When Talking Heads Attack

JP Headquarters was tuned to CNN on Friday morning and saw Soledad O'Brien come unglued on Federal Emergency Management Agency boss Mike Brown - and justly so - after Brown conceded that FEMA did not know about the 1000s of people taking refuge in the New Orleans Convention Center, across from the steaming pile of a Superdome.

"How is it possible that we're getting better intel than you're getting? We had a crew in the air. We were showing live pictures of the people outside of the Convention Center." - asks a simmering Soledad.

It was a tough day for Brown, who got blistered from all sides.

This comes a day after a fuming Anderson Cooper berates U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., for her praise of government response to the disaster.

"Excuse me, Senator, I'm sorry for interrupting. I haven't heard that, because, for the last four days, I've been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in Mississippi. And to listen to politicians thanking each other and complimenting each other, you know, I got to tell you, there are a lot of people here who are very upset, and very angry, and very frustrated." - Cooper said.

Slate's Jack Shafer documents the TV talking heads starting to turn on government types on all things Katrina. Where were these guys and their demands for accountability in the runup to Iraq? Maybe we would've finished the job in Afghanistan before we took on another chore in the "Global War on Ter-err...Struggle Against Violent Extremism."

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