Reply #27: How the media are playing the 'Katrina video'

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http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/03/heres_how_some_.html

- Power Line blog asks whether the video and related transcripts really do show that federal officials were warned that the hurricane could devastate New Orleans, but moved too slowly to react when it did: "Do the documents show any such thing?" writes Power Line co-author John Hinderaker. "Beats me; the AP didn't release the documents or video footage so we could draw our own conclusions. It merely summarized them for us, in a way obviously intended to make President Bush and the administration look bad."

- FoxNews.com writes that "Some of the footage and transcripts from briefings Aug. 25-31 conflicts with the defenses that federal, state and local officials have made in trying to deflect blame and minimize the political fallout from the failed Katrina response."

- MSNBC notes that "administration officials denied there was anything new" in the video.

- AMERICAblog sums up the news with two words: "BUSH KNEW."

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- Wizbang blog says "The AP has dressed up mundane video to try and prove that President Bush (and everyone else) knew that the levees in New Orleans were going to breech. The problem is the evidence they present in their story to make that point does nothing of the sort."