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I caught a bit of Tucker Carlson interviewing Al Sharpton on MSNBC. Tucker was taking great pains pointing the finger directly at the NOLA city gov't in failing it's citizens for not fighting harder to improve the levees. Ignoring Al's tirades about the delay in aide being a racial issue ...maybe that's true, I don't know... but if Tucker wants to expend the energy pointing blame on anyone, I'd say he actually belly up with Al and start pointing the finger at the heinous, inexcusable incompetence and negligence of the federal government and FEMA that should have had copters full of aide, food and water ready and raring to get out to those people within hours of the hurricane striking. Not the inconceivable days it has taken them. The gov't that knew full well what was going to hit these cities and should have put in all it's considerable resources to the local governments to either ready those provisions or get those people the hell out of there (mandatory evac of such a huge area is going to take more than what any one city, even those as big as NOLA and Biloxi, has at their disposal. They needed the fed's help. Before the hurricane ever hit). Of course, Tucker won't, since he's a big raging Dubya stooge. I hope the next time he and Jon Stewart cross paths, JS stuffs that stupid bow-tie down his throat and makes him choke on it. What a fucking idiot. Yes. NOLA needed better levees. Badly. But what's done is done and the cold hard fact right in the now is American people are suffering and dying on American streets in some of the biggest cities in the South and it's taken days for any real action on any helpful scale to happen. It's horrifying and it's inexcusable.