Free Market News Network
by Ilana Mercer

09/14/05

For a short while, cable-network correspondents spoke truth to power. Now they're back to speaking a lot about power and a little about truth. The raw reports filed from New Orleans have been replaced with hosannas to the military (always magnificent) and the Coast and National Guard (ever masterful). Other fumbling officials have redeemed themselves: having failed to rescue the drowning, the dehydrating, and the dying, they're making up for it by evicting survivors from their homes. The wagons are being circled; the terms of debate decided. Republicans have framed a demand for accountability as an attempt to 'politicize' the Katrina cataclysm. Democrats, as always, refuse to recognize the banality of bureaucratic evil. Their boilerplate battle cry is 'racism.' As the factions settle into their familiar foxholes, it becomes crucial to remind Americans that, irrespective of political fidelity, politicians -- local, state, and federal -- must pay for the lives lost to Katrina. Justice is the only known palliative...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp