Even Fox News correspondents have had enough

Geraldo Rivera: "You cannot deny that it's [been] six days since this natural disaster befell New Orleans. What has happened since is as bad or worse than what Mother Nature did. I can't understand it. I've only been here in Louisiana for less than a day-- I left New York yesterday-- but coming to the [New Orleans] convention center, it is as if time stopped. It is as if I'm back and it's Wednesday. I saw Fox News on Wednesday, and people were here at this building, the convention center, and people were saying 'Get us out of here. Help us, help us.' And now it's 48 hours after that, and the people are still here. None of them-- NONE of them-- as far as I know not a single one has been bussed out of here. Why is that? God, I wish I knew, I wish someone could tell me. Where are the busses?"

Shepard Smith: "There are lots and lots of rescue workers in town. There's lots of food, but there are lots of people who are not getting it, and why is that? I wish I knew, Alan and Sean, I don't know."

Fox correspondent Shepard Smith is also on the scene, and none too pleased to hear Sean Hannity argue that the government is doing an admirable job of providing relief.

It gets worse, as Rivera holds an infant up to the camera and asks why relief is so slow to come. The remarkable thing about the thousands of New Orleans citizens trapped in the convention center is that they've remained there for close to a week-- without assistance of any sort, without plumbing or water, without leadership-- without resorting to violence or collapsing into disorder. Those focusing on the looting and lawlessness in the city would do well to report on the civility of the thousands of people there who've lost everything they had.

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