[mountainfolk]

If Fox keeps this up the other networks will be out of business within the year. I hope Major Garrett gets assigned to investigate and report on the saga of the unused NO buses. Both school and city transit. That story will uncover for the nation the state of corruption in NO and La that preceded the Katrina catastrophe. The way Gov Blanco has been essentially countermanding the NO Mayor, I have to conclude that No had little local control over anything. No wonder the Mayor was consulting lawyers before taking action. Louisiana is one messed up state. And I hope for every taxpayer's sake that every cent that the government sends to La has a Brink's guard attached to make sure it reaches it's intended destination.

[randita]

From a Sept. 2 interview on WWL radio:

NAGIN: I need reinforcements, I need troops, man. I need 500 buses, man. We ain't talking about -- you know, one of the briefings we had, they were talking about getting public school bus drivers to come down here and bus people out here.

I'm like, "You got to be kidding me. This is a national disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans."

Nagin was waiting for the Greyhound busses to show up. Apparently regular old school busses weren't plush enough for him.

[johnb838]

If Fox went with a primetime broadcast evening news to compete with ABCCBSSNBC it would put them out of business. They've all lost their anchors and much of their audiences. They're drifting, and good old Brit Hume, comfortable and reassuring as an old pair of slippers, could become the next Walter Concrete. I don't understand why they don't do it. They've always been willing to stick it to the networks in the past.