Here is an email I sent to Bill O'Reilly in response to comments by John Kasich tonight.

I disagree with John Kasich’s assertion that the government failed us during the Katrina episode. The media, including Fox News, failed to give an accurate picture of what happened. The US military (who are lead by President Bush) performed in superb fashion pulling 50,000 people from the flooded area. They did this while the media misrepresented what was happening with some people who were high and dry, but were a bit uncomfortable in the superdome. In any other country in a similar situation there would have been tens of thousands of fatalities.

I have been in several hurricanes and I don’t recall the Federal government having any presence at all. After Hurricane Andrew, where Clinton claims to have done such a masterful job, FEMA showed up 30 days after the hurricane. For some reason, it is the fashion now to bash President Bush for everything that goes wrong. Al Gore even said that Katrina was Bush’s fault because he didn’t “sign the Kyoto Treaty,” which he couldn’t have done anyway since it had not been approved by the Senate.

The motto of the modern media seems to be “fake, but accurate.” Apparently, like Oliver Stone and Michael Moore, they feel that they have to lie to present their idea of the truth.