Not only was New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin utterly incompetent in the preparation for Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, he participated in the MSM feeding frenzy that completely distorted the truth and, in too many cases, simply recycled lies. The LA Times reports:

newspapers and television exaggerated criminal behavior in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, particularly at the overcrowded Superdome and Convention Center.

The New Orleans Times-Picayune on Monday described inflated body counts, unverified "rapes," and unconfirmed sniper attacks as among examples of "scores of myths about the dome and Convention Center treated as fact by evacuees, the media and even some of New Orleans' top officials."

Indeed, Mayor C. Ray Nagin told a national television audience on "Oprah" three weeks ago of people "in that frickin' Superdome for five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people."

Now, American taxpayers will foot the massive bill as politicians react to the initial, hysterical reports with knee-jerk spending bills of titanic proportions.

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