[wideawake]

I admit that when elected officials supported the story, I believed it.

I assumed that the mayor and the police chief would have good info of what had actually happened on the ground.

I expect journalists to lie and exaggerate, but I didn't expect mayor Nagin to to circulate stories that made his own citizens look horrible without proof.

[Nathan Zachary]

"I expect journalists to lie and exaggerate, but I didn't expect mayor Nagin to to circulate stories that made his own citizens look horrible without proof."

Nagin was calling all those people drug addicts to boot.