This is just nuts.

Media Matters also has the best coverage of the breakdown of honest, hard journalism in the media following the Katrina disaster that I feared and have begun to see everywhere. See here for starters about the "2000 busses" story.

I also have one question on that myth. Although I have grown increasingly frustrated with mayor nagin (tim russert used him as a punching bag) and his pre-hurricane efforts, and although that picture does show some of the 300 busses underwater, I do not understand how the mayor was supposed to get those busses in operation. How do you tell people to abandon their own lives (family, homes, businesses) and just show up to get in busses and go drive from neighborhood to neighborhood and evacuate people while they are about to have their own lives devastated. Plus, with only a short amount of time, how would this have logistically worked? Isn't this the kind of thing the national guard is for?