Milking the Katrina Myth

Milk Spoils, Televisons Don't

Brian Williams defends armed looting during Katrina

. “ The NBC Nightly News anchor is in New Orleans on the second Katrina anniversary. He appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" at 7:30 A.M. EDT. Williams first passed along a predictable race-and-classed based explanation of the botched relief efforts.     BRIAN WILLIAMS: That's when human life started to degrade. That's when people ran out of of bathroom facilities and started having to use the entire [Superdome]: no power, no circulating air, and worse, no information from the outside world. Somebody said "they [the victims] just weren't worth it." (Who was that 'somebody' Brian?  Al Sharpton?) A bit later, Williams offered up this defense of armed looting.     WILLIAMS: The looting we witnessed downtown, you could hear gunfire in the streets of the 25th-largest city in the United States. We keep saying human behavior degraded that week. There was a desperation that you can only get when you're the head of a family. You don't know where a meal is going to come from, you can't find bottled water. You don't know how you're going to get your family to high ground. [MORE + VIDEO] ” Okay, I happen to agree with Williams on this point. When you're the head of a family you protect, feed and shelter them. Period. From memory, it seems to me that grocery chains allowed that perishable foods were better used by the hungry, and wrote their losses off almost immediately.  I don't remember reading any condemnation of milk and food theft.  It was the other, Brian.  Lots of other.  Milk spoils, televisions don't. Speaking for myself, the real tragedy of Katrina was the stark portrayal of what nanny gummint has wrought.  We read about past,hurricanes that devastated  Nawlins.  There was zero help, nor expectation of it, from the federal; gummint.  Folks did it themselves.  It was their home. Who were the stronger people? Liberal Cancer.