loss of electricity and water services as well as intense flooding.

[shiva]

IS THIS A CNN COVERUP?

Need you ask?

[SE Mom]

We've discussed, ranted and raved about this FACT on the live Katrina threads for several days...it's just unbelievable, isn't it?

[mewzilla]

If it is, fear not. CNN can't cover up any better than it can cover :)

The Old Media is dead. Long live the New Media!

[GianniV]

It's so plainly obvious that the governor is a quivering estrogen bomb and the mayor is a total nut. The media can ignore their incompetence all the want, but there's no getting around it.

Real women like Condi Rice and real men like Bush/Giuliani wouldn't act this way.

[kempster]

Wonder how many people heard Michael Medved yesterday on the radio when he stated that many people have said they didn't want to leave their houses until after the first of the month because they wanted to wait for their Federal checks in whatever form they might have been. That is the only place I have heard that.

[TommyDale]

I just clicked on "File" "Save As" "HTML page" and then printed it.

[TommyDale]

Thank you for the post. This article will come in handy when arguing with the leftists that claim "Bush isn't doing anything!"

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

It's plain as the nose on your face that CNN doesn't like Republicans. None of the "objective" journalists do; there is a distinction but not a difference between the Democratic Party and the "objective journalism" establishment.

Journalism is antipathetic to putting things in perspective:

• At this point it is clear that very few of the things journalism discussed in the past were as important as the vulnerability of the levees of New Orleans. Why would journalism want to discuss that? What is easier for journalism than to pretend that history started in January 2001, when Bush started making decisions for the country?
• Bush urged the Governor of Louisiana to evacuate NO. That was important because it gave the governor and the mayor political cover. If had proved the evacuation unnecessary, Bush would have gotten the heat for the false alarm.

The reason "objective" journalism is sympatico with the Democratic Party is simple: Democratic politicos align themselves with negative, superficial, arrogant, cowardly journalism.

[traderrob6]

anyone have a link for the "doctored" article?

[TheForceOfOne]

Can I have my CNN play toy back now?

I only have 10 more minutes before I have to go back inside for a nap.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Here are the "authors" of this piece: CNN's David Mattingly, Susan Candiotti, Jacqui Jeras and Rob Marciano contributed to this report.

[EnquiringMind]

I was watching the Gov.'s press conference last Sunday morning and heard her say that mand. evac. was going into effect at the President's urging in a phone call to her that morning.

I mentioned this to a DU-type co-worker on Tuesday when he blasted me with "Global Warming" being at fault. His response was that the mayor ordered the mandatory evac. on Saturday.

Deny, deny, deny -- lie, lie, lie.

[Dad yer funny]

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