Originally Posted By Beaumandy About Spike Lee's movie that is the new Farenheit 9-11 for the left. <a href="http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=katrina" target="_blank">http://www.townhall.com/column ists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=katrina</a>,_lies_and_videotape&ns=StarParker&dt=08/28/2006&page=1 The film commits egregious journalistic sins of commission and omission, carefully selecting and editing footage to indict Bush, including only commentators who support the conclusions that Lee had already reached, and selectively omitting reams of information relevant to the complex truth of what actually happened. Since Lee already knew the truth, he didn't have much need to examine material such as "A Failure of Initiative," Congress' investigation into Katrina, which shows failure and breakdown at all levels of government _ local, state and federal. It also was of little interest to Lee that primary responsibility for disaster preparation and management is at the level of local and state government, not federal. But New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin comes off in the production as just one cool dude. He shows up at regular intervals over the four-hour production, talking New Orleans jive and being one straightforward sincere guy who was trying to do his job. No mention is made of the hurricane simulations and emergency evacuation plans that he totally ignored. No reference is made to the famous picture of the parking lot filled with flooded school buses that Nagin chose not to use to evacuate residents in poor areas. Central to the Katrina story is the failure of the levees. Indeed, Lee's film is called "When the Levees Broke." But who is responsible for ignoring the warnings over the years that the levees protecting New Orleans were inadequate? Bush? Of course not. It was Louisiana's congressional delegation that was responsible to ensure that their constituents' interests were being represented and that funds were being appropriated to fix sub-standard levees. But not a single Louisiana senator or congressman is ever mentioned or appears in "When the Levees Broke." Read it all. Spike is a loser.
