You can almost smell the professional journalism.

You know what else the President didn’t talk about?  The holocaust.  Slavery.  The absolute travesty that is O.J. Simpson free on America’s golf courses after murdering his wife and her lover.

You know why he didn’t mention these things, up to and including Katrina?  Because they’re old news, and they don’t really have much to do with his area of responsibility.

Yeah, I know.  Katrina recovery has been slow.  Is that the President’s fault?  Since when was it the responsibility of the federal government, or specifically the President, to rebuild a city full of people who chose to live below sea level in a hurricane zone?  That responsibility for lays with the individual citizens of New Orleans, primarily, and the city of New Orleans itself as well as the state of Louisiana secondarily.  Remember personal responsibility?  And the idea that America is a union of fifty sovereign states?

The way some people carry on about Katrina and the President it’s almost like this country is a federal Republic and Louisiana doesn’t even have a governor or a state legislature.

This article, by hyper-partisan attack maven Jennifer Loven, is an example of everything that’s wrong with journalism today.  It’s little more than a transparently biased hit piece.  It belongs on the op/ed pages of The Nation or in a diary over on The Daily Kos, not being bandied about our newspapers and news websites as though it were objective journalism.