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From The Jawa Report:

I just heard Cokie Roberts say that those who've seen both the Christmas Tsunami and New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina have said that N.O. is worse. Now wait just a minute. The death toll from the Tsunami was around 120,000. Most of the hyperbolic comments about Katrina put the eventual N.O. death toll at, possibly, around 10,000. But the most recent estimate put forth by N.O. officials who are actually counting bodies puts the death toll in that city at 300+. Now, if the plus goes up by over 200%, which is a little unlikely, that means that the estimates promoted by mainstream media, that have the Left on Kos screeching that Bush ought to have declared marshal law, are off by a factor of somewhere between 1,000 to 3,000 percent! And the tsunami death toll was a mere 10,000% larger than New Orleans.

But hey, why use facts and logical reasoning when you can sensationalize and play on the emotions of Americans?

Its shameless what journalists in this country will do to boost ratings and/or sell a few more copies, though the fact that this fits into their Bush bashing agenda doesn't hurt much either.