Cursor's Media Patrol - 09/13/05

President Bush, who said on Tuesday that "I take responsibility" for the federal government's failures in responding to Hurricane Katrina, was reportedly just minutes away from sending in 'Duct Tape Man' when he told the press, "Maybe you know something I don't know" about a change in FEMA leadership.

Miles of levees have reportedly been washed away, and "a sort of Love Canal for New Orleans" now sits under water at a Superfund site, formerly known as "Dante's Inferno," with reporters arguing that Americans are "paying for the raw data, and they deserve to see it."

A Homeland Security audit of contracting is cited as containing indications that "the Potemkin-village Baghdad government is increasingly irrelevant to the future of Iraq."

Mr. Galloway again goes to Washington, after stopping off in New York City to debate Christopher Hitchens.