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Dead bodies are floating in the streets, the entire city is mostly submerged, looters are running amok, inmates have taken hostages at a local jail, and they're evacuating the Superdome (a site where there have been, what, three deaths now?)....

[This post has been bumped to appear on the top of the page, all day today. Scroll down for new posts.] Time for a Hurricane Katrina blogburst. Instapundit wants a post recommending relief efforts to donate to, and here are...

Here's an interesting tidbit from Bob Williams in the Wall Street Journal:Conservative blogosphere hurricane relief $1,115,369 http://www.truthlaidbear.com/blogleaderboard.php Liberal blogosphere hurricane relief $161,047 http://www.dropcash.com/campaign/hurricanerelief/liberal_blogs_for_hurricane_relief In comparison, the Liberal blogs had raised over $451,888 for Paul Hackett's race in Ohio: http://www.actblue.com/list/hackett...

Guarding The Public's SELECTIVE Right to Know

One doesn;t have to look very far to find reps of the MSM crying about FEMA not facilitating the photographing of operations recovering human remains from the shambles. For instance here in the WaPo, and when the CHief checked the NYT OpEds the futility of responding to the veritable truckloads of manure about the post-Katrina situation became immmediately evident.

The real bone of contention the MSM cites, is that to report on the situation, the public must be able to view all the gory details of retrieval of human remains after a week+ in the bilges of flooded New Orleans.

The Chief doesn't agree, but prima facie, it IS an arguable point. IF the point is conceded however, why did the MSM staunchly resist showing the people jumping from the World Trade Center on 9-11? Oh, yeah, that was to prevent offending and/or inflaming viewers with the harsh reality of the face of Islamofascism at work.

What's the difference here? In one case showing the events to the public would have had the practical effect of shoring up the support for the terror-war, and thereby reinforcing the responses of the administration. (Nope, mustn't do THAT!)

In the case of NOLA, the scenes shown would be used to try to club the administration over the Katrina disaster and it's aftermath. (Yes, the public needs to see that!)

Once again, the MSM is showing that it's effective motto should be adapted from it's flagship New York Times slogan "All the news that's fit to print" morphing into a more truthful version: "ALL THE NEWS THAT FITS, WE PRINT!"

From Rush Limbaugh: RUSH: This is dicey. It's like I say: law and order in New Orleans is a code word for racism. You don't talk about law and order because you'll have people like Jesse Jackson on your case....

That is the title of a Dr. Ted Baehr column. Here is the introduction:People will either be self-disciplined or need the whip of tyranny, to paraphrase the famous 19th century sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville. He noted that the United States...

From Rush Limbaugh: What we have seen in New Orleans -- and we have not seen it in Mississippi, and we have not seen it in Alabama -- what we have seen in New Orleans is first and foremost the...

To: Journalists Everywhere From: Me Let's either a.) stop talking about "looting," or b.) at least note that there are probably significant numbers of citizens right now who are scrambling for food and water. Looting is bad. But looting is...

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