[AppyPappy]

As callous as it may sound, the MSM will have a VERY hard time with a high death count because it would take attention away from the Iraq death count.

[mewzilla]

Yeah, I know. And it would also start making people ask why the state and local pols have been fiddling all these years while waiting for Rome to burn.

After NO gets its immediate needs taken care of, someone had better look at what happened with the levees and the pumps. And take steps to ensure that it's not allowed to happen again.

[SlowBoat407]

What's bothering me is the fact that every time we hear of high death counts in other natural disasters, many people have a tendency to write it off to the fact that it occurred in underdeveloped or third-world countries, where building standards are lax, communication is poor, dictators don't care about their people, and/or God is punishing them for their manifold sins.

It's here now, in the country with the highest standard of living on the planet, and many premises will have to be checked in order for us to cope with these numbers and make sense of them.

[JennysCool]

As callous as it may sound, the MSM will have a VERY hard time with a high death count because it would take attention away from the Iraq death count.

Someone mentioned that upthread, Pappy, and I remember thinking: "How callous! How distasteful! How ... entirely possible."

[Issaquahking]

"What I'm authorized to say now is we expect the death toll to be higher than anything we've ever seen before," said Jim Pollard, civil defense spokesman for Mississippi's Harrison County, which includes Biloxi and Gulfport.


New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said hundreds, if not thousands, of people may still be stuck on roofs and in attics, and so rescue boats were bypassing the dead. "We're not even dealing with dead bodies," Nagin said. "They're just pushing them on the side."


From Drudge hard to read between the lines, but leaves me wondering how much is going to be released, and when...

[Mind-numbed Robot]

As callous as it may sound, the MSM will have a VERY hard time with a high death count because it would take attention away from the Iraq death count.

You are saying what I was thinking. That will make Nightline and This Week intoning the recently killed sound pretty silly.

Too bad it takes a tragedy to knock Silly Sheehan off the air.

[DollyCali]

As callous as it may sound, the MSM will have a VERY hard time with a high death count because it would take attention away from the Iraq death count.

I believe you are right on,AP