MSNBC right now.
Showing a 15-second clip of people looting a Wal-Mart. Running the clip over and over and over.
Outrage from host Rita Cosby and her two guests, who are going on and on about the need to apprehend, crack down, and punish these people, all of whom clearly live in the devastated area and who are making off with $14 pairs of pants.
Meanwhile, people in New Orleans are f*cking DYING.
I guess it’s too bad for them they don’t look more like Natalee Holloway.
UPDATE: I’ve seen more and similar footage. I’m sure there are people grabbing TVs somewhere, although in a flooded wasteland with no electricity, this would be a strange move indeed. But mostly I’m seeing people with armloads of clothes and sacks of food.
You want looting? Try Halliburton. Try $9 billion in Iraq funds missing.
Not enough, "news" people? Try last year’s shifting of New Orleans’ disaster prep funding to Bush’s war in Iraq.
It’s just too bad none of these came with footage of poor black people we’re supposed to be outraged at.