IF the MSM applies the same standards to NO as they are to Bagdah, they will expect ther city to be rebuilt by Halloween, and all US aid workers pulled out..
Maureen Dowd or Frank Rich haven't started started sniping yet about how unfair it is that the blue states are going to be paying all the freight for the relief efforts, or about hopw we should all consider it payback for those red states electing George Bush.
But it won't be long. After all, the only thing MoDo and her fellow NYT hacks contributed to the hurricane relief efforts in Florida last year was a bunch of sneering about how George and Jeb Bush were using the storms for political gain, as well as ferreting out the few Bush-hating, do-nothing malcontents they could find so they could give them lots of coverage and attempt to convince the public that the relief efforts were a total disaster thanks to the Bushes. Why should we expect them to treat this disaster any differently?