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And don't even get me started on Shepard Smith's very public and very embarrassing on-screen meltdown as he idiotically shoved a microphone into the face of everyone walking past while thoroughly ignoring their desperate pleas for water.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton does what liberals do best: call for a bureaucratic "investigation" into the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (because we all know how helpful the 9/11 commission turned out to be; I mean, for anything but furthering political careers). As if, somehow, without the government "investigating" itself, we as a nation would be unable to move forward in any way whatsoever.

Yeah, right.

And The National Debate has a few choice words to say to the Blame-Game media: "This week I see reporters literally grabbing victims off the street, putting them live on the air and asking them to opine about things they have no way of judging, then crediting those comments as insights. Rumors are being reported as fact at every turn. I mentioned earlier Matt Lauer's sudden realization that erroneous news reports about shootings in New Orleans were keeping rescue workers out of the area. I broke the story earlier today that Goodyear was keeping its airships out of the region based on these reports even though they could not confirm them."

He goes on to say: "Martin Savidge of NBC News reported that there were 10,000 people at the Convention Center. Soledad O'Brien reported there 50,000 people there. A National Guard spokesperson put the figure at 3,000. How can the viewer have confidence that any of this information is accurate?"

Exactly. The media is there looking for drama and tragedy-fueled photo-ops, otherwise they would have all immediately dropped their cameras and "objective" posturing and actually pitched in to help -- or at least stopped shoving microphones in everybody's faces.

Fat chance.

But the media's complete inability to do anything but gaze at its navel doesn't stop them from attempting to gaze in at someone else's navel, too. Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post has this entirely ludicrous thing to say: "Every city and town in Louisiana that wasn't blasted by the hurricane is full of evacuees. Then there are the tens of thousands in Texas and the multitudes scattered across neighboring states. Their host communities have the best of intentions, but many won't be able to stand the added drain on resources indefinitely. Where will these people go? Why wasn't there a plan? . . . George W. Bush told us time and again that our cities were threatened. Shouldn't he have ordered up a plan to get people out?"

What's that you say, Mr. Robinson? Order up a plan? -- "One complete evacuation of an entire destroyed metropolis to go! Hold the mustard, and extra pickles!"

Coo-coo ka choo.

Not to be outdone by the likes of Eugene-Come-Lately Robinson, Paul Krugman (*groan*) weighs in at the New York Times with a clownishly inept "attack" on both the Bush Administration and the military ("Two, two, two swipes in one!"), implying that a strange federal paralysis kept the administration from ordering the U.S.S. Bataan to assist in relief efforts, as if the captain and crew of the Bataan were simply twiddling their thumbs indifferently off the Louisiana coast while New Orleans sank into oblivion. However, it only takes a quick visit to the Bataan's website to see that Paul Krugman is a blithering idiot. He says: "the federal government's lethal ineptitude wasn't just a consequence of Mr. Bush's personal inadequacy; it was a consequence of ideological hostility to the very idea of using government to serve the public good" . . . thereby turning one of the worst natural disasters in the country's history into a Blame-Bush rant that, in its breathtakingly clueless rhetoric, neatly echoes South Park's classic "Blame Canada" ("It seems like every-thing's gone wrong / since Dub-ee-ya came along / Blame Dub-ee-ya! Blame Dub-ee-ya!").

I swear, it's like nearly every print and television journalist (not to mention the Hollywood media whores, who pretend to be smart or courageous for a living) has gone stark raving mad.

UPDATE:
A curiously novel method of hurricane relief fund-raising . . .

UNRELATED BUT REALLY DISTURBING:
"A French media watchdog said Tuesday that information provided by Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. helped Chinese authorities convict and jail a journalist who had written an e-mail about press restrictions . . . Reporters Without Borders said in a statement, "How far will (Yahoo!) go to please Beijing?

"Just last month, Yahoo paid $1 billion for a 40 percent stake in China's biggest online commerce firm, Alibaba.com."

SPANKED:
A former Air Force logistics officer clarifies a few things for "the idiots" in the Left Wing Media -- my favorite example: "4. We do not yet have teleporter nor replicator technology like you saw on "Star Trek" in college between hookah hits and waiting to pick up your worthless communications degree while the grownups actually engaged in the recovery effort today were studying engineering."

Ouch!