[zipper]

LABARRE: They did not offer these people a way out to begin with. They offered them a ride to Superdome. They never offered them transportation out of the city.

S. O'BRIEN: Do you have a working shower?

Exactly. How astute of Soledad to observe that LaBarre was not going to conform to the official view of CNN that the whole thing is Bush's/FEMA's fault-- and quickly abandon the obvious line of newsworthy questions that Labarre's remark invited.

[Enchante]

Typical of lib reporters to quickly change the subject when any truly significant comes up.... why would Katie, er Soledad, want to pursue the obvious line of mendacious incompetence by city and state officials when it would only prove embarrassing to the Demagogic Party???