Shorter Evan ThomasChimpy Bushitler McHalliburton has no imagination, only watches ESPN and hates bad news. The only way his aides could have conveyed the danger of the hurricane to him would have been to draw a picture of a pretzel labeled "Katrina" approaching a throat labeled "New Orleans".
I'm not kidding.
Looks like the lamestream media are reacting to the stories coming out about the incompetence of the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana the way the obnoxious Nicole Sullivan character on Mad TV handles bad news: by plugging their ears and going "Lalalalalala, I can't hear you!"
Jeff Goldstein has a
longer take on the same story (no permalink, scroll down to "Katrina Coverage, Stage 2: Competing Narratives Emerge").