Cursor's Media Patrol - 08/31/05

A Pandagon poster finds evidence that, judging by the coverage of white people "finding" and black people "looting" things they need in New Orleans, the media may "bury the truth of what happened" before the city can bury the storm victims.

The Los Angeles Times reports that New Orleans residents were standing in "orderly lines to loot," and quotes one "looter" as saying that "I just took what I need ... Everyone you see out here, they're just trying to survive."

'When the levee breaks' "In the tradition of the riverboat gambler," writes Will Bunch, "the Bush administration decided to roll the dice on its fool's errand in Iraq, and on a tax cut that mainly benefitted the rich. And now Bush has lost that gamble, big time."

The Seattle Times editorializes that Bush must choose between 'Withdrawal from Iraq, or the greater mistake,' reasoning that "to our dead we owe honor and respect. To the living we owe good judgment."

"The war in Iraq is over. We lost. Islam won," writes columnist Denis Hamill, who adds that "somehow I don't see the Stones playing Baghdad on the next tour."

"Their science is dismal," a defender of evolution says of creationists, "but they do have American culture on their side."