The Instant Myth

The first one is that Bush is to blame for the problems getting help to the Gulf Coast, which, in turn, is based on the myth that FEMA is supposed to be the first responder to any emergency.

The newest one is that New Orleans streets are choked with bloated bodies of black people. All the white people were protected. Maureen Dowd writes:

But this time, the bodies of those who might have been saved between Monday and Friday, . . . are floating up in front of our eyes.

I looked for a death toll earlier today but all I could find were estimates. Maybe that should be "the estimates are floating up in front of our eyes."

MoDo is starting to sound like a crazy crone who won't come out of her house and claws anybody who gets close to her. She may have to darted with tranquilzer just to get her out of her cube and giver her her medicine. Consider this paragraph:

But when people around the world . . . look at New Orleans, they see glaring incompetence and racial injustice, where the rich white people were saved and the poor black people were left to die hideous deaths. They see some conservatives blaming the poor for not saving themselves. So much for W.'s "culture of life."