Not All We Read is True - Really? The "Facts" from New Orleans Are Now A Footnote for Snopes

Men willingly believe what they wish.

Julius Caesar

An AP article posted today by Michelle Roberts shows that the rush by the media to paint as poor a picture of the aftermath of hurricane Katrina as possible were nothing more than a series of progressivley worse rumors.

We will all remember the "facts" reporter over and over by the mainstream media, Rapes of women, murder of crying children, bodies stacked like cordwood in freezers. They are all lies. There are no eyewitnesses. There is no evidence. There were not 50 or more deaths in the Convention Center there were three - one of which appears to have dies elsewhere and then brought to the facility.

So what happens now? Will Oprah recant the words Mayor Ray Nagin warned that evacuees spent "five days watching dead bodies, watching hooligans killing people, raping people." Nope. Will Nagin recant himself in the Congressional hearings? Nope. Nothing will happen. The rumors will be entered into the log of history as fact because they are in the public consciousness and they make the Bush administration look as bad as possible.

It is sad really - the fog of war, as it is called, now is simply obscuring the truth.