As Gen. Honore says, Fox News Channel "Still stuck on stupid" in my view

FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - Engineers Try to Stop New Orleans Flooding:

"Although New Orleans escaped the worst of the storm, engineers said they need at least two to three weeks to pump water from the most heavily flooded neighborhoods after they plug a series of levee breaches."

This quote from the written material on the FNC website is fairly reasonable, but watching the wall-to-wall coverage of Hurricane Rita is making me wonder, again, if that fellow who invented the "Fox Blocker" for your TV wasn't on to something. (See my post on March 27.)

For those who missed it, Gen. Honore held a news conference while Rita was swirling around in the Gulf which he said would be to discuss what his command was doing to prepare for Rita. He specifically said that he would not be answering questions about Katrina at that time and asked the media not to "get stuck on stupid" by diverting attention from necessary preparations for Rita. Well, the very first question was on the order of how does your Rita plan compare to what was done to prepare for Katrina and the general said, as near as I recall it, "there you go, getting stuck on stupid again."

Here is a great example of Fox being "stuck on stupid" today. While reporting on new flooding caused by Rita in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, a Fox reporter and camera crew showed water up to about the top of the curb in the streets and then showed the high water mark from Katrina on the porches of some of the houses which were about three or four steps above ground level. Then the studio anchor asks a Corps of Engineers officer how it feels to be "back to square one" in the effort to remove water from the city.