Beheading Bush

For the record, here's the latest Extreme Media Katrina meltdown:

CNN's American Morning host Soledad O'Brien said Tuesday that Hurricane Katrina evacuees housed at the Superdome were worse off than beheading victims in Baghdad.

The normally mild-mannered newswoman offered the overwrought observation while speaking at Redbook Magazine's "Movers and Shakers" awards luncheon in New York.

According to the New York Daily News, O'Brien blurted out:

"It is a sad thing to watch military veterans cry as they tell you the beheadings in Baghdad were less horrific than what they saw as 30,000 people marched from the Superdome through a shopping mall and onto buses to who knows where."

Nobody knows who these weepy GIs were, including Ms. O'Brien, who didn't bother to identify them. But no Bushophobic slur ever needs actual substantiation as far as the press is concerned. And darn, didn't her lamentation sound dramatic?

Personally, I'd rather have been a New Orleans evacuee than have my head sawed off without anesthetic. But that's just me.