New Orleans was awash in complete and total mayhem after the levees broke, according to the news media. Civilization had broken down completely, thousands were dying, the Superdome was a cesspool of rapes and violence with hundreds of bodies lying about, so claimed various accounts offered... Sign in to see full entry.
So claimed Chris Matthews of Hardball in one of the dumbest statements about civics I’ve ever heard. Congressman Peter King (R-New York) was giving Matthews a well-deserved lecture on the news media’s numerous failures in its coverage of Katrina (see above) when the following exchange took place:... Sign in to see full entry.