Outrage of the week: Another out of touch member of the Bush Aristocracy

From MSNBC:

At a school in Mississippi, it was first lady Laura Bush defending the government’s response to Katrina. “I think we’ve seen a lot of the same footage over and over that isn’t necessarily representative of what really happened in both — in a lot of ways,” she said. “Overall, it was a very good response.”

Laura Bush faults media coverage, but was she even there? How would SHE know? What is she basing this on? How would she explain the still yet unrecovered bodies in the streets? How about the scathing assessments from impartial entities like the Red Cross, who have described conditions as "horrendous"??? (I went to a volunteer training this past weekend, the local director read a national memo assessing the very dire conditions.)

Also, on the "same footage," she's right to a degree. But so what? That's because news teams under pressure like that can't keep constantly collecting new footage every 10 seconds. It's impossible. It's the constraints of the situation, not an indication things are overblown.

By the way, did you hear what Barbara Bush said earlier this week?

-This post was written by the original clipmonkey.