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Friday, September 09, 2005

Brian Williams. Who'd a thunk it?
Posted by Jill | 3:37 PM

Who would have thought that a Limbaugh-lovin' cipher like Brian Williams, who looks like he was stamped out of an Anchorman factory in Davenport, Iowa, would be this hard-hitting? I don't know what he's doing on the air, but in his MSNBC blog, he's not simply reporting the Bush Party Line. (Of course, with CNN's Kyra Phillips practically fellating Bush on the air, he doesn't have to.)

I just spoke with Howie Kurtz of the Washington Post who is apparently writing on same for tomorrow. What I said to him and what I will repeat today is this: it can be said absent slant, ideology or opinion that the security presence in much of central New Orleans is in response to lawlessness that no longer exists.

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On those long, dark and early nights of the unfolding crisis... with no power and rising water in the Quarter... the law enforcement officers who we saw there were the picture of courage and personal sacrifice. They were hot, they were tired and they had no option but to consider everyone (who wasn't displaying obvious media, relief agency or law enforcement markings) a possible threat. Yesterday afternoon, I watched a column of troopers from the 82nd Airborne march down Bourbon Street, which was empty... save for the occasional hotel worker hosing down the sidewalk. We saw a total of three pedestrians in the Quarter, and interviewed two of them. It is also easy to see why Carol Browner (former EPA head under Clinton) theorized that the city proper may well become the nation's largest de facto toxic waste site. The water, so thick and toxic... is now receding while you watch in places... and I fear the sludge and dust left behind won't necessarily present itself to people as the danger we know it is.
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