I for one will never forget the sight of the shamelessly showboating Geraldo reporting from outside the Superdome, licking his lips, ratcheting up the hysteria with his voice booming "It is DANTE'S INFERNO inside there!!! I have NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS!! Come nightfall ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE INSIDE THE SUPERDOME!!!!!
Meanwhile, you could see dozens of evacuees twenty feet behind Geraldo, calmly wiping their brows, fanning themselves with pieces of cardboard, in general looking miserably uncomfortable, but NOT like they were ready to turn on each other and commit the unspeakable acts Geraldo was obviously hungering to report.
I've never been too fond of Geraldo, but what he did in New Orleans was so far beyond appropriate that lookng at his face now gives me the same feeling as when I look at Barbra Streisand or Michael Moore.
On second thought, to correct the record, I think Geraldo was outside the Convention Center, not the Superdome in the first day or two after the flooding. As I remember it was a few days after that...