Smackdown by CNN

Wow. This is a surprisingly stark and very effective treatment by CNN of the official line proffered by the Bush administration (in particular, FEMA chief Michael Brown, aka "Brownie" as President Chimpy calls him). Check out the conflicting official statements versus boots-on-the-ground accounts. Here's a sample:

Brown: I've just learned today that we ... are in the process of completing the evacuations of the hospitals, that those are going very well. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta: It's gruesome. I guess that is the best word for it. If you think about a hospital, for example, the morgue is in the basement, and the basement is completely flooded. So you can just imagine the scene down there. But when patients die in the hospital, there is no place to put them, so they're in the stairwells. It is one of the most unbelievable situations I've seen as a doctor, certainly as a journalist as well. There is no electricity. There is no water. There's over 200 patients still here remaining. ...We found our way in through a chopper and had to land at a landing strip and then take a boat. And it is exactly ... where the boat was traveling where the snipers opened fire yesterday, halting all the evacuations.

Definitely check out the full article.