Cursor's Media Patrol - 09/09/05

Eric Boehlert contrasts FEMA's handling of Katrina with last year's hurricanes in Florida, and "Democracy Now!" reports on 'How FEMA overcompensated Florida citizens in the run-up to the presidential election.'

As 'Old-line families plot the future' of New Orleans, a former Clinton Administation official offers up his plan for dealing with an "ugly, troglodyte crowd of ... insiders, rich lawyers, ideologues, incompetents and their strap-hangers..." Plus: 'Every crisis an opportunity.'

President Bush, reasoning that requiring contractors to pay prevailing wages in Katrina's aftermath would "increase the cost to the Federal Government," issued a proclamation suspending Davis-Bacon.

Bush aide Karen Hughes assumes her new position, blaming reports of "crime being committed" in New Orleans for tarnishing the U.S. image abroad, and a GOP congressman concerned about public housing gives credit to God. Plus: 'Eight Big Lies.'

Fox News "All Star" Mara Liasson claims that "any time there's a contentious exchange in the White House press room, it makes the press look bad," and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tells CNN's Kyra Phillips that "if you want to make a case for the White House, you should go on their payroll."