Hurricane Katrina

There were some gruesome findings yesterday in New Orleans. Some were discovered in a hospital. Others in a nursing home. Yet, this didn’t stop New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd from continuing her bitter evisceration of our president. No, not a moment’s mourning for this crusader. Not a second to consider the innocents that were lost in these medical facilities, or…

[Brent Baker posted this item on behalf of MRC President Brent Bozell to provide for a discussion on his blog page about his TV appearance.] On Tuesday's NewsNight, CNN anchor Aaron Brown set up an interview with Bozell by complaining that “we were called a 'race-baiter' by a conservative media Web site. Needless to say, we don't agree, which made our conversation with the piece's author, Brent…

ABC News can't seem to figure out what percent of whites in their latest poll believe that the response to Katrina would have been faster “if the victims were wealthy and white,” with World News Tonight anchor Elizabeth Vargas (20 percent), an on-screen graphic (21 percent) and ABCNews.com (24 percent) all offering a different percentage. And while Vargas highlighted Monday night how “…

The Kellino Zone notes: After 9-11, the media self-imposed a restriction preventing the display of dead bodies, because it might be too offensive and disturbing. 4 years later, CNN wants dead bodies from Katrina on TV so badly that they were willing to sue the federal government in order to do so. I wonder why the sudden interest in dead bodies...

The New York Times’ Elisabeth Bumiller has an article today that continues to dwell on the supposed impact that racism had on the immediacy of hurricane recovery efforts, and how this is hurting the president as well as Republicans:“The storm also appears to have damaged the carefully laid plans of Karl Rove, President Bush's political adviser, to make inroads among black voters and expand the…